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Season of giving? Peace on Earth and goodwill toward men? “Unto you is born a savior?”

Good grief!

Oh well. I’m not going to let this kind of pious hippy claptrap ruin my Christmas of materialism, boozing, weirdness and surreality. Let’s look at what odd Christmas-related images have ended up on my Mac over the years. (more…)

Reading the November solicitations for products from DC, I am given pause amidst the usual eye-rolling and “this looks fucking idiotic,” etc., by the following:

SUPERMAN #705
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Art by EDDY BARROWS & J.P. MAYER
Cover by JOHN CASSADAY
1:10 Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE & MICHEL LACOMBE
“Grounded” part 5 brings The Man of Steel to Des Moines, Iowa! A chance encounter, however, suddenly thrusts Superman back in time. So somehow he’s Superboy again, the world is on the brink of nuclear Armageddon, and it’s all his fault! (Emphasis mine.)

I mean, in general any reference to my home state by national media is relatively rare enough (outside of caucus season) to grab my attention for at least a second. Mention of the state’s capital and my home of five years, in a comic book context, is just about unthinkable.

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