Random Thoughts

Curses! Bloodhound has been cancelled. At least we get three more issues of it. Fallen Angel has not yet been cancelled, but it may take a miracle to keep it going.

Mike Sterling reports that pal Dorian is cut off from home and thus cannot blog. We hope for his safe return to blogging soon. And it's strange, but I have trouble thinking of him as just "Dorian" anymore. That "pal" always sneaks in. update: wow, before I even managed to post this, Pal Dorian "drove seven hours through insane traffic" just to update his blog. What dedication.

Four Color Meat & Fish has a very short review of Aquaman #26.

Speaking of Aquaman, there's one other problem with the character that I didn't mention in my post the other day. And it's a biggie, so I'm not sure how I forgot to include it. A hero is usually defined by his villains. Really nasty, convincingly horrible villains make for a better hero. Aquaman has... Ocean Master and Black Manta. Yawn. No one has yet made either one threatening enough to be considered a top tier villain. The only thing interesting about Manta on Super Friends was the voice modulation. Wearing a big clamshell on your head just doesn't make you a threat.

Polite Dissent gives us a handy guide to medical studies, namely when you can believe or trust a study reported in the news.

This is Johnny B's fault:

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