SUPERMAN IS LOIS LANE’S SLUT

ITEM [via io9]: Coming this April: Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster.



Published by ComicArts, the new graphic novel imprint from publisher Harry N. Abrams, it covers Shuster's relatively unknown 1950s sideline at illustrator for S&M magazine Nights of Horror.

A lot of the art is strikingly good.

( And probably NSFW. Beware. )

To hear executive editor Charles Kochman tell it, it sounds like a fascinating story, as Nights of Horror was banned by the US govt in the 50s when comics were being blamed for America’s ongoing moral death spiral, but no one realized that one of the artists was the guy who created a character that was the embodiment of Truth, Justice and The American Way™.

In retrospect, it’s hard to see how they could have missed it, since Shuster apparently didn’t stray too far from his basic Clark/Lois character design.

( Exhibit A! )

To say nothing of the dead giveaways that appeared in the actual Superman comics.

Looking forward to the next installment featuring William Moulton Marston (creator of Wonder Woman, who also enjoyed herself some rope-play). Surely he did a little something on the side as well.

Man of steel,

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YOU’VE GOT THE OIL, I’VE GOT THE LOOKS, LET’S MAKE LOTS OF MONEY

I remarked earlier about my pleasant surprise that gas prices in TN were down to $1.45/gal by Christmas, after hearing horror stories about prices topping $4.00/gal. It was around the $4.00 era that Republicans were blathering about supply and demand, and Sarah Palin was saying she could solve the whole goshdarned thing overnight by digging up Alaska. “Drill baby drill!” became the official slogan of the GOP for something like two weeks.

Now, according to 60 Minutes, a major cause of the oil price spike wasn’t supply/demand at all, but market speculators playing the futures market that was being fueled in part by the same characters (i.e. investment banks) that gave you the current Global Economic Boom we are all enjoying.

It gets better. Even if it’s true, there’s nothing illegal about it. Why? Because the oil futures market was deregulated in 2000. Guess whose idea that was?

Enron.

Isn’t that nice?

DISCLAIMER: I am not an economist, so for all I know 60 Minutes got all of this completely wrong. Also, one of their chief sources is the Petroleum Marketers Association, which has an interest in putting the blame off of oil companies.

Either way, far too many people are going to get away with something by the time we’re at the other end of this recession. Justice is dead.

But you knew that.

There will be blood,

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YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #57: KHAN DRIVES WOMEN WILD

You’ve heard about Ricardo Montalban, I trust.

Most people will talk about Fantasy Island as his legacy, but to me, he’ll always be Khan Noonien Singh – superhuman, tyrant, ladies man.

FACT: When I was in the military, my squad and I were obsessed with The Wrath Of Khan – so much so that I memorized all of his lines at one point.

“He TASKS me! He TASKS me and I shall have him!”

Awesome. Who else could have Limahl's mullet and get away with it?

In the interest of fairness, AP has an impressively detailed obit here – and possibly the only one that doesn’t mention the term “Corinthian leather”.

Khan do,

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