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Superman Sucks, Apparently

A few days ago, I posted about an old Superman ad I’d found; it was a fairly harmless post, I thought, looking at a fairly harmless old advert.

One reader, however, took exception to that and posted a comment which just emphasised why I use comment moderation these days:

As you can see, the point the commenter was trying to make was that Superman sucks. The image above, though, was just the snippet I could grab of what was on screen; if I scrolled down, there was a lot more. A lot more:

That’s my screen zoomed out to 50%, the only way I could get his entire post to display without needing to scroll.

But you know what, Mr anonymous000000@hotmail.com?

 

 

Happy Star Wars Day!

You can become a Star Warrior for just “Ten 1977 US Earth dollars” and get the answer to the question of whether Obi-Wan Kenobi will “return as promised”

 

Who Ya Gonna Call?

Back in 1996, you could call anyone as long as you’ve subscribed to two DC Comics titles:

And as long as you didn’t want to talk for more than five minutes, that is.

Seriously? A five minute pre-paid phonecard is something worth touting as an incentive to subscribing to two titles?

Any of my American visitors want to try ringing (516) 756-0350 and letting me know what happens . . . ?

But look – Conner, Wally and Kyle! The 90s weren’t all bad.

Go West!

Looking for somewhere to go on holiday this summer? Why not choose lovely Markovia?

As the caption (written by Mike Barr) from Batman and The Outsiders says, it’s a small country but it has plenty of things to do. The only draw back in today’s political climate is that it’s in

along with those other famous Eastern European countries France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany.

Wait a second . . .

Let’s take a quick look at where Markovia really is in Europe:

Now I know there’s no definitive line of where East and West Europe begin and end, but that’s pretty far from Eastern Europe by anyone’s standards. France, Spain and Portugal are the only other mainland European countries further West than Markovia! Hell, even Switzerland becomes Eastern European by Mike Barr’s definition!

Enjoy your Eastern European holiday in Western Europe, everyone!