October 6, 2012
(Warning: Contains Looper Spoilers)It is a truism from the golden age of science fiction that if you go back in time and change anything--even, say, stepping on an insect--the result of your act could multiply over subsequent millennia to alter the entire course of history. It is a truism from the theory of evolution that if you could travel back far enough to eliminate an organism's distant ancestor, that organism might never evolve, although a similar one might evolve to exploit its evolutionary niche. Even though DNA seems to indicate that every single human on the face of the earth is descended from a pre-human female named Eve, it is presumably possible that if Eve had been killed as a baby, other humanoids would have ultimately peopled the earth with their offspring, and here we would be--although we would not be "we."A Different Spin On The Beginners Guide to Comics
Yes, it's a beginners' guide to comics, but here's the twist: Whenever someone learns that I do a lot of writing about comics, more often than not, they say they'd love to read more comics, but something's stopping them. And because that "something" usually boils down to one of the following five situations, I've come up with a few suggestions for each rationale.
Outside Pittsburgh, they are proclaiming a strike, taking to Twitter and Facebook to spread the word. In a village near Milwaukee, hundreds staged a boycott. In a small farming and ranching community in western Kansas, they have produced a parody video. And in Parsippany, N.J., the protest is six days old and counting.
They are high school students, and their complaint is about lunch — healthier, smaller and more expensive than ever.
Today's Photo:
Vaguely sick
