Super Grrls

Cool illustration from Lopez at GELATOMETTI. Powerful boobs from Power Girl don't hurt, too.

RIP Chris Benoit

A sad, sad news. Pro wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and 7-year-old son were found slain Monday at their Fayetteville home, authorities said. Detective Bo Turner told television station WAGA that the case was being investigated as a murder-suicide, but said that could not be confirmed until the evidence was examined by a crime lab. WAGA reported that investigators believe Benoit killed his wife and son over the weekend, and then himself sometime Monday. A concerned neighbor called police. The bodies were found in three different rooms. The lead investigator, Sheriff's Lt. Tommy Pope, told The Associated Press that the deaths were being investigated as homicide, and said the cause of death awaited autopsy results on Tuesday. Pope said the three were found about 2:30 p.m., but he would release no other details about the deaths at the house in a subdivision near White Water Country Club. World Wrestling Entertainment, based in Stamford, Conn., said on its Web site that Benoit, 40, his wife, Nancy, and son, who was named Daniel, were found dead, but also had no other details. Benoit, a native of Canada, was a former world heavyweight champion, Intercontinental champion and held several tag-team titles over his career. I know it is always wrong to commit suicide, and definitely wrong to take away the lives of your loved ones, and I had already earned the fair share of my girlfriend's wrath when I made these comments but seriously, I had come to understood why this kind of tragedy happens a few years back. Not to condone the action just because Chris Benoit happens to be my favourite wrestler still active today with his incredible work rate and, easily, the best technical wrestling skills around. This is of course, wrong, wrong, wrong. But nevertheless, Rest in peace, the Rabid Wolverine. This is truly, a tragic day for all, wrestling fans or not, to mourn. P.S. But it really added the extra insult to the injury that this happened right after the ridiculous Vince McMahon's "death" and the memorial show fiasco thereafter. As we are experiencing an actual tragedy now.

Child Shooting?

Just imagine this toy being sold in US, and incurring the wrath of every concerned parents...

"My dick's in the bitch's mouth -- and I don't mean in a good way." - Herr Starr, in response after getting his genitalia chewed off by a Rottweiler. Herr Starr, the secondary antagonist (the main antagonist being God) from one of the best comic series ever in my opinion, Preacher. Just one of the many great characters in the uber-epic, Preacher, revisited while browsing around. Lately, besides the defining run on The Punisher, Garth Ennis still produces mostly gems with his huge body of works lately, namely, Chronicles of Wormwood from Avatar Press, and The Boys, recently moved to Dynamite Entertainment after Wildstorm freak out. Anyway, DC now has a page for the trade, sporting extra material like a seven page sample and a trailer.

Gay Bomb Apocalypse

The world is always ready to throw you a...bomb? Literally. Warren Eliis put it best: a watchdog organisation uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a biochem weapon capable of turning enemy soldiers into inexplicably horny homosexuals. A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting. Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb." Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior." The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon. "The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another," Hammond said after reviwing the documents. Fathom an apocalyptic future complete with mutated freaks speaking in wry absurdist tone, lone martyr heroic figure who always get to deliver his one-liners, (okay, you know where I am going with this) created by a nuclear gay bomb meltdown triggered by emotionally heavy, horny homosexuals...creating a world of homos, thus dooming the world.

A "Batman Match"

Was doing the usual unispired browsing through the mighty wikipedia and saw this very aptly named wrestling slant... Batman match, alternate term for a poorly executed match, with blown spots and showing light. This term takes its name from the 1966-1968 ABC-TV series, which featured bizarre and deliberately silly fight scenes with comical choreography. And there's more references to comic in general, like "Bizarro World", etc.... Check it out.

Godawlful Logo Does More Than Being Grotesque

The highly-publicized, much-hated, many-despised, very expensive logo of London 2012 had raised its bar for controvesy over its abominable existence further. BBC had several Branding Experts talking about its grisly appearance already; blogosphere has called it "broken window", "hip-hop graffiti" and even a "distorted swastika", and a reader's comment from London Lite called it "Lisa Simpson doing a blowjob"; an online petition to have it replaced met astounding success, despite being closed by its creator after 48,615 signatures in just two days, spawning another petition supporting the logo which received 318 signatures from 5th June till now, and with most votes intended to be a joke, if you check out the comments column. And now, an animated footage of the living logo triggered seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy as the charity Epilepsy Action received telephone calls from people who had had seizures after watching the film and said that flashing lights in a sequence depicting diving into a pool in vivid colors provoked more than 10 seizures among the estimated 23,000 people vulnerable to a photo-sensitive form of epilepsy. It was withdrawn in response, but the London mayor, Ken Livingstone, had this to say, "If you employ someone to design a car and it kills you, you're pretty unhappy about that, if you employ someone to design a logo for you and they haven't done a basic health check you have to ask what they do for their money." The mentioned animated promo might be removed at the official site already but can still be found here at King Nutter. For those suffering from Epilepsy, do yourself a favor.

It's A Hoax...Further Proof Of The Crappy Product Of Devil Theory

A Dutch TV contest which purported to show a dying woman choose a patient to receive her kidneys was a hoax. The "donor" in the show was in fact an actress - though the three people vying for an organ were real patients in need of a kidney transplant. The three knew that The Big Donor Show, which aired on Friday, was not real. The producers say it was made to highlight the shortage of Dutch donors. ..."We have only done this cry for help because we want to solve a problem that shouldn't be a problem," a producer told a news conference after the show. What the fuck was this guy on when he said that? Probably we should be glad that this turned out to be a hoax, that civilisation, after all, has not fallen to the immoral apocalyptic state, of which countless SF novel foretold. But we certainly have reached the stage where common ethnics are dying on the fly, as a normal good cause such as organ donation can be exploited into a dynamic TV sensation, with, I presumed, reasonably good ratings. Anyway, this must be the most self-righteous entry ever.

Not All Jokes Are Funny

Heath Ledger, as The Joker, in the upcoming Dark Knight. And featured here in this fan-made teaser poster. Notwithstanding, a very well done one indeed.

Who's That Smart Ass Who Said Television Is A Product Of The Devil?

A Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. Political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN says it will highlight the country's shortage of organ donors. ...The 37-year-old donor, identified only as Lisa, will make her choice based on the contestants' history, profile and conversation with their family and friends. Viewers will also be able to send in their advice by text message during the 80-minute show.