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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 10h

Walt Disney himself said that this was, and I'm quoting here, "essential to understanding the duality of the man-slash-goof"

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 10h

This is a good opportunity to mention again that Goofy is a werewolf. He's a cartoon werewolf, and I know what you're gonna say. You're gonna say, "Then how come he never turns into a *man*, Jon? Huh?" Because then he'd be a cartoon man, and he's not a cartoon man, he's a cartoon werewolf, smart guy

JR McCormick @oldcinnamon.bsky.social · 16h

Today I’m thinking about the flat faced werewolves like Wolf Man and Oz from Buffy… and also the snout men werewolves like from Van Helsing and Dog Soldiers.

I think if I was a werewolf, I’d be ragin if I was one of them flat faced ones.

#werewolves #thinkinaboutwolves #wolfthoughts

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 1d

The building IS the monster!

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 1d

"Nixon Tries Kombucha"

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 1d

Notable Injured Grizzlies was the least successful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles homage.

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 2d

Same thing that intigued me so much about Daredevil as a kid was, like Miller once said, it's a miracle that he's not a bad guy. It makes you want to stick around to see what it is exactly that's keeping his head above water.

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 3d

That Iranian clderic had us pegged when it said America's only heroes were Spider-Man and Spongebob.

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 4d

"Break Ya Neck"

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 4d

"Burton Gervis," no kidding, never knew that.

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 4d

Grinning like a mail slot at a map of Antarctica and rubbing his little hands together so avidly that the room begins to smell of melting plastic.

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 4d

CAW, si! AI, no!

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely seems he'd been expecting at least some affirming "uh-huh"s from whoever he was talking to ...

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 4d

So, it seems like they simply didn't want to retouch any mnore of the cover than was necesary, but was Lasse Åberg known for wearing feathers and big earrings?

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 4d

Always wondered how MAD translates its pun-based gags for international editions. In this German edition of MAD Magazine #208, instead of calling their Superman The Movie parody "Superduperman" (Or Stuporman, as MAD would later use), it's "Supermarktman" -- "Supermarket Man"

The cover to MAD Magazine 208, US Edition, depicting Superman flying Alfred E Neuman over Metropolis, as he upchucks into a "Super Barf Bag"

The interior spreadf featuring SUPERDUPERMAN

German edition cover, the puke bag is now labeled "Super Kotz Tute"

Interior page from the German edition labeled "Supermarktman"

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 4d

Drink water and take lithium, everybody.

Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 5d

I'm annoyed in advance of whatever comedy project he'll extract from this experience.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 6d

What if I don't want to?

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 7d

"Sooper Man" on the cover of the first issue of U.S. military preventative maintenance magazine Army Motors, April 1942. Love how spooky and strange the cloaked figure is depicted. Looks like Lynd Ward's Superman.

A soldier reading a magazine called Sooper Man, with a parked military truck visible outside the window.

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Eric White is a top scholar on the Gutenberg Bible, but in his free time, he's been studying one of baseball’s biggest mysteries – Who are the unnamed artists behind the classic Topps baseball cartoons?

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