Category: News

It’s a fairy tale story that could only happen in comics.

Recent photographic evidence has come to ComicMix that shows that Laura Hudson, late of Comic Foundry and currently of Cerebus: A Diablog, is the long lost twin sister of Queen Beth Lowery of Waukau, Wisconsin.

Beth Lowery, according to America’s Finest News Source, was recently chosen as the consort of the Mattress King James Koepke III, Lord and Master of a vast bed and box-spring empire in central Wisconsin.

As we all know, there has been no true royal powers exercised in the industry since the passing of King Jacob in 1994. The lack of a royal presence in comics since that time has been long and bleak, with poverty, despair, and widespread variant covers roaming the land.

It is unclear what new privileges her connection to royalty will bestow unto Laura. Royal pardons do seem to be within her portfolio, and it is suspected that she may have the power to grant new royal charters to new comics distributors.

We here at ComicMIx are happy to pay homage to the newly-discovered princess, and hope that she doesn’t turn out to be one of those mad royals who runs around conventions with an axe screaming, "Off with their heads!" We got enough of that when Larry Hama used to carry swords around the Marvel bullpen.

In what has to go down as the ultimate expression of bipartisanship in a new political age, Barack Obama brought Superman and Spider-Man together to work for the good of the nation.

OK, so maybe it was actually Tobey Maguire and Brandon Routh. They were on hand at Abram Simon Elementary in Washington DC to perform some community service as part of Obama’s call to community action on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. But still, if he can bring these two together, peace in the Middle East can’t be far behind..

MTV News had great coverage of the meeting, including this little snippet:

Though Maguire was kept busy screwing panels of the shelves together, a short time later, as Routh pulled books from boxes to stack them in the newly built cubbies, he happened across a — no joke — Spider-Man book, and walked it over to his super-brethren.

“I think this is yours,” he said, handing Maguire the book. The web-slinger laughed, and the actors shook hands and chatted for a few moments before Routh walked back across the room to shelve “I Can Read: Spider-Man 3, Meet the Heroes and the Villains.”

“I think I can probably beat them all up,” Routh said. “Just kidding.” Crisis averted.

MTV also got video of the meeting, shown here.

Watching the Presidential Inauguration – and I realize I’m making fun of a dude in a wheelchair, but heck, that’s just who I am – it occurred to me that our former (damn, it feels good to say this) vice-president Dick Cheney goes on to become… Davros!

No kidding. Look at the guy and imagine him on a diet, maybe 100 years older. Nosferatu trapped in the sun. Turns out this isn’t an original observation; the graphic is from seedsofdoubt.com.

Bye, bye. Dick. Don’t let the door knob slam you in the forehead on your way out.

"I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the planet Earth."
—Barack Obama, October 16, 2008

Good luck, sir.

The happy mutants at Tor.com– no wait, the happy mutants are at BoingBoing, the snarky geeks are at io9, and the ink-stained shockwave riders are at Tor.com– are running a Dan Goldman comic, "Yes We Will", in which Obama deals with the greatest problem of his first term, as predicted by Nostradamus. Or the Mayans. Or Timothy Leary. Or something like that.

Go read it, it’s fun.

Although I can deal with the idea of the singularity a lot easier than I can with Barack Obama not dressed nattily. I’m sorry, but that’s stretching credibilty too far.