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• Robocop Returns + Robocop Book & Figure Set Exclusively at TFAW.com: http://bit.ly/13t4bs #
• Dane Cook wants to be in a Batman movie - this is news? Every non-talent wishes they could rise above their station. http://bit.ly/1GW3Qk #
• Dr. Strange loves the ’90s: the former sorcerer Supreme, is now dedicating his life to his true passion: vogue-ing. http://j.mp/3yVdlK #
• FYI - all my previous tweets were perpetrated by my well-meaning but misguided fans, the Wonder Twins. #smallville http://j.mp/2LEINT #
• Rocket and sunchoke (sp?) tastes like burning soap! #venturebros http://j.mp/3B6YI9 #
• #venturebros - RT @_spell: ’sunchoke’ could be sun choke, sun-choke, Sauncho, Sancho, Sauncho’s, Sunshine, sunshine, Sancho’s or sunshade. #
• Captain Kirk Joins Madame Tussauds Hollywood: Save $8! http://bit.ly/UidUC #
• Well, X-Man’s back; and he appears to be shooting a music video for a power ballad. http://j.mp/bnseq #
• Call Dr. Mid-Nite - Green Arrow’s right ’stache handlebar has become sentient, and melded itself to his costume! http://j.mp/2gBXM1 #
• Damn, but I’m psyched for Tony Hawk: Ride (http://bit.ly/3bOPPW) - should be a billion times better than the excellent Shaun White Wii game. #
• Almost said “Shaun Ryder” Wii game. Somebody’s delirious and thinks he’s in Manchester circa 1991. #
• Is it just me, or is Flamebird sporting a Corky-esque “happy retard” grin on the cover of Action Comics No. 883? http://j.mp/3w599s #
• Damn you Firefox, you crash more often than an entire cardiac ward! #
• Ohhh shaving I love you! I was looking like f$&king Lion-O for a while there. #
• Now my face is naked as - I dunno, Megan Fox at a film studio party? And I didn’t even nick myself. So proud. Pop-pop gets a treat! #
• Damn I wish this wasn’t so lo-res: #metalocalypse cosplay and I’m pretty sure that’s a woman dressed as Murderface! http://j.mp/1LE0Fc #
• Check it - the Family Guy Microsoft ad that was gonna run on that variety show: http://bit.ly/GKfxg - but MS pulled out. hehehe “pulled out”. #

X-Man:

“And I-ee-I-ee-I will always love yewww….”

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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

It’s fair to say that - generally speaking - I have a pretty negative opinion the ’80s nostalgia movement which has been perpetuated in music and other pop culture for the past couple of decades. Aside from showing only the most superficial elements of a decade which wasn’t exactly bursting with substance to begin with - I got sick of the ’80s in 1988. 20+ years later, it’s time to embrace the future, or at least the present.

As far as the entertainment industry is concerned, a great deal of it boils down to laziness and greed. “Nostalgia”, to many, means “we stopped caring about creating original content sometime around the invention of talking pictures. These days, we’re more about finding ways to sue you for buying MP3s and listening to them on more than one iPod at a time. If you want music and movies, here’s the crap your parents were enjoying back in the days when our President was a zombie, we were convinced that the Russians were gonna bomb us into oblivion, and a man was judged by the cut of his mullet.”

So you can imagine how annoying it is that I can’t look at this cover to Supergirl #45 without hearing Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film” in the back of my mind. I hate the 80s! Good comic, though.

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I’ve been a comics fan since the ’70s - and I know that the spandex set has never been all that enlightened when it comes to its treatment of women. Pretty much the closest we’ve come to putting them on the same level or greater than male heroes was the creation of Wonder Woman, and she was invented by a pervy mad psychologist who actually believed in a Utopian society in which benevolent Amazonian women ruled over a populace of happily bound male subjects. No, seriously.

And I am a happy reader of the excellent Power Girl series, so seeing super spandex mega-boobery is not a shock to my delicate sensibilities.

But between this cover to Action Comics #881, and her famous “Headless Boob Creature” intro panel in JLA: Cry for Justice, I have to wonder if there isn’t some edict at DC Editorial that all Supergirl appearances outside of her own mag must justify their existence with some sort of major mammary action, such as the “Kandor Boob Slam”, the ultimate Kryptonian girl-on-girl dis, which Kara receives here courtesy of her ex-homegirl Flamebird.

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