My comics hero, Steve Purcell, once got a cartoon deal with FOX in the 90s. He quickly learned that censors didn't dislike violence so much as they disliked accessible violence - the sort of violence kids could easily mimic. Thus the more exaggerated it was, the safer you were. If your knife fight doesn't work, simply replace the knives with atomic bombs. It's a good rule to live by.
I got some emails that said the current page's time travel didn't work but IT TOTALLY DOES so I'm including this addendum to prove it. Because if there's something we hold dear here at The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, it's continuity.
Fridays are historically the day when bad news, scandals and unfortunate pants are released to the public, and this one's no exception. Never let a good crisis go to waste, as they say.
They are real! Cordyceps fungi attack insects in real life, but the cycle is the same: bug gets spored, bug climbs tree, bug's head explodes into even more spores. It's one of those awe/fear-inducing wonders like pistol shrimp and lantern fish that makes a comic artist want to go back to his home planet.
As an added bonus(?) some cordyceps are sold in Eastern medicine as an aphrodisiac, which (to me) is like selling hammers as a headache remedy.
The U.S. Congress has decided to address the complicated issue of internet piracy in the manner a chainsaw addresses rosethorns. As several million other websites have already noted, The Senate's "Protect IP Act" and House's "Stop Online Piracy Act" would censor or shut down entire swaths of the internet under vague terms that undermine First Amendment rights.
Click here to contact your senators and explain why you think this may not be the best course of action.
