fuckyeahbatmanvillains:

For some reason, these panels seem like an advertisement for Caterpillars to me.

“Holy dependability, Batman, she escaped! Thanks to Caterpillar’s solid American construction and commitment to quality, we’ll never catch her!”

arcaneimages:

Happy Father’s Day

(via ifuckinglovebatman)

askgoodolmothy:

about-faces:

“You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a ‘graphic novel,’ but comic books are still incredibly stupid.” —Bill Watterson’s commentary on this above strip from The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book.

While I can understand where he’s coming from, I don’t think I can ever put into words just how heartbreaking it was as a kid to read those words by one of my favorite creators about my favorite storytelling medium, which he seemed to lump in with my favorite genre in one broad stroke.

Maybe that’s one reason why I’m still more of a Bloom County boy to this day.

I don’t know, man - I think Bloom County has aged even worse than Calvin and Hobbes. Pretty much 90% of the jokes are just variations on “celebrity of the month engages in monkey-cheese humour”, like Lee Iacocca diving into a tub of Jell-O, or Tammy Faye Bakker causing an alien’s head to explode (actual Sunday strip, I’ve done my research here).

In my opinion, when it comes to truly timeless comic strips with warmth, humour, and actual political expression beyond just painfully centrist ‘truth-is-in-the-middle’ stuff… Pogo. It always comes back to Pogo.

Oh, there no doubt that Bloom County is more dated by sheer virtue of the fact that it made far more pop culture references than C&H did, but the brilliance of BC is how timeless and enjoyable it is in spite of those references. I speak from experience as someone who was boring in 1983. I was far too young to get the references, and yet I still absolutely adored the strip because Breathed’s writing and characters—Opus! Bill the Cat! Steve Dallas! Binkley!—were just THAT brilliant, so I always got the gist even if I didn’t know the full pop culture reference.

And of course it comes back to Pogo. All things come back to Pogo and Peanuts. At least, older Peanuts, not the later version that everyone remembers.