I Would Pay Canadian Prices For A Coffee Table Book Of These Illustrations.

I decided to break the law to provide a necessary medical service because women were dying at the hands of butchers and incompetent quacks, and there was no one there to help them. The law was barbarous, cruel and unjust. I had been in a concentration camp, and I knew what suffering was. If I can ease suffering, I feel perfectly justified in doing so.

Dr. Henry Morgentaler, a Canadian doctor who was arrested four times for performing abortions, but whose arrests eventually led to the 1988 Canadian Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the country. He died this week at the age of 90. His obituary can be found in the NY Times. (via nailure)

Happy anniversary Comics Curmudgeon!

(I always hear the Price Is Right theme whenever I see this panel.)

Before Gears, Before Unreal, There Was ZZT

The following is an excerpt from ZZT, Anna Anthropy's upcoming book about Epic boss Tim Sweeney's classic game creation system.

I'm looking forward to this. I used to love ZZT, even on the old monochrome Toshiba T-1000 laptop I used to lug around as a kid.

This may be the greatest four sequential panels of any comic I've ever seen. I want to have it blown up and framed, and then I will take the time each day to look upon it and cackle with delight that such joys exist.

From "Seeing Eye," UNCANNY TALES no. 22, July 1954. Writer unknown, art by C.A. Winter. Reproduced in The Horror! The Horror! : Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!, ed. Jim Trombetta.

Having just played through Mass Effect 1, I understand this with a vengeance.

Running in any game that has stamina 

I saw Chef today, a sci-fi movie about an alternate dimension in which a mildly acerbic restaurant review on AOL can go viral.

I remember your face.  I swear I do.  Just give me a moment . . .

"Let's see ... Zack Snyder already gave us a head start with dour, desaturated Superman ... we've got Ben Affleck to play barbiturate to our already dour, desaturated Batman ... dammit, there's still too much potential energy in this movie! We've got to dial it down, and fast!"

Poem by Poem_for_your_sprog

"A Tumblr devoted to the world of Kaiju toys."

There is a hole in my phone from punching the "follow" button so hard.

Name: Evel Dealmaker Platform: Dealmaker Artist: Jon-Paul Kaiser Manufacturer: mphlabs Material: Sofubi

Ha ha, well what brilliant satiric artist created these ... [checks National Geographic source] OH MY GOD.

If anything else, this is proof that humanity hasn't changed that much over the eons. "Hey, these things go pretty fast. What if they were on fire?"

Feuerwerkbuchs