WTF Pics: Final Fast Food

After seeing these Pics taken at the 2008 Los Angeles Anime Expo I can't help but hum "McDonalds" in my head to this tune

WTF Picture...................Nation of Islam chill with Neo Nazi's

I don't even know where to begin to explain this one. It almost sounds like a bar joke, "So a bunch of Neo Nazi's where hanging with the Nation of Islam..."

Further explanation for this WTF Picture provided here.

Happy St Patrick's Day

For All my Irish Folk, a clip from one of my fave Animated Movies, "Secret of Kells.". Songs in Celtic and About the Book of Kells with a Redhead as the main character, its got "Erin Go Bragh" written all over it.

R.I.P. Dwayne McDuffie

Most people knew Dwayne McDuffie from his work on Ben 10, and Justice League, and Static Shock. His characterizations and plots produced some of the finest moments of television I've seen, animated or otherwise.

Static a creation of Dwayne McDuffie and the Milestone Staff, in his Original Comic Book Design

The more familiar design from the Cartoon Series

I was introduced to him though, not through any of the writing he did for these shows, but a well deserved and hilarious murder. I remember him for murdering Luke Cage, Black Lightening, and Brother Voodoo. Icon one of the criminally underrated titles in the Milestone Universe had a issue called the Death of Buckwild that basically parodied the piss out of these iconic black comic book characters. It Showed the cringe inducing stereotypes and ghetto fabulous portrayals that always accompanied these characters .

As a comic book fan as much as I enjoyed these characters there was always a reserved part of me given these stories the side eye, because of the ridiculously hammy and racist portrayal even by comic book standards of non white characters.

While at Marvel Comic he sent a infamous memo making fun of how Marvel was marketing and portraying two of their popular black characters at the time.

Unfortunately a few weeks ago Dwayne McDuffie passed away due to complications he had from Surgery the day before. With his passing the comic book community not only loses a master of the art who in addition to creating stories that revealed dimension of Archetypes like The Justice League, and others, but a creator who bought the question of race in comic book out of tired cliche and made all his character portrayals, regardless of ethnicity three dimensional.

Fanboys and Sex aka Hot Oil and Water

Video game fanboys have earned a reputation for fanaticism and crude behavior. It's arguable whether its deserved or not.

Spending too much time on Xbox Live won't do a damn thing to disprove this notion, more like a daily orgy of name calling that would make a toughened MMA Fighter/Ex Marine blush, run and go cry in his pillow (Before he tracks down mofo's addresses and then........)

Then you have the guys over at The Escapist who have produced some really thought provoking and informative videos as part of their Extra Credit animated series. Lots of intelligent and insightful things to say about diversity and sex in video games.

Diversity in Video Games

Sex in Video Games

Sexual Diversity in Video Games