Henry Imler July 3rd, 2008

Utah Rocks.  Well, working for Utah rocks - along with Cleveland I have to say, because Cleveland definitely rocks.  They shorted the # of days in the workweek and lengthened the number of hours in the days that made the cut.  Oh, and it turns out that it is environmentally healthy to boot. Utah Four Day Work Week Environmentally Friendly from Sustainablog.

11 Celebrity-Inspired Fads We’d Like to Forget

Spandex was developed in 1959 by a DuPont scientist who wanted a way to display the genitalia of male bicyclists without violating public nudity laws. By the late ’80s, spandex bicycle shorts could be seen across the music community, from headbangers to pop stars to the female dancers in pretty much any rap music video.

Scott showed me this one: Review of Ultimates vol 3, Issue 3.  This is priceless.  Hunt dissects why  Jeph Loeb’s Ultimates run is ruining the legacy of a beyond-wonderful Ultimate vol 1 and 2.  Perhaps what I enjoy the most is Hunt pointing out how Loeb has taken the women from the Ultimate universe and transformed them into hollywood shells.

Luckily for Wolverine, Jeph Loeb has never read an Ultimate Comic. Wanda, as written here, is so far removed from the way she was as introduced in Ultimate X-Men that it’s hard to know where to start. Where’s the smart, sensual, confident women who attempted to seduce Cyclops and was a major part of the Brotherhood’s plotting? All we’ve got here is a wet, soppy, poor, whining excuse for a character. “Oh, I don’t WANT to conjure that! I don’t LIKE dinosaurs! These clothes are too restrictive!”

and this from his review of issue 4:

Incidentally, notice how yet again a woman can’t do anything without being rescued by a man…Incidentally, female characters in this series so far : whiny moaning Wanda, boobs-hanging-out Valley girl Valkyrie, boobs-hanging-out cavegirl Shanna, and Jan the [dunce]. Well played, Loeb!…

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