Great Comics That Never Happened Annual #1

The Comics Alliance has gathered together "The Great Comics That Never Happened" all in one place. Thrill to "Aliens vs. Predator vs. Ted Nugent!" Sigh with "Young M.O.D.O.K. Romance!" Discover the "Crisis in the 36 Chamber" with the JLA and the Wu-Tang Clan!

Old Timeyness

Travel through pop culture history a premake of Marvel's Avengers (sneak peek of Emma Peel included), faux 1911 silent animated shorts from Red Dead Redemption and Lando Calrissian as Blackstar Warrior--a Blaxploitation film set in the Star Wars universe.

Venture Bros. 4-II

Adult Swim has a trailer for the new season of Venture Bros. (If you're having trouble seeing it, try using Hotspot Shield).

"Me and Taxes Gone Fight."

Kanye West's tweets as New Yorker cartoon captions. With New Yorker cartoons.

Shaft vs. Scarface

Shaft vs. Scarface, and other comics based on (mostly 80s) movies that should be.

More from Hometree Wisconsin

Hometree Wisconsin tries to reach you through Chat Roulette.

L.A.R.P. (Live Avatar Role Playing)

Video footage of the Na'vi People of Hometree, Wisconsin.

Don't Let The Sheepinator Fool You

Does being amused by turning non-ovine creatures into sheep make you a bad person? It doesn’t seem like a serious question, but appearances can fool you. Especially, according to Plato, if you are a fool. I think it’s safe to say that there would have been no video games in the Republic.

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"One Never Mentions Fight Club"

"The first rule of Fight Club is that one never mentions Fight Club." Jane Austen's Fight Club.

Fictopedia

Fictopedia!

Duel of Cats

Cat chanbara (i.e., kitties with katanas) at Cat's Head Theatre.

Core Competencies

Microsoft Education: Core compentencies: Humor. What is your proficiency level? (via @Hodgman)

"Crisis in the 36th Chamber"

Chris Sims and Rusty Shackles bring you, "Great Comics That Never Were (But Shoulda Been)!"

The Muppets Present: The Wicker Man

The Muppets' The Wicker Man. It's way better than Muppets from Space. (thanks, weed!)

It's Free, and It Will Change Your Life

The Necronomicon, brought to you by the Esoteric Order of the Old Ones and Cthulhu Cultists: "If knowing the unknowable is crazy, I don't wanna be sane." (thanks, victoria!)

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Bloody Disgusting also has a trailer for and clips from another horror comedy, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. Tucker and Dale are just trying to fix up their cabin in the woods and college kids are offing themselves all over the place. (Interview with writer/director Eli Craig here).

Kick-Ass Trailer

Kick-Ass has some, well,... pretty good trailers. (thanks, Tera and Rebecca)

Charlie Brown at 19, 35 and 65

"If the Peanuts characters aged like real people." Scans!

Herbie Popnecker, Reviewed

At Chris' Invincible Super-Blog, Chris attempts to review the one where Dracula throws Herbie Popnecker into a pizza oven.

SYNECHDOCHE, ARIZONA

In the final episode of St. Elsewhere, something strange happens. Snow begins to fall around St. Eligius Hospital, and we cut to an image of Dr. Donald Westphall's autistic son Tommy, a minor character in the series up to this point. He sits, staring at a snow globe, inside of which we see a replica of the hospital itself. This provocative final image led to the development of something called the Tommy Westphall Universe hypothesis - the idea that St. Elsewhere took place entirely in Tommy Westphall’s imagination. As characters and situations from St. Elsewhere crossed over with other television series, and characters from those series crossed over to other series, Tommy’s imagination consumed more and more of television - even jumping networks occasionally. By the reckoning of St. Elsewhere creator Tom Fontana, "Someone did the math once... and something like 90 percent of all television took place in Tommy Westphall's mind. God love him."

The question is, can something similar explain the career of Nicolas Cage?

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