bizarro

Bizarro is a fictional character in Superman comics whose name has come to represent a statement or opinion that is the complete opposite of reality. The comic book Bizarro was created by Otto Binder in 1958 in Superboy #68. Patterned after Frankenstein’s monster, Bizarro is a kind of anti-Superman, possessing all of his powers but having the opposite outlook and understanding. His speech reflects this: if he says something is “bad” he means it is “good,” he would attempt to mimic Superhero’s heroics by using his powers to start an earthquake or cause a train to crash, rather than saving the victims of a naturally occurring disaster. He would try to fight crime by robbing a bank. He lives on a Bizarro World populated by other opposites: Bizarro World’s Batman, called Batzarro, is the World’s Worst Detective and carries “a futility belt.” Outside of comic book discussions, Bizarro is therefore a pejorative indicating a view that is 180-degrees off. A statement so completely wrong it must be a deliberate inversion.

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• Embarrassed to Death

  
  Wayno: Cartoons/Fine Art/Illustrations/Words — Authority: 95
  Anyone whos shown up for an event in inappropriate attire (i.e. most Americans) will relate to todays Bizarro comic. The submission sketch for this one was very sketchy indeed.Dan Piraros finished art includes a wonderfully elaborate paisley pattern on the Casual Reapers shroud, which posed a bit of a challenge for ...
  3 days ago

• America’s Most Dangerous Mall: Going Shopping at the Pentagon

  
  Danger Room — Authority: 717
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• New DC Logo - Supergirl Style?

  
  Supergirl Comic Box Commentary — Authority: 410
  The comic world got to take a good look at the new DC Comic logo last week, a sort of top layer D being peeled off of an deep layer C. It isnt super engaging on its own. But I dont know anyone buying the books simply for the company branding. Here is the DC Source article discussing it: ...
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• A First-Person Elevator Simulator (FINALLY)

  
  mental_floss Blog — Authority: 688
  What’s the best setting for drama, awkwardness, and first-person online video games? Yes, an elevator . If you don’t have a real elevator available, why not play Elevator: Source , a “co-op elevator experience” in which a group of players hang out in an elevator as it travels between floors in a surreal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Extraterrestrial Condiments

  
  Wayno: Cartoons/Fine Art/Illustrations/Words — Authority: 95
  Todays Bizarro comic returns to Area 51, a place Ive featured in an earlier cartoon.For this simple gag, Dans final art follows my submission sketch very closely.The major difference (besides transforming it from a rough sketch to a fully-rendered image) is the change from a talking bottle of ketchup to a talking ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mystic Pizza: Ymir Want Stuffed-Crust!

  
  Gay Porn Blog, Naked Men Pictures, Nude Males and Gay Erotica — Authority: 94
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• Meet the Invincible, Invisible Soldiers of 2001

  
  Wired: Danger Room — Authority: 101
  Today’s soldiers are invisible. They can’t be harmed by bullets or chemical weapons. They can see through walls and distinguish enemy from civilian with a simple glance. At least, that was the vision outlined in a 2001 Pentagon-funded report, “ Objective Force Warrior: Another Look ,” (.pdf) written by a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ce Nest Pas Une Bande Dessinée

  
  Wayno: Cartoons/Fine Art/Illustrations/Words — Authority: 95
  Heres a phantasmagorical Bizarro cartoon for your enjoyment, or perhaps puzzlement, as the case may be:And, heres the submission sketch:Bizarros creator, Dan Piraro, improved on the sketch in several ways. His revised text does a much better job of setting up the punchline in the caption box. As is often the case, ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Xô paparazzi” galinha esconde rosto com a crista

  
  Blogando Noticias — Authority: 119
  Uma galinha chamou atenção nesta quinta-feira (12) em um galinheiro em Wolfsburg, na Alemanha, ao exibir a crista caída, tapando os olhos, dando a sensação que não queria ser fotografada, como fazem muitas celebridades quando aparece algum paparazzo. Galinha exibiu a crista caída sobre os olhos. (Foto: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mulher inglesa diz ter duas vaginas

  
  Blogando Noticias — Authority: 119
  Hazel Jones, de 27 anos, sofre de uma rara condição médica e jura que perdeu a virgindade duas vezes Uma notícia pra lá de bizarra assombrou o mundo: uma inglesa chamada Hazel Jones, de 27 anos, revelou que possui duas vaginas. Isso mesmo, não é brincadeira. O diagnóstico foi feito quando a mulher tinha 18 ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Your choice of lifestyle is an abomination.”

  
  elephant journal — Authority: 604
  I heart Bizarro ^ As folks have pointed out, children were regularly thwapped on the left hand as recently as the…60s? 70s? So we’re making progress. Within my lifetime, left-handed folks will even be legally allowed to marry, I hope.
  3 weeks ago

• Our Top 5 Superhero Moments On Robot Chicken

  
  GeekTyrant — Authority: 685
  You cant be a geek and not appreciate a little Robot Chicken every now and then. For those of you not familiar with the show, imagine a bunch of geeks taking everything nerdy you love, then comedically dismantling it in a way only true fanboys can. Theyve done it time and time again wi th Star ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stop Poking Yourself! Stop Poking Yourself!

  
  Wayno: Cartoons/Fine Art/Illustrations/Words — Authority: 95
  Heres a brand new Bizarro gag for your mid-winter enjoyment:For comparison, heres the sketch I submitted:Dan Piraros finished art is very similar to my sketch, probably because my sketch is very similar to some of his previous panels showing a person at a computer with a spectator standing to the rear, like this ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lockheed’s Six-Engined VTOL Design

  
  Defense Tech — Authority: 595
  I was taking a peek at Lockheed Martin’s recent patent filings the other day when I came accross this whopper. A patent for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft with three wings and six tilting engines, notice I didn’t say tiltrotors. It looks like the company might be interested in supplying the “DoD ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bizarro Name

  
  The Aggregate — Authority: 483
  Bizarro Name (via) [IMG: http://www.theaggregate.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/iK4xc.jpg]
  3 weeks ago

• X-37B Might Not be Spying on China’s Space Station

  
  Defense Tech — Authority: 595
  So remember the Internet hubbub last week when the BBC reported that the Air Force’s X-37B space plane may well be spying on China’s new space station, Tiangong-1, since their orbits are very close? Well, it turns out that the source behind that story, Spaceflight, the magazine of the respected British ...
  3 weeks ago

• Monstro Bizarro: Mystery of the Yeti Finger

  
  Abattoir - Rue Morgue's Blog — Authority: 112
  The strange case of the Yeti finger is one of the most intriguing tales in the cryptozoo world.  Part Indiana Jones movie plot, part cryptozoology, the mystery started in the 1950s and has only now been resolved. The Yeti finger is part of the so-called “Pangboche Yeti remains.”  The remains consist of a ...
  3 weeks ago

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