Friday Fun Link, Media and Comics Division

Brian Doherty | August 7, 2009

I'll pretend this has some policy relevance by saying the supposedly dying newspaper industry could learn lessons in capturing readers from these examples of headlines and stories from newspapers that exist only in comic books. And it might even be true.

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Hugh Akston|8.7.09 @ 7:25PM|#

It is pretty clear from those headlines that Coast City's fate was the result of God's wrath over the vigorous underground gay scene.

|8.7.09 @ 7:31PM|#

Zoiks! Not the dreaded H-plus Bomb!

|8.7.09 @ 7:32PM|#

Underwater newspapers! That's what will fix our industry woes!

|8.7.09 @ 7:33PM|#

Coast City? Is that code for Provincetown? Or Fire Island?

Hugh Akston|8.7.09 @ 7:44PM|#

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Stormy Dragon|8.7.09 @ 8:19PM|#

On planets where the land masses are unevenly distributed, they're probably going to be concentrated in the northern hemisphere most of the time. The dominant culture is most likely going to come from the favored hemisphere just by simple chance, which will become the northern hemisphere when they naturally orient the maps to match their view of the world. (e.g. on earth the Northern Hemisphere is the northern hemisphere because that's where Europe is. It was more likely one of the nothern hemisphere civilizations would end up dominating simply because there are many more of them).

|8.7.09 @ 8:35PM|#

They aren't dying, they're just in pre-bailout mode.

<strike>strike through</strike|8.8.09 @ 8:37AM|#

Greenbacks For Gazettes?

toddb|8.8.09 @ 9:11AM|#

Jimmy Olsen...proving again that it's not the size of the totem...it's the magic you do with it that counts.