Set aside half an hour of your day and have a listen to this:
Part one,
part two,
part three. Mark Thomas, an English comedian, tells the tale of how he decided to protest a very silly law (requiring protesters on Parliament Square to apply for permission to protest) by following said law very, very thoroughly. And it is hilarious
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HURRY UP I WANT TO READ THIS SO BADLY OMGS
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I would read the shit out of that story. (Admit it, doesn't John have that even-keeled, slightly weary, I've-given-up-trying-to-understand-all-of-this aura of badassery that would make sense if he was originally from the middle ages and had gone time traveling?)
Do you like Batman? Do you like deeply weird and ridiculous things? Because I suspect you'll like what's at the link! It's potentially spoilery, if anyone ever figures out what the plot actually is, but it's awesomely weird in a way that hasn't been the case since comics stopped prominently featuring super-gorillas. http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/08/batman-odyssey-neal-adams-insane/
Also, SUPER-HEROES BATTLE SUPER-GORILLAS! Reply
... oh. oh my. I gave the first issue of Batman: Odyssey a go when it was first released and it was so confusing I quit the series. Now I'm torn between READING ALL THE REST OF IT vs. staying away forever and ever.
The best gorilla comic panel in the history of mankind:
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I sort of want to buy it just to boggle. Or buy it as a joke gift for a friend of mine who's heavily into comics (after several months of online auction-searching, I managed to get him all of the Miracleman trade paperbacks - I think he had a comicsgasm).
That is truly an amazing panel.
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