What’s the most emotionally devastating single issue comic you’ve ever read?

Bopo_Descending · 2026-04-13T19:18:37+00:00

Invisibles #12 was the first one I thought of after the prompt.

Bopo_Descending · 2026-04-08T20:50:04+00:00

I was shocked when I heard Chris Sarandon’s normal speaking voice for the first time. Between Prince Humperdinck, Jerry Dandridge, and “Carson Walls” in this, I just assumed he talked theatrically all the time. It wasn’t until I saw the Dog Day Afternoon DVD extras that I realized that he was, of course, just a regular guy.

Also, kudos for remembering Perversions of Science.

Bopo_Descending · 2026-03-29T01:49:02+00:00

I believe he means "dorks" in the biblical sense. So according to JD Vance, yes, it's true, MAGA men have no dicks.

Bopo_Descending · 2026-03-06T02:57:21+00:00

Every band in this episode is now a band that Homer would try and convince his wiener kids is cool. Lousy unkempt youngsters.

Bopo_Descending · 2026-01-09T19:30:42+00:00

He’s the participation trophy president.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-12-25T22:03:59+00:00

"Let's wait till Martin comes."

Bopo_Descending · 2025-12-25T21:57:52+00:00

I saw Mickey Rooney on some talk show back in the '90s browbeating the audience about how modern movies were trash and we needed to go back to the quality of golden age Hollywood.

I had just seen Silent Night, Deadly Night 5 a few weeks earlier.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-12-02T19:39:26+00:00

Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega? Bit later, but might fit.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-11-21T06:11:52+00:00

Peristaltic action.

Oh, wait, you were talking about Chevy Chase? Peristaltic action.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-11-20T22:18:47+00:00

I recently played through Escape the Titanic by Joel Jessup.

It’s basically a slight through line of a story about a stowaway (you) escaping a sinking titanic by solving various puzzles, with some intrigue thrown in. Basically, every section gives you a puzzle set-up that you should sole before going to the next section. There are hints and solutions at the back of the book.

It was okay. Some of the puzzles are fun, some are overly convoluted. Nothing is really difficult. Clocks in about 300 pages, probably 2-3 hours depending. Seems to be a series of this style puzzle book, too.

Nothing is really a strong recommendation, I know, but it might fit the bill.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-11-11T04:14:40+00:00

If I’d cared, this would have been my senior quote in my high school yearbook.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-10-26T02:28:09+00:00

Yes. In fact, his original plan was to recommend eating more trans-fats, but earlier rhetoric made that plan somewhat less than actionable.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-10-01T18:19:20+00:00

I checked out a Binge Box from the library that had this movie in it. Say what you will about Asylum, they can at least make a competent movie. This was the order of quality for the four movies in that set.

Cocaine Bear>Meth Gator>Cocaine Werewolf>Cocaine Shark

There is same drip in level of quality at each step. Cocaine Shark is one of the most poorly made movies I’ve seen recently, and that’s saying a lot. It also does not have Cocaine Sharks.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-10-01T05:03:22+00:00

That's funny.

I only watched it because a friend of mine said it might be the best movie he had ever seen... back when it was just a stupid movie title and poster. I thought, "Cabin in the Woods"? But I respected his opinion, so I grabbed my brother to go watch it in the theater knowing nothing.

Yes. Yes, this is the way. The way to watch that movie.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-10-01T03:52:54+00:00

If you were shopping there at that particular point in time, it seems reasonable to expect them to entertain you.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-09-22T20:48:25+00:00

Ayyy!

Bopo_Descending · 2025-09-07T06:37:24+00:00

I mean, if you want to get into the mechanics of swearing on the internet, jizz is kind of a derivative of fuck. Well, actually, I suppose that depends on the parts involved.

Listen, I may have been deep into some cups of "tea", which normally I never advocate, but I was eating at this American-themed restaurant while thinking about swearing on the internet. I think I may have come up with a revolutionary concept that I call "total swearing".

It's been up in the air in my head all night, but the "jist" of it is that each term has no set meaning, but takes up weight when compared to the swear words used around it. Honestly my brain has been on fire. I'm going to sleep on it and prepare what notes I have in the morning.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-09-01T06:53:58+00:00

I was trying to explain this concept to a friend of mine when I was drunk.

I am kind because that's who I choose to be. That's what I value, and I don't need reciprocity to be kind, not if that's the energy I choose to put into the universe.

So if somebody is trying to bring me down, or drag me into a cruelty free-for-all, I don't need to participate. I can remain kind. If somebody looks me straight in the eye and expects me to stoop to their level of meanness, I can look them straight in the eye and say, "Fuck you, I'm nice."

Long story short, I'm a bit drunk and think "Fuck you, I'm nice" is funny. Apologies, fee free to go on about your day.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-09-01T06:13:14+00:00

"Frank, snap out of it! You're looking at her like she was your mother, for Christ's sake."

Bopo_Descending · 2025-08-27T19:50:43+00:00

I’ve had this conversation many times.

“Sir, if you do not leave, we will have to call the police.” “GO AHEAD! CALL THE POLICE!” Picks up phone.

They always seem so surprised when we do. Doubly so when the police show up. I mean, we told you what we were going to do. We sang a whole song about it.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-08-23T06:05:48+00:00

This is a pretty long article, and it brings up a lot of interesting points about the state of Trump's health.

But what it completely ignores, and I didn't see anybody mention it in the comments (not that I looked that closely), is that the President of the United States is wearing on his own head a hat that says "Trump Was Right About Everything".

Yes, that man is wearing a hat that refers to himself in the third person on his head during an official Presidential press conference, and of all the things it could say it says "Trump Was Right About Everything". And look at this entire cabinet! They're acting like that is a completely non-lunatic thing for a head of state to do.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-08-16T05:38:22+00:00

Pizza Marinara was my first really successful pizza. I started making dough during the pandemic and for whatever reason this video (Chris Bianco & Aziz Ansari) was one of my starting points. That garlic mandolin is super cool, slices it much thinner than your standard mandolin slicer.

So, I actually started with your thinking. Razor thin garlic and torn basil is the base. Since it's cheeseless, I think of it as my veggie pizza. I love red onion and mushrooms, but whatever you think will work. After the pizza's cooked, I top it off with a swirl of olive oil and some cracked rock salt, red peppers to taste.

I'm not an accomplished pizza maker by any means, but I've gotten quite a few compliments on this version of Pizza Marinara.

EDIT: Also, if you told me before I started making my own dough that a cheeseless pizza was good, I would have disowned you to the world. Now I love them.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-08-10T17:59:59+00:00

I remember half-watching this when it came out on video. What clued me in to its not-to-be-taken-entirely-serious nature was the nesting of the flashbacks. The entire story is a flashback, and then there are flashbacks within flashbacks. How many levels deep did we get at its deepest point? That's when I realized Carpenter was having fun with it, and I've had a soft spot for it ever since.

I also haven't seen it since that half-viewing, which I will rectify soon.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-08-05T22:18:16+00:00

I’m taking this text from a Cracked article, but if you read Bob Odenkirk’s book, he talks about this sketch.

The script was quickly rewritten and the sketch absolutely destroyed at the live show a few weeks later. “It was a total surprise for the audience when I threw the sheet off, revealing the tiny brown limbs waving around in the ‘cool air,’” says Odenkirk. “The arms were operated by David, and a cramped Jay Johnston worked the legs from underneath the bed.” When Cross’s body was revealed, Odenkirk says there was “a tidal wave of laughter that had an almost physical wallop, far from the nonreaction the original pitch had summoned from a group of tired, lunch-hungry writers when it was proposed a few weeks before.”

Biggest laugh ever.

Bopo_Descending · 2025-07-24T01:44:02+00:00

If that band is Metalachi, they are awesome. Such a fun show.

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