1. "Grocery Outlet, Supermarket Chain Where Oddball Products End Up." (Oddball products like Cleavage Creek wine.)

2. Relationship advice.

3. "Book Of 'Roadside Prostitutes' Made Entirely With Google Street View."

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North Korea is like an Escher drawing.




Best friends.




Batmobile limousine.




Love.




Children's section entrance in the Cerritos Millenium Library in California.




Confident ninjas.

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Panel from a charming illustrated marriage proposal by Jim Baab - - there's a video at the bottom showing the woman reading it.

*Previously: Marriage proposal by video game character.

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1. Want that cute guy to call you? Pick him up on a rickety bridge. Via.

2. New short story by Kelly Link. (I haven't read it yet, but I've liked everything else I've read of hers.) Via.

3. The winners of the inaugural Google Science Fair.

4. Always nice to be reminded that I'm not the only person who prefers email to Twitter and Facebook. (I love Google Reader, too.)

5. FYI, I'm continuing to experiment with Super Punch 2 at Tumblr and mostly post images there that I'm not also posting here.

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Duckling.



Sleeping polar bear.



Farewell.



Hearse.



Tiny monkey.



Spider-Man.



Chameleon.



Spirited Away, perhaps.



Please do not sit on crocodile.

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The only things he looks at are dogs.

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A few panels from "Rendevous on Cloud 9" from Career Girl Romances #47. There are various issues of Career Girl Romances on sale at eBay.

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A few panels by by Ross Andru and John Severin from Sub-Mariner #38 (March 1971), which details Namor's origin.

*Buy Heroclix at eBay.

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Science! by Britt Wilson for an art show in Toronto.




The Phantom enjoys a good kiss of death.



You can't keep love buried in a grave. It will rise again.




From Bizarro Comics, Danny Hellman shows it's hard being Aquaman.





The Atom takes on saboteurs.

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1. Comic strip by Lucy Knisley about online dating.

2. Weird niche blog - - Could they beat up China Mieville? Via.

3. It's Yang, Master of Kung Fu vs. a mistress of wolves in Night of the Wolf.

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Sean Hartter guesses what Bane's mask looks like.




Panel from "Death's Bridegroom."




Flyer by Ben Zhu for Gallery Nucleus's upcoming Harry Potter show.




Cirque du Soleil/Zumanity poster by Casey Weldon on sale here.

*Buy circus posters at eBay.

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Fun with shopping carts.




Hipster Ariel.




Mandarin duck.




Bereaved wolf being comforted via.




Fearsome toddler via. See also.

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Loving couple under glass on sale at Etsy.

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Really cute kids kissing. "Yaaay!" Via.

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Shannon Wheeler's I Thought You Would Be Funnier can be read online for free (and is very funny).

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OK, if you missed it when I posted it this morning, here's a very funny wedding proposal video Gearbox created for two fans of Borderlands:



And here's the actual proposal video:




*Buy Claptrap toys at eBay.

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Kotaku:

Ben reached out to Gearbox a while back, mentioning that when he and Tora first started dating, he had to give her "the gamer talk," in which he explained his hobby and the fact it might make him incommunicative and emotionally unavailable for hours at a time. Tora's response: "I love Borderlands! Let's play!"

The video's very funny.

*Buy Claptrap toys at eBay.

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John Fabry turned a Mario Bros. level into a video tribute for his friends' wedding.

And speaking of Nintendo, don't forget to participate in this month's art contest - - Fix Nintendo 3DS's red screen of death.

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Pokemon engagement ring box. Via these sites.

*Buy Pokemon toys at eBay.

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The second in a series of posts looking at artists featured in Spectrum 18. The art isn't necessarily what will appear in Spectrum 18, just what caught my eye. Here's part 1.


Dracula by Grant Fuhst.




Ms. Marvel by Aly Fell, who has various prints on sale here.




Magic: The Gathering card by Jesper Ejsing.




Laura Diehl painted a fantasy portrait of herself and her husband as kids. (She has lots of prints on sale here.)




Fallen Tower by Daniel Dociu.

*Buy Marvel sketch cards at eBay.

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