People have been linking to this debate clip from the classic Batman series that reveals how McCain's current campaign speeches have been taken straight from the Penguin's playbook! Especially now that McCain has gone back on his promiseof a "respectful campaign" and started condemning his opponent for his tangential ties to shady criminals.

Okay this has to be a parody post but it's pretty damn funny and the comic that's putting us on is a pretty funny take on car culture.  Monster Culture updates Monday through Friday.

I have come up with a meme. Here's how it works:

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. Select your language and choose the Random Article link
3. Use the topic on the resulting page as the basis for a thematically-obsessed Batman villain.

Hello everyone,
It's been awhile since I've sent out a new cartoon. And here it is. But there's a catch. It's in Spanish! But don't worry to much, just roll over the cartoon and it will translate into English.
Let me know what you all think! Heck, this might be a good way to practice and learn Spanish.
NEW CARTOON
Una Comida En 30 Minutos

Alan Gardner's blog is usually a good gauge of what's going on with syndicated newspaper comics and by association newspapers in general.  He has a recent post with links to speculation on the future of the newsprint biz.  The only thing everyone seems to agree on is that the future won't look like the past.

Alan also noted he's going to start a weekly roundup of webcomic news -- it might be worth sending him your blurbs for exposure to a little different audience than blogs like ComixTALK or FLEEN.  On the other hand if you do, be prepared to run the unyielding Wiley/Rall gauntlet of doubt about all comics not printed on sweet, sweet dead trees.  Ah, I love me the smell of printer's ink in the morning!

UPDATE: the first of Alan's webcomic linkfests is up today.

Yesterday's poll came in with tightly-contested matches between all players, precisely 51.9% of all votes went to the winners in their respective contests, constituting a narrow edge-out in either case. NOW! Golems! Imperfect clay homonculi from Jewish folklore! Werewolves! Globally pervasive folkloric archetype of behavioral atavism! But you really only know them from AD&D and White Wolf, so let's have them fight it out!

I noticed that John Allison posted an abandoned cover effort for his forthcoming print collection of Scary Go Round comics.  It's not clear from his post if the title of "Peloton" is set or not but dang - it'll be the 7th collection of SGR.  That means SGR is about 100 years old in webcomic years.

And whilst we're on the subject of Allison's saga of Tackleford, did everyone catch the 'zine comic he recently posted as part of the current storyline.  The 'zine strips start here;  you can pick up the storyline here, but the storyline probably starts here (although it jumps to other events from time to time).