R. Anthony Mahan
@enceladeans
Writer for The GG Tribune. Former writer for Hard Drive. Author of "One Nation, Under Jupiter." Trying to be less of an Internet recluse. He/him.
Another day of horrors, another excuse to post a mirror of an old Hard Drive article of mine that's looped back to being topical again. archive.ph/VfG4v
It amazes me people kept making new fictional characters even though perfection was achieved with Dr. Zoidberg.
Doesn't predate this by much, but the first issue of Mad in 1952 has a good bit where a character grabs the space between panels.
In light of recent events, here’s the article I did for Hard Drive (mirrored because fuck Sumerian) about if Elon Musk bought Hasbro. In hindsight, I wasn’t mean enough. archive.ph/gnxlM
Looking through the VGHF's archives it seems like before Killzone the phrase "Halo killer" was most frequently used for Brute Force. There's my recommendation.
Characters that, according to Magic's love of crossovers, are worthy of wielding Mjolnir.
Slippy is also a nepo baby. And so is Andrew. The Lylat System is the most nepotistic system in the universe.
Personally, I'm just confused how you could have a Felix the Cat Secret Lair and not do a reprint of Bag of Tricks.
Me when the SCP Foundation movie gets made and the royalties come in for the two unimportant SCPs I made over a decade ago:
I was going to propose moving it to Mr. Rex so Novac can finally be real, but this is how I learned that the thermometer is nearly twice as tall and Mr. Rex could not comfortably hold it.
Thanks to Magic: The Gathering, Garfield and Odie are CANONICALLY capable of killing The Master from Fallout 1. I thought you should know this.
Special shout out to Shadows Over Loathing, which has arachnophobia, arachnophilia, and arachnophonia options.
The Monstars received no penalty for this because it was the right thing to do.
Technically Banksy could be on the dev team of any British video game without anyone realizing it. I'm going to guess Whizz.
"But what if I were to purchase a legal name change and disguise myself as her own son? Hohoho, delightfully devilish, Armin!"
"Gerrymander" is a funny word. A guy draws a cartoon dragon and 200 years later its name is just a regular serious political term we all use. It's like if in the future politicians were accused of trogdoring.
40 Winks made Mario move over, but Croc made Mario move over AND Crash cruise by, then he killed and ate them both and changed the letter on Mario's hat somehow.
Mad deciding to put "Cheap" under the price of their cover every single time back in 1955:
They left out The Old Psychic Lady with the Evil Eye Who Reads Fortunes and Knows Everything Before It Happens too!
Adjusted for inflation, the lyrics are now "Shave, two hundred forty bits."