Tales Designed to Thrizzle: comic anthology, a cross between MAD and McSweeney's

Cory Doctorow 6:36 am Wed Jul 29, 2009

The first four issues of Michael Kupperman's awesome comedy comics zine
Tales Designed to Thrizzle
have been collected into a single hardcover volume that is a superdense wad of funny, surreal, bent humor, including The Buzz Aldrin Mysteries (the radio operator has been murdered, any one of the seven people on the moon could have done it!); two cowboys kicking the hell out of each other for 10 panels while shouting "I'd say comics are serious literature" and "I say they ain't"; the World Famous Apairy Hat (Girls Love it, Bears Want to Stick Their Paws In It!); a thirties nostalgia comic about an unemployed former courtroom ghost who is shrunk down and has nothing but amoebas to eat for two years; and a video game called Big City Marathon ("Keep your finger on the forward arrow key for 26 hours to win"). This is weird, funny, Subgenius-esque toilet reading that will keep you very regular.

Tales Designed to Thrizzle

Taxi Driver, the sitcom

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Turtle high-fives alligator

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Ridiculous baseball videogame from 1998 results in ridiculous baseball ballet videos made by players

98 Kōshien is a high school baseball videogame released only in Japan for the PlayStation in 1998. One of the features is the ability to customize the pitchers' windups. This… READ THE REST
Short Post, just one paragraph

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