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Nick Fury vs Anonymous

Anonymous has a new role model, one from the great 1960s spy comic world:

do not make the mistake of challenging Anonymous. Do not make the mistake of believing you can behead a headless snake. If you slice off one head of Hydra, ten more heads will grow in its place. If you cut down one Anon, ten more will join us purely out of anger at your trampling of dissent.

Even TIME gets the link.  So, on reflection, it must be wrong, or already surpassed.  Which supervillain organization will Anonymous channel next?

(link via International Relations on Facebook; glorious image from this blogger)

Where do babies come from?

Today's disturbing myth, from webcomic Married to the Sea:

(via the sublime Wurzeltod empire)

Two kinds of people in the world

An especially dark strip from the very fine A Softer World:

Children make up the best horror stories

How to scare the heck out of a sibling: "The Scariest Story" is the latest from Hyperbole and a Half.  

I spent the entire day concocting the most horrifying story I could think of - an amalgamation of every single scary thing I'd ever heard. It was a masterpiece.  It was the scariest story in the world. There was no possible way that my sister would walk away unscathed.

The infinite hallway, and the death cycle - those are pretty good tricks.

Beware the false sugary messiah

The lighter side of post-catastrophe: Romantically Apocalyptic is a Web comic combining luscious, gloomy art with silliness.  A kind of funny pages Fallout 3.

There's a kind of 2000 AD/old Heavy Metal feel to it.

(via Ed "2000 AD" Webb)

Have you heard the news?

Excellent idea: Chick tracts for Darkseid.  

Be liberated from chaos and confusion.  Report to the anti-life factory now!

(thanks to Jesse Walker, who refuses to share his boom tube)

The terror of cats, revisited

The connection between cats and terror is an ancient one. The Oatmeal offers your example for this week:

Those eyes. They are filled with hatred.

Here's a grim story built out of the flesh of the new Sims game.  Classic American noir/Goth action.

NB: the link's to one very long image, built out of dozens of screen shots.

(via D'Arcy Norman's Twittering)

Sometimes you just can't count on groceries

Product quality assurance from a different world - read on:

(thanks to Dethe!)

Nothing is forgotten

"Nothing is Forgotten" is a sweet, sad, wordless short story.  It's a series of images, telling a story about a little boy and the... ah, I don't want to spoil it.

(many thanks to Andrew Connell, the hardest-working vampire cartographer)