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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Ace The Batpug

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:03 pm, March 13th, 2012


Lar deSouza put two awesome things together to create one really awesome thing. Batman + pug = Batpug! (via deSouza’s twitter) 

  • Actress Maggie Q will be the next Wonder Woman. In animation. The Nikita star will voice Princess Diana starting on the March 24 episode of Young Justice on Cartoon Network. (via TV Guide)
  • The Frisky takes a look at the controversy surrounding the ad agency BBH using the homeless as internet hotspots during the SXSW festival.

Over the weekend we brought you the story of Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau’s latest series of strips being pulled from several newspapers who normally syndicate the comic. Why? Because it sattired Texas’ transvaginal ultrasound law. But, as these things often do, the strips leaked in PDF form on the Poughkeepsie Journal’s website. It has since been removed but thanks to the internet, we still have it to show you. Click to view larger (sorry it may still be difficult to read).  (via Tara Dublin)

  • The Hunger Games actress, Elizabeth Banks, spoke to MTV at the premiere of the film about how she’s a geek for the books’ author Suzanne Collins. “To me, the biggest star here is Suzanne Collins. She created this entire world, all of this pandemonium, all these characters. She birthed this whole situation. She couldn’t be a nicer lady. She’s the loveliest lady, and I’m a total geek around her. To me, she’s a total rock star.”

Artist Cat Londers (BrownCoatFiction on DeviantArt) made us squee with excitement over the combination Gotham City Sirens/Disney Princesses. Check out her page for Catwoman to complete the set. (via io9)

  • It’s been a bumpy road trying to get Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series adapted to…well, anything. It’s on, it’s off, it’s a movie, it’s a tv show, it’s off. Apparently it’s now back on with Warner Bros. taking up the reins for a Ron Howard-directed film starring Javier Bardem as Roland Deschain. (via Deadline)

These Alien high heels probably hurt beyond belief but I would still wear them because they are Alien high heels. Designed by Alexander McQueen in 2010. Sigh. (via Geeks Are Sexy)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bexley-Lister/100000454520033 Bexley Lister

    Those heels look soooo unstable.  But imagine the fabulous dress that would go with those…

  • Jen Roberts

    Is it just me or is the xenomorph there going, “GURL, you look FIERCE!”?

  • http://twitter.com/smoke_tetsu Smoke Tetsu

    Hate to say it but even as a huge Giger and Alien fan I even have a collection of giger and alien stuff on display here I think those shoes look terrible on many levels!

  • Anonymous

    After reading the comics, and while I fully believe they were hidden from view because of their general criticism and that’s terrible, there is one punchline about how the woman would abort Rick Perry if she was carrying him, and I can see it if that particular strip was disputed. However, that entire law needs to be disputed, and that’s what this comic was doing.

  • Anonymous

     Yeah, the Rick Perry line was the only bit I found genuinely funny, too.  I think the point is well made in these strips, so the more they get spread around, the better.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

     an aspect of the law those on the left don’t want to be brought up.  Even Jane Roe would support it. you on the left do know who she is correct?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_McCorvey  I was sitting in O.R.’s offices when I noticed a fetal development
    poster. The progression was so obvious, the eyes were so sweet. It hurt
    my heart, just looking at them. I ran outside and finally, it dawned on
    me. ‘Norma’, I said to myself, ‘They’re right’. I had worked with
    pregnant women for years. I had been through three pregnancies and
    deliveries myself. I should have known. Yet something in that poster
    made me lose my breath. I kept seeing the picture of that tiny,
    10-week-old embryo,
    and I said to myself, that’s a baby! It’s as if blinders just fell off
    my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth — that’s a baby!

    I felt crushed under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to
    the awful reality. Abortion wasn’t about ‘products of conception’. It
    wasn’t about ‘missed periods’. It was about children being killed in
    their mother’s wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit,
    I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of
    this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion
    — at any point — was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear.[2]

  • Numi Nu

     Yes, this is exactly why nobody should force women to do one thing or the other.  We should never dream of forcing a woman to abort and we should never dream of forcing a woman to have a baby.  Who am I to tell someone what she feels about what’s inside her?  It would be just as heinous for someone to deny a woman’s feelings of attachment as it would be to deny a woman the option an abortion.  One in three pregnancies is naturally aborted (this type of abortion is usually referred to as miscarriage) and I would never presume to tell that women that what she lost was definitely a baby, or that what she lost was *just* a clump of cells.  Women can make their own decisions and to scorn a woman for mourning her loss of a zygote or embryo, or fetus is just as awful and ridiculous as scorning a woman for getting a medical abortion for whatever reason.  No woman makes the decision lightly and philosophy and religion will always have a plethora of ideas on what life is, and no single philosophy or religion should be made into law based on that.

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