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FatMan – A Compendium of Husky Hand-Drawn Heroes

–Eric ‘Capn’ Braem for Boomstick Comics

Bryan’s recent Boomstick Comics post on Blubberella came with the claim that the obese, Nazi-killing, half-vampire is the first, fat — or at least first, fat, female — superhero.

Scouring my brain, which hurts quite a bit, by the way, I quickly realized that I was never a big comic fanboy. I remember reading some TMNT and I loved the hell out of The Tick, but most of my comic-reading was in the Sunday funny pages. I love me some Calvin & Hobbes. Still, I managed to come up with a few…

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Cicadas

The drone of cicadas (sih-kay-duhs), a locust-like insect, sounds like a painful drill to some. (more…)