I’m a comic geek.  It’s been many years since I collected singles in any sort of meaningful fashion, actually over ten years if I think about it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an art form that is near and dear to my heart.  When I was a kid and teenager super hero stuff was my favorite, and these days the movies still give me a geek-gasm, but lately I have been leaning to a more ‘thoughtful’ interpretation of the media.

Hands down the best of these kinder and more gentle comics is the Fables series.  Willingham is a genius.  They are smart, funny, at times sweet, sometimes surprising, and always well executed.  I just finished up the 11th graphic novel that just released, and now I can’t sleep because it has me excited.  Unfortunately it means that I also have wait until August before another collection is ready to read.

I have also read all of Y the Last Man, and am re-reading all of Samura’ Blade of the Immortal.  Any other suggestions?  Any must reads?

So, at the store the other day, waiting to check out, I noticed they had a bunch of new candies that I’d never seen before.  One of them was from Nestle, and is called Carlos V.

Anyway, why this stuck out at me.  It’s described as a “Milk Chocolate Style Bar”, or something to that effect.

Is chocolate really that hard to come by that Nestle has to create an artificial chocolate?  And Nestle calls it the “king” of bars in Mexico.  Guys, when you’re marketing something, you can call it the King of whatever without having to put that bad boy in quotes.  No one’s going to try regicide on the chocolate bars, or some sort of palatial faux-chocolate coup.

Hell, Budweiser calls themselves the King of Beers, no quotes.  And they’re awful.  (I remember very distinctly drunk people in London standing above a trough urinal, and one of the guys said, “Look, lager.”  Oh, drunk people, is there no end to your wisdom?)

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