Is this _really_ the canonical explanation for Power Girl's costume?!? From JSA Classified #2 (2005) by Geoff Johns1yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/comicbooks
I tease my son that I am too old to learn Pokemon names, and so call them all Pikachu. On the last day of school I flooded his lunchbox with notes depicting 14 Pokemon claiming to be named Pikachu (and one who, strangely, doesn't)10mo ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/pokemon
in 1992 my Canadian town made hockey cards for *every* kid in town (and enough cards were made that each kid could collect the entire series). Each card was paired with an anti-drug slogan. This was mine.3yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
I am too dumb to get what this joke might be. Deadpool by Alyssa Wong #7. Character is Ravhona. Do Werefoxes also have what?4mo ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/comicbooks
Can anyone explain this Stan Lee Spider-Man quip? (Amazing Spider-Man #7, 1963)2yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/comicbooks
[OC] The n! permutations of 4 objects, ordered by Heap's algorithm. Visualized in the medium of beaded bracelet.5yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/dataisbeautiful
That time Futurama used get a second opinion as an excuse to show each incarnation of Doctor Who (Futurama #67, 2013)2yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/comicbooks
This YA Sci-Fi book from 1975 (Crisis On Conshelf 10 by Monica Hughes) overly optimistically predicts that the world will have adopted the metric system long before the early 21 century :P1yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/scifi
Silver Surfer: Requiem #2 (2007) by J. Michael Straczynski and Esad Ribic1yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/comicbooks
Temporarily put my water in the freezer to chill it. Forgot about it, got completely solid. Has these really cool bristle-like patterns inside.2mo ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/mildlyinteresting
Were I a gambling man, which due to my upper Canadian Puritan inheritance I am of course not, I'm very inclined to place my money on the prospects for immortality of Arnold Schoenberg above and beyond any other composer who's lived in our era, I think. Glenn Gould (1966)9mo ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/classicalmusic
SUPER EXCITED to share new code I've been working on. Getting some really interesting/surprising results!3yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/ProgrammerHumor
I recently learned that the OG Chameleon's superpower was... a vest with a bunch of pockets (Amazing Spider-Man #1, 1963)2yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/comicbooks
HHGG famously anticipated multiple technologies, including ebooks, tablets, touch screens, voice command / ambient intelligence (and genuine people personalities), babel fish translation abilities, and wikipedia. On my latest reading I found another (in Mostly Harmless): Amazon delivery drones.4yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/DontPanic
in 1992 my Canadian town made hockey cards for *every* kid in town (and enough cards were made that each kid could collect the entire series). Each card was paired with an anti-drug slogan. This was mine.3yr ⋅ josephwb ⋅ r/northbay
