ComicMix Quick Picks (in Six) for December 16, 2009
Six quickies:
- Get your Christmas Bond marathon started early: YouTube is running all of the 1967 version of Casino Royale.
- How the Muppets made us all Bergman experts.
- Steve Bunche chases hairy, so to speak. He also shows the original ad for the book, to which all I can say is “Who put those words into Spider-Woman’s mouth?”
- Kate Beaton explains early science fiction.
- The birthplace of fandom is found.
- The Morgan Freeman chain of command. For what it’s worth, I think COO of Wayne Enterprises should be in there in the second tier.
- The best (and best-selling) graphic novels of the year, from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Anything else? Consider this an open thread.
Interesting that the Muppets/Bergman article, in mentioning other Bergman parodies didn't mention the Oscar-nominated short, De Düva, which – aside from being laugh-out-loud funny – is Madeline Kahn's film debut.As to the Verne/Wells comic – Verne pretty much made his science up, to – in any situation where his figures can be checked, he's likely wrong.For instance – "From the Earth to the Moon" – if the "Columbiad" (the gun) were 3.5 miles long – and i don't even want to *think* about the ludicrous concept of pouring that much cast iron in place in a hole in the ground – the astronauts inside the projectile would experience an acceleration of nearly 1200 G for a full second, in order to achieve escape velocity of 7 miles/second… Assuming that the acceleration was constant, which it wouldn't be. (I see from Wikipedia that Verne's Columbiad was 900 ft long. Given that length, the projectile would traverse its length in .05 second, at an average velocity of 3.5 miles/sec – which looks like about 739,000 G. NOT survivable.)And let's not even *consider* the Nautilus…