Word: bizarro
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...clicked through, I for the first time marveled at Firefox, a crazy, bizarro version of Internet Explorer that somehow blocks pop-up windows. I appreciated the multitudes of movie trailers played through iTunes. I gasped at how my first semester grades benefited from some kind of invisibility cloak built into the Registrar’s website. Amazing...
...Sfar, a philosophically inclined French comic artist. Splashy comics from other publishers include Lost Girls (Top Shelf, summer) by Alan Moore (author of The Watchmen) and Melinda Gebble, an erotic fantasy that's pricey ($75) and edgy (the publisher says the work "seeks to reinvent pornography as something exquisite"). Bizarro World (DC Comics, February) will feature many alternative comic artists giving their take on DC's superheroes. And Pyongyang (Drawn & Quarterly, September) will chronicle cartoonist Guy Delisle's trip to North Korea's capital...
...BIZARRO WORLD Written and illustrated by various; Cover by Jaime Hernandez The follow-up to BIZARRO COMICS lets the world's greatest alternative cartoonists run rampant through the DC Universe. (Feb 16) See TIME.comix review of the first volume
...shadow country that never was, an America in which Lindbergh, an isolationist in real life, defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt to become the 33rd President of the United States of America. Armed with that premise, Roth takes readers on a harrowing safari across interdimensional borders into a bizarro version of his hometown, mid-century Newark, N.J., where we encounter Roth's own family and Roth himself as a child, living under the Lindbergh Administration. "My little rubric that I would recite to myself," Roth says, "was 'Don't invent it, remember...
...bizarro world here? Since when are Yankees pitchers psyched out by Boston? Jose, your team is the good one, remember? The one that doesn’t fold under the pressure. Theo didn’t end up signing you, buddy. You’re a New York Yankee. You’re supposed to be at your best against the Red Sox (see Ramiro Mendoza). Where is Mendoza, by the way? I’m convinced that if he and Kim come off the DL, the Red Sox will find their way back to second place in no time...