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This dovetailed with another feeling I had about the book—it should feel “low budget.” If this story was a movie, it wouldn’t be The Avengers, with the spectacular effects $220 million dollars can buy. It wouldn’t even be the Ocean’s Eleven remake, with a gorgeous cast of glamorous A-listers. This comic is about the struggles of a broke bunch of C-list losers. Every choice I make in the art needs to support that. I can draw a slick, contemporary superhero costume, but no one in this story is going to have one. I want my cast to look uncomfortable and a little foolish in their super-suits. The characters in Superior Foes are mostly drawn to look like they’d take third place in a cosplay contest.

The Superior Steve Lieber writes about the process in coming up with the look for his work on Marvel’s Superior Foes of Spider-Man.
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My case is being referred to a hearing. I am being taken to an immigration detention centre. Just been read rights. In washroom crying.

Avery Edison is detained at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, and tweets the experience. Increasingly horrifying; hopefully, her experience has improved already.
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Then, in December, Facebook announced a change to the algorithm it uses to determine what kinds of updates (“stories”) users see in the News Feeds. In a blog post, Facebook said it wanted to feature more “high quality” content and fewer “meme photos.”

That same month, Upworthy’s traffic dropped 25% – reaching 67 million people around the world between December 1 and December 31.

Then, in January, Upworthy traffic dipped even lower – to 48 million people.

That’s a 46% traffic decline in two months.

Facebook has killed Upworthy, or at least dealt it a dramatic blow.
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SAFETY… THIS CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED… PLEASE DO NOT GO UNDER TREES. TREE LIMBS AND EVEN WHOLE TREES CAN FALL WITH LITTLE NOTICE AND POTENTIALLY KILL YOU WHEN COATED WITH ICE.

From the current Portland Weather Alert for tomorrow. Yes, our weather is surprisingly hardcore right now.
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Amidst the ongoing debate over the iconic director’s alleged sexual abuse in 1992 of his then 7-year-old adopted daughter, numerous sources nationwide confirmed Thursday that a newly published blog post titled “What You Really Need To Know About The Woody Allen Scandal” will finally and categorically settle the matter in its entirety.

Good job, Onion.
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Wondering why a hand-drawn picture of a happy shiba inu surrounded by broken English in Comic Sans ended up on page 27 of today’s Guardian? The simple answer is advertising.

For those who don’t recognise the image, above, it’s an example of the doge meme – in this case, a newspaper-themed one, hence captions such as “Brekin newz: cates r ilegal” (breaking news: cats are illegal) and “pls red” (please read).

It ended up in the financial pages of the paper thanks to a business data startup called DueDil, which won a competition run by the Guardian small business network.

“We were surprised that the Guardian would let us do it,” explains DueDil’s chief executive, Damian Kimmelman.

“We got the £50,000 [of advertising space, the prize in the competition] and we were like: ‘Oh crap, how are we going to spend this money?’ We debated, and decided on Friday we were going to do something funny. We don’t really need the advertising anymore, we get enough traffic as it is.”

On the one hand: Yes, it’s pretty funny despite Doge in general harshing my mellow.

On the other: Why didn’t DueDil just refuse the prize and ask for another small business to be chosen who might have wanted the ad space?