"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
So, um…Kaleidotrope t-shirts! For the consumer-minded among you.
They each feature Remi Treuer‘s nifty cover illustration from issue #2 (still available, by the by). I’m wearing one of the black t-shirts right now, and I’m really pleased with how they came out.
So my summer blockbuster viewing, which got off to a disappointing start with Spider-Man 3 and 28 Weeks Later, went slightly better this afternoon with Shrek the Third. It’s genuinely cute and sort of amusing, and even if it isn’t those things all of the time — and is, more often than not, sort of tedious, really — overall it’s pretty harmless. Faint praise, maybe, but I don’t think I was expecting much more going in.
I have never had any faith in humanity. But I will give us props on this: if we can evolve, invent and theorize our way into the technologically magical, culturally diverse and artistically magnificent race we are and still get people to buy the idiotic idea that half of us are inferior, we’re pretty amazing. Let our next sleight of hand be to make that myth disappear.