WTF?!

WTF?? - The Economy


So when did a Quarter Pounder meal get over 5 bucks?? Or, worse still, and Egg McMuffin meal jack to over 4?? I just got my last McD breakfast this morning, and have to tell you that when a QP meal is more expensive than a lap dance around here, there's something VERY wrong- and it ain't with the lap dance price either.

I have the feeling that a LOT of the corporations have developed the same sales philosophy as the gas suppliers and they're leaning on the excuse of the fuel hike to jack up their prices. I. like most Americans, will be voting against these hikes with just not buying anything I think is too expensive. Seriously, CD's that used to be 10 or 11 dollars are now 15? Those were too expensive at 10! No wonder the music industry is crying. Shit like that actually encourages folks to subscribe to Itunes and not even attempt to listen to any new music.

You see the gas prices are dropping slowly while at the same time I can't help but see consumer prices jacking up to more than fill the void. Folks, we're going to be in this so-called recession for some time to come. any company that wants to jack prices like that will have to work twice as hard to earn my business back. Why have a FOUR DOLLAR Egg McMuffin meal when I can get the Breakfast Special at my local greasy spoon for the same price with MUCH better quality food? Frankly it just doesn't make sense.

One the positive side I have become SO much more price weary, and that's a good thing. Plus I've learned that I can go through the grocery store and NOT but a lot of junk food because I can't stomach paying the extra 50 cents or buck, or cheesier still, do with MUCH less product for the same or slightly higher price, especially from the bigger corps. These folks have thrived for YEARS on shaving their overhead, their work force, and their quality of goods while at the same time jacking their prices right up to the limit of what the market can bear to move their shit. It's not that they're losing money with the price of diesel jumping, its that they're making LESS money per item. NOW they'll be making even LESS money since they've not only jacked up their prices, but they'll have to go out of their way to justify the expense to the consumers in there penny pinching times. THEN, after they've seen that folks are really not that attached to their product, they'll be forced to discount AND up their advertising. Apparently Mc Donald's isn't happy that their sales had shown an increase because of our economic hard times, they have to keep their profit percentages at the same level and jack up their prices. Well, I literally ain't buyin'!

WTF?- The Geeks HAVE inherited the Earth!


According to the Huffington Post, as well as other sources that I've tracked to a German newspaper that actually asked the question. President Elect Barak Obama is actually a big comic book geek and that most of us fellow comic geeks probably walked past him at a Chicago Comic Con at one time or another. How cool is that?? He collects Spider-man and Conan, apparently mylar snugs them and files them into comic long boxes. That kind of explains the Alex Ross portrait that popped up many months ago. Finally I HAVE to wonder if he ever read any Arrow Comics (being here in the Midwest and all), and if he's got any Spank The Monkey comics in his collection. Kinda makes the fur on the back of my neck rise thinking about it.

Gotta wonder two things: Does and/or will this raise comic's visibility any higher, and will such comic masters as Will Eisner or Jack Kirby get some sort of honors recognition for their contributions to American culture now that the President (Elect) uses that medium as a source of entertainment? There's a potential world media making article for the first comics oriented website or magazine that can get five minutes of Obama to discuss his hobby. One informed columnist (who's name escapes me and I'm sorry for not properly referencing him because his column was very good) also poses the question of whether or not Obama will be thinking that great Stan Lee tag line when he's being inaugurated "With great power comes great responsibility". Somehow I think he's already considering that with most every decision he's made over the last few years.

WTF?- Spank Blog

Again, apologies for not being more prolific here. My last few weeks have been especially hectic between paying work and getting a mock-up together for a project that I'm still not quite ready to talk about, but it's pretty cool and it seems to be working out, and I'm working hard not to get too excited about it because whenever I get excited about a good looking project it usually falls through the floor. So mum's the word, and we'll see what happens.

What's happening for me is the Xcape-Con this weekend, where if all goes well I'll be announcing the above mentioned project, so wish me luck. For more info in them check out Xcapecon.com. Hope to see most of you there...Maybe SOME of you...ANY of you??

Till then, I'll post whenever I can, I STILL have a good 5-6 Heroes I Miss illos done and ready to go if I can I'll try to get another one of those up here before too long, plus I'm almost done with another Comics My Way rant- so until then...

Wake Up!