Monster of the Day

So nobody got the gag yesterday. This confirms the findings of the Damien Motd; numerology jokes do not fly at Jabootu. Uh, OK, this will do for today, I guess.

Here's a DC villain who, in the New 52 (Hey, kids, comics!) is of course an insanely gross mass-murderer. Meanwhile, Marvel--presumably learning the lesson from their amazingly successful movies--is making waves with *gasp* comics that are actually clever and fun, like Hawkeye, Daredevil and Wolverine and the X-Men, the first X-Men book I've read…

The Sci Fi Channel (as it was known at the time) also took a whack at the Shark Man idea. No Stan Winston creation, it was a CGI creation, at about the level you'd expect from the SFC. It was surprisingly difficult to find a decent still from the movie; hence the better but…

Man, if the movie had been half as good as the monster suit...

Well, this was kind of obvious.

More, please.

OK, intellectually, this is terrifying. Think how bad a regular-sized pissed off house cat is. It's not a bear or anything, but you wouldn't chose to tangle with it. More to the point, think of the cat in Incredible Shrinking Man. This would be bad news. Still...even if this isn't inherently farcical, like giant…

Seriously, that's just gorgeous. And I'm actually saving my favorite covers for the next time I do a Kona week. Notice again the huddlers up on the ledge. Screw those guys. Still, there's no doubt Kona is a badass. I mean, damn.

Ah, that's the stuff. This is the preferred format for the covers, as far as I can tell; modern folks huddling in the background whilst the neanderthal Kona deals with things. "Don't worry," we imagine him shouting in resigned exasperation. "I got this! You guys just cool your heels over there, maybe have a…