Today's featured comic book is The Sword by The Luna Brothers.

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Today's word of the day is "regression."

Regression

1. the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
2. retrogradation; retrogression.
3. Biology. reversion to an earlier or less advanced state or form or to a common or general type.
4. Psychoanalysis. the reversion to a chronologically earlier or less adapted pattern of behavior and feeling.
5. a subsidence of a disease or its manifestations: a regression of symptoms.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

- Douglas Adams

Today's word of the day is "hackneyed."

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Hackneyed

made commonplace or trite; stale; banal.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

- Alfred Hitchcock

The Song: "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield

The Event: L.A. Trip

Kismet is an odd thing.  Coincidences or unconscious actions - however you want to define it - can lead to creating profound associations that last well beyond the events that spawned them.  And sometimes the associations are either unbidden or unwelcome - but they persist and insist on their own existence.  Such is my relationship with Natasha Bedingfield's hit song "Unwritten."  It's a simple little pop anthem encouraging people to seize the day and all that other "live for the moment" crap.  Ordinarily I would tune it out like so many songs from American Idol "winners" or that song about Delilah or whatever.  But due to the associations I've formed with the song, I linger a bit longer on the radio station while it plays.  Or I don't roll my eyes immediately as it's the background song for some soft-focused television commercial.  Instead I think about Los Angeles and my ex-girlfriend.

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Today's word of the day is "pensive."

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Pensive

1. dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
2. expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness: a pensive adagio.

It's a misperception of me that I am a wild man — I wish I still were. I'm 68 years old. The rage now is, oh, so deep it's almost comfortable. It has even approached the point where I can live with it philosophically. The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

- Norman Mailer

Today's word of the day is "isolation."

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Isolation

1. an act or instance of isolating.
2. the state of being isolated.
3. the complete separation from others of a person suffering from contagious or infectious disease; quarantine.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

- Mark Twain

Today's phrase of the day is "magnum opus."

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Magnum Opus

a great work, esp. the chief work of a writer or artist: Proust's magnum opus is Remembrance of Things Past.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. 

- Flannery O'Connor

First the tattoo that was signed by Stan Lee (found here):

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This week's comic we'll be looking at is John Layman & Rob Guillory's Chew.

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Today's word of the day is "incongruous."

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Incongruous

1. out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
2. not harmonious in character; inconsonant; lacking harmony of parts: an incongruous mixture of architectural styles.
3. inconsistent: actions that were incongruous with their professed principles.