USA #1

I can't tell if this t-shirt is awesome, or fucking awesome, or what:


Via Warren Ellis (yes, that Warren Ellis).

"I'm Jordan"

Ok, this proves conclusively that Jordan is the Batman of basketball. But guys--you know who this makes the Commissioner Gordon of basketball?

Phil Jackson. It sort of fits!

Although after that, the analogy kind of breaks down:

• Robbin --> Scottie Pippen
• Alfred --> Bill Cartwright
• Joker --> Patrick Ewing

Really, though, Heath Ledger was channeling Ewing in that performance.

EDIT: Let me reiterate that the Commissioner Gordon of basketball is not NBA Commissioner David Stern. That would be committing the fallacy of asserting the commissioner, and it's wrong.

Ebert disses comics

From his review of Dark Knight:

“Batman” isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about.

Whoa there. Sounds like Ebert's never cracked open Dark Knight Returns or Killing Joke, or any of the other "dark" Batman stories that started cropping up in the 80s...