The Best of Twitter 5/09 - 6/10

I totally stole this idea from Errant Ways, which is the personal blog of the wife of one of the hosts of a podcast I listen to. Cool? Cool.

Basically, I decided to go through my "favorites" on Twitter and pick out some of the noteworthy tweets written by the people I follow over the past year to list here for your reading pleasure. I'm not gonna say they're all comedy gold or anything, but each one of the following tweets struck some kind of chord with me.

benito_cereno @rianmiller People who know absolutely nothing about comics are fine; people who know just a LITTLE bit are the worst. FACT.

RobertKirkman My son and I just watched spider-man 2. Guess how many times he asked "why did spider-man take his mask off?". He's 3 years old.

michaelianblack Thinking of opening a post-apocalyptic theme restaurant called "TGIS" Thank God It's Shelter. Mostly serves canned foods.

thebrianposehn I know I'm not the first person to comment on how nasty baby shit is, but my boy's poo could eat through the hull of the Nostromo.

askanison Alien: Horror, Aliens: Action, Alien 3: Drama, Alien Resurrection: French

McKelvie I've got Myst on my iPhone. That shit used to be 4 CDs!

JayCheel Drag Me To Hell: Proof you don't need to wear glasses to feel like shit is flying at you for an hour and a half. AWESOME.

benito_cereno Attn., Value City Furniture: no one says "sofa potato."

McKelvie Every time I see a red pipe or door now I think I'm supposed to climb it or burst through it. No tattoo under my eye, though.

CBCebulski Japanese news reports a 56 year-old man arrested for stealing girls' panties... dressed as Spider-Man. >sigh< Just once, can't it be Batman?

CBCebulski Comic cons are the ideal hunting grounds for chubby chasers.

headgeek666 Put in TRANSFORMERS on Blu - to remind me of the storyline, before seeing TRANSFORMERS 2 in IMAX tonight. It's like pulling back the scab.

thebrianposehn Off to the gym. Not really,but everybody tweets that. Really gonna watch The Blob (the one with Kevin Dillon) and have a coke for breakfast.

filmjunk Transformers 2 summary: Nononnoonoo OPTIMUS! DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE Gogogogogooggogooo

mattfraction my dad once told me he delayed his entrance into the Army so he could catch the end of a two-part MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. episode.

radiomaru Amazon: people who bought [2008 movie] also bought [every other 2008 movie, regardless of genre or quality]. who ARE these people?

tonymoore i love working w/ @remender because his scripts have notes like "The dude is for real dead." and "The fuck do I care? Figure it out. Jesus."

fetorpse @tonymoore My dear sweet @benito_cereno leaves me ones like "Establishing shot of tokyo airport. Fuck you, google it."

errantways RT @PolarBear_ Unanswered prayers are NOT god's way of saying you don't need something. They're god's way of saying, "I don't exist."

michaelianblack If you replace "Yankees" with "police" and "Red Sox" with "protestors," the sentence, "The Yankees are beating the Red Sox" is horrible.

fetorpse Hey twitter, whats it called when the big titties kind of spill out of the top of the bra? Is there a name for that? Like tit muffin top.

warrenellis I bought a carton of oat milk just to support the kind of person who can find udders on an oat.

funrama I like Football. But every single game is decided in the final 2 minutes, so football games should only be 2 minutes long.

tonymoore they should change the name of the show to I Will Eat The Balls! With Andrew Zimmern.

warrenellis Did Lindsay Lohan ever have an actual job? Or was she simply deployed by Hollywood podmasters as Your New Famous Person?

robertliefeld Ticket for New Moon purchased....man license revoked. Will draw grim And gritty comic pages to regain self respect tomorrow!

SarahKSilverman I would eat fish but I can't because I have a nose.

cully_hamner @erikjlarsen I don't know if I'd feel right giving a 10-year-old a comic in which Batman breaks the Joker's neck, but hey, I ain't a parent!

warrenellis I would kill for a jam doughnut. You. I would kill you for a jam doughnut.

Greenskyzero so suddenly xmen 3 isnt so bad. brett Ratner must send the wolverine people a card every christmas

warrenellis Me: iTunes For Windows, would you please just open my library? iTunes For Windows: I would rather die than serve you.

fetorpse Falling asleep watching Speed Racer is like falling asleep in a lover's arms.

JayMewes I Have a Boner

warrenellis If anyone here is thinking about killing someone, please leave one of my books at the crime scene. I could use the press.

james_gunn So @mia_matsumiya asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I told her ass-to-mouth.

And, to satisfy my vanity, one of my own tweets which I recall fondly:

rianmiller No, #youmustberetarded. RT @brian_weiner I have a new found respect for Hinder. #imustbedrinking

Oh yeah, follow me on Twitter: @rianmiller

Recent Acquisitions 003: Wizard World Philly '10

I had planned to write a lot more of these Recent Acquisitions columns, considering that one of my favorite past-times is buying things. Unfortunately, the only times I really think to post one are when I buy a lot of books and things simultaneously. In other words, after comic conventions. I wrote up a list of everything I bought at last year's Wizard World Philly Con, so I figured I'd do the same this year. Again, there are no photos to accompany this list, because I don't feel like spending 5 hours putting together this post. However, the image at the top is a crappy camera phone pic of my copy of Eerie #97 that I took at the show. You can even see the text from my shirt reflected in the mylar sleeve.

Anyway, here's the list:

Art Adams' Creature Features - This trade reprints Adams' adaptation of The Creature From The Black Lagoon, which I already own, but it also reprints a Godzilla story that I've never read.

Bone: One Volume Edition TPB - This book collects the entire 1,300+ pages of Jeff Smith's Bone in it's original black and white for a shockingly low cover price of $39.95. That is already an incredible deal, which is why my jaw hit the floor when I found a copy for 50% off at the show. That's the entire series for $20! What's even more shocking is that, as the day went on, I must have found at least 20 copies of this book at various booths for the same price. When did Bone become a bargain bin item? Anyway, I've been trying to coax my mother into reading Bone for a long time now, and I figured that getting her her very own copy of the One Volume Edition would be the easiest way to make it happen. Honestly, I was tempted to buy every copy of this book that I found at the show just so I could distribute them to all of my friends who haven't read it. I still can't believe how cheap they were!

Astonishing X-Men Omnibus Hardcover - One of my favorite X-Men comics of all time was Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men run, so despite having all of the original issues of the series, I couldn't pass up the Omnibus hardcover (regularly priced at $75) when I found a copy for 1/2 price.

Danger Girl #6 (Maduriera variant) - I, of course, already have this comic. My original copy is in a sad state after years of re-reading it, so I decided to pick up a replacement copy for $2.

The Dirty Pair Book 3: A Plague Of Angels TPB - I already have the single issues of this series, but the trade was only $6, and in pretty good condition, so I went ahead and picked it up anyway.

Eerie Magazine #97 - This is a special issue which reprints a 3-part time travel story by Bruce Jones and Richard Corben that has always felt, to me, like a precursor to the pair's later Fantagor series Rip In Time (aka one of my all-time favorite Corben books). These stories were reprinted in the "Heavy Metal: The Best Of Richard Corben From Creepy And Eerie" hardcover some years ago, but the quality of the reprint was horrible because the scans they used in the book were from the actual pages of a copy of Eerie magazine, rather than the original artwork. I've been dying to read a decent quality copy of the story ever since I first laid eyes on that bastardized collected edition. The only thing that could make this issue better is if the cover were by Corben himself, rather than Val Mayerick (who obviously wants to be Corben in a big, bad way).

From The Desk Of Warren Ellis TPB - A collection of old articles and things that Warren wrote back in the early 2000's.

Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft TPB - This book contains a comic book adaptation of Herbert West: Re-Animator, 5 pages of which were drawn by Richard Corben.

Green Arrow: Year One TPB - This is from the same creative team who gave us The Losers (Andy Diggle & Jock), which I quite enjoyed.

NECA Alien Action Figure - While it's true that, as a rule, I don't collect action figures any more, there are still certain ones that I need to have (just because). The film-accurate Ghostbuster figures from MattyCollector.com and any Alien-related figures tend to be the exceptions to the rule.

New X-Men: Riot At Xavier's TPB - My favorite arc of Grant Morrison's New X-Men run. I have the original issues, but I wanted a copy to keep on my book shelf for easy access.

Nextwave: Agents Of Hate TPB - This trade reprints the entire 12 issue Nextwave series in one volume. I already have all of the individual issues, but this is a series that I want to have at the ready on my bookshelf at all times.

Northlanders vol. 1 TPB - I read the first issue of this series when it was released, but wasn't terribly interested in the story. Regardless, the praise that other people keep showering upon it has convinced me to give the book a few more issues to prove itself.

Outlaw Nation TPB (Image) - This is a random Vertigo series that I always wanted to read, but which was never collected into trades because it was cancelled with issue 19. Somehow, Image Comics got the rights to the book and published this black and white collection of the entire series, leaving me with the perfect opportunity to finally give it a read.

The Punisher: Welcome Back Frank TPB - I read someone else's copy of this when I was in the Kubert School, but for some reason I never picked up a copy for myself before. It's not Steve Dillon's finest work, nor is it the best Punisher comic you're bound to read, but it's a fun story. I find it interesting that back when these issues originally came out, everyone lost their shit over how great they were. Then, around the time of the Thomas Jane Punisher movie, a backlash seemed to occur toward the book. I still remember it fondly, but I feel like I'm in the minority. Sure, Punisher is probably at his best when there's little to no comedy involved, but what's wrong with a story featuring The Russian every now and then?

The Punisher MAX vol. 1 - 10 & From First To Last TPBs - As with Welcome Back Frank, I borrowed the first 2 or 3 volumes of this series from someone at the Kubert School, but never kept up with it after that for some reason. I found volumes 2 and 4 in a 50% off box at the first booth I hit at the show today, after which it became my goal to find every volume before leaving the con. I did just that, picking up a copy of volume 9 to complete the set just before walking out the door to head home. Not only did I get all 11 books (which would normally cost $175), but I managed to get them all for 50% off, meaning that the entire series only cost me $88. I consider that a win.

Strangers In Paradise vol. 2 Pocket Book - I've only read the first volume of Terry Moore's epic-length self-published series, which is something that I hope to rectify someday soon. I now own the first 2 volumes (of 6).

For anyone interested, here's a link to my acquisitions from last year's show.