Wednesday PM Arktoons

MIDNIGHT’S WAR Episode 7: Vampire War

THE HAMMER OF FREEDOM Episode 8: Leave Him to Us
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Nemesis

Another good reason to read the Junior Classics. It’s hard to have much sympathy for the vaxxed who drop dead, especially when they have openly mocked those who refuse to follow their literally self-destructive example:

A 57-year-old husband, father and grandfather is dead, in what is fast becoming a trend of death after social media virtue signaling.

Mr. Ronald Babb, Sr. and his wife Rose, received the experimental Johnson & Johnson viral vector shot on April 12, according to his Facebook page. They received the shot at a Walmart on Genessee Street in Camilius, New York, about 14 miles west of Syracuse. Mr. Babb posted he and his wife’s “vaccine cards” on Facebook with a caption saying they are now waiting to “turn into robots.”

Mr. Babb died seven days after the shot, Monday April 19.

I’m wondering how long it will take before the media begins claiming radical white supremacist anti-vaccine extremists are sneaking around and murdering people who are known to have been vaccinated in order to make their anti-vaxx conspiracy theories more convincing. 

You wouldn’t think it would be possible, but remember, we’re dealing with a retarded segment of the public here who not only think that experimental genetic therapies are safe and tested vaccines, but genuinely believe the Boogaloo Boys are responsible for making BLM look bad.

Meanwhile, actual medical workers are choosing to risk their careers rather than risk their lives:

Nearly 200 staff members at a Houston-area hospital were suspended for not following a policy that requires employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Their suspensions followed a protest by dozens of workers Monday night against the policy.

The hospital, Houston Methodist, had told employees that they had to be vaccinated by Monday or face suspension. Last month, 117 Houston Methodist employees filed a lawsuit against their employer over the vaccine policy.

The Alpha weakness

The Alpha always thinks everything is about him. This is why Alphas are so easily manipulated by those who are not loyal to him or who have agendas requiring his neutralization.

Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President. More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech – all voices should be heard. In the meantime, competitors will emerge and take hold. Who are they to dictate good and evil if they themselves are evil? Perhaps I should have done it while I was President. But Zuckerberg kept calling me and coming to the White House for dinner telling me how great I was.

The level of obtuseness revealed here borders on the embarrassing, but it is all-too-typical of the average Alpha. Who cares what the social media companies are actually doing, who cares about the strategic disadvantage in which you are being placed, who cares that your own followers are being silenced and economically ruined, what’s really important is that the heads of the social media companies are ritually genuflecting and paying you your rightful due as the top of the social hierarchy. That’s what really matters, right?

The one thing the Alpha truly cares about beyond everything else is recognition of his status. That’s why they’re always beating their chests and casting about for any possible challengers. So long as you publicly kiss the Alpha’s ring, you can get away with just about anything you want without inspiring his opposition.

This is another area where being confused with an Alpha is advantageous to the Sigma. Whereas the Alpha is naturally inclined to preen and forgive all sorts of shenanigans so long as sufficient smoke is being blown up his backside, the Sigma is suspicious of anyone who pays him compliments, particularly those he knows to be less than entirely merited.

Wednesday AM Arktoons

DEUS VULT Episode 7: Schemes of the Devil

ALT★HERO Episode 7: One Falls, Another Rises
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve got several new series underway, including one set in Selenoth that is being created in a new style that we’re calling an “illustrated episode”, which I suspect may turn out to be an extremely popular series format. But the new series that everyone is most anticipating is almost certainly DAY OF THE PILLOW, which will be a four-panel comic illustrated by Lacey Fairchild and set in the world of HYPERGAMOUSE.
A review from SG:

I like the latest episode of #AltHero. Was thinking its another cartoon comic where punches fly, and that’s that. But here, punches actually have weight & consequences.

One of the foundations that distinguished ALT★HERO from the start is non-continuity. We’re not interested in writing stories where Batman catches the Joker again, only to let him go and commit more murder and mayhem in order to convince himself that he is the superior individual.

The criminalization of reality

Thanks to their Promethean rulers, neither the USA nor the UK are very far away from literally outlawing the idea that 2+2=4.

A mother-of-two law student investigated by university chiefs after saying ‘women have vaginas’ has won her disciplinary hearing, it has today been revealed.
Lisa Keogh, 29, was hauled before a disciplinary panel at the University of Abertay in Dundee after she made the comments during a seminar on transgender issues.
But after a two month probe, which took place as the mature student underwent her final year exams, the university has now dropped its case against her.
University chiefs cited a ‘lack of evidence’ behind the decision to drop the internal investigation.  
Today Ms Keogh hit out at the university for subjecting her to what she described as  a ‘cruel witch hunt’ due to her ‘gender critical views’.
The university deny Ms Keogh was put through the disciplinary procedure because of her ‘personal opinions’.

Notice that the internal investigation wasn’t dropped because it is evil and stupid to punish people for making incontrovertibly true statements of fact, but for lack of evidence that she had made one. 

What they are doing is attempting to enforce the lie by enshrining it into law. But once you start forcing people to accept your lies as truth, whether they are “some women have penises” or “there was never a land called Palestine” or “all men are equal”, you’re already on the path to losing your indoor plumbing.

Internet outage

From Russia Today:

OUTAGE: USERS REPORT MAJOR SITES DOWN, INCLUDING AMAZON, GUARDIAN, NYT & REDDIT
I’ve noticed that Outkick and Sports Illustrated are also down. But Arktoons, SocialGalactic, Infogalactic, and Unauthorized are all running fine.
From The Daily Mail:

The problem, affecting customers worldwide, appears to be related to Amazon’s Web Service (AWS) crashing, leaving people unable to connect to other websites. 

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Seeing intelligence

I have always said that one can literally see that a person is more intelligent than the norm by looking at their eyes. I wonder if that observation was based on subconsciously picking up on large pupil size:

A person’s intelligence and brain function correlates to the size of their pupils, a new eye-popping study by US researchers suggests. The study claims that the larger the pupil, the smarter its owner. Cognitive abilities like attention control, fluid intelligence and working memory capacity have been linked to baseline pupil size by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, who conducted several large-scale studies involving over 500 participants.
First, they calculated the average pupil size of each of the participants — aged between 18 and 35 years old — using a special tracking device with a camera linked to a computer. Normally, a constricted pupil — the black circular aperture in the center of the eye — is two to four millimeters in size, and fully dilates to up to eight millimeters. 
The participants were then offered a series of cognitive tests measuring their abilities to stay focused and control attention while being intentionally distracted, to reason through new problems and remember new information. The laboratory was kept dim in order for the pupils not to constrict in response to light. 
“We found that a larger baseline pupil size was correlated with greater fluid intelligence, attention control and, to a lesser degree, working memory capacity,” researchers concluded, with their findings published in the June issue of the Cognition international journal.

I tend to perceive intelligence in the eyes as an active awareness, or in some cases a liveliness, that doesn’t necessarily translate to the person’s expression, tone, or behavior. Not every intelligent person shows this, but I’ve never met anyone who did who didn’t later prove to be intelligent. It might also explain why people instinctively avoid eye contact when they don’t want to indicate that they are anyone out of the ordinary.

More evidence of the obvious

The white line of silence has apparently been broken:

Two U.S. experts have penned a damning essay saying that science strongly suggests the novel coronavirus was manufactured inside a Chinese laboratory.  The claim was made by Drs Stephen Quay, CEO of biopharmaceutical company Atossa Therapeutics Inc, and Richard Muller, a physics professor at the University of California Berkeley, in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.

In the op-ed, the men say their proof lies in genome sequencing, or analyzing the DNA, of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

There are 36 DNA segments – made up of three-letter ‘words’ – that viruses use to make an amino acid known as L-arginine.

L-arginine helps make proteins but is also often used in so-called ‘gain of function’ research, which alters viruses to make them more transmissible and more deadly.

The new virus contains a segment called CGG-CGG, which is considered rare even in experiments in which researchers are trying to manipulate virus.

But even more telling is that this combination has never been found naturally in any other type of coronavirus, including in SARS and MERS, both of which are cousins of the new virus.

There will be more to come. A lot more to come.

Monday PM Arktoons

COSMIC WARRIOR Episode 6: You Are the Cosmic Warrior

CHUCK DIXON PRESENTS: WAR Episode 6: The Rivers Run Red

And Bounding Into Comics rounds up last week’s Arktoons:
Drama has a history of getting the short shift in comic books. Understandable of course, the bread and butter of comics publishers in the U.S. have always been superheroes. And neither superheroes nor supervillains freely lend themselves to prolonged deep self-examination leading to an existential crisis that finally resolves itself in a cathartic release.
However, it was superheroes that the drama was revolving around, and the drama was usually political. The first rule of drama is that politics makes for bad drama. A political drama’s first function, and indeed primary obligation, is to sermonize.  And sermons are not engaging stories, they are lectures.
Things were always different in Europe. Not better, just different. American comics were banned in Italy in 1939 by Mussolini and in France by the Communists in 1949. This protectionism allowed native comics to expand and fill the void left in the marketplace.
European comics writers either embraced the political restrictions or learned to get around them in order to tell their stories. Catholic comic books did much better in Europe than they did in America. The upshot of all this is that drama titles had a more fertile field to grow in across the Atlantic.