Happy(?) New Year 2024!

All right, everyone, which landmark event are you looking forward to the most/least in 2024?

1.The mutant revolt

2.Dealing with the nuclear aftermath of World War IV

3.Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the anti-UV eletromagnetic shield being raised around Earth

4.COVID-23 quarantine and lockdowns

5.The launch of the Europa Mission and discovery of a climate restoring microorganism on Jupiter’s moon Io

6.Development of fully immersive virtual reality, lower crime rates, and the return of 25 cent newspapers

7.Irish Unification

8.Japanese remilitarization and the 2024 North-South Korea Reunification Summit

9.The student protests in France and rise of the rise of the Neo-Trotskyist government

10.The Bell Riots in San Francisco’s Sanctuary District A

Time Has Run Out

Reminder that today’s the day aliens arrive in Earth’s orbot to destroy humanity and Captain Michael Raynor is sent back in time 30 years to October 6, 1992 through a wormhole.

Today’s vision of the future comes to you courtesy of Time Runner (1993).

Putting the “V” in “Nativity”

Who knew it stood for “vampire”?

THE BIBLE LIED TO US. 😡

This somewhat different account of the birth of Jesus Christ has been brought to by Lupin the Third Part II (新ルパン三世/Shin Lupin III) – Episode 34: “Lupin Who Turned Into a Vampire” (吸血鬼になったルパン/Kyuuketsuki ni Natta Lupin) (March 29, 1978).

Protection Racket

No one muscles in on Santa Claus’ turf.

Aim for the knees and ankles!

Today’s pushback has been brought to you by Superman’s Christmas Adventures #1 (1940) by Jerry Siegel and Jack Burnley.

Happy New Year 2022!

Who else has a good feeling about what’s in store for us? 😀

Internet – 2021

Reminder that this is the last day the Internet will look like this. 🙂

Man, I spend my days in the wrong areas of the World Wide Web…

This snapshot of the present comes to you courtesy of Johnny Mnemonic (1995).

The Naughty List

Guess who just made it?

Shit just got real. :O

This entirely appropriation addition comes to you courtesy of Santa Claus vs. The Nazis (2012) by Benjamin Dickson, Gavin Mitchell, Miroslav Mrva, and Owen Watts.

Plucky Duck Cometh

Guess who scheduled to arrive at Happy World Land today? 😀

Now THAT’S precision!

This ETA has been brought to you by Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (March 11, 1992).

When Christmas Gives You Lemons…

…make lemonade, I guess?

Now do the same with underwear and socks.

Today’s lesson in improvisation has been brought to you by The Tick Big Red-N-Green Christmas Spectacle #1 (December 2001) by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith, and Dave Garcia. Merry Christmas, everyone! 🙂

The Road to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics…

…seems to be paved with disaster no matter what reality you’re in.

In the real world, it was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Akira (1988), it didn’t take place due to the destruction of the Olympic Stadium (and of Neo Tokyo).

“Tokyo Olympics – 147 Days Until the Opening Ceremonies”

In the opening chapter of Dance in the Vampire Bund II: Scarlet Order (2013), a terrorist attack interrupted the opening ceremonies that the vampire queen Mina Tepes was presiding over.

When it comes to explaining the latter discrepancy, I suggested in a social media post from April 18, 2020 that Mina’s special ops force, Beowulf, may have secretly contained the COVID-19 pandemic before it had a chance to spread and tagged series creator, Nozumu Tamaki, in it. Considering that he ended up liking the tweet, I guess that’s as close to official explanation as you’re ever going to get. 🙂