Along with OK Go and .357 Lover, We Are Scientists are one of my favorite musical outfits of the moment. I’ve been looking forward to their forthcoming release for a while, and the first video from the album has just gone online.

Evan “Doc” Shaner, whose work I’ve raved about here on the Ramble many times, posted this little gem to his blog over the weekend. Here’s how he describes it:

Last time I mentioned that James Lucas Jones had suggested using Case of the Midnight Visitor for the fourth Encyclopedia Brown “cover”. Somewhere in that conversation Paul Tobin jumped in and for reasons I can’t quite remember the cover you see here is what came out of it. I was thinking the way I drew Billy Batson last time and the way he came out looking like something out of the Hardy Boys and this seemed like it would be a fun team-up. Plus, Bugs Meany in the Monster Society of Evil sounds like a good fit to me.

Now, click to embiggen, and behold the awesome.

Yeah! Tron Reboot is back with a new episode. (The posting promises that the skipped-over episode 4 is coming.)

The Remake/Remodel art threads on Warren Ellis’s Whitechapel forums are always hit or miss for me. (The quality and level of creativity at Dean Trippe and company’s Project Rooftop is a much more consistent, for my money.) That said, sometimes he strikes a rich vein, as he’s clearly done with this week’s Superman thread.

The brief this time out was simple.

You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for a comic called SUPERMAN. It is issue 1 of this book.

You have been told that Superman is a man who dresses predominantly in a shade of blue, and wears a red S symbol. You know nothing else about the character.

The cover must include a logo and the text THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE DARING EXPLOITS OF THE ONE AND ONLY SUPERMAN.

And that’s it.

Some of the artists who have weighed in so far have really knocked it out of the park.

Dean Trippe

David Bednarski

Alberto J. Silva

Paul Sizer

Ken Miller

Good lucking stuff, no?

(via) I don’t love the voice-over in this promo, but damned if that isn’t the Avengers, folks.

At Georgia’s kindergarten class this week they’ve been all about Dr. Seuss, in recognition of his birthday. Georgia’s teacher stopped me today when I was picking her up, to let me know that Georgia had been working on a special Seussian project of her own. Namely, writing a letter to Dr. Seuss to tell him that he was dead, and that she loved him.

This was the cover letter. It reads

Cat.and.the.Hat
Sorey Men that I Love

In other words, she’s labelled the hatted figure in the middle as the “Cat in the Hat,” and then written a note direct to his creator reading, “Sorry, man that I love.” She’s sorry because he’s dead, of course.

In the end, she decided not to write “You’re dead,” having reconsidered at the last minute and deciding that it might hurt his feelings. Instead, she writes…

Der Dr. Seuss
I Like Your Books
I Love You
Love, Georgia

Other than noting that “Der” is “Dear,” the rest is self-explanatory.

I wondered what she wanted to do with the letter, now that it was done. Georgia looked at me as though it were entirely obvious. “Bury it, of course,” she said.

So we got out a pair of shovels, dug a hole along the back fence in the back yard, and buried the letter, carefully sealed in an envelope of course.

“Now,” Georgia said, a little wistfully, “he’ll know that he’s dead, but that I love him. And like his books.”

You can’t ask for fairer than that. We should all be so lucky to inspire such devotion in a six year old, two decades after we shuffle off this mortal coil.

Check out this awesome print that Jason Chalker has done for this weekend’s STAPLE! show here in Austin.He’ll have copies at the show, but it’s also available for sale at The Manly Shop.

(via) Hey, remember OK Go’s video for “This Too Shall Pass“? (Which, in addition to kicking off a fascinating discussion about the label’s refusal to allow the band’s videos to be embeddable, despite the huge boon that “viral” marketing has been for the band, was itself one kick ass son and video.)

Well, the band has released another video for the song, this time for the recorded version, and this time out it is embeddable.

Here’s how the official posting describes it:

Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs ( http://syynlabs.com/ ) over the course of several months.

I’ve switched from Blogger to WordPress, as I noted a while back, but an unintended consequence is that now the comment feature on the older posts is broken. I’m debating the wisdom of trying to import the old posts into the new format, which would lose all of the old comments but allow new comments to be made. More than likely, though, I’ll just leave the old entries static. Please note that any comments made on older posts will appear to go through, but won’t actually end up updated here on the blog. (I’ve already gotten one or two phantom comments in the last couple of days, which now reside out there in Blogger limbo.)

Thomas Perkins, whose Kid Kthulu pieces I’ve raved about a couple of times before, writes to say that he’s posted some more Kid Kthulu-y goodness to his blog.

But that’s not all. For the truly discriminating wardrobe, might I recommend the Kid Kthulu emblem t-shirt?