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Clean Room # 11 (DC Comics – Writer: Gail Simone, Artist: Jon Davis-Hunt) Clean Room is an absolute fever dream. The premise is simple: But what if the Scientologists are right? What if their endgame isn’t to take celebrities money, it’s to funnel it into projects to fight crazy demons or something! That’s Clean Room. But…
Dear Mark, We get it. We understand why you don’t want to call Facebook a media company. Your investors don’t want to invest in a media company, they want to invest in a technology company. Your best-and-brightest engineers? They don’t want to work at a media company. And we’re not even going to mention Trending…
Amazon is gearing up to join the music streaming business. – David McNew/Getty Images Amazon plans to a launch a music streaming service as early as next month, according to the Financial Times. The company is reportedly wrapping up deals with the world’s largest record labels. In terms of price, Amazon would charge subscribers $9.99 a…
Imagine if the president of the United States forced America’s biggest banks to funnel hundreds of millions—and potentially billions—of dollars to the corporations and lobbyists who supported his agenda, all while calling it “Main Street Relief.” The public outcry would rightly be deafening. Yet the Obama administration has used a similar strategy to enrich its…
Federal agent Charlie Houser is forced to fight gun crime with a meager tool: a bunch of boxes of paper. Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns There’s no telling how many guns we have in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to…
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Paul Bradbury The last week of August brought us all a very special treat: one of the most obscenely misguided and generally wrongheaded blog posts ever to grace the World Wide Web, “How to Talk to a Woman Who Is Wearing Headphones.” If you’ve somehow managed to miss the scathing criticism making the rounds…
Image: YTMND, Jim Cooke In its heyday, You’re The Man Now Dog (YTMND) rode the cresting wave of early mainstream online communities, alongside its brethren like 4chan, Something Awful, and Newgrounds. The site allowed anyone to pair a gif (animated or not) with looping sound, to be voted on and shared by other users. At…
(Photo: makeitstranger.com, via) Hey: Fuck Barb. SPOILER WARNING At this point, as per the strict rules of the internet, I have to now tell you that the below may contain “spoilers”, i.e. information that if read by you could ruin the experience of the Netflix series ‘Stranger Things’, as if Barb – her existence and…
Subscribe to Escapist Magazine! ►► http://bit.ly/Sub2EscapistWant to see the next episode a week early? Check out http://www.escapistmagazine.com for the latest episodes of your favorite shows. — Sega is selling the cast of Alien separately from Alien: Isolation. GameStop wants to help developers make exclusive pre-order content. AAA is getting desperate, and as usual, the customer…