Is California Sinking?

Aquaman #53 cover circa 1970. Several are available at eBay. Via these sites.

Aquaman and Juggernaut

Aquaman and Juggernaut by Rogan Josh. Via.

*At Toycutter: Ultimate Juggernaut custom action figure.

*Buy Juggernaut action figures at Entertainment Earth.

Link roundup

1. The far less than honorable details of Winston Churchill's early life.

2. Penelope Trunk: "Believe me, no one likes to read blog posts about people who are smug about how they have solved all the problems of the world. I mean, look, you either are winning a Nobel Prize or you do not have any answers."

3. The latest adorable comic strip by Chris and Curt features the history of Aquaman.

*Buy Heroclix at eBay.

I finally have a porpoise

Aquaman by Maris Wicks. See Maris's drawing of Aquaman with an infatuated sea horse here.

*Previously: Meditating Aquaman by Maris Wicks.

*Buy Aquaman toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Aquaman 2099.

2. Curt Franklin and Chris Haley do their best to summarize the ridiculously convoluted history of the X-Men's Rachel Summers.

3. Meteor shower, perhaps.

*Buy Rachel Summers toys at eBay.

JLA Monopoly cards by Mike Allred

One of six Community Chest cards by Mike Allred for a canceled DC Universe themed Monopoly game.

*Buy Madman toys at eBay.

Buy art, help the Gulf

A few of my favorites from the Action for the Gulf-Coast web auction at eBay. Links below are to the artists' sites.


Aquaman by Kate Beaton.



Code Green strip by Stephanie McMillan.



War-Torn Astro Boy by Matthew Rainwater.

Angus MacLane's Lego CubeDudes

Hellboy, T-1000, Aquaman, Shipwreck, Robocop, Mazinger Z, Dr. Horrible, and Hannibal Smith. Believe it or not, just a tiny sampling of the Lego CubeDudes posted by Angus MacLane.

*Previously: Mazinger plus Superman equals Japanese Superman.

*Buy A-Team toys at eBay.

Clockwork dinosaurs (link roundup)

Clockwork dinosaurs t-shirt by J. Rose available at Woot. Via.

And a few more links:

1. I noticed the growing Twitter outrage over the weekend about Amazon allegedly excluding books with homosexual content from their sales rankings, and am now glad I didn't post about it. (I fell for enough April Fool's Jokes.) It was apparently a prank by a hacker, who took advantage of the fact that Amazon (used to) allow people to flag content as inappropriate. Although Amazon says it was a cataloging error.

2. I'm pretty sure I want a copy of the Big Little Book Aquaman Scourge of the Sea.

3. Dan Piraro describes the time a reader claimed to have seen the face of Jesus in a Bizarro strip.

4. Some useful tips on creating an eCommerce site.

*Previously: Clockwork Headless Horseman.

*Buy cuckoo clocks at eBay.

Meditating Aquaman

Meditating Aquaman by Maris Wicks. You can see her redesign of Batman here.

*Previously: Aquaman paper toy.

*Buy Aquaman toys at eBay.

Lego: Bionicle Darth Vader, Aquaman, Robin

Bionicle Darth Vader, Aquaman, and Robin by Matt "Monsterbrick" Armstrong. There's more Justice League creations in his Flickr gallery.

*Previously: Lego Darth Vader.

*Find Star Wars Happy Meal and cereal toys at eBay.

Why are Aquaman's shoulders bigger than his head?

The sculpt on the new DC figures is absurd. (Although the costume's from the only Aquaman story I ever enjoyed.)

*Buy DC Direct action figures at eBay.

The Stone of Destiny may be a fake

"Stone of Destiny" sound so cool. Here's Wikipedia:

Traditionally, it is supposed to be the pillow stone said to have been used by the Biblical Jacob. According to one legend, it was the Coronation Stone of the early Dál Riata Gaels when they lived in Ireland, which they brought with them when settling Caledonia. Another legend holds that the stone was actually the travelling altar used by St Columba in his missionary activities throughout what is now Scotland. Certainly, since the time of Kenneth Mac Alpin, the first King of Scots, at around 847, Scottish monarchs were seated upon the stone during their coronation ceremony. At this time the stone was situated at Scone, a few miles north of Perth.
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In 1296 the Stone was captured by Edward I as spoils of war and taken to Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a wooden chair, known as St. Edward's Chair, on which all subsequent English sovereigns except Queen Mary II have been crowned. Doubtless by this he intended to symbolize his claim to be "Lord Paramount" of Scotland with right to oversee its King.

Some doubt exists over the stone captured by Edward I. The Westminster Stone theory posits that the monks at Scone Palace hid the real stone in the River Tay or buried it on Dunsinane Hill, and that the English troops were fooled into taking a substitute. Some proponents of the theory claim that historic descriptions of the stone do not match the present stone. If the monks did hide the stone, they hid it well; no other stone fitting its description has ever been found.

In 1328, in the peace talks between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, Edward III is said to have agreed to return the captured Stone to Scotland. However, this did not form part of the Treaty of Northampton. The Stone was to remain in England for another six centuries. In the course of time James VI of Scotland came to the English throne as James I of England but the stone remained in London; for the next century, the Stuart Kings and Queens of Scotland once again sat on the stone — but at their coronation as Kings and Queens of England. Since the Act of Union 1707, the coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey has applied to the whole of Great Britain, and since the Act of Union 1801 to the United Kingdom, so the stone may be said to have returned, once again, to its ancient use.

And here's an article from the Telegraph saying it might be a fake. Via.


On a loosely related note, the one and only Aquaman story that I've enjoyed was "The Rise and Fall, and Rise and Fall of Atlantis," which was based on Celtic folklore: