I didn’t read a comic for today because I’m at away for the weekend and frankly, I forgot to buy a comic before leaving. But good news and bad news nonetheless! Let’s start with the good!

After about of month of scouring the internet for bloggers, we have hired a Weekend Writer, so now you can get your Unflappings fix 7 days a week, 365 days per year. What a deal! Our new writer’s name is Allison Fuhrmann. She is supremely awesome, and I’m sure you all will like her. Or at least you will grow to like her. Well, you better grow to like her because you’re stuck with her. Anyway — welcome, Allison!

Now the bad — I hate the television show Heroes. Seriously. There are many reasons behind this hatred, but I especially hate what it stands for and what it does to our society. Have you noticed how many people watch Heroes? A ton. Have you noticed how many of them go outside of Heroes to read comics and other comic related shit? Barely any. Have you noticed how many of them are adults that will scoff at you for reading a comic book that is essentially the same thing as watching Heroes but actually takes energy and using your mind to read opposed to watching a primetime show on television? Most. Beginning to see why I dislike it? Okay, but that’s not all.

What annoys me the most about Heroes is how it takes a concept that has already existed and pop culturizes it. It kind of reminds me of when a stand-up comic is famous thanks to stealing another comic’s joke and everyone thinks that comic is the best and funniest out there. Or when an original musician was creative for several years and one day another, poppier version of the same style of music is released and the new musician gets all the credit. I would have no problem with this and no problem with Heroes existing if the ORIGINAL super-heroes, comedians, musicians got just as much credit at the same time. Ya dig?

So when I see Heroes posters all over the subway stations and here a bunch of ditzy girls sitting at a Sbarro talking about last week’s Heroes episode (OMG!), I just about lose it every time. But then I remember that I enjoy being a law-abiding citizen and choose not to go Hulk-shit all over these people and places (which they probably wouldn’t even understand the significance of me Hulk Smashing their precious slice of pie). And that is why I reserve that anger for this blog. Please don’t watch Heroes. It’s not even that good of a show in the first place.