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Yup, even more 4chan bandwagoning. I’ve passed by the Courage Wolf meme, yet another Advice Dog spin-off, many times and paid it no mind, but I recently came upon a cache of these images and they not only cracked me up until caffeinated energy drink shot from my nose, they actually made me feel better. Of course, some are just silly; that’s the point of any decent meme, really. But there were a couple that actually stood out to me as being cheesily brilliant and effective, rivaling the teaching’s of some of history’s greatest Stoics. And like any Internet douchebag needlessly inspired by Anonymous’s unintentionally constructive humour, I had to whip up just a few of my own, using recycled metal lyrics, and unoriginal tidbits of personal wisdom. And my balls. Oh yeah. Thanks, Courage Wolf!

So here’s a small sampling of both the inspiring and the cheesey — the first 9 were brought to you by Anonymous, the last 9 are my own attempts at capturing Courage Wolf’s amazing and perfect blend of rage and encouragement.

So, I’ve been inhabiting /b/ on 4chan a bit lately because it’s undeniably a source of some of the ‘Net’s greatest memes (Caturday, anyone?), and occasionally if you linger long enough you’ll be exposed, amongst many of the horrors of the /b/tards, to some real nuggets of comedy. Well, something to crop up that I only noticed recently, started there or on SomethingAwful, another meme-whoring message board, was this Zalgo — also Z҉A҉L҉G҉O̚̕̚, The Nezperdian Hive-Mind of Chaos, He Who Waits Behind The Wall, The Singer Of The Song That Will End The World, etc. — an edit being applied to various comic strips and images in the vein of Lovecraftian horror, only funny. And interesting. So I tried to save as many of the images as possible for posterity because they cracked me up like a drunken schoolgirl. Enjoy Zalgo, for He Comes…

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A great friend of mine, Matt Orphan (“The Orphanator”), is returning home to the West Coast after a hiatus in his hometown of Chicago for a few years to get back on his feet. Things were rough for him in California then, as bad as they are for me and many other people now, and I hope it turns out better for him this time around.

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