Marvel continuity historian Peter Sanderson, describing his experience at comic-con:

High overhead still floated the malevolent elder god Cthulhu in his guise as a balloon of Pikachu, draining America's youth of their life energies and taste in cartoon art.

Earlier:

One Comic-Con landmark that was hard to miss was the unearthly, unspeakable menace of H. P. Lovecraft's elder god Cthulhu, which hovered above the heads of unsuspecting convention attendees, and was once again disguised as a giant version of Pikachu from Pokemon. Don't these fans realize that the reason that Cthulhu/Pikachu wears that blissed-out smile is that he is just about to suck out their brains? Can anyone stop his march to world domination?

Consider Pikachu's latest triumph. Perusing the current schedule for Boomerang, Cartoon Network's sister cable network, to which it has banished 20th century animation, I cannot find classic Looney Tunes except for most episodes of the revived anthology series Toon Heads. But Boomerang is now doing hour-long blocks of Pokemon. Could any of us have imagined a day would come when there was no Bugs Bunny show on daily television? Does it even make sense that Warners would drop such a valuable property from its TV networks, especially from a channel that doesn't have commercials and hence presumably need not cater to current fads? Grateful as I am for the 1990s Batman episodes on Boomerang, will the network eventually become so crammed with retired series from Kids WB and Cartoon Network that Warner/Turner will have to found yet another new network for classic theatrical cartoons? Or should TCM just expand its Cartoon Alley schedule? Or is Warners' current attitude, "Let 'em eat DVDs"? (And will a new generation buy Looney Tunes DVDs if they haven't seen samples of the cartoons on television?)

Damn! If only Pikachu/Cthulhu could meet the fate he so richly deserves! Little did I know on Thursday that before Comic-Con ended, I would see justice served.

piiika-CHUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

KOFFING!!

Could any of us have imagined a day would come when there was no Bugs Bunny show on daily television?

Not only can I imagine it, I can also imagine a horrible ichor filled world were human television is replaced with the horrifying knowledge of our own insignifigance in relation to the elder gods. It is a realm where the absolute truths of the universe are shown to us, but are twisted by the gatekeepers of our minds, because the whole and unfiltered truth would not only shatter our perception of the world around us but also physically change reality itself. We can only catch glimpses of the truth through the veil that has been placed over our eyes.

I think they call this thing, this veiled truth to keep the world as we know it in check "Fox News".