The inspiration for today’s What’s Worse? entry comes from a marvelous website called Gone & Forgotten. The site details, in turn, a collection of obscure/failed/bad comic book series, and is edited by the unbelievably knowledgeable and sarcastic Calamity John.
A forthcoming What’s Worse? will examine the question of superpowers; but today, we’ll take our cue directly […]
It’s made the internet rounds pretty comprehensively over the past few days, but the 9-minute video of Tom Cruise promoting Scientology has been taken down in a lot of places — likely due to accusations of copyright infringement. [Hence, rather than embed the video here, the link above will take you to Gawker, where the […]
Clown v Astronaut
As with Part 4, today’s central question–what’s worse, being a clown or being an astronaut–is broken up into a series of smaller questions, all of which turn on the matter of deadly or deadliest. The answers are personal, relative to your own likes and (especially) fears; nonetheless, visuals have been provided to guide […]
Trash Collector v Private Investigator
This seems like a fun, sarcastic pairing, at first. But, for the purposes of What’s Worse? the Deadliest Jobs on Earth, right away there are problems. Deadliest? How deadliest is the private investigatorial profession? Barely, it turns out. And garbage men? Not so fatal.
When you look at the fatality numbers, you’ve […]
