We don’t know too much about the Criminals on the Run comic book series, but when we saw the cover of the seventh issue (published way, way back in 1949, we knew we had to run it here. As you can see, it features the most awesome crime fighting technique we’ve ever seen. There is really nothing more to say on this matter, no?

Here’s a fun case excerpt that we found from the early days of Internet cases: “In the colorful argot of computers, a ‘worm’ is a program that travels from one computer to another but does not attach itself to the operating system of the computer it ‘infects.’ It differs from a ‘virus,’ which is also a migrating program, but one that attaches itself to the operating system of any computer it enters and can infect any other computer that uses files from the infected computer.” United States v. Morris, 928 F.2d 504 (2d Cir. 1991).

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Above is the cover of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Digging In The Ashes, which we bring to you due to the sad passing of Mr. Clancy last week at the age of 66.We knew there had to be at least one comic book adaptation of the work of Mr. Clancy, and of course, there was. According to the Internet, this issue was a limited edition digital comic book published back in 2010. We weren’t big readers of Clancy’s work, but we loved the movies based on it. There was nothing in 1990 like The Hunt for Red October. Those were the days, no?

Did you read the New York magazine interview with Justice Scalia? If not, you can do so here.

Dogfish Head is making a beer made with moon dust!

Friend of the blog Steve McConnell, himself of the Drug and Device Law blog, compares a recent qui tam action to a famous scene from The Godfather II. How about that?

If you’re following the news arising from the various former members of the punk band Black Flag suing themselves, here’s the latest.

Above, you’ll find the cover of Gravity #1, published not so long ago in 2005. The cover has little, if anything, to do with the law, but we had to share it. Mainly, we chose this cover because we really, really want to go see the new Alfonso Cuaron film, the science fiction thriller Gravity, which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney and hits theaters today. Now, we should say that the new film has nothing to do whatsoever with this comic book. They are not related in any way. But we’re so fixated on the new film that we can justify posting this cover today. In fact, we’d never actually heard of the super hero Gravity before, but Wikipedia tells us:

Greg Willis is born and raised in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. During the summer after his high school graduation, while on board his family’s yacht, Greg is sucked into a mysterious black hole. He is found hours later by his parents, unharmed. After the incident, Greg finds that he is able to manipulate the gravitational force around his body and nearby objects. Looking to take advantage of his new powers, Greg moves east to New York City to study licensing and merchandising at New York University, and becomes a marketable member of the superhero community known as Gravity.

That said, we’re much more interested in the movie than this would-be superhero. Oh, well.

Buzzfeed presents: “21 Strange And Offensive Things That Happened To Lois Lane.” Yikes.

The October 2013 issue of the G-Bar News is out, and you can find it here.  As you may recall, the G-Bar News is the official publication of the Greenville County, South Carolina Bar association.

Apparently, the federal government shutdown is affecting craft beer! Check out this article from the Beer of SC blog.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that this Sunday the final episode of “Breaking Bad” airs on AMC. We’re crestfallen. But we’re excited. We can’t wait.  We love Bob Odenkirk’s portrayal of Saul Goodman, the crooked lawyer who advises anti-hero Walter White. So, today, we pause to reflect upon Breaking Bad: All Bad Things, a digital comic book published earlier this year (which we didn’t know about until we Googled the search term “Breaking Bad Comic Book.”).  Quite frankly, we’re not sure how we’re going to cope without “Breaking Bad,” and we can only guess what is in store for the characters on the series who (currently) remain alive. We assumed there had to be some type of adaptation, and we were right. For more on this issue (and to read it!), please see here and here.

In music news, Roger Waters regrets suing Pink Floyd.

The Legal Geeks pick apart the “spotty” legal record in the television show “Veronica Mars.”

You could buy Kurt Cobain’s childhood home for only $500,000!

We’ve cited an 1884 “dead horse” law in any of our briefings, but not too long ago, the Internal Revenue Service did.  For more, see here.

Above, you’ll find the cover of The Best of DC #16, published way, way back in 1981.  “Happy Anniversary” the cake on the cover proclaims, and we share it because of yesterday’s milestone.  In case you missed it, yesterday, we published our 1,000th post (which means this here edition of Friday Links is our 1,001st post.).  We still can’t believe it.  So we will celebrate. Try and stop us. If you’ve been with us for some or all of the duration, remember that you can follow us on Twitter here and on Facebook here.

Okay. Someone is litigating The Chipmunks movies. For real. See here. We would like to see the Word Index on one of the depositions to see how many times the word “Squeakquel” is used.

Whoa! “More than 60 percent of people pretend to have read books they haven’t, according to a recent survey.” We swear we read Finnegan’s Wake. Three times!

This is our new favorite photograph from 1978.  It’s of Muhammad Ali reading the Superman vs. Muhammad Ali comic book. Enjoy.

Check this out: “Top 10 Reasons Not to Bother With a Law Firm App,” written by the North Carolina Bar Association’s own Erik Mazzone.

This may be the most important public service announcement we’ve ever made: “Breaking Bad” will run long this weekend, so you may want to adjust your DVR settings.  For more, see here.

Depicted above is the cover of Judge Dredd #2, published 30 years ago in 1983.  You may have learned of the character from the two big budget forgettable films it spawned (one starring Sylvester Stallone as the title character, the other featuring Karl Urban in the role). But who is Judge Dredd? Of what judiciary does he call himself a member? Wikipedia tells us that he is “an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges are empowered to arrest, sentence, and execute criminals at the scene of crime.” So he’s a municipal judge? We have always wondered if Judge Dredd has a civil litigation counterpart. We’d watch that movie.

Can you believe that it was two years ago this month that R.E.M. called it quits? Revisit our post “The Life and Death of R.E.M.,” originally published on September 26, 2011.

Cheap Trick remains in litigation. Cue the “I Want You To Sue Me” jokes.

We wonder how many of our dear readers were at the Mumford & Sons concert this past Wednesday in Simpsonville, South Carolina, just a few short miles from our Greenville home office. It was very, very crowded.

The latest edition of the G-Bar News is out! That’s the Greenville, South Carolina local bar association’s publication, if you are not already in the know. See here ( and be sure to check out page 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 for references to GWB attorneys!).

By the way, don’t forget that today is Friday the 13th. Be careful out there, folks. (Please note that we resisted the urge to post the cover of a Friday The 13th comic book adaptation.).

“Beware of the creatures of the night – They have lawyers!” Above you’ll find the cover of Supernatural Law #45, published just this year. In that issue, The Toxic Avenger somehow finds himself as a defendant. Here’s a description of the issue straight from the publisher’s website:

Wolff and Byrd have a change of venue when they travel to Tromaville to defend none other than the Toxic Avenger! But can they prevail in a courtroom presided over by Judge Lloyd Kaufman?

You might remember way back in July of 2011 when we first referenced the Supernatural Law comic book series.  If not, please revisit this prior edition of Friday Links.

Well, federal courts are still commenting upon – and defining! – MySpace.  According to a brand new Ninth Circuit opinion, “MySpace is a social networking website that allows its members to set up online ‘profiles’ and communicate via email, instant messages, and blogs.” See Wynar v. Douglas County School Dist., — F.3d —-, No. 11–17127 (9th Cir. Aug. 29, 2013) (citing Layshock v. Hermitage Sch. Dist., 650 F.3d 205, 208 & n.2 (3d Cir. 2011) (en banc)).  Our favorite part is that the court saw fit to provide a citation to a Third Circuit en banc case, which itself was citing a 2007 Western District of Texas case in its explanation of MySpace, which by now, really, is or was prevalent enough to no longer need citational support.

By the way, if you can believe it, this is our 991st post here at Abnormal Use.

Stephanie Kimbro of the North Carolina Law Blog (as well as the Virtual Law Practice blog) offers her thoughts on the issues of the duration of law school and practical training.  This is an issue we’ve written about before here, here, and here.  With the president himself weighing in on these issues of late, we feel we must stray into this debate once again.  Not today, mind you, but soon. Soon indeed.

FYI: The U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina is inviting public comment on its proposed new and revised local rules. For more information, see here. The deadline for submitting comments is September 30.

In honor of Labor Day, above, we showcase the cover of JLA: Welcome To The Working Week #1.  (JLA, of course, stands for the Justice League of America, whose members include Batman, Superman, and the rest.). Here’s how Comicvine describes the plot:

How does the JLA act behind closed doors? You’re about to find out! When Marlus Randone stows away on the JLA Watchtower, he relies on his notebook and disposable camera to document the petty squabbles and inside decisions made by the members of the JLA.

Now, we expect that a day at the office of the JLA Watchtower – which Wikipedia tells us is either “a building on Earth’s moon [or] a space-station in orbit in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon – is no typical day at the office.  Whatever the case, we suspect that JLA was forced to remove its daily operations to the moon or to outer space because their unique issues simply aren’t contemplated by modern employment law. Perhaps this issue would shed some light on that predicament.

If you’re into writing tips, here are “Elmore Leonard’s 10 Simple Rules For Writing.”

“Protect Our Super-Rights!” A few years back, we shared some labor themed comic book covers.  Do you remember? If not, you can revisit those here.

Okay, you’ve had a long week. So have we.  But as you prepare for this holiday weekend, there is something in your future that will bring you much joy.  Yes, that’s right, all five monster cereals are returning! Even Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy!

Speaking of odd food products, are you ready for Pepsi-flavored Cheetos?  PepsiCo doesn’t think so, according to this article.

Above, you’ll find the cover of Daredevil: The Movie #1, a comic book film adaptation published a decade ago in 2003. Ben Affleck, as you may recall, portrayed Daredevil. Yesterday, we learned that Mr. Affleck will play Batman in the upcoming sequel to the Superman movie Man of Steel. Twitter fell over itself responding to the news. We here at Abnormal Use are not certain how to react.  On the one hand, Affleck played George Reeves, the actor who played Superman on television in days of yore, in the 2006 film, Hollywoodland.  He wasn’t too bad in that.  But on the other hand – it is Ben Affleck! Gigli! Jersey Girl! How can this be? We are crestfallen. (Note to our readers: Technically, this is a legal themed comic book post because, after all, Daredevil’s alter ego was attorney Matt Murdock. So there.).

Okay, so imagine that you had to open a new matter and run a conflicts check on this dispute.

We think we remember these Empire Strikes Back trading cards. Those were the days, no?

In huge legal name change news, there’s this.

Friend of the blog Neil Burger of the Carrington Coleman firm has unveiled a new blog: Sua Sponte: The Dallas Appellate Blog. Check it out.

Eric Goldman asks: “Are the Days of Independent Legal Blogging Over?” We think not.

Our friends over at the North Carolina Law Blog reran our post “There Is Now Federal ‘Selfie’ Authority.”  Check out that post at their site, or here, as well as their archives of other news.

Above, you’ll find the cover of Four Color #56, published way, way back in 1944. Prominently depicted on the cover is hero detective Dick Tracy. Now, we here at Abnormal Use aren’t criminal lawyers, but we’ve watch enough television to know that the investigating detective probably shouldn’t be touching the body with his bare hands before it’s even been removed from the scene of the crime.  What the heck? Maybe criminal procedure was a bit different back in 1944.

The Rolling Stones have started up litigation against a company alleging misusing their super famous logo.

Walter Olson has the latest on the feud between the Consumer Products Safety Commission and the manufacturer of Buckyballs.  We’ve previously written on this controversy here and here.

If you’re looking for photographs of abandoned tanks, you are in luck.

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