So I logged onto my old AOL account this morning to check my mail. AOL always finds new ways to disappoint me. While their spam filter has gotten noticeably better, they got rid of newsgroup support a few months ago. That really pissed me off. When I logged on today, I was greeted by this graphic:
 
 

 
      While this did remind me that I’m fucked because I still need to get my dad a Father’s Day present, I could help but feel like the dad in that graphic looked familiar. Then I realized why: it’s Professor Utonium from Powerpuff Girls:
 
 

      The style of AOL graphic looks a lot more like Genndy Tartakovsky’s Samurai Jack style than Craig McCracken’s PPGs. But since Genndy was the art director for Powerpuff Girls and since he isn’t doing anything right now, I have no doubt in my mind that AOL Time Warner has locked the poor bastard in a basement somewhere and forced him to design and draw their lameass welcome screen graphics. The media conglomerate does own Cartoon Network and they are pretty evil, so I’m almost positive I’m right.

      In conclusion, fuck AOL. At least when I misuse other people’s classic characters, I make it fun.