Thanks to reader Todd H for pointing out this comic, via Speedbump:

Thanks to the great Thanissaro Bhikkhu for the heads-up on this comic, which you may have seen in yesterday’s paper. (That is, if you’re one of the ten people who still read the paper.)

Direct link here.

Update: I wondered how Sylvia Boorstein, who coined the phrase “Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There” (with her book of the same name) might feel about this. (The phrase has also been employed by a maker of meditation cushions.) Happily, Sylvia provided an answer, which you’ll find over on Shambhala SunSpace.

SeanPAune.com’s review of “Retreat, Part 2″ the latest issue from “Season 8″ (a comic series which replicates what would happen if the show was still on the tube) includes details like Buffy and gang drinking butter tea and having a typically Buffyesque exchange:

…they discovered they had a rival to deal with.

Buffy: The Buddhists?
Oz: Yeah, those saffron-robed jerks were kicking our ass.
Giles: Really?
Oz: No, not really.  They don’t do that.

Read the whole review here.

Via Bookseller.com, though it seems now that the book in question will be published by Spiegel & Grau (Doubleday):

Jonathan Cape editor Alex Bowler has over-powered rival publishers to buy a book on superheroes by Scottish ­comics “legend” Grant Morrison, [called Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero]. … [Bowler] promised Supergods would be a book “like no other”, adding: “Our world and the world of the superhero are going to be fed into the brilliant blender of Grant’s brain, so expect philosophy, anthropology, Buddhism, mad ­science, capes and punk rock.”

Supergods will be published in August 2010.

By the mighty Dan Piraro:

More on Zen and comix from Piraro, here.

Big thanks to reader Scott A.M. for this one:

“Hey there WH… I have not yet played the new Simpsons video game. And I only just recently saw that it is now available on the Wii (where one can also meditate for points, as you know). But as I was browsing around on the game’s website, I clicked on ‘Features’ for various family members. Lisa, the Simpsons’ token Buddhist, has the following powers:

• Hand of Buddha – Look for special meditation ports where Lisa can summon the Hand of Buddha. She can use this mighty hand to lift things and decorate the environment to her liking.
• Hand of Buddha Flick – Lisa can use the Hand of Buddha to flick enemies into each other, into objects, and all the way across the screen if she so desires.
• Hand of Buddha Ice Attack – How cool is this? Lisa can use the Hand of Buddha to freeze her foes into big blocks of ice and then pick them up to use as weapons.
• Hand of Buddha Lightning Attack – When the going gets real tough, Lisa can cry like a baby, or she can summon the almighty Hand of Buddha to unleash a venomous lightning strike.

“This, too, may be a sign of the Kaliyuga. But I for one really want to use the Hand of Buddha lightning attack!”

Well, who wouldn’t?

Thanks, Scott.

…and speaking of games…

I can’t wait to see this thing. Details over at Shambhala SunSpace.

Yep. That’s the title (and this is the cover) for this new send-up comic, which is described as “foul-mouthed sweetheart Sarah Silverman’s crass, narcissistic, and oblivious lifestyle tips [which] take the self-help genre to a new level!”

I’d sure like to know how Elizabeth Gilbert feels about this one.

Update: and I wonder how Gilbert would feel about the title of last night’s South Park. Sheesh! And here’s the parody book cover from which the title gets its name:

I hope Gilbert has a sense of humor…!

And a second update: if you’re not offended yet (and I’m not saying you should or shouldn’t be), maybe this “Don’t” from Vice will do it.

Or maybe you’ll laugh.

Haven’t seen it personally, but here’s the cover for (and an article about) “Tibetan Rock Dog,” a new graphic novel by a Chinese rock star.

Its story “unfolds in Tibet, where a Tibetan mastiff named Metal grows up in a Buddhist temple after his parents and siblings die protecting a peasant family. His grandfather, who learned the secrets of walking upright and speaking human language, trains him in canine meditation and teaches him about his ancient enemy, the Tibetan wolf. A rock musician on a pilgrimage adopts Metal as a son and takes him back to Beijing…. He forms a rock band with the friends he meets at obedience school.”

Thanks to reader Todd H. for pointing this one out, a comic for all the cat- (and/or Zen-) lovers out there, via Speed Bump.

Kinda reminiscent of the “Zen Cat” shirt depicted here, in the old Dharma-Burger archives.