You Just Don’t Get It Do You

Oh Hollywood

Susana Polo

Published: Jun 7, 2011 09:33 am

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Your phrase that starts to lose all meaning by the fifty second mark of the day. Nothing like a little semantic satiation to get one going in the morning.

Secretly, I’m actually collecting all these supercuts as a reminder of what never to write into a screenplay, comic, or story.

(via Best Week Ever.)

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Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.