Pore Strips
by Jeff
Image text: I'm sure they're a harmful tool of the cosmetics-industrial complex and all, but my goodness do those strips ever work to pull gunk out of your pores. I was shocked, disgusted, and vaguely fascinated by the result.
In this comic, Cueball uses the anti-acne deep cleaning strips that you are supposed to rub all over your face to get the dirt and sweat out of your pores. However, as the box in the comic explains, the pore strips are deep cleaning and in the case of the comic too deep. The pore strips used in the comic cleaned too deep and in the process of cleaning his face, Cueball pulled out his skull, which resides deep within his face. Whoops!
Worst-Case Scenario
by Jeff
Image text: To get serious analyses of hurricanes and oil slicks, see Jeff Masters' blog. To get serious discussions of worst-case scenario thinking, see Bruce Schneier's blog. To get enough Vitamin D, don't read any blogs and go outside instead.
This comic is about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is leaking from one of BP's oil rigs. Just in case you have been under a rock for weeks or are reading this from the past.
Michael Bay is the director of the Transformers series amongst other movies that are famous for explosions, explosions and even bigger explosions and of course impossible and improbable situations. Bay has been featured in xkcd before for his potential remake of Harriet the Spy.
James Carville is a CNN political commentator and Louisiana native. He has already said that the govermental response to the oil spill was "too lax and too slow".
Here's Jeff Masters' blog on Weather Underground and Bruce Schneier's blog.