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Something fell.Hoo boy, comments beget comments beget comments, and I told myself I was going to restrict CEREEBUSTALK to just this week, so I’ll try to...
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If you do use his last name, remember it’s “Sim” with no “s” at the end.So y’all had some good comments about Cerebus and the troubles thereof, with a small side conversation about a 1957 Mighty Mouse I...
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Spoilers for Cerebus #100.I’ve talked about this in various places before, and Tom Ewing even points out it out in one of his essays , but Cerebus reaching...
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Cameo appearance by my fingers.So I’ve had a mostly-working eye out for one of these for a while. One had been on the eBays with torn and missing pages, so I kept waiting...
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Seriously, it would have taken like two seconds to cut those out of the image.*So this week is the release of the Labyrinth #1 facsimile edition from Boom!/Archaia, reprinting the three issue adaptation of the Jim Henson...
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I’m too tired to make up a funny X-Files title for this post, submissions welcome.So Thom H. and Chris V brought up the X-Files comics in my movie adaptation post from a week or so ago. Okay, X-Files comics are...
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There’s a joke in the term “Indy comics” somewhere.A couple more follow-ups on the movie adaptations post : Cassandra Miller mentions the adaptations for Dark Crystal and Raiders of the Lost...
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I forgot to mention the con where I saw a table with a stack of Police Academy #1s being given away for free.EVERYONE, HOLD EVERYTHING: I’ll get back to movie comics next time, but first I must address this inquiry from Matthew Murray :...
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Or a version by John Byrne, that would be hilarious.More movie comic talk! Here comes JohnJ with “Plus comic adaptations of movies also bear the occasional mistake by the artist. Kirby...
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You’re so vain, you probably think this Dick is about you.You all left a lot of great responses to Wednesday’s post about comic book adaptations of movies and TV shows, and they deserve responses...
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Not even a Holiday Special adaptation.So I spotted on the back of the newest Marvel Previews an add for the forthcoming Star Wars comic book Ahsoka , starring the character who...
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Words not deeds.So last time I was talking about Carmine Infantino’s alleged list of “things what you put onna cover to make a funnybook...
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Yes, I’m saying there’s a good chance my site will outlive Reddit.Thanks for your patience over the last couple of weeks, as personal stuff and medical stuff (which I suppose is also personal stuff) got in the...
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For those of you keeping track, this post continues the “one posting of these glasses per decade” run.Due out this week is DC’s Ape-Ril Special one-shot, and one of the variants features a scratch ‘n’ sn–er, a rub and...
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“You’ll find him popping off at Pop’s Sodium Shoppe….”I am still in “low content mode” here on the site for at least the next couple of days. Last week it was birthdays and family stuff,...
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55.Just in time for the U.S.’s National Maximum Speed Law to change to 65 MPH in 1987, here’s Sammy Hagar’s 1984 hit “I...
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One must appreciate his sense of self-worth.“Hmmm, what does he love? Fishing? Scrapbooking? Who can say?” Anyway, that’s how you introduce a character. Well...
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Alas, no Bloodshot Bellywash.So my dad’s clearing out the wine cellar at his house, and next to his cask of Amontillado, he uncovered this particular bottle of spirits:...
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No, not the band that performed “Africa.”Bryan says in response to my assertion that Venom made his first “on-panel” appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #300: “I’m...
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This is the second post in a row I looked for a “Spider-Man” category to tag it with, but I didn’t have one.So last time we were talking about that scene in Fantastic Four #274 (1985), in which the alien symbiote that had been Spider-Man’s...
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I still can’t believe that “Corona” thing.So I was processing some back issues at the shop, and flipping through the pages of Fantastic Four #274 (January 1985): …and I was...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Twenty-Seven.And here we are, at long last, with the final part of the ’80s Countdown, where I tallied up your votes for your favorite 1980s indie book...
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Ramona, Enrique, and Leroy.Legendary comics artist Ramona Fradon passed away this week at the age of 97, having only retired from her popular commissions practice a month...
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Spidey cars, Living Lasers, Aero / it’s a duck-blur!Just been a week for surprise comics news, I guess, as Marvel has finally announced that they’ll be doing an Uncle Scrooge McDuck comic:...
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Horror ECs? How’s bayou?So some surprising comic news this week, with Oni Press announcing their revival of the EC Comics brand. By which I mean the brand that brought us...
