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NOW MORE THAN EVER.Happy Holidays to all my readers!
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Sometimes having a full run of Amazing Heroes pays off, sometimes it doesn’t.Joe asks if Bloodshot #1 (discussed last time ) shipped the same day as Superman #75, which you may recall is the “Death of...
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Like they all aren’t facetious.Back to the Most 1990s Comic discussion …as a reminder, my personal pick for the title is X-Force #1 for both artistic and marketing...
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“I never make predictions, and I never will.” — Paul Cascoigne.Yes, it’s That Time yet again, where I come, virtual hat in hand, asking you, the Progressive Ruin reader, to put your prognostic powers...
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Watching for parodies.Okay, this week on the site is a little wonky, given some early morning medical stuff I’ve got going on, so this may be the last post here...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Twenty-Four.Here we are, in the Final Four of the top vote-getters from my entirely unscientific poll held lo these many years ago. Behold, one of my...
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The laziest way to start the next year of comics blogging.Thanks, gang, for the positive response to my 20th anniversary post , both here and elsewhere. And thanks to most of you for not making fun of...
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“Suddenly, twenty years later….”So for approximately 36.3% percent of my life, I have been working on this website, since way back when I still had brown hair and...
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I’m just winging it with the category names, I hope you all realize that.Continuing the discussion of “Most 1990s Comic” with more of your nominees, starting with a couple of comics that, in fact,...
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You’re going to see “Marvel” a lot in this post.Well, I’m not sure how I’m going to do this. I don’t particularly want to start another series of posts in the middle of...
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Speaking of the 1990s……here are four plastic Death’s Head II pins, recently acquired in a collection that contained a tote bag of goodies acquired at the...
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The Progressive Ruiin Swimsuit Special remains an unrealized dream.Just a reminder: reader Daniel pointed out that Kwakk.info , which had featured search engines for Amazing Heroes and The Comics Journal , has...
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What could have been.A blurb about the then-forthcoming Howard the Duck movie, from Comics Scene Vol. 1 #1 (1982), via ):
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July 14th, 1994.Just a brief almost-Low Content Mode today, so what I have here are some of the oldest digital images I have in my possession, downloaded via my...
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Yes, I know a buck each for Brigade is too much.So I related this story on my Bluesky account (follow me there if you can, and I have a couple of spare invite codes if anyone needs ’em)...
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As in “editorial edict,” not “the model of car.”So Matthew brings up another option I’d totally forgotten aboiut in the Thing eyebrow/no eyebrow raging debate : TWO eyebrows, as per...
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The most important debate of our day.So which portrayal of the Thing do you prefer? Big Separate Eyebrow Thing? …or No Separate Eyebrow Piece Thing? Now I...
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House of Secrets #92? Only ten bucks.Thanks to reader John for sending along another addition to my “homages to House of Secrets #92″ collection: (Art by Don...
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Jon Sable Twolance.Yes, here’s the necessary follow-up to Wednesday’s post with extra info on Jon Sable Freelance that I missed due to 1) ignorance...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Twenty-Three.And we’re back to the “fave ’80s indies” poll with our next entry: Jon Sable, Freelance (First 1983-1988) I did...
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The ghost of Harlan is going to get me for putting his book so close to a Fantagraphics thing.My apologies for skipping out on Friday’s post…I’d been a little under the weather, and I’m still recovering though...
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You don’t need to reference the Flash Gordon movie in the comments, I understand that you’ve seen it.When you weren’t looking, someone took the moribund Flash Gordon newspaper strip, in reruns for decades, and revived it into something...
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I don’t know how unsuccessful it was, all my readers apparently bought Grendel from a newsstand.Hi pals…I’m pretty wiped out today so I’m going to apologize up front for a less thorough post. But you folks really stepped up...
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Honestly, I love Canada, I once wrote a report on the country that I used, unchanged, in two different school years.*So a few of you folks popped into my comments to note that yes, you too bought Grendel off the newsstands back in ’86, along with Johnny...
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A short follow-up on Grendel.A couple of readers piped up in response to Monday’s post about Grendel , stating that they came across issues for sale, not in comic...
