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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Twenty-Two.Movin’ along the Favorite ’80s Comic Poll list to our first four-vote-getting entry: Grendel (Comico 1983-1984) This is...
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“Stop her! She’s got Mike’s keyboard!”I apologize for the interruption in service here, as my computer keyboard at home decided to stop working and it took a try or three to get a...
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“HDMI Jack” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.So in response to my post about the passing of Keith Giffen, LouReedRichards brings up a title that I’m sort of shocked at myself for not...
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Keith Giffen (1952 – 2023).So in 1986, after having read Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming’s various, and hilarious, Ambush Bug short stories and mini-series...
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“Kryptonite…well, maybe a little more.”So I had a copy of this comic fall into my hands the other day, Action Comics #485 (1976): …which caught my eye as it was the...
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Ducks.So like I was talking about in this post from last week, I find myself trying to pick between reading a lot of comics and getting the backlog...
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Yes, I know this isn’t every Nancy book.So Ray asked “Do you have a link or anything to the full strip that includes the nightmare fuel panel?” Well, I immediately...
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In which I complain about reading too few comics.So it’s been a while since I’ve done just straight up reviews of the new comics on this site, which is primarily because I don’t...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Twenty-One.Back to Ye Olde Favorite ’80s Comicks Polle for our latest entry: The Tick (New England Comics 1988-1995) I’m a’gonna...
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Another lazy post.So another night where things got away from me…I do plan on the next installment of the Final ’80s Countdown, which I’ll try to...
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Computers make everything easier!Well, I’m left with almost no time to post at the moment because I spent the evening trying to figure out how to reset the password on my...
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Destined to have been put in a Snyder film.So I’m always processing back issues at the shop…I have enough old comics just sitting in the boxes in the back room that I can...
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Just ramblin’ about the past.I miss being able to flip open a comics ‘zine and seeing a pure and simple news blurb like this: I mean, don’t get me wrong, I...
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Joe Matt (1963-2023).Indie cartoonist Joe Matt has passed away , and boy, I was sure into his comics when he was (semi-)regularly putting stuff out into shops. His...
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There goes my Fables stage musical.An update to Friday’s post about Bill Willingham declaring his Fables comic to be in the public domain: in a shocking turn of events,...
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Not a lawyer, not even a little bit.So I suppose the big, surprising news of the week is Bill Willingham announcing that he is giving Fables over to the public domain. According...
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Or there was some ballot-box stuffing goin’ on.So Pedro said in response to Monday’s post about Mister X : “So it sounds like this highly-voted for series kinda sucks,...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Twenty.Finally back to the favorite ’80s indies poll , which I put off a bit because…well, I’ll get into it. Mister X (Vortex...
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I think the “Star Wars II” parody that ran in Cracked Magazine was just about as close.So one of the things that has haunted me since childhood was an article that I believe I’ve read in Dynamite Magazine , a pop culture...
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In which Mike finds a way to annoy both G.I. Joe and Final Faction fans with a single sentence.Okay, a couple of things: I did mistype the address for Pal Nat’s site in Monday’s post, so let me tell you all here that you can see...
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And that millionaire’s name? Probably Nat.So my man in the street, Huggy Bear pal Nat , informed me a while back that the Dollar Tree chain of stores has been carrying Disney comics....
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Catches variants just like flies.So, in the culmination of a process that’s taken, oh, about a year and a half, I found myself finally in possession of Amazing Spider-Man...
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Okay, fine, it’s Abra Kadabra.Picking up on Monday’s “Trial of the Flash” post, Daniel T links to an interview with its writer , Cary Bates, with relevant...
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And continues, and continues, and….So my mention of Cary Bates in my last post got some of you talking about the storyline that got Barry “Silver Age” Flash marked for...
