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“Holding, What, Two or Three Titles at $2.99.”Picking up on the promise from this post , I finally brought home the pile of ‘zines I had sitting at the shop. BEHOLD: Comics Feature #1...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Nineteen.So next up on the ol’ Final ’80s Countdown , the following three-vote getter : Miracleman (Eclipse Comics 1985-1993) Hoo...
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Monday mscellany.So Matthew recommended the newer comics ‘zine Bubbles , and you know, if you’re gonna get me to buy a ‘zine, put Nancy on...
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What a way to find out Fu Manchu is dead.Sorry again, it’s been busy at Chez Mike this week, so the dreaded Low Content Mode struck again at Progressive Ruin Industries. Don’t...
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Amazing prices.So last time , I mentioned that Amazing Heroes #45 (1984) was the first issue of that news/interviews/reviews mag I’d ever read. In...
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The Hero Dialectical-ed.So pictured above is Amazing Heroes #45, the April 15, 1984 issue, back when it came out biweekly(!). This was the first issue of the...
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News Flash.Update to the William Messner-Loebs talk from last week (reminder: here’s his GoFundMe ) — a couple of you noted that DC has...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Eighteen.Back to the fave ’80s titles survey , with the next three-vote getter: Mage (The Hero Discovered) (Comico 1984-1986) In 1983 we...
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“Tongue-lashed” sounds dirtier than I meant it.Sorry for skipping days here and there lately…just have a lot of stuff going on, on top of my aged body just being too tired to blog at the...
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Just trying to not make anyone mad here.So a little while back I was at the local grocery store, doing my weekly hunting and gathering as my Paleolithic ancestors once did, when I paused...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Seventeen.At last, we’re up to the three-voters from my little ‘ol “Favorite 1980s Indies Comics” survey . Just for my own...
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Get yourself Jupitered.It’s here, it’s here, in my hot little hands direct from Jason Sandberg himself, as predicted by prophecy , the new Jupiter #1 :...
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And you’re gonna get yet another post about this comic when that bullet arrives.So I somehow ended up in a Twitter thread with Too Much Coffee Man ‘s creator, the wonderful cartoonist Shannon Wheeler , and I took the...
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Foreward into the past.So thanks to Roel for pointing out my “forward/foreward” typo, which was dumb of me specifically because 1) I had the book right in...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Sixteen.Today I am doing the last of the two-voter getters from my Fave ’80s Indies (plus Marvel/Epic Because Why Not) survey . It’s a...
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“Could be?” IS.Was otherwise occupied Thursday evening, so all I have for you today is this excerpt from the “Pizzazz Poop” celebrity gossip column...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Fifteen.At long last, here is the next installment of our little ’80s indie overview here, as voted upon by YOU , the people what still read the...
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A brief update.Sorry about the lack of content, as I’ve been otherwise occupied at home and not having time to generate any posts here. I thought about...
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Guts #3 (Lafler Publications, 1982).So a long time ago I related the story of a collection obtained at the previous place of employment that contained two rare-ish Steve Lafler...
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Assuming a relatively low value for the word “fuss.”Okay, you were probably expecting the next installment in the ’80s Indies Countdown thing today. Sorry, didn’t have enough time...
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Breaking comics news from 1978.From The Comic Reader #163 (December 1978): Not released: that specific Rolling Stones project and any Marvel-branded Amityville Horror...
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Who signed off on this?So every once in a while I take a look on the eBay for 1996’s Flex Mentallo #3: …not because I need a copy (I bought mine way...
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The Final ’80s Countdown, Part Fourteen.So here we are, finally up to the two-vote getters in my little survey from a while back re: Your Favorite ’80s Indies That Aren’t...
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Social muddy-a.Hi pals…sorry for the short post today, was just too tired last night to get anything together. I’m just going to leave a brief...
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Some spirited effort.Okay, when I was talking about Tom Yeates, cocreator and artist of Timespirits , and how he sneaked into someplace or ‘nother for...
