Kurt Busiek

And her replacement found out he got the job at the same time as the press. A sitting United States senator learned he was about to run the third largest department in the federal government because he checked his phone. That is not a vetting process. That is a gender reveal party. Surprise Markwayne it is a catastrophe.

Excerpt from a long, entertaining social media post by “Texas Mom”

Wa-hey! Number three with a bullet!

Of course.

A Bob Kane Original!

Kane would have hired someone else to do the prompts.

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Oh, like hell you are.

Not that it would have happened, but it’d have been interesting to see that …if Kirby had edited it, too.

It’s not. He’s said he just liked the word “coconut,” and when he was stuck in traffic one day, he built a song around it, with the idea of “the cause is the cure.”

They can hit her with their best shot.

I don’t think so, though I haven’t read it since it came out and may be misremembering. It definitely wouldn’t feel like that; it wouldn’t be pastichey, as much fun as Moore had doing SUPREME that way.

No, not really.

Yeah, that would have been enjoyable to read, but I’d rather have had all Jack. As would Kirby, of course.

I wonder how Roy would have wanted the credits to read, and in what order?

I don't have a bicycle pump big enough.

Hell is for the Wu-Tang Clan?

I...don't think Hell is ready for the Wu-Tang Clan.

Oo oo. Just figured out the thematic resonance between Luthor, Zod and the House of El.

...and I just jotted down a few more notes.

The key Luthor role.

It wouldn't exactly be a life story so much as a mosaic story ranging throughout his life (and beyond).

But it could be a lot of fun.

Hell?

Hell is for children.

Harry's is the one true song.

At the very least, Toar would sing, "You putting lime in a coconut..."

you put the lime in the coconut
you drink 'em both together
put the lime in the coconut
then you feel better
put the lime in the coconut
drink 'em both down
put the lime in the coconut
and call me in the morning

Blackthorne was Steve Schanes (and Ann Fera), and was post-Pacific Comics.

But yeah, HOW TO DRAW ROBOTECH launched in 1987.

Sure. But Toren got credited earlier in the discussion, too.

I don't think anyone was denying Toren credit, just naming the publishers involved.

...think that counts as an American publication.

Back in 1982, Scott McCloud and I used to shop at Books Kinokuniya near Rockefeller Center, and we'd buy imported manga there. There were also books like ROSE OF VERSAILLES, which had been published in a form used to teach English, with the Japanese and English versions side by side.

But I don't...

Of course. But we're talking about who published it, so I'd fair to credit the publishers here.

EduComics was Leonard Rifas.

His books were distributed by Last Gasp, but that was Ron Turner, not the Schanes brothers.

Like I said, I was taking it to mean actual translated manga, not anime-inspired comics.

There were earlier manga published in English, like BAREFOOT GEN, from Educomics. But I think Heidi was talking about an ongoing publishing program, and I think Eclipse may have been the first on that.

Are you thinking of Pacific Comics? I don't think they did manga, did they?

Aircel started in 1985, but didn't it mostly publish Barry Blair stuff?

ROBOTECH started at Comico in 1985, edited by Diana Schutz. But that was American comics adapting anime. I'm not sure where the line is on this, but I was taking manga to mean translated Japanese manga, not American adaptations.

Even when they were drawn by my pal Neil Vokes.