A signed print of Spirit character P’Gell lounging sexily
At Grey Matter Books in Hadley, MA earlier this week, a great and sprawling used book store. The clerk explained that they had ended up with some items from Kitchen Sink Press when I asked about the signed Will Eisner print on the wall.
A robot holds the head of another robot kneeling in front of him, saying “For this great deed I shall make you a nobleman when the war has been won, General Zibbit!” “Thank you, excellency!” the other robot responds, in this comic panel from Venus #11, 1950
Every kid’s favorite comic, Robot Fellatio Squad
A news anchor reads “Already the ice wastes in the north and south poles are beginning to thaw and melt and flood the oceans!” as icebergs crash into the sea under a blazing sun in this comic panel from Venus #11, 1950
I read comics for the escapism
How do they expect her to sell those pristine shoes with a baby around
That’s up there with stores that reprice books from the back issue bins at the counter
Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001) Season 3 Episode 8–Line of Fire transcript header, with a synopsis about bad cops killing to cover up their that of drugs from the evidence room
End of episode transcript: Walker: I’ll see you guys later Walker’s colleague: Where are you going? Walker: I’ve got a belt buckle for a special little guy. (upbeat theme playing)
Son, long ago there was a time, they called it peak television
What paper did your dad work for?
Kubert at his drawing table, drawing the Tarzan sketch
He even got the photographer to capture Kubert drawing it
I had a friend in high school whose dad served in WW2, and that out of synch feeling was definitely the case for him
Joe Kubert sketch of Tarzan, signed “To Cole from Tarzan and Joe Kubert, June 6, ‘78”
My grandad ran a paper in Dover, NJ and assigned the first story on Joe Kubert’s comic art school. he knew I loved comics and got Joe to draw this for me:
Mantlo Power! ROM and Micronauts are a great matched set—not just because they’re both toy tie-ins, but because Mantlo uses both to riff on fascism, supremacist ideology and other WW2-to-Cold War themes through a pop science fiction lens in interesting ways.
Mile High Mullin
At the Bon Jovi/Skid Row show I went to in high school, when Bach took the stage in his seemingly painted on leather pants, the girls behind me screamed “LOOK AT THE SIZE OF HIS COCK!” Sorry, Ben Folds, you can’t compete with that.
Have they explained to Markwayne Mullin that fucking Corey Lewandoski is part of the job?
The first issues of the DC Black Label series Catwoman: Lonely City by Cliff Chiang and Rogues by Joshua Williamson and Leomacs
I find it somewhat odd that DC launched these series within six months of each other, with the same basic premise: that villains can only be adults when the hero is dead or gone for a decade, taking their arrested development with them.
On Tales of Asgard, Marvel failed to realize that lens flares and metallic gleams were superfluous; Kirby’s line art already *is* the special effect
What Dark Horse did to the EC stuff is pretty bad, as well
It’s in my top three computer color disasters, along with Marvel doing it to Kirby’s Tales of Asgard, and Dynamite’s desecration of Thorne’s Red Sonja.
Dad’s dad was a newspaper editor (having been a WW2 reporter and OSS agent); mom’s stepdad was a letter carrier and postmaster (whose family owned a big lumberyard; he had driven an ambulance in the Korean conflict); mom’s bio dad was a race car driver and general dirtbag
She lives about three blocks away from me in Brattleboro, VT! She’s fantastic.
It’s Becca Balint
Cover of Bring the Noise: A Guide to Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture by Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales
Photo of Roxanne Shanté, “chillin’ in da crib”
Important Document:
Does Hakeem Jefferies seem like he will expend the political capital to restore foreign aid? What about the price of eggs?
I’ve struggled to articulate my issue with Democrats making their main argument against war on Iran about domestic affordability, and I think that may be it. They’re arguing Trump doesn’t mean what he says but in our technocratic efficiency we’ll do a better job of enacting his agenda than he will.
Jeffries, implicitly: Democrats are more serious about implementing Trump’s America First agenda than he is
Comic book panel by Ed Hannigan, Don Perlin, and Tex Blaisdell; in NYC a man at a newsstand looks at a front page and says “ ‘ World on Brink of Nuclear War!’ Hmmph! That Rupert Murdoch’ll do *anything* to sell papers!”
Defenders #84 came out 46 years ago and in all those years that motherfucker hasn’t had the decency to die
Democrats putting on their Trump Was Right About Everything* hats for the Sunday shows
*we just wish you would fill out the paperwork correctly, sir
LPs by Deee-Lite, Prince, Bowie, Primal Scream, Jesus Jones, Uncle L, Curtis Mayfield, The Cars, Elvis Costello, Pixies, and New Order
My 23-year-old called me last night to consult with me about LPs he was pulling for a party. My joy was boundless.
I am a living example of that Onion story about the guy making his kid listen to Talking Heads, here to say it can pay off.
A post from Senator Tina Smith robotically making Trump’s illegal war against Iran about grocery prices
Sacrificing every child on Earth to Nyarlathotep The Crawling Chaos will not help Americans struggling to pay for groceries
If you have never read an issue of Thirteen Going on Eighteen, if you assume it was a romance comic and not a light teen comedy about age-appropriate relationships, and you don’t know what the phrase “going on 18” means, then I can see how you jump to a certain conclusion—but it’s a wrong one.
