§ October 23rd, 2008§ Filed under UncategorizedComments Off on "Sex sex sex!"
Hey, gang…I know I’ve been a little quiet over the last few days. I’ve been working on some other projects and otherwise being distracted by responsibilities that aren’t “generate lots of new content for the site” — so you’ve been getting a few more scans than usual. Sorry about that.
Anyway, here’s some linky-linky I’ve been meaning to do:
Anniversary Time! Both Aquaqueen Laura “Tegan” Gjovaag and comics review master ‘n’ man about town Johnny Bacardi celebrate their six year blogging anniversaries this week, so huzzah! to them both.
And I’m a jerk because I’d meant to say something about it at the time, and I tried to leave a comment there but experienced some kind of glitch…but hey, it’s only a week and a half late! A big congrats to The Comic Treadmill for its five year anniversary! Mag and H, who run the show over there, have always been swell internet chums to me and very supportive of my site, and I’m sure glad they’re still plugging away, showing us all how fun comics can be. Thanks, guys!
You may think you’re prepared…but nothing can prepare you for Boxcar Dragon: Hobo Ninja! That’s direct from the fevered brow of Chris Sims, so gird any loins you may have in an appropriate fashion.
I do love the Halloween, but this has been one of those months for me and haven’t really worked up my All Hallow’s Eve cheer this time around. But, thankfully, some folks are picking up the slack, like the mighty Bitter Andrew: Armagideon Time has been featuring some chilling comics and some spooky sounds to get you into some midnight moods, so go check it out.
And I’m linking Stuff Geeks Love, because it evokes cruel, heartless laughter from me. Hey, he just posted about sex! You guys like sex, right? Then go check it out. Sex sex sex!
There’s a new Watchmen trailer out, which has a handful of shots that aren’t recycled from the previous trailer. This is from some awards show, so you get some “applause sign” cheering at the beginning and end.
If for some reason that video is taken down, then you can watch this video instead, featuring the intro to a ’70s kid show I watched as a young Mikester:
§ October 22nd, 2008§ Filed under UncategorizedComments Off on "Man reacts poorly to bad joke, seriously injured in fall; Smythe of Scotlandyard arrested"
§ October 21st, 2008§ Filed under UncategorizedComments Off on "That’s where gutter gangs wind up! In the gutter!"
1. There’s a lot of set-up prior to those three panels, but really, that’s all you need to know.
2. Ah, the ol’ “convenient plank left on a rooftop for a quick getaway to another rooftop” trick. There’s no way that can possibly go wro — EEEAAAA
3. “Jo-Jo?”
4. At least there’s a moral at the end of this story, delivered by Lt. Straighttalk: SHAPE UP AND FLY RIGHT, YOU DAMN PUNK KIDS, OR BE A MANGLED BLOODY BODY IN THE GUTTER.
5. This is another scan from a coverless comic we received recently. Sure did get a lot of these. Also, since somebody asked…the scan from yesterday came from the same coverless issue of Suspense Stories I’d pulled some images from just a few days ago.
6. Yes, it’s another crime comic scan. I’ve been having a busy week…I’m not quite at “Low Content Mode” this week, but it’s pretty darn close. Thank you for your patience…and your readership!
§ October 20th, 2008§ Filed under UncategorizedComments Off on Suddenly…a MONTAGE of CRIME.
Yes, the birds were involved in the crimes, but they were just innocent patsies.
This guy is my favorite:
…the utter despair he’s expressing at being a hapless victim of armed robbery just emanates from the page. Give that guy a Best Supporting Actor comic book Oscar.
The perspective on the arm looks a little funky to me. I just tried holding my arm in a position similar to that one, and…well, I think I’m close. It’s a little uncomfortable. And how many of you reading this just tried it yourself, right now?
I’m trying to duplicate odd-looking poses in comic books. So it’s come to this. Thank God I’m not doing this with an early ’90s X-Men book…my spine would be broken.
§ October 19th, 2008§ Filed under UncategorizedComments Off on "Abner Scanlon was a gigolo!"
Now that’s how you kick off a story:
This is from a Johnny Craig-illustrated story in Vault of Horror #19 (Jun/Jul ’51), though this particular scan came from one of those double-sized EC reprints published by Gladstone/Russ Cochran in ’90 or ’91, and darned if I can remember which one now. I just happened to come across this panel as I was listing some of those reprints on the eBay (ahem) and I remember thinking at that moment “wow, you never saw a set-up like that in a Superman comic!” (Or maybe you did…there are a whole bunch of Superman stories from the ’40s that I haven’t read.)
Anyway, I like that panel, crummy reproduction and all. And that’s pretty much the beginning and end of my insight, there.
Speaking of gigolos: Chris Sims of the Invincible Super-Blog, a comics site of some renown, has recently announced the launch of his own comics imprint Action Age, which is quite possibly more awesome than we mere mortals deserve. Read about it at his weblog, then gift your eyes with the Action Age site itself. Tell ’em Mike sent you!
Aside from the slabbed ‘n’ graded versions, the inadequately censored version of All Star Batman #10 doesn’t seem to be having quite the panicked eBay sales rush it was a few weeks ago. I’m that much closer to having my own copy!
And then there’s this auction with that Obama issue of the New Yorker being sold in a lot with the ASB #10. …Sure, why not?
And this is just a link to Neilalien, because all comics bloggers must pay homage to Neilalien for paving the way. ALL HAIL NEILALIEN.
§ October 18th, 2008§ Filed under retailing, watchmenComments Off on We may have received some Spanish-language comics in a collection recently.
House ad from Los Vengadores #26 (1981), published in Mexico:
“DIABOLICO – DESTRUCTOR DEL CRIMEN” – fan-tastic.
And now, for no good reason…from the same comic, Captain America and Quicksilver versus Attuma:
I like how most (but not all, I know) of the dialogue on this page looks like declarative expressions, ending in periods instead of the typical exclamation points. “Cap, Attuma is attacking! We have to stop him!” “Whoa there, Quicksilver baby. Don’t get so uptight, man.”
And now, suddenly, for even less reason…Spanish Rorschach from an edition of Watchmen #1 published in Spain:
I may have said this bit of dialogue about a hundred or so times to Employee Aaron on Friday. I don’t know why either.
§ October 16th, 2008§ Filed under UncategorizedComments Off on "Pass me the grafting serum…."
In the story titled “The Man Who Meddled,” scientist Paul Hartwick was experimenting with the acceleration of life cycles in mice, making them live out a typical two-year life span over the course of minutes. Of course, there’s an accident, as the devices used in this experiment blow up in Paul’s face…but Paul appears to recover fully and that’s that.
Some months later, Paul and his wife have a child, and to all appearances that child appears perfectly healthly:
…But shortly, it’s discovered that all is not well in the Hartwick household:
Before long:
And the end result is that the baby dies, and Hartwick himself suddenly ages to near death over the course of one panel, but that’s bit of a downer. Let’s look instead at Balding Pipe Baby, because that’s absolutely 100% fantastic:
So he just kicks it in the crib, occasionally climbing out to raid Pop’s smoke stash and grab the paper? Or does he just cry out: “Mommy? Can I have a pipe and the sports section, please? That’s a dear…thanks!”
In other news, Man Has Arms Replaced with Those of A Gorilla. Check it out, in a story that could only be called “Killer’s Arms.” Well, maybe not only that, but whatever:
John, Anne, and Anne’s father Professor Morton fly off to Africa to capture a gorilla and use one of its arms to replace Morton’s missing arm, using the professor’s experimental grafting technique. However, one night at their camp, a gorilla finds them…and John gets the worst of it:
Morton shoots and kills the gorilla, but he and Anne come across a horrifying scene:
Well, luckily for Morton he just happens to have a gorilla arm-donor dead and ready for the transplantation procedure. He begins the operation with maybe one of the greatest comic panels ever:
John wakes the morning after the surgery, probably with totally flyblown wounds at the edges of the graft since nobody bothered with any kind of bandaging:
…well, unless the grafting serum includes some kind of bug repellent. The serum could just be That Amazing.
John is understandably shocked:
Ah, the old “transplanted body parts have the personalities of their former owners” trick. If you insist, story, if you insist:
Anne’s bedside manner could use a little work, too, attacking gorilla arms or no.
John’s on the move…note the grafting serum bottle:
“I couldn’t control my transplanted gorilla arms when they were killing my annoying girlfriend and her wet-blanket father, Your Honor…honest!”
So, back to the serum bottle: apparently by spilling on John’s head, it continues the process of allowing the body to accept the grafted gorilla arms apparently by changing him into an actual gorilla. Well, sorta:
I’m beginning to suspect that comic books are not my best source for accurate medical information.
stories from coverless copies of mid-’50s Marvel Tales and Suspense Stories
