Reminder: this week is Pal Dorian’s 5th Blogging Anniversary.
Congratulate the man at Postmodernbarney.com.
Just thought somebody should mention it.
Congratulate the man at Postmodernbarney.com.
Just thought somebody should mention it.
“HUMANS! Galactus must FEED upon the life force of worlds for sustenance, but must not expend any more energy than necessary in conquering those worlds for consumption. My herald upon your world, the Silver Sterling, has spent the past 50 months examining your world’s cultural artifacts and sending his reports to me…and it’s become increasingly clear that your world will pose NO difficulty for me to consume.
“You can examine my herald’s previous reports in the links present in the sidebar of this primitive communications medium. His current report, taken from your Earth publication Diamond Previews, of the Earth date May 2009, begins NOW. So says GALACTUS.”
p. 129 – The Dark Knight 1:6 Scale Joker (Gotham City Police):
p. 168 – Beserker #2:
p. 189 – President Evil one-shot:
p. 196 – Archie Double Digest #200:
“Archie’s dad receives the promotion he’s worked a lifetime for, but it comes at a price: the family must relocate and leave Riverdale! […] It’s the most poignant ‘New Look’ story yet.”
I’m pretty sure we’ve seen this story a number of times in Archie comics before. Then again, you can say that about pretty much any Archie story. Then again, you can say that about pretty much any story in any long-running comic book. Well, maybe not this story, but you know what I mean.
p. 210 – Female Force #5:
p. 333 – Batman Brave and the Bold T-Shirt:
p. 346 – Star Trek TOS Series 5 PX Salt Vampire:
p. 352 – The Exorcist Possessed Regan Electronic Deluxe Box Set:
p. 374 – Walt Disney Classics Collection Runaway Brain Figurines:
Now, I know this is based on a specific, relatively recent animated short, but still:
p. 378 – Batroc Mini-Bust:
p. 380 – Thor The Frog God of Thunder Mini-Bust:
And now…the greatest Marvel statue ever made:
p. 384 – Star Wars Chess Set:
p. 384 – Star Wars Legacy Darth Talon Mini-Bust:
p. 401 -Sif Ex Ikki Tousen Sonsaku Fighting Repaint Figure:
p. 410 – Watchmen Be@rbricks 3-Pack:
Oh, dear…you may wish to avert your eyes:
Those do have the effect of making the plain vanilla Watchmen Kubricks a little more acceptable:
p. 412 – Land of the Lost Chaka Funko Force Bobble Head:
p. 413 – Star Trek Romulan Ale Energy Drink:
p. 415 – Robin Secret Wishes costume:
p. 416 – Bizarro Deluxe Mask:
p. 418 – Stargate SG-1 Coaster Set:
p. 420 – Disney Traditions Mickey and Minnie Kissing Figurine:
Marvel p. 3 – Reborn #1:
p. 103 – Mephisto Vs. Premiere HC:
…courtesy pal Dorian:
BONUS GALACTUS CONTENT: Galactus has a good belly-laugh:
If I recall correctly, he has a good laugh in the last issue of Bob Layton’s first Hercules mini-series as well. Alas, my copy is misplaced in the Vast Mikester Comic Archives, so a scan will follow later in the week. In the meantime, here’s pal Dorian with a taste from that same ish.
Here’s probably my favorite trading card image of Galactus, drawn by Art Adams and taken from the 1991 Marvel Universe set from Impel:
Anyway, back to the Galactus card…the characters in this set were given power ratings on the card backs, and here are the Big G’s:
But get a load of the speed stats on both cards. With his speed score maxed out, and his agility score as low as it is…this guy’s going to be tripping over a lot of footstools and walking into walls. And given that he’s already wearing a hat pretty much designed to keep you walking through doorways sideways, this is seriously a disaster waiting to happen. Keep him out of the china shop!
In other mostly non-Galactus news:
And by the way…Dor’s Uncomfortable Plot Summaries post just keeps going and going and going…I keep seeing new links to it pop up all the time. Even from people who actually get the Rocky joke. He was even on the front page of the Internet Movie Database, for God’s sake. And Neil Gaiman his own self was a good sport about a joke at his expense that, er, I may have been involved with. Dor’s shown me his traffic stats, and he’s getting some crazy-ass numbers….that post is probably the single most popular thing ever generated by someone in the comicsweblogosphere. You’d think some of the bigger comics sites would have noted it by now.
So again, congrats to Dor for five years of blogging. He’s a swell guy, so give him your best wishes!
EMO GALACTUS IS EMO:
And now, for no good reason, I see Galactus grabbing a succession of disco singers to help him cope with whatever nefarious plans and/or emotional issues he’s dealing with. “GLORIA GAYNOR — YOUR SONG ‘I WILL SURVIVE’ HAS TOUCHED THE LONG-DORMANT HEART OF GALACTUS. YOU HAVE GIVEN ME THE RESOLVE TO CONTINUE, TO SURVIVE. TRULY THE POWER COSMIC PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE POWER OF DISCO.”
Okay, at this point, I have no idea what the heck I’m saying.
And yes, Galactus’s head-wing-antenna-thingie is missing in that first panel. Hey, he’s Galactus, he can do stuff like make part of his headgear disappear.
I’m probably not doing “Galactus Week” as suggested by pal Cully, at least not right now…but I totally could.
…but that can wait for later. Instead, have a pic of pissed-off Galactus:
At any rate, I certainly hope Scotty reported this to Space Human Resources. Or kept this little incident in mind the next time Kirk hit him up for some hooch.
And for those of you who need a little convincing to try something that’s not from DC or Marvel: it’s a “Dark Reign” crossover. Also, Batman is in it. No, really, you should buy it and check it out. I wouldn’t lie to you.
One of the better books to look out for is Drawn & Quarterly’s Nancy/Melvin the Monster flip-book, featuring John Stanley’s fine cartooning printed in color on faux-yellowed pages. It looks fantastic. Fantagraphics has a fine Love & Rockets sampler, and Bongo, as always, presents a great package of their Simpsons comics, and those are always a big hit. Boom Studios is putting out a freebie for their Cars series, based on the animated film, and I’m curious to see what reaction to that will be like from our younger customers.
But overall, quality seems to be a bit higher across the board for the freebies this year. And every year we get increasingly larger crowds at the shop for the event, so I’m anticipating a day of slightly-controlled mayhem weekend after next. So drop by…see how much grayer Mike’s hair is at the end of the day!
Also, I was interviewed over the phone for the local paper regarding FCBD a week or so ago, but I don’t think the article’s been printed yet. I wanted to tell the reporter all the stuff I’ve been telling you folks on my site for the past five years about FCBD, but I think all that came out was “DUH COMICS FREE COME GETTUM.” Hopefully a little friendly editing will make that into something coherent.
EDIT: The article is now online.