Hi pals…I haven’t had the blogging time I’ve needed for my longer-form posts lately. I still owe you all a follow-up spoiler-riffic post about the recent Swamp Thing 1989 mini-series, which I discussed in a more-or-less spoiler-free entry way back when. And another entry in the Fantastic Four-ay posts, as we’re moving firmly into the post-Byrne era. And of course the continuing entries in the Final ’90s Countdown of your favorite indie books of that decade.
I don’t know if it’s a case of biting off more than I can chew, but rather a “the body is willing, the clock is weak.” So, I’m sorry for the absolute onslaught of “Blogging About Blogging Is A Sin” posts lately, and I’m going to do my best to keep September free of then.
Also upcoming I have posts about some Kickstartered books I’ve received and one that appears to have dropped off the face of the Earth. I also may have another piece of original art on its way to my greedy clutches, so expect a post on that soon, too. I mean, I have a nice, shiny new website now, I should at least be using it.
Is there anything I haven’t covered lately, or at all, that you’d like me to discuss? Feel free to drop a request in the comments…no guarantee I’ll answer ’em all, but…yeah, c’mon, I usually do.
So there we go…adding yet another series of posts to my already three or four pre-existing ones. Making more work for myself…that’s the Progressive Ruin Promise!
Thanks for reading, pals, and I’ll try to get my act together for Monday.
Everything you’ve listed already sounds great. Looking forward to it!
I don’t think you’ve ever told us what you think of the comic strip Nancy, or Frank Miller’s The Spirit movie. Maybe you have some thoughts about those properties?
Have you read Byrne’s new X-Men Fanfic book? It seems like you at least used to be a Byrne fan, even if I don’t think you’re an X-Men fan.
Here’s a question for you.
I stumbled upon an Instagram post the other day regading a story from the ’60s where Superman goes to the future and visits the grown up iteration of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
He walks through a hallway with sculptures of the Legionnaires who have perished in battle–Ferro Lad, Invisible Kid, Chemical King, etc., and Brainiac Five (who is smoking a pipe!), shows Kal , via tele-screen, Ultra Boy and Phantom Girl, who have started a family, at their home. There are also references to Lightning Man and Saturn Woman, Cosmic Man and Night Woman, and Timberwolf and Light Woman as married couples.
I only recall one other appearance of the Adult Legion, in Legion of Super-Heroes no. 300.
As I have not read all of the numerous Legion stories, I am curious about a few things.
1. How many Silver Age/Bronze Age stories exist of Superman visiting the Adult Legion?
2. Has Brainiac Five ever been shown smoking a pipe again (I thought he was a genius–not a sub-genius!)?
3. Have Ultra Boy and Phantom Girl’s offspring ever been mentioned or featured in stories again?
4. Instead of constantly rebooting the Legion, why doesn’t DC Comics try an approach where the offspring of the original classic Silver/Bronze Age Legion (1958 – 1994) form a legacy Legion team? Clearly at least Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl, and Ultra Boy and Phantom Girl did have/will have offspring at some point. So, we can assume other Legionaries did or will as well. This way new characters could be added more organically, and we could also get new power sets for new Legion recruits who aren’t offspring, but are teenagers.
Also, would the offspring of Wildfire and Dawnstar be named “Wildstar” or “Dawnfire” ?
What would Blok and White Witch’s offspring be like?
No worries, Mike! Running your own business is a ton of work on its own. Between that and trying to have some semblance of a private life, the fact that you post as much as you do is mighty impressive.
Not sure how much you have to say about any of this or if you’ve already posted about these topics, but I have a couple of questions.
The post on war comics and the reaction to it was interesting. Several people mentioned not being interested in war comics when they were younger, but they now have a greater affinity for them. I felt much the same way and now find I am as interested in war, horror, romance, and funny animal comics as I am in superhero comics. That may partly be due to the histories of those genres and many of the creators not being covered quite as extensively.
Is there much demand for any of those genres outside of the EC titles (obviously) and something like early romance comics by Simon and Kirby? Is there a large Fox and Crow or Jerry Lewis fandom that I’m not hip to? If so, could you hip me to them so I’m not stuck out here in squaresville daddy-o?
Do comic collections ever come in with superhero AND romance comics?
Unrelated, but are there any comics you would not sell due to ethical concerns about the content or the creators? Nothing springs to mind right off, but you have much vaster knowledge.
Just saw a video of someone being ripped off by a counterfeit Hulk #181. Obviously with your experience you could spot a fake a mile away, but I’m curious if anyone has ever tried to pull a fast one on you?
Like I said, forgive me if you’ve covered these topics before.
Thanks!
“a counterfeit Hulk #181”
How did someone counterfeit that? I’ve heard of the counterfeit Cerebus #1, but that’s a B&W on cheaper paper.
The more I get into weirdo undergrounds and “adult” comix, the more I want to know about their history and perspective. When I worked at a shop around the turn of the century, we didn’t really have any Undergrounds– or if we did, I was entirely unaware of them. It took a while for me to get into Undergrounds. I suspect that a lot of that was just because it wasn’t covered in the mainstream comics media that I followed when I got into the scene– Wizard didn’t do any cover stories about the bizarre pointillist nastiness of Jim Osborne, for example– but also because it just wasn’t around. I enjoy this stuff now because there are so many weird niche rabbitholes to climb down.
At my relatively-small college town shop, we stocked Eros stuff, but I thought of it as the “dirty old man” section, and so I didn’t pay much attention to it– except for a few exceptions, mostly by people I knew. It’s only in the past few years that I’ve gotten into the Eros stuff, mostly for entertainment value (the Tom Sutton stuff) but also because some of it is genuinely good.
Historically, has there been a shift in the way that you sell undergrounds / adult stuff? Do you avoid blogging about it because this is a “family friendly” blog?