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• BLOG FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE: #1 – Mark Millar’s Invisibles; #2 – Rob Liefeld’s Big Numbers; #3 – Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four #5000.
• That little stuffed bull, Bully, who is stuffed, little, and apparently also a bull, puts his horns to Charlton Comics’ pin-up-book-disguised-as-a-narrative Partridge Family series.

  I could have sworn I’ve discussed the Partridge Family on this site before, but I think I may be confusing discussing the book in shop with writing about it on the site, which is become more and more of a problem the longer I do this internet thingie here. Anyway…well, you should go read Bully’s post first before you read my little bit of business. Go on.

  …

  Okay, my specific example of what I remember from the Partridge Family comic totally backs up what Bully was saying…there was a three page story that was laid out like this: page one, with story title something like “Lost at Sea,” and a full page drawing of David Cassidy saying “Boy, that was some adventure I just had, when I was lost at sea!” Page two, an actual attempt of a narrative, with four or six panels showing a boat being tossed about in a storm, along with some narration from David about what a terrible storm it was. Page three, another full page drawing of David, saying something similar to “I sure am glad I was rescued from being lost at sea!” THE END.

• So Anna has unleashed an Amethyst Tumblr, which serves as a nice reminder that this was a solid fantasy comic that deserves more attention than it gets. Though, as Anna mentions, the character is returning in the one Flashpoint event tie-in comic I plan on reading, Secret Seven. (I was planning on skipping Flashpoint altogether, but, you know, George Perez art. We all have our weaknesses.)
• Suddenly…TOPLESS JACK KIRBY.
• Sometimes I forget there was a Pac-Man cartoon. Or I wish I could forget, more accurately.

  By the way, if you’re a Pac-Man fan, I’m about to ruin your whole day.

• Oh, hey, Life Magazine did a thing on our book Write More Good.

  Life. Oh my goodness.

• Oh, hey, fellow Bureau Chief (and co-writer of Fake AP Stylebook‘s Write More Good) Josh Krach is writing a new webcomic: Troop Infinity, illustrated by Sheli Hay. Good stuff, and fun for the whole family!
• Bully, the Bull That Is Little And Also He Is Stuffed, has been doing A Kirby A Day this week, and the most recent is a fantastic image from Jack Kirby’s Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles. In a good and just world, that scene would be in the new Captain America movie. Hell, in a good and just world, the entire movie would be based on Bicentennial Battles.
• Pal Dorian unleashes this month’s installment of Previews for Gays.
• The 2011 Eisner Awards are announced…and your pal Mike at Progressive Ruin was shut out yet again. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
• Here’s an official announcement of all the hoohar that was going on in Brightest Day #23 that I wasn’t explicitly revealing over the last couple of days, but, um, did anyway. I do apologize if I spoiled it for anyone since, well, like was pointed out, even mentioning my particular interest in it was a spoiler all by itself. Sorry about that, pals.

So I just got in from one of our store’s semi-occasional Midnight Madness sales, where pal Andres helped out through the entire evening, and Awesome Hospital‘s Matt Digges brought me a case of Diet Coke as tribute, and also it was Employee Aaron’s fiancée Kempo’s birthday, and anyway, I’m tired, so all you’re getting today is that Questprobe computer game screenshot above, apparently from Hulk’s Bondage & Domination Adventure. Thanks indeed,Joe ‘n’ Jim!

Oh, also, I helped Moment of [Alan] Moore again, so enjoy.

Plus, pals Dorian and Ken have once again produced their monthly movie trailer reviews…only this time enlisting the Bureau Chiefs, including myself, to contribute their own reviews. I’m a terrible reviewer, but I did my best. Also, we have a book coming out this Tuesday, perhaps you’ve heard.

Okay, that’s enough…I gotta be back at work in about ten hours, so I’m getting some shut-eye. See you folks tomorrow!

So some of the folks from Fake AP Stylebook have a little something in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal. Take a gander and discover…”Grammar’s Dirty Little Secret.” Also, buy our bookplease. Or the Kindle version.

Andrew tackles a new Nobody’s Favorite, this time written by, and starring, an actress we actually had at the shop for a signing for this particular comic at the time. The comic was…eh, but she was very nice, and good with the fans who showed up.

Gerry at CO2 Comics ponders the language of comics.

So this was on the front page of Yahoo! a couple of days ago:

Well, I know I hadn’t heard of cobras until seeing the Indiana Jones films.

Okay, maybe they probably meant a specific type of cobra, but c’mon.

from Black Fury #11 (November 1957)

In other news:

• A brief postscript to my marathon Man-Thing postings…both pal Nat and Buzz Dixon popped into the comments yesterday to relate a story regarding primary Man-Thing writer Steve Gerber’s own experience with the Giant-Size Man-Thing title, so feel free to take a gander at that, if you haven’t already.
• Okay, so Andrew’s moved his Nobody’s Favorites feature to Tuesdays (latest installment here), but that’s not what I want to tell you about. What I want to tell you about is Andrew’s latest, most malevolent plan…a creation so dire, so purely evil that I shudder to even contemplate it. Arising from this long ago Nobody’s Favorite entry comes this, the most terrifying Tumblr of all time. ABANDON ALL HOPE.
• For balance, here is a Tumblr of pure love and joy: it’s the official Tumblr of Bully, the Little Stuffed Bull: the Little Stuffed Tumblr!
• Behold the soul patch of Evil Superboy.
• Mag reviews the new Garth Ennis series Jennifer Blood, which sort of surprised me by absolutely tanking at our shop. Man, I tried to get it to move. “Hey, new Ennis series!” I’d say to our regular Ennis fans. “Nah, thanks anyway,” sez they. Maybe going one too many times to the bleakly-violent well, perhaps? I really have no idea.
• If only Boom! Studios had plugged this a little more on their Twitter feed…! Ah, but I kid my pals over at Boom! as they’re just excited, and rightly so, about their new Hellraiser comic, and they want folks to download that PDF file featuring the exclusive Clive Barker co-written prologue (like, for example, from here). Yeah, I know, I was just half-complaining about a comic maybe being too “bleakly violent” in the previous bullet point, but, hey, it’s Clive Barker writing new Hellraiser material. I’ll cut this some slack.
• A brief reminder that the Fake AP Stylebook book Write More Good, that I, and I alone, worked on, with absolutely no assistance from anyone else, is due out in stores April 5th. Read a free chapter here, and, if you so desire, order it from the below link:
  
  …or get it from the other online booksellers listed here. Buy the book critics have hailed as “forthcoming!” and “based on the Twitter account!” and “a book!”
• Speaking of Twitter, I hope this Twitter account is revived soon. EDIT: It lives, it lives!