Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin
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Johanna is running a swell contest where you, yes, you, Sir and/or Ma’am, can win yourself some free copies of Peter David’s equally-swell-though-underappreciated series Fallen Angel.
What the heck, it’s free, and you might get some good readin’ out of it.
Comic Strip Tip #1: Having kids that have died due to implied neglect as a punchline may be a little on the rough side.
If you’re a member of Emusic, and you’re a fan of the all-time greatest live-action version of Batman, you can download an album’s worth of Neil Hefti‘s music from the series.
Alas, the real world encroaches on my weblogging time today, so all I’ll probably be able to post for you is another comic cover:
H explains the reason why Mag mail-ordered a copy of Iron Man #157 from me a few weeks ago.
First thing I’m gonna do when I go into the shop tomorrow…dig out a copy of Iron Man #157 and see if it’s as glorious as they claim.
Found via pal Andy, Acclaim files for bankruptcy. Do they still have any control over the old Valiant Comics properties? I honestly have no idea. I do know Magnus Robot Fighter is being published elsewhere.
1. Customer buys something that ends up costing $10.83. Pulls 72 dollars out of his pocket. Hands me a ten dollar bill, and asks his friend if he has eighty-three cents in change. Friend dutifully counts out and hands over eighty-three cents. I wonder this whole time why the friend didn’t tell the customer “what, would it kill you to just give him another dollar?”
2. I noticed on the cover of one of the science fiction magazines we carry a small blurb ballyhooing an article about behind-the-scenes stuff on the original Star Trek TV series. Okay, really, at this point is there anything else we need to know about the original Star Trek series? Haven’t we all seen interviews with every actor, actress, extra, scriptwriter, director, production designer, key grip, lighting tech, make-up artist, “red-shirt,” tribble-wrangler, and their spouses by now? I suppose if you went to one of those “celebrity” autograph conventions you might get an actor who played Romulan Guard #3 to tell you some unsavory story from the show that never saw print due to fear of legal action, but that’s probably about it.
Besides, shouldn’t we all just move on to the vastly superior Space: 1999?
3. Okay, so the Hulk has his own weblog, which appears to have inspired a similar Green Arrow weblog (though the Hulk appears to have a better grasp of capitalization). I was half-tempted to add to the fray with my own Archie Andrews weblog (“Dear ‘blog: I didn’t get laid again today”) but I spend enough time just doing this site. So, for any of you enterprising individuals out there, that’s a free idea, and this address still appears to be available. Archie.blogspot.com is taken, though not updated in three years.
Alleged Batman Begins cast sheet, featuring a certain “T. Welling” as “Kent.” (via TV Tattle)
So, last night’s Justice League Unlimited featured the animated debut of Steve Ditko’s characters Hawk and Dove. I am glad that the producers of the show don’t appear to feel any obligation to give us origin sequences for each new character they introduce in the series…that could bog down after a while, I imagine. I also appreciated that Hawk and Dove are introduced in a fight caused by Dove supposedly being “unpatriotic” – it’s not much of a leap to assume the offscreen argument that caused this fight was war-related, especially given the Vietnam War-era origins of these characters. Even with all that, though…Hawk and Dove do look just sorta goofy, don’t they?
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