Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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Speaking, as JD was, of recycling gags (from 1976 and 1982 respectively)...
Avengers #12
We've had two days of heavy snow (and shovelling) and some places an hour from us were effectively shut down. The squalls missed some areas entirely, while, a short distance away, people were trapped for a day on a highway. A couple places in the Muskoka region (which is about eight hours from here, but it was the same weather system) declared states of emergency. We were merely inconvenienced. It appears to have abated for now. In any case, I can relate to why this is Superman's "toughest and roughest" foe.
What's more dangerous? A Dirty Dozen or a Deadly Dozen?
For a year or so, I was obsessed with tracking down all nine issues! I finally got the ones I was missing when I was visiting my cousins in Rhode Island!
It's a depressing series, though!
Never knew this existed! It was one of my father's favorite war films, along with The Guns of Navarone!
Calvin & Hobbes was an adventure strip trapped in a child's fantasy!
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