Understood. Sometimes (I think) it's cool to have an entire character-specific arc like that between two covers. It the same story, but from an entirely different POV because it's just the Surfer bits.
The latest in my historically-underviewed "End of Summer" videos. The soundtrack for this one mainly consists of audio from Junior G-Men (the 1940s Dead End Kids serial) and a neighbourhood folkie band. The bridge, celebrating its 150th anniversary, is the oldest and longest wrought-iron bridge in North America that still carries vehicular traffic. The grey cat whose face is flat managed to get out of the tree with some coaxing (it had chased a squirrel), and there's some Fan Expo footage that hadn't made my earlier video. And of course, the Dead End Raccoons!
I'm a little sad today. I walked into my local Walgreen's and the magazine section was gone! It wasn't very big but it still shook me. I saw that Target curtailed its magazine displays as well.
When I was working, my store had fifteen feet of magazines. Though I was only buying three mags regularly (one for me and two for my mother), this one stings almost as much as when comics disappeared from retail stores!
Ten years ago, you could still buy magazines about almost any topic!
Jeff of Earth-J > Philip PortelliSeptember 2, 2025 at 9:43pm
The last time my newspaper wasn't delivered there was a review in it I wanted to read and I discovered how few places even carry newspapers anymore.
I went to Barnes & Noble last week for the first time in maybe a year. First I noriced that the comics section was "gone" (actually it had been moved). Then I went into what was formerly the audio/viseo section. There were about as many vinyl albums as before (which weren't all that many in the first place), but almost no CDs or DVDs. In there place was the comic book section.
Philip Portelli > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 2, 2025 at 10:13pm
There's only one place in town that I know of that carry three of the NYC papers (Daily News, New York Post and Newsday).
And Target dropped the DVDs last year and has very limited CDs.
I went to a small con, Guelph Comic Book Jam, which happened at the same time as the local jazz festival:
Purchases (all signed): The fourth TPB of Jason Loo's Pitiful Human Lizard, and Loo and Zdarsky's The All-Nighter, Emilia Strilchuk's Be Yourself... Not Like That! (a gift), and Kevin Mutch's Fantastic Life (they sold out of the large volume they're displaying at the start of the video, which is a Victorian/Edwardian-type SF/Fantasy adventure, minus the colonialism, racism, classicism, and sexism), and Strawberry McFluffin Makes a Friend, a home-made comic being sold by the young daughters of a woman who was selling crafts. They charged $1.00 / copy.
A lot of odd things happened last week. I will update my blog when I'm less tired.
I remember that it was said that we weren’t sure if Legionnaire Emerkeith Davyjack had passed away from his ongoing medical issues. Rereading the thread “Military Sitcoms” led me to the answer. In a 2018 post he stated that his real name was Walter Lilly if we wanted to find him on Facebook . I knew his name was Walter, but not his surname. His FB account is still active and gets yearly birthday greetings. One of his friends provided his date of death as the 4th of January, 2021, and that he had died peacefully in his sleep.
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Thanks Jeff, I already own those books in the original issues and also digital format ( so r don't wreck my back dragging my comic boxes about).
But that's a great collection for someone wants to see the pre Zenn-La Surfer. We've had over 50 years of Norrin Radd so I'm over my outrage now. 😃
Understood. Sometimes (I think) it's cool to have an entire character-specific arc like that between two covers. It the same story, but from an entirely different POV because it's just the Surfer bits.
The latest in my historically-underviewed "End of Summer" videos. The soundtrack for this one mainly consists of audio from Junior G-Men (the 1940s Dead End Kids serial) and a neighbourhood folkie band. The bridge, celebrating its 150th anniversary, is the oldest and longest wrought-iron bridge in North America that still carries vehicular traffic. The grey cat whose face is flat managed to get out of the tree with some coaxing (it had chased a squirrel), and there's some Fan Expo footage that hadn't made my earlier video. And of course, the Dead End Raccoons!
I'm a little sad today. I walked into my local Walgreen's and the magazine section was gone! It wasn't very big but it still shook me. I saw that Target curtailed its magazine displays as well.
When I was working, my store had fifteen feet of magazines. Though I was only buying three mags regularly (one for me and two for my mother), this one stings almost as much as when comics disappeared from retail stores!
Ten years ago, you could still buy magazines about almost any topic!
The last time my newspaper wasn't delivered there was a review in it I wanted to read and I discovered how few places even carry newspapers anymore.
I went to Barnes & Noble last week for the first time in maybe a year. First I noriced that the comics section was "gone" (actually it had been moved). Then I went into what was formerly the audio/viseo section. There were about as many vinyl albums as before (which weren't all that many in the first place), but almost no CDs or DVDs. In there place was the comic book section.
There's only one place in town that I know of that carry three of the NYC papers (Daily News, New York Post and Newsday).
And Target dropped the DVDs last year and has very limited CDs.
And no comic books or trades!
Latest acquisitions:
50 years in the making!
I went to a small con, Guelph Comic Book Jam, which happened at the same time as the local jazz festival:
Purchases (all signed): The fourth TPB of Jason Loo's Pitiful Human Lizard, and Loo and Zdarsky's The All-Nighter, Emilia Strilchuk's Be Yourself... Not Like That! (a gift), and Kevin Mutch's Fantastic Life (they sold out of the large volume they're displaying at the start of the video, which is a Victorian/Edwardian-type SF/Fantasy adventure, minus the colonialism, racism, classicism, and sexism), and Strawberry McFluffin Makes a Friend, a home-made comic being sold by the young daughters of a woman who was selling crafts. They charged $1.00 / copy.
A lot of odd things happened last week. I will update my blog when I'm less tired.
I remember that it was said that we weren’t sure if Legionnaire Emerkeith Davyjack had passed away from his ongoing medical issues. Rereading the thread “Military Sitcoms” led me to the answer. In a 2018 post he stated that his real name was Walter Lilly if we wanted to find him on Facebook . I knew his name was Walter, but not his surname. His FB account is still active and gets yearly birthday greetings. One of his friends provided his date of death as the 4th of January, 2021, and that he had died peacefully in his sleep.
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