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Because I'm feeling "Weird" today ...
(oh, you'll groan in a second) I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on two DC series from the 70's and early 80's - Weird War Tales and Weird Western Tales. I don't much about either, except that "Western" for a time starred Jonah Hex before he g
Read more…Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Survivor of Two Atomic Bombings, Dies at Age 93
Story In a nutshell: This guy was in Hiroshima when the Bomb went off. He was hurt, but was well enough to travel, so the next day, he was sent home. To Nagasaki. And yet, he lived to be an old, old man. Go figure. The kami must've been looking ou
Read more…Happy 69th birthday, Hayao Miyazaki!
I bet he goes for a quiet walk in the woods today...
Read more…Spectre question ... what did you think of ...
... the series from the late 80's that ran 31 issues, plus one Annual, all written (I believe) by Doug Moench? And how about the Hal Jordan as the Spectre series that ran from 2001-2003?
Read more…Green Arrow question ... what did you think of ...
the run by Mike Grell and the run by Chuck Dixon on the G.A. series that ran from 1988-1998?
Read more…You reprints are driving me crazy!
For a while, my list of "I'll buy that someday" included the Showcase Presents reprints of the Flash. If money were no object, I would buy the Archives in a second ... but my budget is limited, so the Archives - at full price, anyway - are not an opt
Read more…So, What'd You Get for Christmas?
I see that my good friend Chris Fluit has started a "What did you give for Christmas?" thread. I guess that makes me the Anti-Chris! ;) I got: 1)A Futurama 2010 Calendar 2)Talk to the Tail, 'Cause the Whiskers Ain't Listenin', by Revilo 3)A pair
Read more…Top Toons of the 2000s
http://blog.toonzone.net/blogs/144/toons-of-the-2000s-top-25-animated-television-series-countdown-5-1/ Wow...can't argue with #1.
Read more…Happy New Year, to All of You, from All of Me!
Time for my traditional - if somewhat less than edifying - toast to the Old Year: "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you 2009 - another year, shot to Hell!" ;) And a song that's traditional for New Year's: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never
Read more…Happy birthday, Fabian Nicieza!
Writer (and sometimes editor) Fabian Nicieza is 48 today.
Read more…'Tis Better to Give than to Receive
Most years, we start a Christmas loot list letting everyone know what wonderful stuff we received. This year, I thought it might be fun to try a change of pace. So what did you give this year? I'll start. Ana and I gave the girls their own Nintendo
Read more…Okay, so this really shouldn't be funny, BUT...
... there's a joke in there somewhere...
Read more…Comics that you REALLY want the next issue of...like, now...
For me it's Greg Rucka's Stumptown...man, that was a great first issue. What about you?
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