JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"Fine choice. Refreshing. Crisp. Aromatic. "
4 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"They drove through here a few days ago."
8 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"It's International Literacy Day and, coincidentally, this year, the day most Canadian kids return to school. This cover presents a common attitude the comics had towards the hippies:

If you dressed like them or identified with them, you were…"
10 hours ago
JD DeLuzio replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
"Maybe this helps explain my perspective. Maybe it doesn't. Skins.
I ignored the show (2007-2013) when it was popular, though I heard a lot about it from my students. I decided recently to watch the first series or, the first two seasons. They…"
yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"Also the beats listened to folk and jazz and wore dark clothing. The hippies listened to folk and psychedelic rock and wore bright colours. But even Kerouac (who soured on the hippies) considered one to be a development from the other."
yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod's discussion Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All

Light reading."
yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"The blank, eyeless stare is undercut by the fact that, historically, that's what happens to your eyes anyway when you put on a mask in a comic book."
yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
" Traveling to recognizable places from the hippie counterculture is clearly this hitchhiker's bag, though he's crossed over with a different in-group on this particular day.

Also, it's Labour Day! This one is a novel and doesn't fit the theme, but…"
yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"I almost said that, but then I gave them the benefit of the doubt, and thought, maybe she's still getting on, especially as her ex can clearly hear her."
yesterday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"Bikers! Though I hope your last spin of the summer is not as rough as this cover implies."
Sunday
JD DeLuzio replied to Ana Canino-Fluit (Anacoqui- mod)'s discussion Watch Doctor Who? Who me?
"Well, it's a fan trailer, but I'd watch that over the most recent incarnation of the show."
Sunday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
" Harvey did two issues of Pop Comics.  The second, Rock Happening (1969), features their 60s gal Bunny Ball and her cast in an adventure with several fabricated but familiar pop bands: The Beagles, The Soular System, and the Marmalade Mirage. I read…"
Saturday
JD DeLuzio replied to Wandering Sensei: Moderator Man's discussion What Comic Books Have You Read Today?
"Barb Lein-Cooper discusses that in one of the info bits at the back of the collection."
Saturday
JD DeLuzio replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
"How about Star Trek as SF?
We gave up on this episode. Seriously, I'm okay with maybe one "gimmick" ep a season. Sometimes they're good. But the rest should be, you know, in the science or speculative fiction genres."
Saturday
JD DeLuzio replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"He also appears in The Brave and the Bold #29 (new numbering), which I have, and Scooby-Doo Team-Up #67-68 and a twenty-first century Inferior Five comic, which I don't."
Saturday
JD DeLuzio replied to Wandering Sensei: Moderator Man's discussion What Comic Books Have You Read Today?
"The backstory of this indie is here."
Saturday
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