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I don’t…
…I…
…they seem to be making this out to be a more difficult decision than it really ought to be. Maybe I’m just puzzled that they seem determined that they absolutely must shoot SOMETHING. Is it just me?
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In one image, the entire history of my relationship with women.
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“Or lynching.” (Speaking of “hands are tied” and all….)
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He has a cigarette machine built into his arm. That’s kind of the total opposite of crimefighting, in a way.
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I don’t wanna know.
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Previously in “Great Moments In Comics”: Jimmy Olsen blew up an entire mountain. And himself with it.
I can’t get away from this story. It’s just too rich not to milk. So, more. It’s all from SUPERMAN’S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #93, the first issue published after the Adam West BATMAN show proved to be a... more
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The only thing that keeps this from being the greatest Jimmy Olsen story ever is that it doesn’t end here. Let’s just pretend that it does.
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So in 1978, DC Comics included a Reader Survey in some of its books. (It was clearly a regional thing; I’d never seen one until BOOM! publisher Ross Richie stumbled across one in an old FIRESTORM at the Long Beach Comicon last weekend.)
The questions were the usual sort of demographic-gathering... more
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Don’t worry. He survives.
By circling Saturn and coming back home.
True.
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This week, I’m being sincere: this is my favorite page of comic art I’ve seen all year.
From last week’s POWER GIRL #5, art by Amanda Connor:
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I don’t even know where to start.
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Subcategory: When artists, writers, AND colorists are all working at cross-purposes:
Hint: the key words are “gloved hands.”
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“Mass hysteria!” — Peter Venkman, 1984.
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Batman’s broken heart:
Wait. It gets better.
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I don’t consider myself to be unusually squeamish…
…but if I had seen this when I was five, I would have wept the bitter, stinging tears of a vaporized childhood.
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Romance comics.
So wholesome.
So innocent.
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Bucky and a friend try to disguise themselves as the Red Skull:
Unsurprisingly, it does not go well.
This is from 1941’s YOUNG ALLIES #1. I could sustain an entire blog on this one comic book.
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The panel that launched a thousand Grant Morrison scripts:
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Can’t decide whether you’d rather read a story about bears or a story about ghosts?
I HAVE GOOD NEWS.
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Thrilling, I tell you.
Thrilling.
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Y Kant Superman Read?
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Tell me you don’t want to read this story RIGHT NOW. Go ahead. Tell me.
You are a LIAR.
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Subcategory–Favorite Things Green Arrow Just Happens To Carry Around In His Quiver:
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Greatest Title for a Hulk story EVER:
To be fair, it is only a Hostess ad. And Twinkies save the day. But the title makes me laugh out loud every time. “This Monster–THIS DECISION!”
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Earth-2 discovered by Flash. Don’t look at me like that, I don’t make this stuff up.
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Subcategory: Perfectly innocent ads. From the Charlton comics of summer 1985:
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I would bet you everything I own that the sound effect was added by the editor, not the writer. I loved Julius Schwartz like a grandfather, but he was not a fan of the more subtle moments.
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Dream on, pal.
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Hitting newsstands exactly 70 years ago today, May 18, 1939:
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Danger: Criminal masterminds at work.
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I’m pretty sure this is not how to act on a date.
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Favorite Legion of Substitute Heroes member? Easy. Fire Lad. Why?
Because he was the one who was already wearing his costume even before he unexpectedly got super-powers.
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Slowest.
News day.
Imaginable.
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Man, what rotten luck.
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Drawn & Quarterly announced this morning that October marks the release of a collection of one of my favorite, least-remembered comics series: Thirteen Going On Eighteen by John Stanley. One of the more successful Dell Comics runs of the 1960s, Thirteen is (a) an absolute riot of (b) brilliant... more
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Waid: “Someday, I want to get around to doing a compilation of all the times Luthor pretended to go straight.”
Peyer: “There isn’t a book big enough to hold it.”
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Tonight is the night of March 31st.
Be careful out there tomorrow.
Anything could happen.
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Note the eyepatch.
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All aboard.
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Special Exhibition Tonight at the Metropolis Museum of Art: FAMOUS FARM ANIMALS OF HISTORY.
Name TWO.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the least fearsome criminals in all of Gotham City: the Yellow Sweater Gang.
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September 9, 1994. No, I didn’t remove any balloons. I didn’t touch this, my hand to God.
I don’t think I ever read another newspaper comic strip after this.
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It’s the “Featuring” blurb that just kills me. Next issue: “I Make The Handcuffs!” WHO WAS BUYING THESE COMICS?
Edited to add: What hell time is it? One-thirty-o’clock?
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I don’t even think this one needs a caption.
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“Cuff him, boys!”
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The dream: to be able to write comics in 1957, when people were SO MUCH MORE EASILY ENTERTAINED.
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This is actually the OPPOSITE of suspense.
