Mike Sterling, Comics Guy

Time to dip into my pile of UNCANNY X-MEN #142s and price some more up.

Just bein' me!

Hello new followers!

...I'm a perfectly reasonable human being in real life, honest.

What's a movie you genuinely enjoy that's known for being bad?

...hmm, none come to mind

I feel like I was just blogging about how dumb CIVIL WAR was just yesterday.

I mean, I could very well HAVE been, to be fair.

Lemme get 'em (reasonably) priced and I'll send a DM your way!

do yourself a favor and block that "gene rayburn" guy, put less A.I. slop in your life

BURN GARY BURN

yeah I see the extra "the"

save it for a future post where I forget to include one

Thank goodness I completed my runs of COMICS JOURNAL and AMAZING HEROES (and about 2/3rds of COMIC READER) before this stuff started affecting their prices.

This is like the exactly the opposite of the JOURNAL's ethos.

Punk Legend Jello Biafra Hospitalized After Suffering Stroke Jello Biafra, the iconic former singer of punk legends Dead Kennedys, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.

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In 1995 I helped Eric move some belongings out of his parents house in Boulder. He was still recovering from having his legs broken & had to use a cane. He's an awesome dude. Here's to his recovery.

Trying to research prices on a small handful of COMICS JOURNALs and apparently one of them is a first(?) appearance of a promo sketch of Spider-Man's black costume, and therefore $$$? Egads.

printing up new Joe Biden stickers for gas pumps that say "I Didn't Do That"

I'm sure they're all hot to read it

another week, another low-ordered comic everyone decided they wanted at the last minute

(Just realized the previous part of this series was the prologue - www.progressiveruin.com/2026/03/01/m... - and that I had the new installment marked as "Part Two." All fixed now.)

(let's try this post again)

Part one of "My Fantastic Four-ay," featuring what may be one of my all-time favorite pics of the Thing:

www.progressiveruin.com/2026/03/09/m...

Ah, back in the days when there was more inter-blog interaction. And more comic blogs.

That was about 20 years ago, I think? Good gravy, I've done this for a long time.

oh, I remember this period of blogging

DENTIST: "I have a laser...."

ME: "Why are you here and not out there conquering stuff?"

One of these days I'll go to the dentist's office for a cleaning and not leave with several hundred dollars' worth of recommended procedures.

Today is not that day.

"Mouseka-Giger"

needs a little more workshopping, Gary

(great pic, though!)

If we don't count the years he's in office, America is at the very least 242 years old.

Of the 6000 or so gifs I’ve made so far, this one might be my favorite.

Walt Simonson's title card for the ALIEN comics adaptation

Thinking about Walt Simonson's title card for the ALIEN comics adaptation

If you’re lucky, yeah.

#ComicsOutOfContext

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Illustration for a Doctor Who/Star Trek fanfic from the ENTERPRISE prozine (#2, 1984). Illustration by Tom Holtkamp. Shows Spock, Kirk and the Fourth Doctor at the bottom of the drawing, with the Enterprise above surrounded by explosions and sound effects.

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