Hey, remember the early days of Covid when the incompetent President was utterly overwhelmed by worsening circumstances and did the only thing he knows how to do, go on TV all the time and spout transparent bullshit? You don’t have to! He’s doing it again!
Marvel Legends Ghost Rider box and toy
this, van airbrushing, or a black light poster is the ideal expression of this character, a great design in search of a good comic
“A lot of rappers today
Wonder, "Should I ask Kane to write rhymes for me to say?"
Well, you're goddamn right you should
'Cause my rhymes are like spandex, they make any ass seem good”
Two successive comic panels prominently focused on a woman’s backside
Neal Adams: Giving the kids their 15 cents worth? Keeping himself awake at the drawing table? Or both?
from Tower of Shadows #2
TV producer Winston Tate, looking a lot like 1960s Stan Lee, berates his writer, who looks suspiciously like Roy Thomas
The Marvel Universe Funky Flashman and Houseroy, from Tower of Shadows #2; art by Don Heck
Sitting on a couch in the TV studio, looking into a camera and telling these people over here they they have to sacrifice their money, and those other people over there to show some guts in a war zone, or the mean billionaire won’t be happy
In this comic panel, Gaylord “Pop” Ginch looks up at a mansion on a hill and says “I’m cooked!” as his hat flies off his head; he thinks he’ll never get his antique rocking chair (with $5 stitched into the cushion to buy his son a baseball uniform) back from this place
from That’s My Pop! In Milt Gross Funnies #1
For those confident about what is or isn’t conscious, explain how my teddy bear Mr. Ussa Bussa loves me so much and is such a good listener and gives such good hugs
Yes, comic books expanded my vocabulary, but unfortunately it’s all words like malefic and slobberknocker
I had scarlet fever when I was four or five and my parents got me the Origins of Marvel Comics/Son of Origins/Bring on the Bad Guys and the Feiffer Great Comic Book Heroes. All enormous influences on me, as much for the historical context they provided (largely fake in Stan’s case) as the comics.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
You better hope it’s not conscious, because if it is, you’re not a “Compliance, Trustworthy AI and Global Privacy Officer,” you’re a degenerate slave master
As Tim Walz said to Nancy Mace, I am the Governor of Minnesota and I will not be a prop for your obsession
no
There’s no DC No-Prize, and continuity is the devil, but it would be very Luthor to be losing his hair anyway, then blame Superboy for the accident that made it fall out a little faster
It’s like reading that headline gave me a concussion
I’ve been stuck on “Echoes FDR” for the past ten minutes. I’m used to despising the NYT; I know how to do it. But they got me this time. I’m speechless.
In this comic book panel, robots crash through a city, knocking down skyscrapers; word balloons say The Army is helpless!, The navy can do nothing!, and We’ll all die like rats!
How can anybody not love comics?
from Venus #13, 1951, art by Bill Everett
Manuel and Roberto scheme while in the foreground of this comic panel, three lovely entranced ladies dance in synchronicity
There’s a lot going on here: zombie dancers for a Spanish hairdresser’s carnival by day, zombie jewel thieves by night
from Venus #13, 1951, art by Bill Everett
In comic panel 1, a sea creature climbs over a ship’s rail; in panel 2, a bunch of sailors around a shuffleboard game react with fear, while a guy in a suit grabs a shuffleboard cue and charges
“Come on fellers, I only wanna play shuffleboard with ya!”
from Venus #12, 1951
Done!
I recall spring of 1990, as a college freshman, walking downtown to the record store to get Shake Your Money Maker on cassette. I was getting my mind blown by the Pixies, Replacements, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, et al— but I was still excited by neo-classic rock done well.
A signed print of Spirit character P’Gell lounging sexily
At Grey Matter Books in Hadley, MA earlier this week, a great and sprawling used book store. The clerk explained that they had ended up with some items from Kitchen Sink Press when I asked about the signed Will Eisner print on the wall.
A robot holds the head of another robot kneeling in front of him, saying “For this great deed I shall make you a nobleman when the war has been won, General Zibbit!” “Thank you, excellency!” the other robot responds, in this comic panel from Venus #11, 1950
Every kid’s favorite comic, Robot Fellatio Squad
A news anchor reads “Already the ice wastes in the north and south poles are beginning to thaw and melt and flood the oceans!” as icebergs crash into the sea under a blazing sun in this comic panel from Venus #11, 1950
I read comics for the escapism
How do they expect her to sell those pristine shoes with a baby around
That’s up there with stores that reprice books from the back issue bins at the counter
Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001) Season 3 Episode 8–Line of Fire transcript header, with a synopsis about bad cops killing to cover up their that of drugs from the evidence room
End of episode transcript: Walker: I’ll see you guys later Walker’s colleague: Where are you going? Walker: I’ve got a belt buckle for a special little guy. (upbeat theme playing)
Son, long ago there was a time, they called it peak television
What paper did your dad work for?
Kubert at his drawing table, drawing the Tarzan sketch
He even got the photographer to capture Kubert drawing it
