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Hell yes

Everything in Excalibur Volume 1 issue #60 was a bad idea.

Was at a comic show this past weekend and was almost overwhelmed by the urge to buy every goddamn Ron Frenz Thor comic in the building and I am still kinda feeling that urge.

Neat. I'll have to keep my eye out for that.

Jeff Purves Fan Club

#aprilcharactercover (Day 21): Peter David

There are any number of Hulk, Spidey 2099, and X-Factor covers I could choose from, but the Gehenna Stone Affair was so much fun, and these Kevin Nowlan covers were the best. Just replaced my last issue I was missing, and I'm excited to reread this sucker

Yes.

It's still a hot take, and it's still the truth. I'm (unexpectedly!) so close to completing Nocenti's run. Excited to start right from the beginning. What a @#$%ing journey, man.

This was a good story. I enjoyed that early Capullo art.

Off the top of my head, I think I'd go with Memento.

#aprilcharactercover (Day 20): Lex Luthor

Eat crazy rock, Super Dope!

Okay, that makes some sense, and it isn't entirely terrible. However, those boots *are* entirely terrible, and so I stand beside my original assessment.

Insert fark-dot-com OBVIOUS tag here.

Insert fark-dot-com OBVIOUS tag here.

I have also never heard of Snapper Carr. From the pics I've seen, he seems just to be a guy who stands around snapping, which is pretty annoying and I've decided I hate him based solely on that, because I am The Pat and I am sick of pretending I'm not irrationally judgmental.

That said, late stage Roy Thomas and late stage Herb Trimpe together on a book was not a good time.

His 90s stuff was wretched beyond belief.

I had read, though, that he didn't have a deep passion for comics, per se, he was just good at it. It was just a paycheque.

And so if true, much as I hated it, part of me commends him for morphing his style and extending his payday.

#aprilcharactercover (Day 17): Dr. Fate

More Adam Hughes goodness. That's my 4th cover this month. Not by design, but appropriate given the recent announcement of his health struggles.

Turns out it's way better. This is a good @#$%ing comic.

Going through a giant gift bin of comics, and this was in there. I have the Miller/McFarlane one, but had never seen this one. Fun treat, will be interesting to compare.

a page from watchmen, 9 panel grid. Characters are talking about a case, one character keeps telling the other one the phone is ringing. There is no sound effects to tell this - only a blinking red light on the phone visible in one panel. By fifth panel it finally registers and he answers, then that conversation- someone calling to tell him Rorschach will be at a certain place. They head out to arrest him, and one says "let's go ignore some red lights"

teaching watchmen & discussed how they eliminated all the comic book-y things: SFX, motion lines, emanata, thought balloons, narrative captions. Noticed on this read: this phone sequence, it's ringing - we can't tell (except red light). Does character's failure to hear commentary on the lack of SFX?

#aprilcharactercover (Day 17): A Golden Age Character

#aprilcharactercover

Just realizing now I put Day 14 instead of Day 16 for this. @#$%ing embarrassing, man.

Oh boy....let's formalize revisionist history, shall we?

Assholes

i guess i am not his “own people,” since he stole from me to make his “A.i.”

"After his daughter told him the coffee machine on board had broken down, Dan said he stopped drinking coffee in solidarity with what she's going through."

Not all heroes wear capes.

I miss my LiveJournal days

Perez & Lim? Mxlalkjdfaljkf and Impossible Man? There's some promise there. I don't know much about Perez's writing chops, though.