Alphabet St. is a good call

Imra flying through outer space in her pink bikini, you gotta love it. I remember buying this issue and reading it probably twenty times.

I guess I left Little Red Corvette off my list because it’s easy to take it for granted, but it was a huge hit for a reason

Name your top five Prince songs

• I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
• When You Were Mine
• Sometimes It Snows in April
• I Wanna Be Your Lover
• Raspberry Beret

I’ve seen my share of great shows and concerts, and I’ve never seen anyone else close to the level that Prince was at. I would imagine people like Jimi Hendrix or Elvis Presley might have been at that level, but I am too young to have seen them.

Agree that the DC Finest edition also perfectly suits my level of interest in The Demon

DC is putting out a new Kamandi omnibus, printed on - I think - the same deluxe faux newsprint paper stock used to great effect for the recent Warlord omnibus.

in the before times, these people were called "butlers" or "servants"

the greatest live performer I ever saw or will see

agree that a better time for a (still stupid) moral panic over Star Wars would have been 1977, not 2026

looking forward to blaming the Depression on the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew

In Michael’s recollection, he liked most major country artists from Patsy Cline to George Jones, but Charlie Rich and Behind Closed Doors was a particular favorite. The twang of Don’t Go Back to Rockville wasn’t just a parody or a joke: Michael was deeply engaged with country.

Not sure what’s more amazing: that Shooter got that job at age 14, or that he kept it as long as he did working for such a tyrant.

If Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman is the best Superman story, its interlude on Bizarro World is its most poignant chapter and the heart of that book - one of Morrison's great strengths is teasing the deeper meaning out of what others would dismiss as Silver Age goofiness or stupidity.

This book has a good chapter about how this first Bizarro story digs deeper into what it means to be different than Silver Age conventions would seem to allow.

hot pants: the cornerstone of the stylish Witch Woman's wardrobe

Said it before, but each issue of this run advanced the plot more than an entire six-issue trade paperback does today

Michael grew up listening to Charlie Rich and other '70s country artists

It's the studio backing track with Michael singing a live vocal on top of it to avoid lip-syncing. That's why he's wearing headphones and Bill in particular is behind an acoustic baffle.

“Did you never call? I waited for your call…”
On this day in 1984, “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)” was released as the first single from Reckoning. The video was directed by Howard Libov and filmed at Reflection Studio in Charlotte.

The art here was very good - both in the present-day scenes and the self-consciously retro flashback

I've said it before, but, when I was a kid in the 1970s, I did not get what Frank Robbins was doing at all. Now he is one of my favorite artists of that or of any era.

The Shadow #5, DC Comics, July 1974. Cover by Frank Robbins.

My new arrival is this copy of The Shadow #5 that I rescued from the flea market dollar bin this week. As you can see, it's so trashed that it should have been in the quarter bin, yet Frank Robbins's idiosyncratic artwork is priceless.

The universe of DC readers jazzed about Absolute Rac Shade could probably fit comfortably inside a Volkswagen Beetle, but I am one of them

up there with this one

1972, a girl watches YouTube videos on her iPad

She also recalls Pyra from Kamandi

R.E.M. released Murmur on this day in 1983. The Kent countryside is still working on its impression

such a great set

The real mystery is why Zatanna is wearing a unitard