I also should've mentioned, El Papaguyo and his men are all written, phonetically, to sound like Speedy Gonzalez's mice friends. It's not super culturally sensitive; except they did seem to want to keep him as a recurring foil for Hex.
Cover of Lands Unknown: The Skinless Man issue #2, illustrated by Ben Stenbeck with Dave Stewart
Base cover of The Crown: A Tale of Hell issue #2, illustrated by Warwick Johnson-Cadwell
Variant cover of The Crown: A Tale of Hell issue #2, illustrated by Bruno Seelig
Two series come to their conclusions this week with their final issues! Catch up before grabbing them from your local comic shop 👇
The Crown: A Tale of Hell: https://bit.ly/4sZ4Oad
Lands Unknown: The Skinless Man: https://bit.ly/3Q4AIU6
If you're looking to build the Superman Robot #4 (Gary!) hit up Ross. If you can find the Engineer and Hawkgirl, should be a cakewalk from there.
This goes on for quite a while--you know me, I'm chatty. I'm almost worried what my girlfriend had been into, when he says a name--not hers. He'd been yelling at a wrong number, for hours.
Now, he was apologetic, and I didn't have any hard feelings; although I did point out maybe he oughta move on.
And I'm not really paying attention, since I'm trying to see where I'm going in this game; so I'm just goading this guy. Which was probably not wise, but this was years ago, although I guess shootings were still a thing then.
Aside from some cut scenes (including a jab at Harry Potter!) I don't rightly recall, since I had the weirdest experience while playing it.
I had the day off, so I was at my girlfriend's playing it, and I get a call from a guy, threatening me to stay away from his girl.
You know, I think I did that playing EVIL DEAD on PS1! Hadda sit in the dark with my nose like 3 inches from the TV...
The one time I played a "Call of Duty" game, I was absolutely going through it -- trying not to die while completely befuddled about where I was and what was happening around me.
After about 45 minutes of pure panic, my brother pointed out that the monitor's brightness was turned waaaaaaaay down.
Everyone should get into Ann Nocenti's Daredevil run.
"Are we not in the hands of a lunatic? If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!"
I'm sure I'll go see it; and it'll be fine.
(I usually go to the movies fairly regularly, but haven't been in forever. Can't tell if that's a quality issue, a price issue, a laziness issue...)
"The wild, will wild remain!"
A sheet of miniature comics, roughly 1/12 scale. Print your own!
Sleestak's sheet of miniature comics: some are covers taken from his blog, made by him!
Thanks guys!
I still had the sheets for those; print your own! On a regular sheet, they come out roughly 1/12: why shouldn't your action figures also have piles of comics laying around?
From "Pokey Mom," Homer takes every step to protect his invention. HOMER: (points to everyone in turn) Patent pending, patent pending, patent pending.
Wait, shit: I kind of like Ante! Throws a poker chip into the room, before busting in to beat the shit out of everyone...Or, his (her?) dreaded "All-in," where they wing a bunch of chips like little bullets...(ORIGINAL CHARACTER, do not steal!)
Delta City is mine; it's a keeper!
Aw, c'mon! This is where you're supposed to talk up the generational legacy of Casino Town's trusty street-level vigilante...the Croupier? No, that's awful. The Cooler? Better, but not by much. Ante? "Ante up!" sounds cool but makes no sense...
Every so often my home state does something good—not often enough, but I have to give ‘em credit when they do!
Dumas.
Howard Chaykin cover for AMERICAN FLAGG! HARD TIMES.
Just getting back in! But I've had Hard Times for...good lord, like 40 years? So I've read the first three issues a ton of times, but not a lot of the rest of it.
Howard Chaykin cover to AMERICAN FLAGG #2.
I got a pile of AMERICAN FLAGG! I mostly hadn't read yet.
I had been under the impression dystopia would involve more stockings and garter belts...
I hate this for this guy, but more and more, it feels like everything--EVERYTHING--fun or interesting or useful or good, is in the hands of corporations that give zero shits about it. Like they don't even care if something is making money, cutting jobs make line go up, so...
I was gonna say “date-rapey J.Jonah Jameson” but that’s not fair. To JJJ.
Don't shop at Target
It's great! Get it!
Probably an intern; I hope they got college credit for that.
It occurs to me: did Wolverine bring a box to stand on? He's behind the Vision there, and even on tippy-toe he wouldn't be able to see!
From "Das Bus," the model U.N. is getting out of hand. (All shouting angrily) RALPH: (singing) Oh, Canada...
I'm guessing Ultimate Wolverine will be 2 per case but no BAF parts. I'll skip him too!
I guess I'm in for the rest, though; I feel like I'd be letting Canada down if I didn't.
That is such a great issue and great set-up, that DC has fumbled repeatedly.
Captain Atom in his own comic: repeatedly cornholed by the government; personally, professionally, emotionally...
Captain Atom everywhere else: one-dimensional government stooge
And I should get to fly away afterwards!