End pages from the collection Uncle Scrooge: “A Little Something Special”…, designed to resemble a board game.

Detail featuring Magica De Spell and John D. Rockerduck.

Detail featuring The Beagle Boys and Flintheart Glomgold.

I just started UNCLE SCROOGE: “A LITTLE SOMETHING SPECIAL” AND OTHER TALES OF FIENDISH FOES, but I wanted to note that even the end pages are a delight. Designed by Oreste Kaizel, they resemble a board game and highlight Scrooge’s greatest antagonists.

Some bad photos I took:

“Critical”…? It’s almost like they’re trying to talk me out of seeing the next Avengers movie…

Columbus was a great comics town around 2000. It’s an even better comics town in 2026 (Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, The Billy Ireland, etc).

One reason for that is Gib Bickel.

This is a loss for his friends and family. It’s also a loss for the city of Columbus. And for comics in general.

In fact, one cover story I wrote was a direct result of Gib’s promoting advocating for a pair of Columbus-based creators who had just started working for Marvel, Sean McKeever and Keron Grant. (He even gave me a stack of their comics for reference.) Grant drew The Hulk and Iron Man for the cover.

As soon as he found out what I did for a living—I wrote for the city’s altweekly—he started pitching me comics-related stories.

There was a sharp increase in the paper’s comics coverage between 2000-2005.

I lived in Columbus from 2000-2010, and during that time, I visited The Laughing Ogre at least once a week, and Gib was across the counter from me during most of those visits.

More than just a great guy who was probably the ideal seller-of-comics, Gib was a relentless advocate for the medium.

The Laughing Ogre's Gib Bickel has passed away Popular Eisner-winning retailer Gib Bickel of the Laughing Ogre has passed away, and the community remembers him

Rest in peace, Gib Bickel.

So, <i>did</i> the Justice Society travel back to 1945 and then stave off Ragnarok or nah...? As we just saw the other day , 1986's Last Days of the Justice Society Special #1 temporarily wrote the Justice Society out of the DC Unive...

Last week, I wrote about 1986's THE LAST DAYS OF THE JUSTICE SOCIETY comic, where the team went to fight in Ragnarok. This week, I wanted to take a look at how DC revised and retconned it in the years following, and check to see if it's still in continuity or not:

Ghost lady…? Actually I did not! The only one I ever actually watched was the Zac Efron one! (Despite my long-standing celebrity crush on Julianne Hough).

🤔I wonder if your average Nicholas Sparks movie fan, if presented with, say, a dozen different Green Lantern comic book covers or a bunch of Frank Miller covers would similarly say that they all look the exact same to them...?

The cover of the DVD Nights in Rodanthe.

The cover of the DVD The Notebook.

These two differ in that, on the one on the left, the white guy holding the white lady's face as he leans in to kiss her is older than the other white guys, while on the one on the right, it's the white lady holding the white guy's face as she leans in to kiss him (That, and it's raining).

The DVD cover of the film Safe Haven, featuring the lead actor with his hands on the lead actress' head as they lean in to kiss.

The DVD cover of the film Best of Me, featuring the lead actor with his hands on the lead actress' head as they lean in to kiss.

The DVD cover of the film The Last Song, featuring the lead actor with his hands on the lead actress' head as they lean in to kiss.

The DVD cover of the film The Lucky One, featuring the lead actor with his hands on the lead actress' head as they lean in to kiss.

Today at the library, I had helped a patron who was looking for Nicholas Sparks movies. There were four on the shelves, and I immediately noticed a pattern.

Now, I've only actually watched one of these, so I don't know for sure; ARE they all the exact same movie, or do they just LOOK like it?

Let him up! He’s had enough!

Frank Miller's cover for 1995's G.I. Joe #1 from Dark Horse Comics, depicting the black silhouette of a muscular soldier wearing a helmet and holding a gun with a tattered, full-color American flag wrapped around him.

Frank Miller contributed a cover as well. He was surely a bigger "get" for Dark Horse than Breyfogle, and he is obviously the more popular and influential of the two artists, but I was less surprised and delighted to see his cover, as I don't have the same affection for Miller as I do Breyfogle.

(I realized that this was Breyfogle's art when I noticed the woman on the cover to the right's white, Batman-like eyes, which look quite Breyfoglian. As to why Dark Horse published two issues of G.I. JOE numbered #2 in the same year? I don't know...because the nineties...?)

Norm Breyfogle's cover for 1996's G.I. JOE #2 from Dark Horse Comics, featuring a group of soldiers with guns and flags in the foreground, and a villain wearing a beret in the background.

Norm Breyfogle's cover for 1996's G.I. JOE #2 from Dark Horse Comics (they published two series and he apparently drew covers for the second issue of each, both of which were released in the same year). It features a woman whose face is in shadow firing pistols through an American flag.

How am I just now learning that Norm Breyfogle drew a pair of covers for some G.I. Joe comics that Dark Harse published 30 years ago...? Luckily, his ONLY contribution was these covers, so I don't feel compelled to seek these comics out. They were tied to the franchise's brief "Extreme" iteration.

A panel from World's Finest #35, written by Mark Waid and dawn by Adrian Gutierrez, in which Batman explains that that Aquaman asks fish for help, rather than ordering them around, and Robin sarcastically implies that maybe Batman should ask him for help rather than ordering him around.

Now I will say something nice about the very same comic. I like that Mark Waid restores the idea of Aquaman asking fish for their help, making them his allies, rather than mentally dominating and commanding them, as Geoff Johns suggested in his New 52 AQUAMAN run:

Aquaman and Mera appear in a panel from the World's Finest trade "20,000 Leagues" drawn by Adrian Gutierrez, in which an orca is drawn incredibly huge, much larger than any real world orca.

An image from Encyclopedia Britannica, showing the size comparison between an orca and a human being.

I hate to be THAT guy (But not so much that I won't got ahead and be that guy in this post!), but orcas aren't THAT big, DC Comics. As someone who has learned so much about the world from comic books, I would prefer they be accurate in such matters.

That’s an…interesting repurposing of the skull on her costume too…

Can you believe this series has never been collected? That means there's a whole generation of kids who might never see Enemy Ace dogfight a pterosaur while Guy Gardner looks on with his dumb haircut and comically large boots...!

A page from the comic book miniseries Armageddon: Inferno, written by John Ostrander and drawn by various artists, on which Guy Gardner watches the Enemy Ace shoot down a pterosaur that was pursuing his plane. This particular page is drawn by Walt Simonson.

Here is probably the best page of John Ostrander's ARMAGEDDON: INFERNO, the page on which Walt Simonson draws Enemy Ace Hans von Hammer in an aerial duel with a pterosaur in dinosaur times:

<i>G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero</i> Pt. 3 Ready for more of Marvel's 1982-1994 G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero ? I hope so, as that's what today's post is about. When we left off last...

Today on the blog, more old school G. I. JOE:

(Actually, to be honest, I’d help raise funds for a statue of any and all characters from either 90210 series.)

If anyone wants to erect a statue of Jessica Stroup’s Erin Silver or Jessica Lowndes’ Arianna Tate-Duncan or Gillian Zinser’s Ivy Sullivan I would be all for it. Hell, I’ll help you fundraise.

“Discover” keeps showing me posts noting good things that lasted longer than the Confederacy.

I would note that 90210 lasted a year longer than the Confederacy. Not the original show—BEVERLY HILLS, 90210—but the 2008-2013 reboot series. (The original series lasted more than TWICE as long).

I just read another manga (SKIP AND LOAFER Vol. 1), where the characters meet near the Hachiko statue, and so now I’m thinking about Hachiko again.

Is Hachiko on money in Japan…? I feel like he should be on money…

A portion of a page from Matthew Loux’s book My Journey to Japan, depicting a yokai referred to in the narration as “a menacing cow.”

It also introduced me to a brand-new yokai, the kudan. (At least, I assume that’s the yokai that “a menacing cow” refers to…)

I had a lot of fun with this book:

Ah ha ha! The Red Cross, an organization that he definitely fantasizes about working with, are well known for their uniforms of flowing robes and healing the sick with miraculous energy…!