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Sinister Super-Babies!
Adventure Comics (November 1965) Originally uploaded by grabbingsand. To those who say that the Sixties were an incredibly ridiculous era in the history of DC Comics, I offer this particular issue of Adventure Comics from 1965 as … Well … Irrefutable proof of that claim. And yes, the interior of this comic is just as…
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Four-Color Summer Reading
(The Question checks up on Detective Montoya. Excerpt from 52 #4.) I’m all about the comic books. Obviously. More people should read them, the good ones at least, particularly people that I know. The benefit would be mutual. They’d get to enjoy some quality art and writing. I’d get a few more ears to bend…
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Sam’s Story
Jeph Loeb is one of the best writers in comic’s today. Some days, he’s the best, period. No working comic writer does a better job of finding the human element of a superhuman situation than Loeb. And he does it with such class. I’ve mentioned him before, though just in passing. Nikki loved the scripting…
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Flash Aftermath
Like I said before, what I found on YouTube was incredibly good, but lacked closure. So let’s fix that, shall we? Overwrought? Maybe. But still so awesome. For those not nearly so geeky as I, the other heroes are Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (the goatee’d version, named John Stewart), Martian Manhunter (red eyes,…
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Comics Can Be Confusing
Not all of them, but some of them. In particular, the great big over-arching miniseries running its course at DC. Infinite Crisis is incredibly good, but the details are so densely packed that it can give even me a bit of a buzzing headache. Luckilly, Newsarama is running a series of accompanying monthly features called…
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In The Spirit, Suckers.
Leave it to me to find within a comic book, an object lesson to sum up my own opinion on the whole Christmas/Holiday situation (as locally seen here and here). The long and the short of it is … Christmas is under no threat of extinction. If anything, the winter holiday season is experiencing something…
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A Short Read From Nineteen Years Ago
Detective 567 (Cover) Originally uploaded by grabbingsand. … give or take a month. I bought this comic either at an Eckerd Drugs next to the Hills Department Store on Battlefield Parkway … or at the Red Food Store closer to Highway 27. One of the two. Both are long closed or replaced by now. Drugstores…
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Geek Day and Court Date
We spent the weekend getting Lost. Nikki received the DVDs for season one for her birthday, so we’ve been using every available hour since to learn more about the 48 47 46 castaways on an uncharted desert isle. Since Saturday, we’ve burned through nine or ten more episodes, leaving us with one more full DVD…
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Barry’s Ballad
and I’m there before she knows it I’ll be gone before she sees me with my hand around her waist I pull her back to safety by the time she knows what’s happened there’ll be someone else who needs me because time keeps dragging on and on and on and on – “The Ballad of…
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New Season Imminent
We’re smart. We know. We realize that Comcast only lets us keep this DVR atop our television because they can monitor our choices and determine how better to aim their marketing. Of course, I doubt they can make heads or tails out of our recorded selections. The West Wing. Wire In The Blood. Town Haul.…