John Hunter

If the clerks at my post office ever opened a package to make sure rules were being followed, I would be flabbergasted.

I agree. Gunn is better at integrating music with his story and character moments than just about anyone else I can think of. His music selections aren't random, they are well-chosen. He's obviously a huge music fan and is great at picking relatively obscure songs that get his point across.

Yes, the butterfly plot was bizarre and kind of tacky low-budget sci fi, I thought. Yet the character work from Cena and the other actors was so good that I could overlook the weakness of the plot.

I thought the alien plot was bizarre, but Cena and the other actors carry the show nonetheless

That's another good one. I always lean towards their folky ballads, although the rockers on this album are good too.

Oh My Heart is the one I come back to.

Yeah, that whole three- or four-issue Master Planner story is about as good as it gets. Although one could say the same of Ditko's concurrent Mordru and Dormammu story in Dr. Strange.

Also what could have been if Wally Wood had found a way to co-exist with Stan and stick around on Daredevil for two or three years. I guess you take what you can get, and Issue #7 alone is enough.

I've said it before, but along with Amazing Spider-Man #33, this is probably the best single issue Marvel put out during its miraculous Silver Age zenith. Both stories mine gold out of the simplest idea possible - an overmatched hero refusing to quit.

Absolute Green Lantern is my favorite Absolute book but I'm in a minority of one there

I bought this comic when I was nine and it's still the most fucking bonkers collection of adversaries the FF have ever faced. Snake-woman with snakes for arms, yeah.

I've seen some backlash from readers who are sick of the Joker, but I haven't read every issue of Detective and Batman from the past twenty years, so it was fresh to me, and I agree that Fraction nailed their colloquy. It couldn't be clearer that Dr. Zeller is headed for a heel turn, I think.

The Legion didn't even merit a cover blurb. 😀 That they graduated from a one-shot back-up story to what they became remains one of the most interesting developments in comics. I presume fan letters played a part in them coming back after Adventure #247, I think that's pretty widely accepted.

I hate Darkseid's Evil Legion, but hold out hope that the real Legion will come back soon, as that's the DC series I have the most unconditional love for.

It's confusing for sure. I don't understand why some fights were stand-alone K.O. specials and some were issues of ongoing series with a K.O. logo plastered on the cover. Other than DC trying to sell as many comics as possible, of course. Against my better judgment, I mostly enjoyed the event.

The Flash actually had an interesting tie-in with K.O. Superman, too, if one cares about the Legion.

Justice League Unlimited #16, cover art by Dan Mora.

Read this tonight as part of my bi-weekly batch of comics, and, while anyone who has ever read a work of fiction can guess the shocking twist of this issue ten pages before it inevitably happens, Dan Mora continues to cement his status as one of the best ever to do it. The art inside is amazing.

he was so great

she's boring into the concrete chin-first and she don't care

On the one hand, it is hilarious, on the other, it's interesting as a strong diagonal composition, and the color scheme of her hot pink blouse (mirrored in the Flash logo) against the gradient turquoise blue background is unusual and eye-catching. Really a masterpiece of graphic design.

apparently not

Wow, quite an achievement

Flash #206, "24 Hours of Immortality!," DC Comics, May 1971, cover art by Neal Adams

Neal Adams drew hundreds of memorable covers for DC, but this one might have been the most likely to separate me from my fifteen cents, even if here, as was so often the case, the cover only tangentially reflects what actually happens inside the book. #TopShelfFriday

On this day in 1984, Peter and Mike appeared on WUOG to debut Reckoning tracks ‘Letter Never Sent’ and ‘Second Guessing’. They also each chose a Pick of the Week to be played. Peter opts for George Jones and Ray Charles’ ‘We Didn’t See a Thing’, while Mike went with the Gap Band’s ‘Party Train’.

… first printings of Absolute Batman #1 (and first printing of later issue) continue to sell at insane speculator prices, even though DC keeps reprinting every issue over and over again. Having a first printing is hardwired into the collector mentality, I guess.

I suspect part of what's going is that indie publishers by definition order smaller print runs than do the Big Two, so when an indie title like Helen of Wyndhorn gets hot, the copies available in the distribution chain dry up quickly. What amazes me about the current wave of speculation is how …

This sort of first-issue speculation has been going on at least since Howard the Duck #1, 50 years ago. The Internet makes it worse, though.

Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, John Romita, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Jim Steranko, and Barry Smith: pretty good stable of artists they had there

“He said, ‘I hear you’re going to make a record. If there’s anything I can do to help you guys out, let me know’’’: They were alt-rock legends who had to follow up a classic debut – then R.E.M.’s Pete... Feelies guitarist Glenn Mercer says the pressure was on to come up with a killer sophomore album – but having a little help from Buck certainly helped in making one

Glenn Mercer of The Feelies talks about working with Peter on the making of 1986’s The Good Earth.
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contest ad to win a red van with Styx LP art on the sides and a band logo on the hood. Allegedly worth $20,000

somewhere in the US in 1979, someone was driving around a Styx van they won from A&M records (Billboard, Feb '79)