Cole, Maggia Zuvembie

Mantlo Power! ROM and Micronauts are a great matched set—not just because they’re both toy tie-ins, but because Mantlo uses both to riff on fascism, supremacist ideology and other WW2-to-Cold War themes through a pop science fiction lens in interesting ways.

Mile High Mullin

At the Bon Jovi/Skid Row show I went to in high school, when Bach took the stage in his seemingly painted on leather pants, the girls behind me screamed “LOOK AT THE SIZE OF HIS COCK!” Sorry, Ben Folds, you can’t compete with that.

Have they explained to Markwayne Mullin that fucking Corey Lewandoski is part of the job?

The first issues of the DC Black Label series Catwoman: Lonely City by Cliff Chiang and Rogues by Joshua Williamson and Leomacs

I find it somewhat odd that DC launched these series within six months of each other, with the same basic premise: that villains can only be adults when the hero is dead or gone for a decade, taking their arrested development with them.

On Tales of Asgard, Marvel failed to realize that lens flares and metallic gleams were superfluous; Kirby’s line art already *is* the special effect

What Dark Horse did to the EC stuff is pretty bad, as well

It’s in my top three computer color disasters, along with Marvel doing it to Kirby’s Tales of Asgard, and Dynamite’s desecration of Thorne’s Red Sonja.

Dad’s dad was a newspaper editor (having been a WW2 reporter and OSS agent); mom’s stepdad was a letter carrier and postmaster (whose family owned a big lumberyard; he had driven an ambulance in the Korean conflict); mom’s bio dad was a race car driver and general dirtbag

She lives about three blocks away from me in Brattleboro, VT! She’s fantastic.

It’s Becca Balint

Cover of Bring the Noise: A Guide to Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture by Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales

Photo of Roxanne Shanté, “chillin’ in da crib”

Important Document:

Does Hakeem Jefferies seem like he will expend the political capital to restore foreign aid? What about the price of eggs?

I’ve struggled to articulate my issue with Democrats making their main argument against war on Iran about domestic affordability, and I think that may be it. They’re arguing Trump doesn’t mean what he says but in our technocratic efficiency we’ll do a better job of enacting his agenda than he will.

Jeffries, implicitly: Democrats are more serious about implementing Trump’s America First agenda than he is

Comic book panel by Ed Hannigan, Don Perlin, and Tex Blaisdell; in NYC a man at a newsstand looks at a front page and says “ ‘ World on Brink of Nuclear War!’ Hmmph! That Rupert Murdoch’ll do *anything* to sell papers!”

Defenders #84 came out 46 years ago and in all those years that motherfucker hasn’t had the decency to die

Democrats putting on their Trump Was Right About Everything* hats for the Sunday shows

*we just wish you would fill out the paperwork correctly, sir

LPs by Deee-Lite, Prince, Bowie, Primal Scream, Jesus Jones, Uncle L, Curtis Mayfield, The Cars, Elvis Costello, Pixies, and New Order

My 23-year-old called me last night to consult with me about LPs he was pulling for a party. My joy was boundless.

I am a living example of that Onion story about the guy making his kid listen to Talking Heads, here to say it can pay off.

A post from Senator Tina Smith robotically making Trump’s illegal war against Iran about grocery prices

Sacrificing every child on Earth to Nyarlathotep The Crawling Chaos will not help Americans struggling to pay for groceries

If you have never read an issue of Thirteen Going on Eighteen, if you assume it was a romance comic and not a light teen comedy about age-appropriate relationships, and you don’t know what the phrase “going on 18” means, then I can see how you jump to a certain conclusion—but it’s a wrong one.

Look, I’m mature enough to let people be wrong on the internet. But they’re being wrong on the internet about JOHN STANLEY.

Top 10 Marvel characters:
Ben Grimm
Squirrel Girl (North/Henderson versio)
Reed Richards
Captain America
Falstaff
Dr. Doom
ROM
Hank McCoy (bouncing blue Avengers version)
Bronze Age Hulk
She-Hulk

Also, the modern recolor ignores that the hatching takes care of shading; slopping color shades on top of that makes the visuals fight themselves. The attempt at color “realism” was a botch job all the way around. Flat recolors following Wood as a guide should have governed the project.

Side by side color comparison of a Swamp Thing page

Tatjana Wood (right page) was a storyteller who understood the eagle was the top of Sunderland’s globe (established on an earlier page), and the image showed the characters trapped in his world. The Absolute Swamp Thing recolorist (left) just saw a bird.

That should read 1960

The beginning of a story called The Brave Beaver about Bumpy, who’s bullied out of the colony (by Bully Beaver) for having no teeth

Don’t skip the text pages in old comics, treasures await
(From Blondie #142, 160)

Splash from a Batgirl & Robin story, with them against a dinosaur as a crowd looks on, in a story titled “ Isle of a Thousand Thrills!”

Imagine being Julie Schwartz, getting penciled pages in from Garcia Lopez, then handing them over to Vinnie Fucking Colletta

from Batman Family #3, Jan-Feb 1976

Yeah, a huge problem with cellphone ubiquity is that despite everything being recorded all the time, somehow UFOs and Bigfoot still haven’t been seen. I suspect Coogler would have to rethink what a Monster of the Week could be.

Especially given that he has shown no sign of even acknowledging there’s anything to turn around. The more the country unites in its disdain, the louder he proclaims all opposition fake. It’s his only move, worse now that he thinks he’s God Emperor.

Coogler is obviously brilliant, but I have no idea how X-Files is supposed to work post-Qanon/MAHA bullshit on one hand, Panama Papers/Epstein Files elite-island-based actual crime on the other. Hell, X-Files bears some responsibility for mainstreaming paranoid horseshit in the first place.