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Tag Archives: Comics
Clobberin’ Time, no more?
I was never a really big fan of the Fantastic Four during my comics-reading days*, but they are one of the iconic comics team, featuring characters nearly as foundational as Superman himself. And now, Marvel is apparently canceling The Fantastic Four, … Continue reading
Marvel Heroes By Height
I saw this on Tumblr. According to this, Spider Man and I are also “height buddies”! (I doubt Mystique would give me the time of day.) Where do you fall?
BOW BEFORE ME, FOOLISH MORTALS
The other day I speculated on who might be drawing the substitute art on the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. Today, the Internets are afire as Pearls creator Stephan Pastis has confirmed my hypothesis, with details as to how it … Continue reading
Speaking of Comics….
One of the recurrent storylines in Funky Winkerbean of late has been the quest of Holly, the wife of the strip’s title character, as she seeks to complete her son’s collection of the entire run of a comic book called Starbuck … Continue reading
So….
One of my favorite comic strips is Pearls Before Swine, which this week is running one of its “breaking the fourth wall” storylines. Stephan Pastis, the creator, does this frequently, by including a smoking, pot-bellied version of himself in the … Continue reading
The X-Manatees
I am stealing this from Tumblr, because I love it so. I believe this is the original artist.
A dirty truth about sports
Pearls Before Swine:
Mr Pastis will take your lunch money now.
The last two days, Pearls Before Swine (one of my favorite newspaper comic strips) ran these two installments: They’re OK, not all that funny, really. But these characters — the polar bear and the penguins — have never been seen … Continue reading
On Death and Villainy
John Seavey, one of the regular posters at MightyGodKing, writes at length about Norman Osborn, the human alter-ego of Spider-Man villain Green Goblin. I don’t much have a dog in that fight, but I did like two different side points … Continue reading
For Cal….
(Cul de Sac is one of the best things ever, by the way. I’m so sad that it ended.)