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Tag Archives: Comics
Carmine Infantino
Comics artist Carmine Infantino died the other day. I primarily remember his work on the Marvel Star Wars series, which he drew during a hefty chunk of the period between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, which was actually a … Continue reading
Avengers assemble!!! (no spoilers)
Heavens, what a movie. I mean, really. Heavens, what a movie. The Avengers doesn’t quite take the top prize as my favorite superhero movie of all time, but at this point, I just don’t think that Superman is likely to be dislodged … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weird and Awesome!!!
Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Dungeons and Dragons was created almost 40 years ago by Gary Gygax and David Arneson. Both men have passed on, but Arneson’s personal collection of materials comprising his creative work on the game was recently … Continue reading
Some recent comics reading
Catching up on some notes about some stuff I’ve read over the last few months, in this case, comics…. :: I recently read in its entirety the comic book series Air, by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker. It’s a … Continue reading
A to Z: Spaceman Spiff
Once upon a time, the occasional adventures of one of the greatest of all Interplantery Adventurers Extraordinaire appeared in daily newspapers across the world. You couldn’t be certain of when he would appear, but sooner or later, there he’d be, … Continue reading
A Deepness in the Sea
By rights I should save this for next week’s Sunday Burst, but it’s too good for that. xkcd brings the infographic goodness to the depths of the large lakes and oceans. Note the depth of Lake Erie, relative to the … Continue reading
I lived on a cul-de-sac once….
There was a brief running story in the comic strip Pearls Before Swine a couple weeks back that had the strip’s animal characters commiserating with their creator, Stephan Pastis, on his failure to win the highest award for cartoonists. (Pastis … Continue reading
Page One: The Dark Phoenix Saga (Uncanny X-Men)
Page One: The Phoenix Saga (Uncanny X-Men), originally uploaded by Jaquandor. My main era of comics reading was in the mid to late 1980s, spanning roughly the latter half of seventh grade until the end of my senior year, when … Continue reading
Crom of…Riverdale?
Retrospace puts words from movies into the mouths of Archie and friends. Hilarity ensues.