A synopsis of The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #21, in which a boy and his dog parachute into a forest fire, kill the last surviving wooly mammoth, and learn valuable lessons about how to properly dispose of matches. Oh yes, and they’re also attacked by a cougar. All in a day’s work for Rex…truly a Wonder Dog.
Something Awful is running a series of motivational posters for super-villains. The quality is up and down, but these are some good ones. Link courtesy of X-Ray Spex, which has good posters featuring the Red Skull and Magneto.
At first I thought he was talking about us. :) Get Fuzzy’s Bucky Katt comes up with a better name for mockingbirds, at least the one that lives near us.
I love it when comic book characters start speaking in logo… Image courtesy of Seven Hells!
Dr. Strange’s fighting technique appears to have been designed to cause serious self-inflicted wrist injury. For anyone who’s wondering about the title, here’s a list of Dr. Strange’s sorcerous phrases. Personally, I think he was making a lot of them up. ;)
“Hello! I’m Eric Mills. You know, I’m not the most attractive man in the world, I’m not really much of a dresser, and, let’s be honest, I frankly don’t have a personality that makes up for either of those factors. And yet I get more action than Don Juan and Casanova put together. I bet you’re wondering how I do it! … Let’s say you’re at a party. What you do is, you find a halfway good-looking girl at the bar, and you check out how much she drinks. Does she drink a lot? Is she by herself? You’re in like flynn!" - The Comics Curmudgeon ...
Ally Babble…Enemy of Batman…Friend of All Mankind. :)
“There are people in this world who don’t like Astro City. Those people we call Communists.” - Comics Should Be Good I don’t know about Communists, but Kurt Busiek is one of my top three in terms of comics writers. He could write the phone book and still make the setting and characters interesting. My best Ebay find, other than the first issue of Lobo, was a full run of Astro City (so far). I purchased the collected Astro City: The Tarnished Angel first, and was hooked on the atmosphere created in Busiek’s tale of a down-at-the-heels villain who investigates a string of killings. Of course, it helps that the character is based on Robert Mitchum. It’s just as hard not to watch Mitchum on the printed page as it is during a movie. ...
General Zod for President in 2008 When I first came to your planet and demanded your homes, property and very lives, I didn’t know you were already doing so, willingly, with your own government. I can win no tribute from a bankrupted nation populated by feeble flag-waving plebians. In 2008 I shall restore your dignity and make you servants worthy of my rule. This new government shall become a tool of my oppression. Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your vote. - General Zod ...
Battlestar Galacticsimpsons Peanuts Meets Marvel Year One As mentioned before, Apropos Comics