Showing posts with label Cover Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cover Art. Show all posts

05 August 2020

Good Morning!

Another day in the "land of the free"...





Of course, these days when they talk "Freedom" in the circles of power, they mean it in the same way that Slave Traders used the term when they spoke of abolition as a threat to their freedom.

And you better look close at who's filling in the other side of that equation.

Anyway...

The inner hermit has been rising up with the internet machine issues and actively rebelling against a quick fix. It's even dragged me to spend days without connecting to the net at all. When's the last time you did that?

And it's been odd when i am online since i'm booting this system from a USB stick. All my normal browser info is absent - like bookmarks. How well could you get around these days if you had to type in the URL for every location you want to visit? How many could you  recall properly?

And - DAMN! The default browser on the stick doesn't have add-ons, like AdBlocker. At least half of the sites visited got shut down within seconds as being completely unusable in the raw. That sure helps cut down on the internet time - i'm simply not enough of a submissive bitch to stay on so many of those sites. Do people actually visit more than once?

Perhaps the worst are the ones who seem  to use high school interns to design their dynamic layouts. Ads with different dimension load and the page shuffles, moving the point you're reading elsewhere - go find it, bitch!
Seriously? They put that up on the web and they're not so embarrassed that they immediately pulled it down to avoid the shame?

Or do the site owners only visit with their AdBlock turned on, so they have no clue how broken their own pages are?

ANYWAY (again) ...
The net sure works hard to please my inner hermit these days. They give it lots of reasons to stay offline.

On the comics front, i've been excited about the idea of Probably The Best Superhero Comic Book In The Universe being in development for an animated series. Even though it was published after the big two pushed me out of the comic book market, i still managed to read the first 100 issues. Now i've gone back to re-read them and catch up on the remaining almost 50 issues that i missed. And along the way i discovered that Marvel Team-Up he did with Spider-Man!

I wonder if there are other appearances i missed?

You're all excited for Invincible, too - right?
Or do you just love The Walking Dead?
(They're both written by Robert Kirkman)

Let's go ahead and try to add a few covers here. Maybe the system will be nice and not fight back over just 3 images...


The first cover of Invincible was quite unassuming in its way, with a sweet little teaser line - 

Girls, acne, homework, super-villains.
When you're a teenager, it helps to be
INVINCIBLE


The book hit the ground running with a clear vision and a deep world surrounding our hero. A dozen and a half issues in, they boasted a new tagline the likes of which we hadn't seen since the glory days of Lee & Kirby with their World's Greatest Comics Magazine blurb on the Fantastic Four. And like that old classic, the material under the covers made solid arguments to support their claim of  Probably The Best Superhero Comic Book In The Universe -


I tend to assume that most comic fans are already well familiar with, and have read the run of, Invincible. If not, with the series now going into production, it might be a good time to check and see why so many folks loved this new hero...



There - see?
I managed to drag the brain back around to comics.

I'll see if we can't coax it to do some regular comics & media posts. Maybe i can trick it into watching the sequel to Viy and let you know how that worked out...

stuff by -3-, covers by Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley from Invincible #s 1, 18, & 42 (2003, 2005, 2007)

31 May 2020

World's Funnest

Not a whole lot of fun out there these days as Fake President meets Real Crisis and bursts like a pus filled zit into his dreams of being like Idi Amin. I expect we'll get a renewed push any day now for a military parade to glorify  Der Führer   Il Duce   The Leader  fat little donnie. (And that's still more respect than he has earned or deserves as the Greatest disaster EVER in History to be inflicted on the office. (You have to phrase it that way because he's so pathetic he can't even allow himself to fail a test for disease - instead the sad failure of a man 'tests positively towards negative'. Such a weak, weak little boy))

So, while fake president works hard to earn a Mad Dog moniker, let's look back at a time when comics were all about FUN; when World's Finest Comics sported the World's Funnest Covers -

































Try to have some Fun out there, eh?

covers from World's Finest Comics as indicated on the covers (1940s, 1950s)

28 March 2020

Ride, Batman, Ride!

My Goddess informs me that today is Saturday. Damn - i'm getting worse on tracking time. I thought today was Thursday.
But, i'm finally awake so time for a quickie!

When digging through old Golden Age comics, one tends to notice little patterns and trends. One thing that stood out on the first few years of Batman covers - Batman likes to Ride!












That cover loops us back around to yesterday's post. And we left out riding things like skis, swinglines, dangling rope ladders, etc.,.

It sure looks like they were having fun, too.


10 March 2020

The Evil Of Dr. Strange

Just a quick look at a series this morning while i'm sorting out my calendar confusion.

UPDATE: I found this tale reprinted in Dynamic Comics #10 with George Tuska credited for the artwork.

Today's strip is definitely an Odd one, in many ways. For one thing, he's a scifi superhero with a costume (and mask), but he uses his civilian name - Dan Hastings. You may, perhaps, be thinking "Hey! The title says Dr. Strange!" Indeed, but he is the villain of this tale.

For another thing - it's brutally grim from the first page, even while being light in style. Giant space insects devouring the flesh from infants, leaving behind skeletons? And this was about 80 years ago...



Of course, we should maybe be expecting Oddness when consecutive covers on the title look like this -


For more Odd, though hardly unexpected, the evil Dr. Strange did return after being reduced to a skeleton - later in that same issue...



I should perhaps point out that Dan Hastings was not a new character in this story. He had already been around in comics for five years at this time. And he continued to appear for another 5. So there's plenty for us to peruse when we return this way.


page art by George Tuska from Scoop Comics #2 (1942)