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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
(This post's title sort of brought to you by the great and powerful Paul Westerberg and his Replacements, who this weekend released a CD's worth of material for 49 American pennies.)
As usual, New Comics Day doesn't bring too cumbersome a bag o' funnybooks my way, but I do like to ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
From TulsaWorld.com:
OKLAHOMA CITY — Some Oklahoma County voters can expect to receive comic books in the mail soon, but the subject matter will have a serious tone.
The 16-page publication prepared by Commissioner Brent Rinehart's re-election campaign lampoons gays and criticizes Rinehart's political opponents. It also features an angel who supports ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Today's 10 was supposed to be the Top 10 S... oh, to hell with it; it was going to be lame, we caught it early[1] and excised it, and I won't bore you anymore with the Untold Tale.
We brainstormed anew. Actually, it was really just me throwing out even more ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Presenting the Greatest T-Shirt In The Habitated World:
From R. Stevens, mastermind/provacateur at Diesel Sweeties. (Note that the link doesn't take you directly to the shirts. That's the plan--don't go straight to the shirts, read the comics, which are mighty fine.)
Getting this in the mail today drained nearly all the heat ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Hanging on the wall of my office is an Identity Crisis poster my wife got me for Father's Day a few years ago. It features the art from the cover of issue #1 -- and it's signed by artist Michael Turner. The poster also came with a photo ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
After a couple of days laborously posting in two places, our old blog Jimmy Olsen's Blues has been officially reborn here at Thunderdog. To point JOB readers in the right direction, I enlisted the aid of --who else but--newsman Perry White:
Now that we're all here... let the celebration begin! Here's ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
I'm through wasting my torturous self-editing on YOU[1].Presenting my unfiltered response to the New Avengers #35 "Bendis hates women/Bendis hates people/Bendis hates Tigra/I love Tigra/Bendis has the job I want/Fuck Bendis/Praise be to Bendis" hullabaloo. It's dated, yeah. It's unreadable, also yeah. Let's see who actually reads this crap. carry ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
I'd like today to gush just a little, if you don't mind, about just how happy comics/TV scribe Brian K. Vaughan makes me. Or, rather, how happy Mr. Vaughan's writings make me; while I have no doubt that his personal happy-making skills are considerable, ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Brian Michael Bendis, from part five of John Siuntres/Word Balloon's epic[1] "Bendis Tapes" podcast:
Here's a confession that will probably haunt me... Fever Pitch is a very good movie.
He also went on to proclaim Van Halen 3 "groundbreaking", and that waiting in line at the DMV is "a guilty pleasure".
I'd say ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Blame/thank Mike at Progressive Ruin.
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