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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 31, 2024 0:46:50 GMT -5
Ox
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 30, 2024 22:34:43 GMT -5
You're in this neighborhood? I live near Portland and Cei-U! is in Tacoma. When life was normal we went to local cons once or twice a year - Emerald City, Grit City, Rose City, etc. Someday we'll be able to resume. And some day we'll lure Slam in from the wilds of Idaho.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 30, 2024 11:28:03 GMT -5
At some point early in the "New X-Men" era, 1975 or 76, Wolverine was shown using his claws when he was not in costume. Someone wrote in to point out this "mistake", and the reply in the letters page was, "Who ever said Wolverine wore claws?"
That was the moment that made Wolverine intriguing.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 29, 2024 21:57:18 GMT -5
Jive
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 29, 2024 16:49:30 GMT -5
Not that I miss the Politics thread at all and not that I'm wanting to instigate a political discussion now, but these have certainly been some interesting times for American politics in recent weeks. It would be interesting to discuss it all with some of you Americans, just to compare thoughts and opinions on everything that's been going on. If you want to start a group chat in PMs, add my name to the list.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 29, 2024 16:43:18 GMT -5
Stuffing
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 29, 2024 10:18:01 GMT -5
Species
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 26, 2024 16:25:15 GMT -5
Monkey
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 26, 2024 10:51:36 GMT -5
My first, and perhaps the most serious in a way, is the one Ive mentioned in passing many times before: getting out of comics three or four years in the early 70s - I can pin down exactly when I started reading and buying again (the spring or early summer of 1975) but stopping was a more gradual tapering off. So I missed a lot of great stuff, including some of what are now my favourite comics. I had a very similar experience with my two-year hiatus. I stopped buying comics in May or June of 1969 and started back in February 1971. At first I continued my Marvel Zombie ways, then branched out to DC's Burroughs books, then their mystery and s&s books, then Warren and Charlton and National Lampoon, then finally the DC mainstream superheroes in early 1974. I spent the rest of the 70s acquiring what I'd missed, and a few issues I didn't get until I got back into fandom in the early 2000s.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 26, 2024 10:09:12 GMT -5
Model
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 24, 2024 18:56:12 GMT -5
Chocolate
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 24, 2024 13:14:26 GMT -5
Beer
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 24, 2024 13:10:49 GMT -5
I had a copy of a self-published comic called The Brute. I think it came from a cartoonist in New England. It really wasn't good at all, and at some point I decided it wasn't good enough to keep. Nowadays I love having weird stuff like this.
I took it to a con and sold it to someone for fifty cents, which is what I'd paid for it. The only good page in the book was a pinup-style picture of the hero's girlfriend, Anna Tomikul. Her name gives you an idea of the intellectual level of the comic.
Another regret is that I don't have copies of any of the four comics published by the company my father worked for. Logos International was a Christian publisher of the evangelical/charismatic variety. My parents went thru a born-again phase, which I did not join in. So even though I was one of the first people outside the company to see their first two comics, I didn't want to keep them. Besides not sharing the faith they promoted, I thought the art in Logos' comics was terrible. I've seen scans recently and they don't look as bad to me now. Not good, but Charlton-level competent.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 24, 2024 11:21:29 GMT -5
Detective Comics #28, June 1939 (the issue after the debut of Batman). Cover by Fred Guardineer.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 24, 2024 2:48:33 GMT -5
College
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