The Iron Age of Comics

XTC - Portland, Oregon - Paramount Theatre Oct 29, 1980 LIVE The first and last Oregon appearance by XTC ever. Scheduled to play in April 1982 for the English Settlement tour which sadly never was to happen. 00:00 Outside World 03:11 Life Begins at the…

[October 29th, 1980] XTC performed at the Paramount Theatre in Portland, Oregon as the opening act for The Police

A child at my kid’s choir concert complimented me on my Nintendo 64 shirt

Side by side color comparison of a Swamp Thing page

Tatjana Wood (right page) was a storyteller who understood the eagle was the top of Sunderland’s globe (established on an earlier page), and the image showed the characters trapped in his world. The Absolute Swamp Thing recolorist (left) just saw a bird.

All the Evangelicals excited about Jesus coming back don’t realize that according to the sacred texts, there will actually be FOUR people claiming to be Jesus: an vigilante, a kid, a guy in armor and a cyborg

Much Ado is probably my “favorite, not ‘best’”

Post an iconic horror movie image

I knew my whole “living in Madison” thing would pay off eventually!

Whoaaaaa

One of my favorite scenes in any movie ever. Warner starts excitedly babbling about gun ownership and McDowell can’t think of anything to do but slap him.

Today's note is for the two lead performances in TIME AFTER TIME, or, the "H.G. Wells time travels to 1979 San Francisco in search of his friend who's actually Jack the Ripper" movie. As you might suspect from that logline, not the world's greatest *movie,* but Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen

Founder Mike Richardson exits Dark Horse after 40 years After 40 years, Dark Horse founder and CEO Mike Richardson has exited the company, reportedly in a move to "modernize and strengthen" the company

Founder Mike Richardson exits Dark Horse after 40 years

I really need to do a dedicated reread of the Classic X-Men backups. I feel like I remember them as hit or miss but maybe I just wasn’t on the wavelength? Daredevil is absolutely killer though.

Transformers AutoBook Club episode 20 | "Dis-integrated Circuits!" YouTube video by Transformers AutoBook Club

A mammoth edit this week, after small snack of 20 minutes last episode, you're getting a 5 course 2 hour 20 minute MEAL with this one youtu.be/KqFyvNev2bc
It's late and I have to sleep, I'll make a proper post for this in the morning!

Oh I love this issue! Just reread it recently! I appreciate Ann Nocenti more with each passing year, I feel.

Cover from Wizard’s Thunderbolts #0 by Mark Bagley and Al Milgrom. Center: Hawkeye. Clockwise from top left: Atlas, Moonstone, Jolt, MACH-1, Songbird

NEW EPISODE: Lots of fans will tell you Busiek and Bagley’s Thunderbolts was never quite the same after the team’s ruse was revealed and they could no longer pretend to be superheroes. What our episode PRESUPPOSES is…maybe the comic actually got even better?

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I have the same expression on my face as Libra when I forget to put pants on before leaving the house too.

Buscema

UPCOMING 2026 SCHEDULE 3/4 Thunderbolts: Marvel's Most Wanted 3/18 Bone: The Great Cow Race & Eyes of the Storm 4/1 Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth 4/15 Comics' Greatest World 5/6 Madman 5/20 Grendel: The Legacy

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The day after we put the final touches on issues #88-91 of “Swamp Thing”, news broke about the passing of Tatjana Wood, the original colorist on the series. Tomorrow, March 2nd, would have been Tatjana’s 100th birthday. Let’s raise a glass to one of comics’ originals.

Yep, I think this is actually just an image from the style guide itself (maybe the background is added)? I have definitely seen that pose before though.

Marvel Comics in the 1980s by Pierre Comtois

It appears I have also bought myself a classic Book To Be Mad At.

Pocket sized paperback called The Superman Story

Interior B&W panels cut up to fill out a book

Look at this cute li’l guy I picked up at Half Price Books today

321: Beatles Comic-Con with Glenn Greenberg and Stephen DeStefano Podcast Episode · Something About the Beatles · February 28 · 1h 34m

Have not had a chance to listen yet but occasionally a podcast encompasses multiple interests of mine that don’t always obviously intersect.

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Rick is sad and drinking

Hell with it, we’re watchin Casablanca

Macro shot of a comics page, rich with texture and interlocked panels filled with meaning. Art by Jim Starlin.

Macro shot of a comics page, rich with texture and interlocked panels filled with meaning. Art by Jim Starlin.

Comics as secret language. From Captain Marvel #28

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

Oh man, do you know about the big cosmic race coming up in Quasar with another big DC reference? I think it’s around #17…

That Hama doesn’t just get big ol checks in the mail at random intervals from Hasbro just to say, “Hey thanks for all of this” is an injustice.

Very talented and, fortunately for us, very prolific. If you were a regular reader of DC at anytime from the 1970s to the 1990s, you had the luxury of seeing a ton of her coloring work. In addition to her interior work, she colored a crazy amount of their covers. R.I.P.