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View Article  God Appeared To Me In A Dream...
Scott Kurtz wrote in his blog under his PvP strip in response to those who took offense over him using "Christ" in a previous strip. Update: has been archived, can now be found here.
Favorite quotes: "Apparently by taking their lord's name in vain, I've taken away some of their "power" and I'll have to repent. I'll need to apologize to God, say a prayer or something equally as ridiculous to put things right again." and "some fundamentalists (who were going to get upset about SOMETHING on Monday, regardless)"
Welcome relief from a spouse that wanted me to apologize to God for saying Pat Robertson was an asshole.
So I did.
I said "God, I'm sorry Pat Robertson's an asshole".
View Article  Meanwhile...
Sorry to interrupt the fun and frivolity of late, but check this out.
First up is Wal-Mart's Sweetheart Deal with the DOL. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile, especially when we will find out about it. But it looks like it will be investigated.
And then there's the Bush administration's Secretary of Education threatening to cust off PBS' funding "if its programming did not embrace the president's political ideology?".
View Article  99 More Great Things About Comics
Okay, gang, here's some more I thought of (again, in no particular order. Also, tried to spell names as best I could):
1) Mego's Worlds Greatest Superheroes Action Figures
2) Captain Canuck by Richard Comely and George Freeman
3) DC Cartoons by Filmation
4) Stray Bullets
5) Supreme Power by JMS and Quitely
6) The Question by Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan
7) X-Men by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
8) Suicide Squad by John Ostrander
9) Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond
10) Harlan Ellison-both being a fan and his stories
11) MICRA by Lamar Waldron and Ted Boothanikit
12) Southern Knights
13) Paul M Smith's Artwork
14) Midnight Nation by JMS and Quitely
15) Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen
16) Atlantis Chronicles by Peter David and Esteban Moroto
17) Adam Strange Archives
18) Marvel Masterworks
19) Ben Dunn's Ninja High School
20) Codename: Danger (80's comic, way too short a run. Mission: Impossible w/superheroes)
21) Marvel Superheroes figures from Toy Biz
22) X-Men Figures from Toy Biz
23) Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
24) Hero At Large starring the late, great John Ritter
25) Todd Mc Farlane
26) IDW comics
27) Thor by Walt Simonson
28) Avengers Priority Card you can put your name and picture on
29) Amelia Rules! by Jimmy Gownley
30) Back Issue magazine
31) Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley
32) Fan-made Films
33) Monty by Jim Meddick
34) Bloom County by Berke Breathed
35) X-Men and X2 movies
36) The Pro by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner
37) Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore
38) Treasury sized comics
39) Matt Groening
40) Tijuana Bibles
41) "Magneto and Titanium Man" by Wings
42) Black Canary
43) James Robinson's Starman
44) 80's Luthor and Brainiac revamps
45) Betty and Veronica
46) Little Audrey and Melvin
47) Reader Copies in Anderson (my LCS)
48) Craig "Mr Silver Age" Shutt
49) 3 Geeks
50) Star Wars Comics by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson
51 & 52) Bill Ward's Women Art
53) Superman/Spider-Man (both of 'em)
54) X-Men/New Teen Titans team up by Claremont and Simonson
55) Valiant Comics
56) Mark Evanier
57) Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Gilbert Shelton
58) Bullpen Bulletins
59) Spider-Man '67 Cartoon
60) Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi
61) Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams' Green Arrow/Green Lantern
62) Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
63) Evan Dorkin's "Eltingville Club"
64) Letter Columns
65) Viz Comics
66) Bootleg comic videos
67) Yellow Wolverine X-Men Shirt from the 80's
68) DC Secret Origin comics
69) Doorway into Nightmare (Madame Xanadu)
70) Kirby's Fourth World
71) Conan by Thomas and Buscema
72) Romance comics
73) Overstreet Price Guide
74) Peepshow by Joe Matt
75) Gasoline Alley
76) Western's 3 comics in a bag
77) Rob Liefeld's tenacity of a cockroach and ADD of a 5 year old caffeine/sugar addict
78) Vampirella
79) What If?
80) Relatives giving you comics
81) Bizarro
82) 9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney
83) Charlton Bullseye-fanzine and amateur tryout comic
84) Alias and The Pulse by Brian Michael Bendis
85) Comic Carnival shops in Indianapolis
86) Matt Feazell (ERT!)
87) Jon Sable, Freelance by Mike Grell
88) Famous First Editions Treasury reprints
89) Mini comics
90) Ultraverse
91) Judge Dredd
92) Ralph Snart Adventures by Marc Hansen
93) Comix: A History of Comic Books by Les Daniels
94) World Encyclopedia of Comic Books by Maurice Horn
95) Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
96) Latigo by Stan Lynde
97) DC's Hypertime multiverse theory (all stories did happen!)
98) Crossfire by Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle
99) My mom didn't throw mine away!
View Article  John Ostrander
John Ostrander has a weblog.
View Article  100 Great Things About Comics
Started by Fred Hembeck (see February 10th), continued by Alan David Doane, and in response to the gauntlet thrown by Mike Sterling, I give you my list.
I started to do 100 (yes, there's some duplication. Hey, more than one person can like it, right), then started a list of things I'd say "d'oh!" over not forgetting and got 100+ there. One other thing: some particular creative runs are noted, and some with just the character. For instance, Spidey at #4 is noted, with particular creative runs mentioned on down the list. Also, any Grimjack by John Ostrander is good
So here it is (in no particular order) 100 Great Things About Comics:
1) Watchmen
2) Peter David
3) EC Comics
4) Spider-Man
5) Little Lulu
6) Adam Hughes Good Girl Art
7) Frank Miller
8) Superman: The Movie
9) Justice League and Unlimited cartoons
10) American Splendor by Harvey Pekar
11) Stan Lee
12) Knights of the Dinner Table
13) Firestorm by Gerry Conway, Al Milgrom and Pat Broderick
14) Camelot 3000
15) The Spirit, especially "10 Minutes" by Will Eisner
16) Don Rosa
17) Grimjack by John Ostrander
18) Lee and Kirby's Fantastic Four
19) Wasteland by John Ostrander and Del Close
20) Empire by Waid and Kitson
21) Marvelman, both Moore and Gaiman's run
22) Giant Sized X-Men 1, 94-143
23) Engelhart and Rogers' Batman
24) Archie Comics Digests
25) Comic Book Reader
26) Liberty Meadows
27) Moore, Bissette and Totleben's Swamp Thing
28) Comic Book Conventions
29) Concrete by Paul Chadwick
30) Marvel Legends Action Figures
31) Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff
32) Batman 1989 movie
33) Bitchy Bitch by Roberta Gregory
34) Evan Dorkin
35) Maus I +II
36) Fleischer Superman Cartoons
37) Sugar and Spike by Sheldon Mayer
38) Frank Miller's big Spider-Man Stories (annuals and Marvel Team Up 100)
39) Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman (World War II/ABC series)
40) Kyle Baker
41) Howard the Duck by Steve Gerber
42) Beau Smith
43) Calvin and Hobbes
44) Origins/Sons of Origins of Marvel Comics
45) Peanuts
46) JLA/Avengers
47) Fred Hembeck
48) Love and Rockets
49) Optic Nerve by Adrian Tomine
50) Ernie Colon's Richie Rich
51) Comics blogs
52) Heroes World Comic Book Catalogs of the 70's
53) Super Hero Slurpee Cups
54) Far Side
55) Kenner Super Powers Action Figures
56) Alan Moore
57) Free Comic Book Day
58) Christmas Comics
59) Tony Isabella
60) Comic Book Resources
61) Frank Miller's Daredevil (w/Janson and Mazzuchelli)
62) Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' "For the Man Who Has Everything" Superman Annual
63) "Superhero Confidential" from Dynamite magazine in the 1970's
64) Previews catalog
65) Amazing Heroes magazine
66) The Original Captain Marvel
67) Innocent Bystander by Gary Sassaman
68) Gen 13/Danger Girl by J Scott Campbell
69) Image Comics
70) X-Men Legends video game
71) Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
72) 100 Page/80 Page Comics
73) Batman The Animated Series
74) Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2 movies
75) ACTOR
76) Marv Wolfman and George Perez' New Teen Titans
77) New Comics Day
78) Akira by Otomo
79) Convention sketches
80) Ambush Bug by DeMattheis and Giffen
81) Green Lantern episode of Duck Dodgers
82) Silver Bullet Comic Books
83) The Norm
84) Comics Buyer's Guide
85) Dork Tower
86) The Original Superfriends Theme w/Ted Knight Narration
87) 'Mazing Man by Rozakis and DeStefano
88) Defenders of Justice CD from Sci Fi Channel
89) Mike Baron and Steve Rude's Nexus
90) Astro City by Kurt Busiek
91) J. Michael Stracynski's "Amazing Spider-Man"
92) Captain America Shield replica, Limited to 2525 copies
93) PvP
94) Alex Ross
95) Neil Gaiman
96) Barry Wein Boy Genius by Judd Winick
97) Lee and Ditko's Spider-Man
98) Super Manga Blast
99) Comics Journal
100) Hogan's Alley

Have enough for at least another list, kids. Stay Tuned!
I'd like to elaborate more on some of the obscure ones at some point. I do take requests for more info.
View Article  More Blogs to Check Out
We have Netflix Fan and My Netflix Journal (actually Manuel Villanueva's) that brought to my attention the practice of "throttling", or Netflix purposely delaying or shipping discs lower in your queue, violating the "unlimited" part of their service. I did have the problem of delays in shipping a week or two ago, but now have been waiting for Friday Night Lights, a movie I've had in my queue since before it's release on video...
Also, there's Blog THIS, Pal!.
View Article  New Links
Added a couple to the "favorites" section at right: Vince Keenan, whom I mentioned earlier, and Ron Moore, who talks about Battlestar Galactica (if you're not watching it on Sci Fi, you should. Much better than the original, story-wise).
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