Morticai’s Journal, August 4th, 2008. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their wastes and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll look down and whisper, “no.” Sorry – couldn’t help myself. That’s one of the opening lines from the ‘Watchmen’...
Spent some time yesterday trolling a new site I discovered: Shelfari. I went ahead and signed up and put in as many books as I could. A link to my shelf is: http://www.shelfari.com/thenewuniverse/shelf Check it out – sign up and let’s be friends. ~P
I wish I’d invented this. I mean, it’s a fantastic scam and has to be hugely profitable. The concept: pull your car into a car wash where water and soap is sprayed at it. No ‘harsh and abrasive’ thingies whipping around, scrubbing that dirt away – oh no, this is all water. And because...
I upgraded WordPress tonight – boy was that a HUGE mistake. It doesn’t work in Firefox (the back end stuff) at all on my Mac and Safari it works a little bit. BLEH!
This one’s a little more difficult to describe. Like Atari Force, this was about a ‘second generation’ team and, in this case, they were the children of superheroes. Specifically, the Justice Society of America. The JSA predated the Justice League in the DC Universe. You may know heroes like The Flash and The Green...
I am pulling out ALL the stops this week, in a walk down memory lane of some of my favorite, all-time comics. What trip down this particular path would be complete without mentioning Atari Force? Atari Force started, oddly enough, with Atari video games. That’s right – Atari video games. They were bundled with...
One more step along this week long nostalgic look at my old, favorite comics brings me to another independent that I really liked: DNAgents! I picked this one up and started reading it early on – I think maybe with the first issue. It was different, and I liked different. As with Starslayer, it...
I’m sorta on a comics kick this week, having relived old times through the Robotech DVD’s I bought last Friday, and one sorta sticks out in my head. Enter ‘Starslayer: The Log of the Jolly Roger’. It’s kind of funny. I only have a few of these comics and I got them through a...
1984. A friend gives me a comic book as a present. I don’t remember what the occasion was – I don’t think it was my birthday – I think I invited him over to hang out or something and his father had told him that you don’t just go to someone’s house as a...
The year was 1985. I was living in Fresno, California and we had two local independent television stations offering shows on after school. The first station ended up becoming one of the first FOX affiliates a year later. The second remained ‘independent’ and probably, eventually, became a WB station but that was long after...
If you like the World of Warcraft, you probably hate Murlocs. I mean, they gang up on you, they run away when you’re trying to kill one and come back with a couple more in tow. All of em say something like, “Aaaaaughibbrgubugbugrguburgle!” But, you know you LOVE to do your own impression of...
Well. What can I say about this other than it is unbelievable! I picked it up tonight on the way home from work and manoman – this kicks ass! This is probably the best animated Batman since Batman: The Animated Series debuted back in the day. That was 1992, to be specific. This is...
It seems strange to me that anyone would still have a phone in their house. Years ago, a friend of mine said something about how all he really needs is his cell phone and a bell sort of went off in my head. He really was right. I mean, I had two bills that...
Haven’t done this in a bit, so I decided that today was the day! I encourage you to click the links and read the stories from the sites that publish em. News from around (That you may not have seen): This first one should be titled: “Necromancy doesn’t pay as well as it used...
I remember Elfquest. I only have a couple of issues hidden away somewhere in my collection and those were difficult to get. What’s amazing to me is how long the series has been going on and yet I was nowhere near aware of it as I probably should’ve been. I seem to recall that...
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