Cos Every Girl's Crazy...

Lando Calrissian's crazy disguises:

It's not just Chewie who doesn't like them, Lando.

Luke Skywalker May Disagree

From the ever excellent Our Valued Customers

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #215

It's the car.

Monday Memories #8 - Swamp Thing: Earth To Earth

Each Monday this year I'll be taking a look back at a random comic, prestige format issue, graphic novel or collection of reprints from amongst my 3,000 or so comics that date from 1962 to 2003 - I figured anything in the last ten years would be too recent to hark back to.

The comics are chosen completely at random and apart from a four week lead-in period, even I don't know what I'll be looking at in the weeks to come!

Delayed Cocktail

Life's a bit crazy here on Earth-Prime at the moment - lots of visiting friends and family including our nephew's third birthday (dinosaur ice cream - trust me, it's a winner with small boys) as well as applying for a new job and trying to stop our house from falling apart.

And now I find that Picasa has morphed into Google+ Photos and I can no longer embed photos into my blog! I may need a new picture host - any recommendations?

Hate To Call You A Liar, Skywalker

Having landed on a water world as part of a diplomatic mission, Luke Skywalker gets amazed about the scenery:

That's a fair enough reaction for someone who grew up on a desert planet and farmed moisture.

Trouble is, when he says "I've never seen oceans like these anywhere" in issue #74, he's obviously forgotten all about issue #12:

What was that, Threepio?

Oh, right.

Monday Memories #7 - Ghost #18

Each Monday this year I'll be taking a look back at a random comic, prestige format issue, graphic novel or collection of reprints from amongst my 3,000 or so comics that date from 1962 to 2003 - I figured anything in the last ten years would be too recent to hark back to.

The comics are chosen completely at random and apart from a four week lead-in period, even I don't know what I'll be looking at in the weeks to come!

DC's May Solicitations

Rather than do a straightforward Don't Ask post, I thought I'd take a look at a few titles this month.

 

The Green Team and The Movement . . . I'm sort of tempted by these, mostly because of Gail Simone's involvement if I'm honest. A pair of possibles, I think.

Happy Valentine's Day

Hal Jordan obviously had no problem with Power Girl's horrible costume.

The New Slave Leia?

Sure, go to just about any comic convention and you'll see hordes of cosplayers dressed as slave Leia but I bet you won't find a single Chanteuse Leia.

Original Cast React To News Of Stand Alone Star Wars Films

Monday Memories #6 - All-Star Squadron #37

Each Monday this year I'll be taking a look back at a random comic, prestige format issue, graphic novel or collection of reprints from amongst my 3,000 or so comics that date from 1962 to 2003 - I figured anything in the last ten years would be too recent to hark back to.

The comics are chosen completely at random and apart from a four week lead-in period, even I don't know what I'll be looking at in the weeks to come!

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #214

Admitting it is the first step.

Power Girl Returns To Classic Look

From DC's May solicits over at CBR:

Worlds' Finest #12:

"As Power Girl returns to her classic look, DeSaad wreaks havoc on her tech empire—and PG and Huntress find themselves hunted by the talented torturer from Apokolips."

PG gets her classic costume back! I've not been one clamouring for its return but it's nice to see it back.

But since when did DeSaad have an uppercase S in his name?

Not Doing Things By Halves

From this interview with Grant Morrison:

Morrison: I certainly don't have any direct references to anything until Multiversity itself comes out. But I don't know. As I said to you before, the story I'm telling takes place apart from the DC Universe, but I'm sure Dan and everybody else are thinking of possibilities of connecting them in some way. I didn't even know [the Multiverse] was in Vibe, so that's news to me. But I think we can stand to see a little bit more of it. Because honestly, you know, James Robinson's doing an Earth-2 book and I know he loves this stuff as well. 

But basically, they're all working off a guide book I've created, but I have no idea how it's going to be used. But I created a Multiversity concordance, with who was on every world. 

Nrama: On every world, or just the ones you're touching? 

Morrison: All of the 52 [alternate Earths]. Because part of the Multiversity series incorporates a multiverse guide book with maps and stuff, and there's a story in there as well. So there's that kind of maps and blueprints aspect of it as well.

Blimey - he's detailed who's on every Earth?

What's the betting the "multiverse guide book with maps and stuff" gets issued as a one-shot alongside the Multiversity series?

I fear I may have to get my Annotations hat back on . . .

Perusing Previews - February 2013

From the solicitation info:

"What is the one Super Power that is more than a match for Vibe..."

Really? There's just one that can beat Vibe? As much as I like the guy and think the Justice League Detroit really wasn't that bad, I find it hard to believe there's only one super power that can beat him.

Bard Wars

So . . . Luke and Lando are trying to pick up some TIE fighters so that they can masquerade as imperials for a mission but the problem is, the bloke they're trying to get them from is a shady, double-crossing no-good nerf herder. He has them stashed on an asteroid that's used as a dumping ground and when Luke and Lando go to get the fighters, they discover the bloke's guard dog - a huge, man-eating worm called Caesar.

Narrowly escaping the fiend, they discover a small group of other pilots who've been hiding out on the asteroid, unable to escape because of the vicious worm. Thankfully, Luke and Lando are confident they can come up with something to make sure everybody gets off the planet and they get the TIE fighters.

The other pilots may not get the reference, but it looks like Tatooine's schools managed to drill some Shakespeare into young Luke before he left.

Monday Memories #5 - The Spectre #8

Each Monday this year I'll be taking a look back at a random comic, prestige format issue, graphic novel or collection of reprints from amongst my 3,000 or so comics that date from 1962 to 2003 - I figured anything in the last ten years would be too recent to hark back to.

The comics are chosen completely at random and apart from a four week lead-in period, even I don't know what I'll be looking at in the weeks to come!

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #213

Blueholes. Heh.

Give Me A Head's Up

Ahh, yet more old style Star Wars tom-foolery: Luke Skywalker's breaking into an Imperial base to get some information but the Empire are aware he's on the way and so post guards to capture him as he heads to the computer room.

Thing is, Luke's gone a different way and used a terminal in the kitchen to get the same info, leaving the stormtroopers hanging around in the wrong place.

Luckily, they have state of the art equipment to alert them to their error:

Yep, that appears to be a metal arm that's popped out of the front of his helmet, dangling a message board in front of his face with the word ALERT written on it.

A head's up display, 80's style.