Secret Origins

From the ever excellent Our Valued Customers

And just how many times has the origin of Superman been shown in comics?

A Short Break

Mrs Earth-Prime and myself are having a short break this week so I won't be around much; normal service will be resumed this weekend coming.

In the meantime, this made me chuckle:

Click to make readable and you can find more by the artist here.

Back in a few days!

Wonder Woman Is Better Than Superman

Oh internet . . . how I love you.

So True

Busy, busy, busy in my neck of the woods at the moment - not even time to through together some thoughts on the Trinity War news earlier this week. Maybe tomorrow.

Judging A (Non-Existent) Book By It's Cover

Jinkies! I would so buy this. Just saying.

The Main Reason I Don't Read The Batman Titles

From Our Valued Customers

Luke Skywalker May Disagree

From the ever excellent Our Valued Customers

So True

From the always excellent Our Valued Customers

Well, Duh!

What other reason could there be?

From the always entertaining Our Valued Customers.

You Don't Want THAT On Toast

Not surprisingly, I wasn't the only one to pick up on the Watchmen toaster:

but the guys over at Let's Be Friends Again do a much better job with it. Click the picture to see the rest of the strip.

I'm Sure They're Out There

From the always excellent Our Valued Customers

I, for one, couldn't give a monkey's but then I'm a DC whore fan rather than Marvel so that's understandable. What about you lovely people?

Awesome!

I know I posted a picture from Our Valued Customers just yesterday, but I saw this:

and just had to share it!

Spot The Clue - The Answer

Yesterday I posted this comic strip:

which asks whether you could work out how Imago knew the bum was the criminal.

To find out, click below . . .

Spot The Clue

So I'm still trawling through those old magazines that I found after my house was turned upside down by the electricians recently and in the pages of Fantasy Adviser I came across this little strip:

I love the sound effect of "spong" when Imago punches the bum!

Anyway, I'm not having you reckless kids turn this blog upside down to find out how Imago knew the bum was the culprit - instead I'll post it tomorrow.

In the meantime, if you think you know how he knew, leave a comment.

Whatman?

Just a quick one from me today - away for the weekend so you'll have to make do with another link:

Click that to get the rest and enjoy.

Final Crisis - 1986 Style - Redux

Over the last couple of months I posted scans of a cartoon by Johnny Lowe which I had found in a programme for a 1986 art show held in Birmingham in the UK. I liked the art and how it used then-current characters to gently take a pop at the recent (at that point) Crisis On Infinite Earths.

Before posting it, I searched on the net for a web-site or blog of Johnny's but had no luck.

A few days ago, I was pleased to have an e-mail from him wondering how I got hold of the scans - thankfully he had no problems with me having posted them here on the blog but did ask me to point out that they originally appeared (to quote Johnny's e-mail) in the

"Comics Buyer's Guide, a U.S. monthly magazine that discusses comics (though at the time I did the strips, CBG was a weekly tabloid), and they were all published in the February 28, 1986 issue."

You can see an example in the photo below that Johnny kindly supplied. Someone obviously saw them, photocopied them and pasted them into the programme.

Still, as I said, Johnny was gracious enough to allow me to leave them up on the blog so at least I'm in the clear!

Final Crisis - 1986 Style - Part 7

Here it is, the final part of Johnny Lowe's Crisis Cross-Over which actually uses Final Crisis in the title, thus excusing me for using it all these weeks:

I really thought about having this delayed by a week like any good comic cross-over these days but, to be honest, thought you'd all suffered enough.

Okay, not the strongest end to a story but hey, it was a nicely put together montage of then-current (this was 1986 remember) comic strip characters for a comic expo programme. Things have certainly moved on but I think this still has a certain degree of charm and, as I said at the start, I hope Johnny Lowe, wherever he may be, doesn't mind me using the strip here.

Final Crisis - 1986 Style - Part 6

Here's the sixth and penultimate part of Johnny Lowe's Crisis Cross-Over featuring Bloom County characters.

Tune in next Tuesday for the final, universe shattering conclusion!

Final Crisis - 1986 Style - Part 5

Here's Part 5 of Crisis Cross-Over by Johnny Lowe featuring Peanuts.

Tune in next Tuesday for Part 6!

Final Crisis - 1986 Style - Part 4

Here's Part 4 of Johnny Lowe's Crisis Cross-Over featuring The Far Side.

Tune in next Tuesday for Part 5!