Hello all!
I just want to get this whole mix CD mess cleared up.
If you sent me a mix CD, and still haven't gotten one back, could you please send me an email, with your address. I know there are a couple of people who probably got lost in the shuffle and I never sent them out, but some I am worried didn't make it across the border.
rachellegoguen at gmail dot com
Thanks!
Today is Strange Adventures owner Calum Johnston's birthday!
Besides opening and operating the greatest comic shops ever, Cal is just generally the greatest guy you'll ever meet. He does more for the comic book community than anyone I've ever heard of, which includes but is not limited to:
- Giving away tens of thousands of comic books on Free Comic Book Day
- Bringing in an impressive array of comic creators to this tiny town
- Keeping a very small store fully stocked with everything you could every want, including a ton of all-ages books
- Throwing kick-ass Halloween parties
- Paying for everything. Seriously, everything. That man will not let you pay for your own meal.
- Giving everybody rides in his big yellow bug.
- Giving me, like, so many comics. And Montreal Canadiens-related gifts.
- Giving lots of stuff to charities.
- Selling all the back issues at the shop today for ten cents each! Seriously. Go there now.
- Buying and giving away 300 copies of Supergirl #20 to support the change in art.
- Just generally being super supportive of everyone in anything that they try to do.
Happy Birthday Cal! You rule!
Specifically myself. I had planned a review based on the cover of last weeks Countdown, seen here:
Which had reminded me a lot of Showcase '94 #1, shown here:
It was going to be about how I thought maybe the artist of the former had cribbed off of the latter, but once I looked at it: no dice. I do prefer the Showcase '94 Joker though, in that he has actual human facial features that have been composed into what I like to call an 'expression' rather than having a deformed perma-grin. I'm never impressed when an artist on a joker-containing comic goes the route of simply carving his face into a maniacal shape and leaving it at that - it robs him of some of his charm/versatility.
But this is about me. For not actually looking at both covers together before planning my review:
NOT APPROVED
Even more...
All I want to do lately is read old comic book letters pages.
This response is truly amazing:
Give this editor a raise! Clearly he's the right man for the job of overseeing a comic book for girls.
Thank God for girls like Margie Loughran of NYC. She is clearly rad and I would love to hang out with her:
Smoke it, DC. Smoke it hard.
Forgot to mention something: uh... two things.
one: Lee van Cleef is awesome, though his name sounds like internet slang.
two: 'The Ugly' isn't so much 'ugly' as 'Mexican', though I guess that The Good, The Bad, and The Mexican isn't as good of a title.
still JOHN APPROVED.
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