Top 100 Summer Comics #49
Two-fer today. I zoinked out yesterday. It’s okay. You know what wasn’t okay? CAPTAIN AMERICA, from about issue 387 to 443. Total garbage. Honestly, killing Steve Rogers was a much more humane and decent treatment compared to the kind of grind he was put through here. It was awful. I think this is where my [...]
Captain America Jetmobile.
Lots of pictures up in this auction, but no word on if this jetmobile actually can be jetted around a room. It sure looks to me like you’re supposed to be able to put a rocket in the back, light a match, and make that puppy zoom. Plus the front is drooped like it’s been [...]
Top 100 Summer Comics #55
Captain America was right with that whole civil war business. Everyone shoulda just gone with him. Instead a grip went with the reformed alkie and movie darling, Iron Man. Bah. Here’s to CAP smacking Iron Man around. #55 – Captain America 341
I Love Old Stickers.
They’re always much, much cooler looking than modern stickers. These I find especially cool looking… Only thing is… I feel like, they aren’t actually stickers. I know the auction SAYS they’re stickers, but I’ve never seen any two part stickers before. They look more like the backs of the stickers, like the kind you could [...]
I’m A Bit Disappointed In Us.
It was the 4th of July this weekend, and we let the entire weekend go by with out touching on a single patriotic comic. No Captain America, no Superman… not even an entry on the American Maid. I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call us commies, but we kind of blew [...]
Top 100 Summer Comics… #79
Crossovers are kind of a pet peeve of mine. They all start great. Most, I should say. But inevitably, they gunk up the system. Writers are forced to change the flow of their stories to fit in with the event, and usually that leads to some pretty awkward writing. But sometimes… very rarely… they make [...]
Rob Liefeld: Fraud or Victim?
Is it the artist’s fault if his work is inappropriately lauded? Is it his responsibility to stop the train and say, “hey, everyone, I’m not actually all that great”? Or is he just a man, and as such, given to bouts of self-aggrandizement and even greed? Here’s the thing: as a kid, I hated this [...]
1970s Marvel 7-11 Cups.
You may have noticed that we love to post these. That’s because they’re vintage plastic cups covered in lower tier Marvel Universe characters in classic poses, and because Slurpees are totally awesome. So it stands to reason that we’d be all about these Slurpee cups featuring classic Marvel battles… But there’s just one problem. None [...]
Let Us All Take Note:
This is a Captain America Mego from the 70s. A MEXICAN Captain America Mego. Is there some sort of lesson about unity here? Perhaps even a moral that could be applied to the current situation in Arizona? Nah. I just posted it because it looks crusty and old and cool.
