Addition to the blog roll

The House of Cobwebs, headed up by Karl LaFong, is a scan/text heavy blog about old comics by a reader from across the pond. Karl has only posted 13 times since March, but what he lacks in quantity he makes up for in quality. I hope he starts posting at least weekly because it is certainly on my must-read list.

And where else can you see a kangaroo kick the crap outta the Men from U.N.C.L.E.?

And if you haven't figured it out, I'm back from my trip and the regular posting will return. Tomorrow? Jonah Hex #84 (and my head explodes!)

In the World of Porky Pig... #3

..Gorillas are multi-facted characters. In Porky's world....

Gorillas have Gold Teeth!

Gorillas love cutting a rug!!

Gorillas are very happy!!

Gorillas love the dinner bell!

Gorillas hand out all of the birthday spankings!!

Salesmen of Yesterday!! Chipper Luschenat

"Good Lord, Martha!! It's that horrible Luschenat brat trying to sell us some more of that crap of his!"

"Don't answer the door, George! Remember how he tried to sell us that Mammal-flavored Jelly of the Month Club?"

"Urrf. Don't remind me. Or how about those tickets to the Of Mice and Men opera? "

"How about the time he was peddling New Coke?"

"That wasn't nearly as bad as when he was selling the Sham-Wow?"

"But you have to admit, he's not nearly as bad as that Gore kid that continually keeps trying to get us to buy into that whole 'carbon-offset' crapola"

"Well, he did have a good slide show to go with it."

"GEORGE!!!"

".......I like slide-shows"

Out of town, but...

Yup, I'm out of town on business this coming week, so no Jonah Hex #84. I do have a few regular features loaded & ready to go. In the meantime, did anyone else read the latest Superman/Batman? It seems that this book really hits some high points on my list of pleasure reading. The entire book is placed outside of the main continuity that is currently racking the DCU and I like it. That is how World's Finest was for it's entire run.

What is even better is that this last issue of Superman/Batman gave us a nice little hat-tip/explanation for all that weird World's Finest Haney-crazy that filled the books. It seems like every last issue was a computer simulation that Batman has been running on the computer in the Bat-cave. Yup! True! Look at the last page of the current issue and you'll see references to the Super-Sons (Gotta post some of THAT craziness soon!) and even Batman Beyond. A great story and a fantastic done-in-one.

Loved it!

My name is Superman & I'm from Kry...uh, out there.

Yup, looks like DC Comics has lost the rights to the real estate known as Krypton.

I haven't been reading Superman for some time. Has anyone noticed changes in the book that have been preparing for this? I had heard that Kandor was now on its own planet (but hadn't they done that back inthe 90's?)

On a side note, DC stills own the word kryptonite. But they have no idea where that rock came from.

In the World of Porky Pig... #2

...Popcorn comes from a bush....

...that pops in the sunlight! Of course, Orville Reddenbacher steals the only one and keeps it all to himself in his wonderful underwater lair, guarded my unicorns with LAZER-EYES!!!

Salesmen of Yesterday!! Andy Maisel

..unless, of course, you start sitting around on your fat posterior, playing Halo or WoW. In that case, you had better hope that grinding hogs and mining gold pays off better than hitting the bricks and selling American Seeds!!