Sorry y’all. Been too exhausted from moving and setting up house to get any writing/posting done. I may have something later today, but no promises. I may not be able to get to anything until Tuesday at this rate.

In the meantime, enjoy the archives.

Star Trek is often credited with inventing the idea of technobabble – say something that sounds scientific, even if it’s meaningless.

“The mere application of symbolic logic to the 5th degree” sounds a lot better than “Alan Scott is a tall blond male who hangs out with Doiby. Green Lantern a tall blond male who hangs out with Doiby.”

Seriously, at least Clark Kent has some friends outside of work…

Just for the regulars:

Magnetism glows?

As I get set to close the book on Alan Scott, I thought “Hey, what do you know – a Golden Age DC run with no spanking!”

Me and my big mind…

The smile on Alan Scott’s face is creeping me out.

We all know that right and proper heroes do not kill their enemies. Not on purpose, anyway.

And no, the cop doesn’t promptly arrest him. After all, he’s a hero.

This is brilliant.

You couldn’t get away with that punch line these days, mind you. Someone would yell “Won’t somebody think of the children!”

Happy moving day to me.

Anyone remember all those 900 numbers for kids they had in the mid 80s? With your parent’s permission (suuure), you could role play with your favorite hero. It always seemed odd to me. For one thing, imagine the kid saying “mom, can I call a 900 number?”

For another, what if they misdial?

They call for Superman:

And next thing they know they’re on a completely different kind of action-line.

Don’t mess with these Gotham toughs. You’ll be sorry.

Yeah! Snork off!

The Ventriloquist and Scarface may be Alan Grant’s greatest contribution to the Batman mythos. It has everything. Is he a haunted puppet, made from gallows wood? Is he the manifestation of a man’s severely repressed Id? Is the Ventriloquist actually having us all on?

One of the cute touches was having Scarface unable to say the letter “b”, which I suppose is really hard to pull off without moving you lips. Instead he says “g”. The thing is, there’s sometimes this odd conceit in comics that someone must talk the way they write:

Almost as annoying as the time someone had Rogue write “Ah” instead of “I”.

This Todd McFarlane page hurts my wee little eyes.

Proportion? Wazzat?

No way can that cop hold that rifle-thingie one-handed.