This Saturday my next episode of “Young Justice,” “Bloodlines,” airs on Cartoon Network.
PAD
Month: May 2012
Amalgam contest results, part 2
Originally published May 16, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1226
Just to be utterly different, I’ve decided that–even though I’ll be running the concluding installment of our little Who fights Who/Amalgam contest next week–I’m going to run the winning entry this week. Why? Because it showed a staggering amount of initiative. Because the entrant created not only a statue, but the beginnings of an entire story to accompany it, and because–most important of all–the entrant didn’t put his name and address on the story. And the problem is that, when the entry gets separated from the cover letter… like now, for instance… it means we can’t give proper freakin’ credit. So we eagerly look forward to hearing from the creator of…
DOC SAVAGE DRAGON
…and who also was gung-ho enough to write the attached the opening chapters of his own vision of a megacrossover (and fella, when you write in to identify yourself, be sure to tell us what was written in marker on the binder , so we know it’s you.)
Herewith the opening chapters of a crossover by… some guy.
Poo poo poo
See, I want to write all this effusive stuff about Kathleen because it’s our wedding anniversary today. We’ve been together eleven years and I want to write about how much she means to me and how I wouldn’t be able to get through days without her, and how my life only makes sense when I’m with her.
But I’m having real trouble doing so and for a while I wasn’t sure why. I mean, normally writing about stuff isn’t difficult for me at all. It’s kind of, y’know…my thing. But I found myself stymied, and especially after reading her lengthy testament to me over on her own blog. Why would I have trouble with writer’s block over something like this?
After giving it some thought, I think I’ve determined why.
Amalgam contest results, part 1
Originally published May 9, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1225
Well, it’s time to announce the results of the little contest we had at “But I Digress,” namely the Super-bizarre fight and amalgam universe contest.
For those who came in late (as they always say in The Phantom), we decided to sponsor a little competition in which people could put forward the sort of match-ups that weren’t especially suited to the famed “Marvel vs. DC.” In addition, you were all invited to submit concepts for particularly odd Amalgams.
If It Had Been Up to Conservatives
This country would never have been founded.
The whole point of conservatism is to resist change. If liberal thinking had not prevailed in 1776, then we would still be a British colony, and instead of English we’d be speaking…
Okay. Well, yes, we’d still be speaking English. But we’d all have British accents. And as a result, all our iconic television characters, like…I dunno…Doctor Gregory House, would have to be British. Could you imagine that actor, Hugh Laurie, speaking with a British accent? Of course not.
Avoid the prospect of Hugh Laurie speaking with a British accent. Be a liberal.
PAD
Spaced Out
Originally published May 2, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1224
Note from PAD: This is a somewhat unusual entry. Covering the cancellation of Space Cases, my original draft was somewhat more scathing over the opportunities lost thanks to short-sightedness from Nickelodeon. But at the time it didn’t seem politic since we still had hopes of placing the series elsewhere and needed Nick’s cooperation to do so. So the version that saw print was somewhat toned down and more optimistic. Corey, who oversees these reprints, asked which one I wanted to be immortalized online, and I’ve decided to combine the two for the interest and edification of Space Cases fans everywhere.
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I knew Space Cases was in trouble when we went head-to-head with the Super Bowl.
Well, that’s proof enough for me
It appears that Trayvon Martin, being stalked by an armed vigilante acting in opposition to direct instructions from a 9-1-1 operator, fought for his life against his attacker and managed to do some damage before his assailant gunned him down. We know this because there’s photographic evidence that his assailant was banged up.
By all means, that’s proof enough for me. Obviously his murderer should be released, because if Martin had really wanted to live, he wouldn’t have put up a fight against an armed stalker who came at him from the darkness. In our current society where common sense has become an oxymoron, who wouldn’t understand that?
PAD
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