Originally published March 22, 1996, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1166
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we’re short on time this week. So, for a quickie, I’m running the following letter and illustration from Red Sonja creator Frank Thorne, whose Devil’s Angel is one of the comics named in the Oklahoma City debacle.
The prospect of a Cardinals/Rangers World Series did nothing for me, as I made clear on this very site. But my God, what a great game that was last night. I tuned in when some Rangers fan on Facebook said, “Only two outs to go!” and, oh my freaking God. Up by two runs, down to the last strike, and they couldn’t get it done. Next inning, up by two runs, down to the last strike, couldn’t get it done. Climaxed by a walk off home run that a poor Cardinals jersey wound up giving its life for when it was ripped off the back of the hometown boy who was the hero not once, but twice in the same game. David Freese won’t have to pay for a drink in any bar in St. Louis for the rest of his life.
There were probably so many Rangers fans banging their heads against the wall that it registered on the Richter Scale.
PAD
Originally published March 15, 1996, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1165
Planet Comics closed.
Well, the censors certainly showed them, didn’t they? They can add another notch to their belt. At a time in our industry when stores are closing because they can’t afford to keep their doors open due to “normal” sales drop-off, we now lose a store of long standing because well-organized monitors of what other people should be exposed to decided to target a store.
Continue Reading “Planet Comics and the Effects of Censorship”
“Young Justice” is preempted this Friday because of the two hour movie “Batman vs. Dracula.” So this pushes the entire slate back a week. Meaning the earliest it would air is November 18. And knowing Cartoon Network, they’ll probably wind up pushing it back to March.
UPDATED 10/27/11 at 8:32 PM–It turns out that it will indeed be airing on November 18.
PAD
Originally published March 8, 1996, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1164
So we went to Disney World again.
With New York subjected to more snow jobs than an armada of Rush Limbaughs could present—exacerbated by my extended stays in Montreal for Space Cases—my family needed some relief.
In recent weeks, 4-year-old Ariel had even taken to wailing, “My friends at Disney World miss me.” This summoned up mental pictures of Mickey standing forlornly at the front gate from morning till night, informing the rest of the disappointed characters, “Well, another day without Ariel. What’s the point of living?”
GOP candidates and talking heads are claiming that the timing of the Iraqi pullout is politically motivated and condemning Obama for it. Perry, Bachman, McCain et al are all asserting that it’s rushed and wrongheaded…even though it’s being done on the schedule established by Bush.
So when Obama kills bin Laden, they give props to Bush, declaring that W.’s policies made it possible even though W. stated on record that he didn’t give bin Laden much thought anymore…
…but when Obama adheres to Bush’s policy and deals that Bush made for a withdrawal schedule, it’s Obama just being a politically motivated dìçk?
You know what? Good luck to the GOP making this one fly. Selling the notion of “How dare that bášŧárd Obama get our young men and women out of a warzone that we never should have been in in the first place” is going to be an uphill battle at best. If anything, it’s the GOP talking heads who are going to look as if THEY are playing politics, trying to put a negative spin on something that I have to think most Americans have wanted to see happen.
PAD
Originally published March 1, 1996, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1163
John Adams died on July 4, 1826. There was an irony over his passing on Independence Day. The further irony was his last words: “Thomas Jefferson still survives.” What he did not know was that Jefferson died the same day—under the impression that Adams was still alive.
I doubt that Burne Hogarth or Jerry Siegel died with each other’s names on their lips. Nevertheless, there is a certain “double whammy” feeling when two of this industry’s “forefathers” pass away on the exact same day. One is upsetting; two becomes numbing.
I can’t claim to know Hogarth personally, never having had the opportunity or honor to meet him. Siegel, however, I met once, and it was a memorable moment.
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