“Oh sure, when the Punisher does it nobody cares, but let the android try and people start yelling about Skynet.”
The Avengers #96
Marvel Comics (February, 1972)
“The Andromeda Swarm!”
WRITER: Roy Thomas
ARTIST: Neal Adams
INKERS: Neal Adams, Tom Palmer, and Alan Weiss
LETTERER: Sam Rosen
EDITOR: Stan Lee
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I didn’t make that connection either.
I would have posted this in the daily quickpost but I forgot today was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I keep thinking it’s in February, during Black History Month. (That’s the shortest month of the year; make of that what you will.) I usually see stuff leading up to the day as reminders it’s coming, but this year? Nothing. It’s like even the civil rights movement wants to distance themselves from King’s message of judging by character, and not skin color, wanting to forget that when white boys and white girls join hands with black boys and black girls might means those boys and girls will start dating, marrying, and having kids with each other. I would love to see a day where King’s dream becomes a reality and skin color will be treated no different than hair and eye color. The only race that really exists is the human race.
This week’s Chapter By Chapter review will be posted tomorrow. I don’t want this speech to be forgotten so long as the goal hasn’t been achieved.
That must have been some party last night.
Runners: Bad Goods #2
Serve Man Press (September, 2003)
WRITER/ARTIST: Sean Wang
You can read the color version on the Runners’ website. My old print copy is in black and white.
Trying to fund your independent comic on something like Kickstarter and Indiegogo is not easy. Unless you’re looking for comics I don’t know how easy it is for them to show up in suggestions with all of the other items looking to crowdfund their dream project (or scam their backers). Then you have reports of shadow bans for personal or in some views political reasons. It would be easier to have one spot just for comic projects that truly is an open platform for creators who just want to make comic stories regardless of their ideology that people looking for new comics can check out. We can’t all start our own publishing company like Eric July did to go around the current system that favors DC and Marvel.
Bleeding Fool goes over a soon-to-launch crowdfunder just for comics who doesn’t care who you voted for in the last election. As someone who wants to make comics I’ll be keeping an eye on this to see how well it promotes indie comic creators and whether or not they get the short end in the future.
Like the title says I’m off to a bad start this year.
No Jake & Leon this week because by the time I came up with something it was too late to make it. Not that my sleep cycle helped. I still haven’t finished the latest Captain Yuletide, which I might as well save for next Christmas since it’s already halfway through January and it seems odd releasing a Christmas comic now. At least I know I’ll have time this time.
I also missed this week’s Saturday Night Showcase like I missed the Golden Age comic review last week. This time I just forgot because I was focused on this week’s Clutter Report, as I organized my video files. Some further organizing will be required so I can get rid of the multiples but at least now I have a system for it. So at least I can get back to uploading the old videos to my back-up over at BitChute. I’d also like to start working on the closed captions for the shows on YouTube.
This week takes us further into TekWar for Chapter By Chapter, I’d like to do another Free Comic Inside, and we’ll see what else is happening in the world. And hopefully I’ll get stuff done when they’re supposed to be done. Have a great week, everyone!
When you need to kill something with fire, he’s the man to call.
Wonderworld Comics #7
Fox Features Syndicate (November, 1939)
So you know how in previous issues we’ve had questioned credits by Comic Book Plus? Well oddly the site info on this issue has no credits. So unless it shows up in the comic itself (and I’m curious going in if they have the Shorty Shortcake comic this time around) I have no credits to give at all. At least this will be a bit easier coming back in.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
