Retro Version

As some unknown force runs like a cosmic Bill Dozier across the multiverse…




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Just the Beginnings

I haven’t been able to read much long-form lately for a variety of reasons. As you’d expect, Brian Clopper’s 101 First Chapters is the perfect book in that regard.



I’ve known Brian casually for over 30 years as, to invoke Chris Staros’ phrase, a friend through comics — save the sizable gap between the days I could make it to conventions or at least hang out in various Internet forums and when I slowly reconnected with folks, if only by returning to online activity, having lost touch with so many for too great a stretch.

The Clopper oeuvre grew wildly across those decades. While he was already a disciplined, prolific author when interviewed for my All-Brian Issue of Comicology back in 2001, some time after releasing early comics work like Partners in Pandemonium, Bombastic, and Marshall: Godling of War, the sheer mass and pace of his output is staggering.

Out of Hand

This Facebook post that I’m always happy to have show up in Memories is somehow
from a dozen years ago now.



My sister and her kids are visiting. We’re in Mom’s driveway playing with those little wrapped snappers you throw on the ground. My sister J momentarily blanks on both the word “grown-up” and the word “adult”.

… Voice and Singh

I’ll be sharing an overdue post on Star Trek here in the next few months, phasers crossed.



Meantime, I have this. I was moved to file it away three years ago while reading a
bunch of DC’s supernatural anthologies, and now I guess I know why. Yes, Strange New Worlds had already launched, but — although not exactly ripped from the screen — the panel didn’t quite seem to resonate with anything until this past week’s episode, “The Griffin Incident”. I won’t explain since that feels unnecessary if you’ve seen it and obnoxious if you haven’t yet and want to. Spoilers are fine in the comments, however, as I would love someone to at least headcanon away the pink dress.

Panel from “The Mask of Medusa” in The Unexpected #218 © 1981 DC Comics. Script:
Robert Kanigher. Pencils, Inks: Vic Catan. Colors: Jerry Serpe. Letters: Unknown.


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Isle Be Damned

My guess is that Chuck has strict instructions not to interrupt the “Barbers’ Picnic”.



Also, Barbers’ Picnic is my new band name and probably one of the activities in the parlor cabinet in the hotel on Widow’s Bay.

Did you think I’d segue from Peanuts’ currently syndicated repeats into talk of The Pitt instead?

Ordster Up

You don’t really have to sell me on a book called The Art of Jerry Ordway.



I mean, Jerry himself being part of it’s sorta key, but otherwise there’s very little that could dissuade me from plunking down my actual or virtual cash despite my own and the world’s travails of the day. On which more in a few moments.