Here to mark National Pancake Day is one of my favorite comic-book panels ever.
I really have nothing to add except that if I’d been able to bring myself to bastardize Mike Mignola’s work (beyond what I did to straighten and flatten the photo I took from my Hellboy Library Edition printing of the story) I would’ve probably included the Campbell’s soup can for emphasis because it looks much to my frustration like posting will continue to be all too infrequent.
As some unknown force runs like a cosmic Bill Dozier across the multiverse…
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Update: Grayscale for it all probably helps sell the newsprint throwback vibe but part of the point was to emphasize tension in the mashup. Not to mention that color makes the episode title’s font more recognizable.
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.
