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a 52 connection?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I began reading the Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-ups trade, and in the very first DC multiverse crossover story, when the two Flashes meet, we see that Barry Allen visits Jay Garrick at his home address: 5252 78th Street!  We can even see the 5252 on the door.  I find it funny and too crazy of a coincidence that not only was Jay's address "52" but "5252" !!!! Make of it what you will.  Am I the only one to discover this?  Anyone else see this before now?

Category:blog -- posted at: 1:01pm EDT

Any listeners from NYC?  I just wanted to let all 3 1/2 people who might be interested know that I will be in New York City at Midtown Comics (Times Square) on Saturday, May 19, sometime during the day.  (I really can't predict the time, sorry).  So, if you'd like to say "hi," don't be shy!  I'll just be milling about looking for stuff to buy.  I'll probably be there for an hour or two.  Don't know what I look like?  Scroll down the page.  I'm the weird lookin' fella (and the only one in the picture). 

More June reads:
2. Batman and the Outsiders #17
3. Batman and the Outsiders #18

Category:blog -- posted at: 10:34pm EDT

where I first read old spidey issues I had mentioned this in the last show as the paperback book in which I first read the original first 6 Spider-man issues as a kid.  (There was apparently a follow-up book with next half-dozen issues also.) Thought you folks might want to see what I was talking about... 
Category:blog -- posted at: 1:05pm EDT

may / june reads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm ahead in the pledged reading for the month, but it hasn't been causing my number of unread comics to go down any... for every 5 I read, I buy 10 more cheap comics... Oh, well.  It's fun to try.  Most of the first 20-something comics read this month were newer comics languishing in my boxes.  I was trying not to backlog the amount of older comics I review.  Stay tuned for an announcement on that in the podcast for June... the tweaking of the podcast never ends...
Anyway, here are the final reads for May... I'll work on some trades for the rest of the month...
23. Exiles #29
24. Free Comic Book Day Family Guy / Hack/Slash
25. Archie's Mysteries #30
26. Batman #616
27. Dutchy Digest Free Comic Book Day 2007
28. Wonder Book of Rubber('64?)
29. Hawkman('02) #19
30. The Plain Janes
...And here's the first one for June:
1. Black Knight: Exodus #1

And here's another pic of me so that you can put a face to the voice.  I always think that's fun-- and 9 times out of 10, the face doesn't match the mental picture... Photo manipulation by JJ... I call it Karate LSD Boogaloo.

Category:blog -- posted at: 12:38pm EDT

more May reads...

9. Captain America(v.4) #8

10. Captain America(v.4) #15

11. Captain America(v.4) #18

12. The Flash(Wally) #199

13. The Flash(Wally) #205

14. The Flash(Wally) #217

15. The Ultimates #13

16. Uncanny X-Men #439

17. Uncanny X-Men #442

18. Uncanny X-Men #443

19. Justice League of America('06) #8

20. 52 #52

21. Astonishing X-Men #21

22. The Outsiders('85) #1

I'm also posting with this the pic of myself that's on my comicspace page... it's 3 years old...  I hope to post a few more pics of me so that you may recognize me and shower me with presents... (please?)

Category:blog -- posted at: 10:13pm EDT

I have gotten started on May's 30 comics reads.  Here they are so far:

1. The Brave and the Bold ('07) #3

2. X-Factor ('06) #18

3. The Avengers (v.3) #64

4. The Ray #13

5. Justice Society of America ('06) #5

6. 52 #51

7. Marvel's Greatest Comics: Fantastic Four #52 (2006 reprint special)

8. X-Men Annual ('93) #2

Category:blog -- posted at: 1:19am EDT

Here's my remaining reads to reach 30 for this month:

25. 52 #49

26. The New Avengers #29

27. The Avengers(v.3) #57

28. The Avengers(v.3) #67

29. The Avengers(v.3) #68

30. 52 #50

...And I went through with reducing my pull list by dropping 3 Marvels: New Avengers, X-Factor, and Captain America.  These are just a few of the comics I have quit over the last few months-- partially due to financial reasons and partially due to disgust over Civil War.  I really hated to quit X-Factor; that was more of an economic cut. 

I will tell you some good Marvel reading, however: I picked up Essential Amazing Spider-man vol.1.  I have read many of the stories within this book, but there are still plenty of great stories I haven't read.  Ditko does some fine work, of course, but I was really digging the short Spidey story that Jack Kirby draws at the end of one of the issues. 

Category:blog -- posted at: 2:24am EDT

Check out Comics Podcast Crossover #13, "The Other Ten Percent."  I make a contribution about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Link to the show:  http://comicspodcastcrossover.libsyn.com/

Category:blog -- posted at: 6:27pm EDT

I am back from N.C. Expect show #50 in a few days.  I'll report on the trip in that episode; meanwhile, I read a lot of comics while there.  Let's add them to April, shall we:

6. Painkiller Jane (V.2) #0

7. Plastic Farm #10

8. Plastic Farm #11

9. Plastic Farm #12

10. 52 #48

11. Captain America Annual #5

12. All-Star Squadron #1

13. Stylish Vittles book 2

14. The Flash(Wally) #204

15. The Flash(Wally) #206

16. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Teams 2005

17. The Amazing Spider-Man #539

18. Life with Archie #50

19. The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #109

and a few other non-beach reads:

20. Marvel Premiere #58

21. Justice Society of America(1991) #4

22. New X-Men #152

23. Donald Duck (2006 Halloween giveaway)

24. The Brave and the Bold('07) #2

Category:blog -- posted at: 9:44pm EDT

another odd Lois pic...
Category:blog -- posted at: 12:35am EDT