Happy Birthday, Tom Spurgeon!

You would have been 52 today, and we all still miss you.

You would have been 52 today, and we all still miss you.
Just because… oh, all right, we’ll tie it into comics somehow. Here, enjoy one of the more interesting crossovers from the MGM days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jotng-R8E9s
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The Occasional Superheroine herself, Valerie D’Orazio, has an interesting thought experiment going on at her blog: Play "Fantasy DC EIC" and Redo The DCU! This is like Fantasy Baseball, but instead of pretending to play a professional sport, you pretend to be the new Editor-In-Chief of the DC Universe. You come in to the job,…
Seventy-eight years ago today, Mickey Mosue uttered his first words, "Hot Dog!", in the short The Karnival Kid. Although it was Mickey’s ninth short, it was the first in which he actually spoke. Mickey’s voice, of course, was that of his creator, Walt Disney.
Charles Foster "Chuck" Taine was an ordinary 30th-Century Earth boy who got a job running errands for a famous scientist. The scientist sent Chuck off one day to deliver his experimental super-plastic formula to the Science Council, but Chuck got distracted by a robot gladiator tournament and stopped to watch for a bit. During the…
From the comic adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Wally Wood, originally published in Weird Fantasy #17 by EC Comics.