Happy 58th anniversary, Dick and Tess Tracy!
On this day in 1949, Dick Tracy married his sweetie of 18 years, Tess Trueheart. Here’s to the lovebirds.
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Simone & Ajax – Christmas 2001
Read more Simone and Ajax Christmas adventures:
2000
2003
2005
2007
and A Christmas Calamity!
Oh, and don’t forget the ongoing Adventures of Simone and Ajax all here on ComicMix.
(And no, we’re not running a GrimJack installment today– for some reason, we just didn’t think that the Grinner looks good in a Santa suit. But we do have a Munden’s Bar story with the birthday boy, if you’d like.)
Little Ditty About Danny and Fred, by Dennis O’Neil
Danny and Fred were the last two kids in their grade to still believe in Santa Claus.
Danny had first believed in Daddy, but he stopped when Daddy began to yell a lot, and drink whiskey, and throw things. So Danny could believe he had a father, because he could see a man coming and going, but he stopped believing in Daddy.
But he still believed in Santa Claus. Santa Claus would never yell or throw things or drink whiskey, and besides, he brought presents and all Danny had to do was be good, which he was anyway. Fred, who lived next door, also believed in Santa, though he and Danny never discussed the etiology of it, so Danny didn’t know why Fred believed. He didn’t care, either.
Then, when Danny was fourteen, Father, who was once Daddy, came into Danny’s room on Christmas Eve and pulled Danny from bed and hustled him into the front room, where the Christmas tree was. Father sat Danny down on the sofa and got a big cardboard box from a closet.
The latest from Harris Polls for TV shows on DVDs
I found myself taking a recent Harris poll on TV shows, and they asked some questions about TV shows and DVD, asking if I’d want to buy any of these on DVD:
All of Us
Witchblade
Pushing Daisies
Chuck
Men in Trees
Big Bang Theory
Birds of Prey
Planet Earth
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Moonlight
Man from UNCLE
Big Shots
Cold Case
Gossip Girl
Fastlane
Makes you wonder what’s going to get brought to DVD soon, eh? (And yes, I know Man From Uncle just had a big release.)
How about you? Which of these do you want to see on DVD soon? And what else should be on the list?
When Donner is Blitzened, who can you get to save Christmas?An Editor’s Night Before Christmas, by Mike Gold
‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
Deadlines were mounting, so I emailed Herr Claus
The scripts were all posted on the Internet with care
In hopes that the editing elves would soon be there
The artists were nestled, all snug in their beds,
While visions of royalty checks danced in their heads.
Hot Who Links and Much More!
OK, so we get a little sappy this time of year. Just bear with us and accept ComicMix Radio’s gift of some cool web links. And in the spirit of giving, a few of these haven’t even made it to the podcast yet!
• In two days, a lot of us should be treated to the first new Doctor Who adventure in months when the BBC airs this year’s Christmas special (and the Internet Fairies drop it somewhere online). In the meantime, did you know there is an online adventure calendar poster here. If this doesn’t put you in the mood for more Who, nothing will.
• As we told you on Saturday, Shadowline is creating a contest geared toward writers to create a super-heroine for the 21st Century. The character will be 100% creator-owned as all Image and Shadowline books are (trademark and copyright to be shared by writer and artist). The winning entry will be featured in their own self-titled three issue mini-series to be drawn by Franchesco!, artist for She-Dragon and Green Lantern Corps Quarterly. Contest will be divided into three parts and for Round One: Contestants e-mail a BRIEF one paragraph story synopsis by January 31, 2008 to: superheroinecontest@gmail.com. Stories/concept must be original with original characters. No pre-existing characters may be used unless owned by contestant.
Simone & Ajax – Christmas 2003
We continue our ongoing campaign for those of you who only look at RSS feeds to actually read some comics.
Read more Simone and Ajax Christmas adventures:
And we have more to come before the big day!
Oh, and don’t forget the ongoing Adventures of Simone and Ajax all here on ComicMix. (more…)
A blog war during Christmas
Science fiction writer John Scalzi started it. He tried to make our heads explode with a particular music video.
I’ve grown rather attached to my head over the years, and so I returned fire on my own weblog with <a href=”
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Within ten minutes, he parried with <a href=”
retort.
Oh, it is on, bucko. Of course you realize, in the words of the great philospohers, this means war.
Ball’s in your court, fella.
