“Whooooooooo are you? Who? Who? Who, Who?” WHO ARE YOU Composed by Pete Townsend The Who, 1978 Picking up from last week— All our super-powered mythic creations, whether hero or villain, man or woman, are avatars—whether we realize it or not. Superman, of course, is the Big Kahuna avatar of comics. Every corrupt politician that…
A great many of our finer super-villains in the heroic fantasy world are bent on world conquest. Admittedly, a few simply want to destroy the planet, but at Lord Cumulous said to Prince Chaos in Warp, “Destroy the planet? Where are you going to live?” For the life of me, I don’t understand why anybody…
You guys! You guys! Hey you guuuuuyyyyysssss!!! …Otherwise known as “wonderful ComicMix readers.” Guess what? Go on now, guess! Naaaaah, you’ll never get it. So here it is: I am one year old!! Well. If by “I” I mean “this column,” and if by “one” I actually mean “one year and a few weeks.” But…
Six more windows to close… at this rate, I’ll be down to only two hundred open windows by the end of the year. Sigh… Batman’s interspecies film career. (Oh, come on– we already have bats and robins together, this isn’t that much worse, right?) Email from Doctor Doom. No, really: I do not speak melodramaticaly….
As a tip of the hat to Matt Fraction and Punisher War Journal #4, and to keep you occupied while we’re out on the convention floor collecting stories, we present this favorite item from the past, Dr. Doom’s Top Ten Euphimisms for Sex.
