More from those stressed-out singletons in Apartment 3-G! (Click the "comic strips" tag at the bottom for parts one through six...if you dare.) This week, it's trauma and drama for in the ER!| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
If you're still checking this mostly-abandoned blog, I finally can present the reason why it's mostly-abandoned! I've written a book, and it's available now for the Kindle from Amazon!| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
On my way home yesterday I passed a woman talking on her phone, and I heard her say, "My butt knows." I didn't hear any more, as badly as I wanted to. What was really interesting was her intonation: she didn't give a sassy, "My BUTT knows!" as in "Who knows? My BUTT knows!" Finger snap, audience applause. She said, "My butt KNOWS!" as in "Oh my god, my butt KNOWS! It knows about us, it knows about the diamonds, it knows everything! What the HELL are we going to do?"| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
I would like to say to any gentlemen callers I may have, now or in the future - offering to help me move will get you far, but punching gorillas will get you farther.| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
If that title isn't good for a few hundred Google hits, I don't know what is. Ahem. Free Comic Book Day is a promotional event held the first Saturday in May. Comic book publishers provide special issues of their comics to retailers, who give them away for free in an attempt to attract new readers. The day tends to be pretty family friendly, so many of the comics provided are intended for all ages. Many, but not all. This year, Silver Dragon Books gave us a hot little tale that's definitely f...| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Bluewater Comics publishes multiple lines of biographies of famous figures from politics, history and entertainment. I was excited when I saw they were publishing a graphic novel featuring actors from Doctor Who - you may not have noticed, but I'm something of a fan. Bluewater's biographical comics don't have the best reputation among comic fans, but I had yet to read one for myself and decided to keep an open mind. My verdict? Fame: The Cast of Doctor Who (unauthorized) is...strange. It ...| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
I've made you a video! Mel, played by Bonnie Langford, was a companion to the Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and was without a doubt the screamiest in a long line of screamers. Here are all her screams, run together in one convenient video, for no reason at all. Crank that volume!| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Hey, it's a new series! Not Doctor Who, that's been around for almost fifty years. No, I'm talking about this series, in my blog - I'm going to take a close look at every single episode of Doctor Who, one by one, from the very beginning. I'm calling it "Episodes", because in a fit of dullness I called my series on the companions "Companions" and now I feel obliged to continue the theme. Given how often I update my blog and how many episodes there have been, I expect none of us will live to se...| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Hey, look! New DC Comics action figures, featuring the Justice League in their new costumes, redesigned by comics superstar Jim Lee!| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
It seems like every comics-loving, comics-mocking blog - including mine - focuses almost exclusively on comics from the past. Aren't there any new comics worth mocking? Surely there must be new ground to tread, some comic published today more worthy of dissection than yet another issue of Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane? Isn't there anything terrible being put out by a major publisher?| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
There's something perverted in the final issue of Avengers: The Children's Crusade! No, I don't mean this, silly:| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Here are the last of my slightly altered Apartment 3-G comics strips, migrated over from my old LiveJournal blog. In fact, this is the last of the content from my old blog that is at all relevant to this one, so no more slacking off for me. All new, all the time from now on!| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Oh, Hostess comic ads of the seventies and eighties! How I love your particular brand of madness! Let's dive deep below the sea and discover what joys you have for us this time.| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
More from the gang in Apartment 3-G! This week, meet self-absorbed mom Nora Mills! Also - Luann takes a turn for the worse! (Need to catch up? Click the "comic strips" label for prior entries.)| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Remember Goofus and Gallant? I loved these comics when I was a kid.| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
And now here's Rory kissing the Doctor.| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Valentine's Day is bearing down on us once again! Last year I looked at the worst companion romances in Doctor Who history because I'm a cynical single bastard. I'm still a cynical single bastard, but I'm going to take a slightly happier tack this year. Enough with the companions, let's take a look at the many, many loves of the Doctor himself! Let's start with the obvious, and work backwards, shall we?| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
In 1965, less than two years after Doctor Who aired its first episode, the good Doctor made his big screen debut in Dr. Who and the Daleks. The film starred Peter Cushing as eccentric scientist Doctor Who, who lived in a cozy little nondescript house in London with his granddaughters Susan and Barbara. Doctor Who built "Tardis", a time and space machine, and kept it in his back garden. While showing his new invention off to Barbara's boyfriend Ian, the quartet were accidentally whisked off t...| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
This may come as a surprise to you, but I love comics, even more than I enjoy mocking them. My favorite super-team is the Justice Society of America, a group made up of the greatest heroes of the 1940s. So as a kid reading comics in the eighties, my favorite title was All-Star Squadron. Written and created by number one JSA fan Roy Thomas, All-Star Squadron related the adventures of the titular team, formed by President Roosevelt after the attack on Pearl Harbor, made up of every super-hero D...| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
What's that, you say? You're been clamoring for more relettered parodies of four year old comic strips? Well, your long nightmare is over! Here's the next installment of Apartment 3-G, just like the original but with gay subtext made explicit. Need to catch up? Click the "comic strips" tag for the first seven parts!| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Ben Jackson| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Thanks for keeping it clean, Robin. Hey, comics writers - just put in the "what". You're not saving much space and it doesn't sound as realistic as you think it does.| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
Doctor Who may be a science-fiction show at its core, but it's had its dalliances with the supernatural on more than one occasion. In honor of Halloween, let's put aside the Daleks and the Sontarans and take a look at some of the more more traditionally spooky monsters to vex the Doctor and his friends...| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
I have tried both of these lines. Neither worked.| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!
I recently rediscovered a gem of a comic I had completely forgotten about. In 1986, Marvel's "Epic" line of creator-owned comics published Alan Weiss' seminal masterpiece Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool, a six-issue limited series. I was astonished to discover that Mr. Weiss is openly heterosexual, because this comic is every bit as gay as you thought it was when you read that title two and a half seconds ago. I was also astonished to discover that, despite myself, I kind of....| Die, Hideous Creature... Die!