Hey, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona...

...Batman has a few words for you:

365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 127

Panels from Avengers #201 (November 1980), co-plotted by Jim Shooter, co-plotted and scripted by David Michelinie, pencilled by George Perez, inked by Dan Green, colored by Ben Sean, lettered by John Costanza

Based on the short story "This Evil Undying" by Jim Shooter in The Marvel Superheroes: Marvel Novel Series #9:

365 Days with Hank McCoys, Day 126

Hank McCoy of Earth-616 and Hank McCoy of Earth-A (aka Earth-721), in a panel from She-Hulk v.2 #21 (October 2007), script by Dan Slott and Ty Templeton, pencils by Rick Burchett, inks by Cliff Rathburn, colors by Andy Troy, letters by Dave Sharpe

365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 125

Panels from Avengers #164 (October 1977), script by Jim Shooter, pencils by John Byrne, inks by Pablo Marcos, colors by Phil Rachelson, letters by Denise Wohl

If I Ran Dargaud

365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 124

Cover of Uncanny X-Men #519 (February 2010), art by Greg Land

Monday Night Murals: Whoops

As Scots superhero Iron Brew once observed: the best-laid plans of mice and Marvel sometimes gang oft algey, and I think we all know how painful that can be. In other words, sometimes interconnecting cover murals don't quite work out the way they're planned. Can you spot the addicental mistale accidental mistake in the mural below?

Covers of Exiles #56, 55, 57 (February 2005), art by Jim Calafiore and Mark McKenna
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In their eagerness to publish an Exiles mega-three-issue-event, all during one single month, Marvel made one fatal flaw*: they published the interconnecting covers out of sequence. Issue #55 wound up in the middle of the triptych, not #56. Whoops! Well, hey, that's the way it goes on alternate Earths where black is white, up is down, and Stan Lee is Dick Giordano. What a strange, weird, alien world that is!

*Flaw not actually literally fatal.

365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 123

Detail of a full page illustration by Fred Hembeck from The X-Men Companion II (September 1982)

(Click picture to see the full image. Seriously! It's really gorgeous.)

Ten of a Kind: Stop! Hammer and Sickle Time!

(More Ten of a Kind here.)

365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 122

Two-page spread from Professor Xavier and the X-Men #2 (December 1995), written by Fred Schiller, art by Jan Duursema

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Free Comic Book Day 2010!

Welcome to the first Saturday in May...the best day of the year...FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!

I went to my favorite comic book store in the universe, Bergen Street Comics in Brooklyn! I was so excited!




Bergen Street Comics had lots of fun and activities and events and OHHH LET ME AT THE FREE COMICS!




It was very very busy there today! Maybe I should have brought my stilts. Excuse me! Excuse me!




Tom and Amy had decorated the store up wonderfully. I like helium balloons like this...they make my voice even squeakier than it is! Sometimes it gets so high you can't actually hear me, but then dogs start howling.




Here's a whole counter full of free comic books! WOW, I'm so very excited!! (Tom and Amy and Tucker at Bergen Street made sure I got one of everything—thanks everybody! You're the greatest!)




YAYYYYY! May I have one of these, please? It's got BATMAN in it!




Here's Amy Adams from Bergen Street Comics and me. I'm the one on the right. Amy is very nice, even when comics aren't free! Thanks for everything, Amy!




Now, here's my special patented plan to get more free comics: put on a disguise and go back in!




"Oo eez zis Boo-ly you speak ov? Mah name is Meester Mustacheface."




One of these days I need my own comic, which will be entitled Bully and Friends. Until then, I'll read about Owly. And friends.




Look out, Owly! Look out! He's got a gun!




Later at home, I look at all my free comics. Thanks, everyone! I will be reading these all night and all day tomorrow! Free Comic Book Day rocks!

365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 121

from Stryfe's Strike File one-shot (January 1993), written by Fabian Nicieza and Scott Lobdell, pencils by Larry Stroman, inks by Mark Farmer, colors by Kevin Tinsley

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Big Rock Candy Mountain

Hobo's Holiday (1963), directed by Seymour Kneitel (featuring the song "Big Rock Candy Mountain" written by Harry 'Haywire' McClintock)




The Big Rock Candy Mountains (2006), written and directed by Ian Kenny




"Big Rock Candy Mountain" sung by its writer, Harry McClintock (1928)




"Big Rocky Candy Mountain" sung by Tom Waits from the movie 1989 Ironweed




Theme song from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008), lyrics by Thurop Van Orman, music by Dan Cantrell, sung by Brian Doyle-Murray, Roz Ryan, and Thurop Van Orman




A different song by the same name: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" by my pal, Jane Wiedlin