The Zen of Batman: Politics

From Batman: "Hizzoner the Penguin" (November 2, 1966), script by Stanford Sherman

Please make Batman proud of you by voting for the candidate of your choice* tomorrow at your local polling place!


*Unless it's the Penguin.

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 311: Tales from Volstagg, Day 2

Panels from Thor #338, 339, and 340 (December 1983- February 1984), script, pencils and inks by Walt Simonson; colors by George Roussos, letters by John Workman Jr.

Double-Wide Doctor Strange, Day 1: Wasn't this the cover for a Yes album?

The Mid-Day Matinee this week, all week: Double-Wide Doctor Strange! If there's a superhero whose cosmic adventures demand the true widescreen experience, it's Stephen Strange, M.D. (Magical Doctor). All this week we'll take a peek at some of the mind-blowing, senses-shattering, left-arm-tingling-and-tasting-copper events that pitched Stephen Severus Strange against his greatest enemies, like Baron Mordo, Mindfreak, Penn (not Teller), and David Copperfield (Not The One From Charles Dickens). The Doctor is in...for Double-Wide Doctor Strange Week!

Double-page spread from Strange Tales v.1 #162 (November 1967), co-plot and script by Jim Lawrence; co-plot, pencils, and inks by Dan Adkins; letters by Sam Rosen
(Click picture to Tales From Topographic Oceans-size)

Ten of a Kind: Occupy Metropolis

(More Ten of a Kind here.)

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 310: Tales from Volstagg, Day 1

Page from Journey Into Mystery #630 (Late December 2011), script by Kieron Gillen, pencils and inks by Richard Elson, colors by Jessica Kholinne, letters by Clayton Cowles

Thine mortal mind cannot comprehend

LOL Sundays #16: Relax, don't do it

Panels from DC Universe Online Legends #16 (Late December 2011), script by Tom Taylor, pencils and inks by Bruno Redondo, colors by Jorge Gonzalez, letters by Wes Abbott

Same Story, Different Cover: Franklin hates it when his mom shows off his baby comics

L: Fantastic Four Annual #6 (November 1968), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Sinnott
R: Giant-Size Sue Storm Fantastic Four #6 (October 1975), pencils by Ron Wilson, inks by Joe Sinnott

(Click picture to third trimester-size)

1968? For Pete's sake, Franklin, you're forty-three this year! Move out from Mom and Dad's, will ya, already! You can't hang out in the Baxter Building basement, whoever cool you've made it into your "pad," playing video games and eating Cheet-Os for the rest of your life. Get a job, you bum.

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 309

Panel from Thor #212 (June 1973), script by Gerry Conway, pencils by John Buscema and Don Perlin, inks by Vince Colletta, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Denise Vladimer

Saturday Afternoon Cartoon: Batman Meets Space Ghost!

Space Ghost and Batman in "The Space Safari" from Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2011)

Stan Lee Saturdays #16: That boy needs therapy

Panel from "Liltin' Limericks" in Not Brand Echh #13 (May 1969),
script by Roy Thomas and Phil Seuling, pencils and inks by Tom Sutton

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 308

Panel from Thor #140 (May 1967), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Vince Colletta, letters by Sam Rosen

Syllabub

Everybody's talking at me. I don't hear a word they're saying, only the echoes of my mind about all the fantastic back-matter in the X-Men: Regenesis books. So much promotion to cover the story in which Kitty finally gets her Sega Game System back from the repair shop! Oh, wait, I've made another one of my silly mistakes.

I love "behind the scenes" documents and back-up info of how the Marvel Universe works, which may explain why I have every copy of all forty-seven editions of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. But I'm still not buying that theory that Scott Summers' head is a gateway to a red energy dimension. So I'm loving the back-up documents showing the breakdown of the new X-Teams (altho, guys? Putting the word "Extinction" in your team classification is just asking for dramatic irony). I especially loved the brochure of Wolverine's newly rebranded Jean Grey School for Higher Living and Occasional Resurrection that appeared in this week's Wolverine and the X-Men #1. ComicsAlliance has the online exclusive on this so I've reproduced it to the right so small you can't actually read it. Frustrated? Why, just click on the picture and you can zip over to ComicsAlliance and see it in all its embiggened glory there. See: everybody wins!

What I will show y'all here is Wolverine's first attempt at writing a class syllabus from waaaaay back when Xavier's had just opened its doors to more students than just the X-Men and the New Mutants, a cool idea initiated in the first X-Men film and integrated into Grant Morrison's New X-Men. You may claim it appeared in Wizard magazine (hey, remember that?) and therefore isn't canon, but I argue that any class in which part of your curriculum is the first Rambo book surely must be authentic Wolverine. Check it out and revise your semester courses accordingly!


from Wizard Special Edition: X-Men (2002), written by Tom Root

I'd definitely take this course and sign up for the second semester: Advanced Field Survival 506, in which the Hulk rips us all in half and then we have to wait three and a half years to find out what happens next!

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 307

Panel from Thor #198 (April 1972), script by Gerry Conway, pencils by John Buscema, inks by Vince Colletta, letters by John Costanza

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 306

Photograph of Warriors Three cosplayers at Wonder Con 2011 by Rich ("Earthdog")

Gone on a sea cruise

Well, not really. I'm just a little run down from posting all those pictures yesterday (also, eating all that candy), so I'm going to take a wee few days off. But The Warriors Three never take vacations (not since that disastrous Spring Break in Cabo), so they'll be here each day to amuse, edify, and entertain you. Please pay no attention to the grumblings that they have to work while I don't.

I'll be back this weekend, November 5th, with Stan Lee, LOL Sundays, Ten of a Kind and all the usual features! Until then, be good and be good to each other, friends!

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 305

Volstagg celebrates the Day of the Dead by fighting Mephisto! Well, who wouldn't?


Panel from Thor #181 (October 1970), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Neal Adams, inks by Joe Sinnott, letters by Artie Simek