Thursday, March 23, 2023

Kitty Pryde 🐈‍⬛: Shadow of the Bat-Cat

Silhouetted against the window, my cat Kitty Pryde 🐈‍⬛ loves you.


Today in Comics History, Thursday the 23rd: Victoria's Secret model confounds Captain America and SHIELD*


from Spectacular Spider-Man (2003 series) #19 (Marvel, November 2004), script by Paul Jenkins, pencils by Paco Medina, inks by Juan Vlasco, colors by Studio F, letters by Cory Petit

*Supermodel Has Indecent Exposure Lingerie Down

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

What's Bully Watching?: Cow!


Today in Comics History, March 22: Happy birthday, Playback!

Born today in 1955: Miriam Morse aka Playback, the psychic sister of Inspector Morse, who helped him solve many murder mysteries who works for the government hunting down the alien paranormal vigilante code-named Justice. Please note that her hobbies include "philately, videotapes (What? Does she collect 'em? Watch 'em? Belong to the Columbia House Hit VHS a Month Club? Does she manage a Blockbuster Video?), and letting the air out of the tires on cars that are illegally parked in handicapped spaces." Whoa, that last one. You go, girl!


from Justice #22 (Marvel/New Universe, August 1988), creators uncredited and unknown

Happy birthday, Playback, and if you see her in a parking lot letting the air out of tires on cars that are illegal parked in handicap spaces...no you didn't.

Today in Comics History, March 17, St. Patrick's Day: From the comic strip printed below this one, Popeye gazes up longingly


Nancy (United Feature Syndicate, March 17, 1966), by Ernie Bushmiller

A special tip 'of the three rocks to Johnny Callicutt for bringing this strip to my attention. Johnny runs the absolutely essential and unofficial Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller feeds on Twitter and Bluesky! Thanks, Johnny!

Today in Comics History, March 21, First Day of Spring: And this is why Aunt Fritzi is a hardcore anti-global warning conspiracist


from Nancy (United Feature Syndicate, March 21, 1947), by Ernie Bushmiller

A special tip 'of the three rocks to Johnny Callicutt for bringing this strip to my attention. Johnny runs the absolutely essential and unofficial Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller feeds on Twitter and Bluesky! Thanks, Johnny!

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Monday, March 20, 2023

Today in Comics History, March 20, 1955: Comic book penciller only draws the top part of the panel, saving half of the wall painting time


from Fantastic Four (2023 series) #1/694 (Marvel, January 2023), script by Ryan North, pencils and inks by Iban Coello, colors by Jesus Aburtov, letters by Joe Caramagna