1968 2024 Calendars for January and the Whole Menacing Year Ahead

Hey, it's 2024!


from Cable (2008 series) #2 (Marvel, June 2008), script by Duane Swierczynski, painted art by Ariel Olivetti, letters by Joe Caramagna
And not a moment too soon, if'n ya ask me. But how do you think we can make sure it is, Albert Einstein, Jimmy Olsen, Adam Strange, and, convniently flyin' past in the purple skies, Deadman?


from DC Challenge #6 (DC, April 1986), script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Dan Jurgens, inks by Larry Mahlstedt, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by John Costanza

Today in Comics History, April 10, 2019: Daily Bugle struggles for a way to pin this on Spider-Man

from Cable (2020 series) #2 (Marvel, September 2020); script by Gerry Duggan; pencils, inks, and colors by Phil Noto; letters by Joe Sabino

Today in Comics History, 2019: Bishop decides to settle down and just enjoy himself in the present day

from Cable (2008 series) #2 (Marvel, June 2008), script by Duane Swierczynski, painted art by Ariel Olivetti, letters by Joe Caramagna

365 Days of Defiance, Day 243: A heart full of joy and gladness will always banish sadness and Stryfe

The Nineties! They were big, bold, and brassy, filled to the brim with epaulets, guns, and pouches, an age where large men with invisible feet roamed the scratchy, scratchy earth. But no matter the style of the nineties, you have to give 'em this: heroes were heroes, and they did the right things:




Panels from What If...? (1989 series) #69 nice [What If Stryke Killed the X-Men?] (January 1995), script by Mariano Nicieza, pencils by J.R. Justiniano, inks by Roy Richardson, colors by Kevin Tinsley, letters by Janice Chiang

365 Days of Defiance, Day 206: You give love a bad name

Panels from X-Men Annual (2007 series) #1 (March 2007), script by Mike Carey, pencils by Mark Brooks, inks by Jaime Mendoza and Victor Olzaba, colors by John Rouch and Chris Sotomayor, letters by Cory Petit

Today in Comics History, December 5: First appearance, Cable's gigantic area

from New Mutants (1983 series) #98 (Marvel, February 1991); plot, pencils, and inks by Rob Liefeld, script by Fabian Nicieza, colors by Steve Buccellato, letters by Joe Rosen
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366 Days with J. Jonah Jameson, Day 101: What If...Jack Kirby Drew J. Jonah Jameson?

As far as the internet tells me, "The King" never actually drew Jolly Jonah (JJJ doesn't even appear in Fantastic Four until ish #110, just after Kirby left the book). But here's the next best thing: a Kirbyesque portrayal by José Ladrönn, from the pages, of all places...Cable!


Panels from Cable (1993 series) #62 (December 1998); script by Joe Casey; pencils by José Ladrönn; inks by Juan Vlasco, Al Milgrom, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Scott Koblish; colors by Gloria Vasquez; letters by Richard Starkings
If you know of any comic in which Jack Kirby drew J. Jonah Jameson, for gosh sakes, let me know in the comments!

Let's Kill Hitler: Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Hitler Down)"

Speaking of Hitler getting control of a time machine...


Panels from Deadpool (2013 series) #26 (May 2014), script by Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, pencils and inks by Scott Koblish, colors by Val Staples, letters by Joe Sabino
I enclose these panels just because it's that week.


Meanwhile, in 1954!



And this story of killing Hitler is


...because we actually see how Deadpool closed the usually troublesome temporal loop.


Say, but who really killed Hitler on Earth-616? If you've got a burning curiosity about that, find out in the next fiery installment!

Today in Comics History, March 15, 44 BC: At 13th Dimension: 13 Comic Book Julius Caesars! Plus, Caesar in the Marvel Universe!

Today, it's all about Caesar! Caesar, everybody!


from Batman '66 #21 (DC digital comic, November 2013), script by Tom Peyer, pencils and inks by Derec Donovan, colors by Tony Avina
No, no, no, wrong Cesar. I've made another one of my silly mistakes. I meant Julius Caesar.


from "Julius Caesar at Yankee Stadium" in Hit Comics #30 (Quality, November 1943), pencils by Sheldon Moldoff
That's why today at 13th Dimension, my pal John celebrates the 2059th anniversary (2059? I think that's the gift of haggis) of the Death of Julius Caesar, the so-called Ides of March, with 13 Comic Book Julius Caesars! That includes the one that wore a toga. And twelve others! I helped out by clipping the panels out of comic books.

John didn't include, however, the vast history of Julius Caesar in the Marvel Universe, because it's just too darn big a story. Why, if you check his page in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Caesar chalks up an amazing one billion and three Earth-616 stories, including all those issues of Guardians where he was Rocket Raccoon's drinking buddy, his stint as a supporting cast member of Skrull Kill Krew, and the short-lived miniseries Julius Caesar: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.* But let's start with perhaps the first Marvel appearance of Caesar (if not his eponymous salad or birthing method), way back in the Golden Age of Timely Comics!


from Ideal #1 (Marvel/Timely, July 1948), creators unknown

What can we say? It was the nineties.

Hey kids...it's
Li'l Phoenix 'n' Li'l Cable!


Panel from Uncanny X-Men Annual #17 (1993) script by Scott Lobdell, pencils by Jason Pearson, inks by Mark Farmer, colors by Kevin Tinsley and Ericka Morgan, letters by Chris Eliopoulos

Yes, it's Chris Claremont's bondage fantasies and Rob Liefeld's love of preposterously giant guns, both transplanted to toddlers. How does that make you feel about comic books now?

Now that we're well into 2010...

...has anybody found Domino's stomach yet?


Splash page portion from Cable #26 (Early December 1995), script by Jeph Loeb, pencils by Rob Haynes and Randy Green, inks by John Lowe and Bud LaRosa, colors by Mike Thomas, letters by Richard Starkings

If I Ran Marvel Comics...

...then I'd introduce just what the comics world needs...another X-Men title! No, no, I wouldn't call it X-Cess...that'd be too much truth in advertising. I'd bring out a brand new X-Men #1 ("the first X-Men 1 in nearly twenty years," sez Marvel...go ahead, collect 'em all!). I'd take the fine artwork of Victor Gischler and Paco Medina's advance pages for this new X-comic (you can see the pages here). And then I'd jettison all that vampire nonsense and bring aboard some good old fashioned summer fun that, I think, we can all get behind.

So here it is...a sneak preview of a little stuffed bull's version of X-Men #1! (Caution: those of you seated in the first four rows will get wet!):








Well, I'd buy it.

24 Hour Comics Reviewing Day, Hour Twenty-Two: Cable & Deadpool #31

CABLE & DEADPOOL #1: Zzzzz...snort! Comic...zzz...fun. Zzzzzzzzz...candy beans...no, mean doll, no! Ummmmmphhh...zzzzzzzzz...I c'n stay awake all night a'right...I'm awake...zzzzzz...Cable 'n' Deadpool #31? Zzzzzzz...fun comic...Deadpool makes me...snort!...giggle...(rolls over)...zzzzzz...no, no, I'm 'wake...Civil War?...zzzzzz...act'ally a fun tie-in...ha ha ha...Deadpool askin' President Bush where the bathroom is...bwah-ha-ha-zzzzzZZZZZZZ. Snort! Candy beans! Zzzzzzzzz.