Memorial Day

Pearls Before Swine (United Feature Syndicate, May 25, 2003), by Steven Pastis

Today in Comics History, Day Before Memorial Day: Take that, Ted Turner

from "A Black and White World" in Batman: Batman and White (1996 series) #2 (DC, July 1996), script by Neil Gaiman, pencils and inks by Simon Bisley, letters by John Costanza
Well, that wraps up that! A relatively straight-forward story, especially for Neil gaiman! No last minute twist, no meta commentary, no...what the?!? It's starting again!


Oh, well, that explains it...huh?!?

Today in Comics History, Day Before Memorial Day: For Memorial Day, I would actually suggest grilling hamburgers and sausages

from The All-Nighter #2 (Comixology/Dark Horse, March 2022), script by Chip Zdarsky, pencils and iunks by Jason Loo, colors by Paris Alleyne, letters by Aditya Bidikar

Remember.

from Sgt. Rock #363 (DC, April 1982), script by Robert Kanigher, pencils and inks by Frank Redondo, colors by Tatjana Wood, letters by Esphid Mahilum

Memorial Day

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published Memorial Day, 2010.





They laid him in his ship,
With horse and harness,
As on a funeral pyre.
Odin placed
A ring upon his finger,
And whispered in his ear.


They launched the burning ship!
It floated far away
Over the misty sea,
Till like the sun it seemed,
Sinking beneath the waves.
Balder returned no more!


So perish the old Gods!
But out of the sea of Time
Rises a new land of song,
Fairer than the old.
Over its meadows green
Walk the young bards and sing.
     —from "Tegner's Drapa" by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

from Thor #343 (Marvel, May 1984), script, pencils, and inks by Walter Simonson;
colors by Christie Scheele; letters by John Workman

366 Days with Alfred Pennyworth, Day 149

Panels from The Untold Legend of the Batman #2 (August 1980), script by Len Wein; pencils, inks, and letters by Jim Aparo; colors by Tatjana Wood

Remember.

"I lost many, many buddies over there. Some I don't even remember their names. I can still remember their faces, I remember how they died."—Joe Hanley, infantry, WWII, Europe, as interviewed by Studs Terkel for the book "The Good War")


from The Twelve: Spearhead one-shot (Marvel, May 2010), script and pencils by Chris Weston, inks by Gary Erskine and Gary Weston, colors by Chris Chuckry, letters by Jimmy Betancourt

Never forget them.

Bill Mauldin "WIllie & Joe" cartoon from Stars and Stripes, July 3, 1944

"We have shared the incommunicable experience of war. We have felt—we still feel—the passion of life to its top. In our youths our lives were touched by fire." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in an address delivered on Memorial Day, May 30, 1884, speaking of about his Civil War experiences