Today in Comics History, October 2: Happy birthday, Sting!

Born on this day: Singer, songwriter and actor Gordon Sumner, better known to the world as Sting!

Please note: he is a bee in name only.


from Tales of the Teen Titans (1984 series) #50 (DC, February 1985), co-plot and script by Marv Wolfman, co-plot and pencils by George Pérez, inks by Mike DeCarlo and Dick Giordano, colors by Adrienne Roy, letters by John Costanza

Here in my comics I feel safest of all

For sanity's sake, I'm staying away from social media until San Diego Comic-Con is over (because long story, no time to tell it here), so in the meantime, please enjoy, from the pages of Britain's Eagle Annual, synth pop sensation Gary Numan!


"Personalities with a Plus!" from Eagle Annual 1983 [#25] (1983)


Mister Gary Numan also appears in comics in Joseph Michael Linser's Crypt of Dawn #4, which, due to the fact that I have taste, I do not own.


Cover of Crypt of Dawn #4 (June 1998), painted art by Joseph Michael Linsner
But I found it on the internet for you anyway.


Gary Numan pin-up from Crypt of Dawn #4 (June 1998), painted art by Greg Williams
And Dawn appeared on the cover of Gary Numan's 1997 album...um, Dawn!


(The UK version of the album is titled Sacrifice and has an entirely different cover, for British people of discerning taste.)



Still, I'll give Gary Numan's Dawn this: As a comic book tie-in CD, it's no Songs of the Witchblade.

Psylocke Psaturday #25: Then all this stuff happened

Yikes! We haven't pspent Psaturday night with Psylocke for a longgggg time. Maybe it's because I've been psrocratinating this era in our purple-haired heroine's life because it's all just hanging around in Australia waiting for the inevitable reboot. So why don't we take a rapid recap approach to Ms. Elisabeth Braddocks' life by quickly summing up all the stuff that happened in X-Men #240-251, inclusive! I may have left our your favorite part, and if so, let me know. Note: Jubilee's original costume does not count as anyone's favorite part.

Also, I sure hope you like Marc Silvestri's artwork if you're gonna study this period!

Let's recap! During this period Psylocke posed a la Rose Dewitt-Bukater for Colossus. I'm not quite certain why Peter is drawing while armored up and in his underwear, but hey! Put your legs together, Peter! we don't sit like that around here!


Panel from Uncanny X-Men #240 (January 1989), script by Chris Claremont, pencils by Marc Silvestri, inks by Dan Green, colors by Glynis Oliver, letters by Tom Orzechowski

Here, have some Witchblade. In German.

Panels from Witchblade - Neue Serie #1 (Infinity Verlag, 2001); translated from Witchblade #40 (June 2000), script by Paul Jenkins and Rick Veitch, pencils by Keu Cha, inks by D-Tron, assisted by Jeff de los Santos and Andy Kim, colors by Steve Firchow, letters by Robin Spehar and Dennis Heisler

(Click pictures to groß-size)
In der nächsten Ausgabe von Witchblade in Deutsch:

You got your nineties bad girl comic on my Christian comic!

A mash-up that seems so obvious I'm wondering if I've just repeated a joke someone else came up with before:

Here's the original source covers.