Fantastic Fourniversary!

Hey, Benjamin J. Grimm! What time is it?



That's right, Mister G! It's the Bully Blogiversary! Yes, today (well, yesterday really, but I wanted to post a Memorial Day tribute instead) is the fourth anniversary of Comics Oughta Be Fun! Can ya bullieve it? On May 25, 2005, I kicked off this blog with a review of The Amazing Spider-Man in which Peter was married to Mary Jane, issues from two series (Hulk and JLA) that have been cancelled and restarted in the meantime, and a cheap swipe at J. Michael Straczynski. In other words, nothing important has changed.

So, grab your toasting beverage of choice...



...and let's take a quick trip down Memory Lane, or, as it's been re-named by the Bullyville Chamber of Commerce, Some of My Favorite Posts of the Last Year!

• Who's a Skrull? Everybody!
• Project Runway: featuring Wolverine
• What If...Bully Created the Endless?
• The Marvel Universe visits the Marvel Bullpen: Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4
• Don't let the Cyclops drive the plane
• Ten Things You Didn't Know About the Hulk
• Sgt. Bighead Donegan of the 31st Precinct
• Pepper Potts, Fashion Critic
• The Mysterious Mailing Tube
• Don't mention his wife!
• Don't leave home without your Avengers Communicard.
  

• For some reason I spent much of a week reading Star Wars comics. Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3
• Love Actually in (Sorta) Real Time. (Yes, I will finish this!)
• The Amazing Spider-Maps
• The Punisher's Battle-Pig!
• If I Ran Marvel Comics
• Dr. Doom's Top Ten New Year's resolutions
• My favorite post I did this past year: Esquire interviews Spidey.
• Let's buy some FF crap!
• The Fantastic Photo-World of Jack Kirby
• Lois Lane haiku
• Who is the new Black Panther? Huh? Who is it?
• Neil Gaiman's Batman
• Arrooo!
• I forgot this movie came out. But I loved the ice cream!
• Hawkeye, Hawkeye, or Hawkeye?
• Don't tell mom the babysitter's Wolverine
• Comics Marketing 101 with Ant-Man
• No, Johnny, No!
• The Return of Evil Bully
• The Uncanny Goofus and Gallant
• Jane's Recognition Guide to Inconspicuous Nazi Weaponry of the Fourth Reich
• Marvel Mayors
• Quote possible my favorite day with Ben Grimm so far.
• Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect 200 Quatloos

Whew! That's a lotta good posts! (And even more crappy ones.) But by far the highlight of this past year was meeting one of my greatest heroes, a person who I've been longing to meet for a long, long, time...


Oh, no. Not that guy. But rather...MISS JANE WIEDLIN!:


But, no matter the highlights of a year, I always enjoy lookin' forward to the one coming up. I want to thank you all for following along, sending me great comments, and for laughing at my lame jokes. I also want to single out one of my perpetually favorite commenters and thank her: C'mon up on stage and get a big Bully hug, Miss SallyPM! Sally consistently and frequently comments with humor and enthusiasm on a very large majority of my posts, and it's always a delight to see her comments pop up on screen. Thank you Sally, thank you everyone for reading along this year.

But especially and most of all, thank you, Randi. I luv you with all my little satin stuffed heart!


So! Thanks for hangin' out here in 2009, hope you'll stick around through 2010 and beyond, and most of all...keep reading comics!!