365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 32*: With great power comes great lecturing other people

Panels from Spider-Man & the X-Men #1 (February 2015), script by Elliott Kalan, pencils and inks by Marco Failla, colors by Ian Herring, letters by Clayton Cowles
*Oh no! Now I have to actually start calculating what day of the year it is!

I'm pretty sure this is hanging up in the Batcave next to the Pirelli Calendar

Look, I'll admit it: you can't you use this calendar to tell the proper dates of February 2020 (it's for 2019, oddly enough, even though it was published in 2014). But you can put it up and have cheesecake! Yay! Who doesn't love cheesecake?


Cover of Detective Comics (2011 series) #32 (August 2014); pencils, inks, and colors by Ant Lucia

The 1992 2020 Marvel Age Calendar: In February it will be / A Rick Jones month-long bad joke spree

"The 1992 Marvel Age Calendar: January" from Marvel Age #110 (March 1992);
by Mike Lackey and Darren Auck
(Click picture to Leap Day-size)
By the way, I made a Photoshop edit to this calendar to correct an error. Can you spot where I made it? Here the original panel as a hint:

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 31: Kurt Wagner, Plagiarist

Panel from Uncanny X-Men (1963 series) #188 (December 1984), script by Chris Claremont, breakdowns by John Romita, Jr., finishes by Dan Green, colors by Glynis Wein, letters by Tom Orzechowski

Stuff Bully Got: Cool Comics from Housing Works!

I bought some cool comics at Housing World the other day! Yes, that is a Marvel comic book about M&Ms. And a Batgirl Purple Rain homage cover!

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 30: Even Harvey Dent here agrees

Back cover of Marvel Treasury Edition #1 [The Spectacular Spider-Man] (September 1974), pencils and inks by John Romita, Sr.

Bully Eats Food: Burger King put my Chicken Sticks in a Ciniminis carton!

That's fine, but I want icing.

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 29: Walking Tall

Panel from "Marvelpocalypse Now!" in Marvel: Now What? one-shot (December 2013), script by Elliot Kalan; pencils, inks, and colors by Jacob Chabot; letter by Clayton Cowles

Bully Eats Food: Here, have a Pop-Tart with me! ❤️

It's part, or all, of this delicious balanced breakfast!

Today in Comics History, January 29, 2010: Alan Moore attempts to stump Jess Nevins

from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #3 (Top Shelf/Knockabout, October 2018), script by Alan Moore, pencils and inks by Kevin O'Neill, colors by Ben Dimagmaliw, letters by Todd Klein

No, of course Alan Moore didn't make it up.

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 28: Steve Jobs, the Spectacular Spider-Man

Panel from Amazing Spider-Man (2015 series) #1 (December 2015), script by Dan Slott, pencils by Giuseppe Camuncoli, inks by Cam Smith, colors by Marte Gracia, letters by Joe Caramagna

Today in Comics History, January 28: Reading in the nude becomes popular, except upon Naugahyde

from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #2 (Top Shelf/Knockabout, June 2018), script by Alan Moore, pencils and inks by Kevin O'Neill, colors by Ben Dimagmaliw, letters by Todd Klein

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 27: So...pretty much just like our universe, huh?

Panels from What If? (1977 series) #19 (February 1980), script by Peter Gillis, pencils by Pat Broderick, inks by Mike Esposito, colors by Roger Slifer, letters by Tom Orzechowski

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 26: With ultimate power there must come ultimate responsibility

from Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2011 series) #4 (Marvel/Ultimate, January 2012), script by Brian Michael Bendis, pencils and inks by Sara Pichelli, colors by Justin Ponsor, letters by Cory Petit

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 25: With brothers and sisters comes family responsibility

Panels from Shazam! (2019 series) #1 (February 2019), script by Geoff Johns, pencils and inks by Dale Eaglesham, colors by Mike Atiyeh, letters by Rob Leigh

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 24: Peter Parker, the Spare-Tire Spider-Man

Panel from Universe X: Spidey #1 one-shot (January 2001); co-plot by Alex Ross; co-plot and script by Jim Krueger; pencils by Jackson Guice; inks by John Romita, Al Milgrom (tho' I bet he wishes he hadn't) and John Stanisci; colors by Nick Bell; letters by Todd Klein

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 23: Who's That Girl

Oh no! Spider-Gwen is in trouble! And for once it's not because she can't decide what to title her comic book. No, The Divine Ms. S. is having problems with her powers (well, ain't that just the Parker Stacy luck!) It's fortunate she has as her pal the local science prodigy, Reed Richards (no, no that one) builds her a couple power bands (©1969 Rick Jones & Mar-Vell) that provide her with the oomph she needs to take a bite out of crime.


Panels from Spider-Gwen (December 2015 series) #11 (June 2016), co-plot by Dennis Hopeless and Robbie Thompson, co-plot and script by Jason Latour, pencils and inks by Bengal, colors by Rico Renzi, letters by Clayton Cowles
Do you know what comes with phenomenal cosmic power?!?


That's right! You know the drill:


Less dramatic, but also of note: Gwen's Earth-65 gets the best fast-food mascots.

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 22: P = re2

Panels from "Twain & Einstein" in Tales Designed to Thrizzle #5 (March 2009); script, pencils, inks, an letters by Michael Kupperman

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 21: Oh shut up, Gwen

Panels from Spider-Man: Death and Destiny #1 (August 2000), script and pencils by Lee Weeks; inks by Richard Case and Robert Campanella; colors by Steve Buccellato; letters by Paul Tutrone

Today in Comics History, January 21: Joker is three weeks behind Ned Flanders in doing his taxes

from "The Joker's Millions!" in Detective Comics #180 (DC, February 1952), script by David Vern (?), pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Charles Paris
Joker pays his taxes on January 31? He must be registered as a self-employed Clown of Crime.


Oh, I see, they're fictional taxes. Man, Gotham City is weird. Mind you, when this story was written and published, the United States Tax Day was actually March 15. I remember this actual fact because it was the key clue in figuring out an Ellery Queen story in which "all the evidence has been lain before you." yeah, including quaint antiquated tax deadlines. (It's the March story in Mister Queen's delightful Calendar of Crime (Amazon ad), and I recommend it with only that one slight tax-deadline hesitation.)

Here's some other stuff Joker does in the couple weeks between today and the end of the month:

Paints a monkey's face and locks him up with Batman!:


Turns Batman and Robin into ushers!:


Attends a swanky cabaret where the posh entertainment is a panda!:


Breaks the boundaries of the Scott McCloud-designated comics panel border!:


So if you think you've got a couple rough weeks comin' up: consider the Joker. Won't you?