Saturday, February 08, 2020

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 39: Spider-Man vs. Jean-Claude van Damme


Panels from Amazing Spider-Man (1999 series) #33/474 (September 2001), script by J. Michael Straczynski, pencils by John Romita, Jr., inks by Scott Hanna, colors by Dan Kemp, letters by Richard Starkings and Saida Temofonte

Friday, February 07, 2020

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 38: "And for my 200th issue, I'm gonna kill this guy!"


Panel from Amazing Spider-Man #200 (January 1980), script by Marv Wolfman, breakdowns by Keith Pollard, finishes by Jim Mooney, colors by Glynis Wein, letters by John Costanza

AND THEN SPIDER-MAN KILLED HIM!

Naw, he didn't.

First issue of Amazing Spider-Man I ever bought. Good choice, huh?

Thursday, February 06, 2020

Meanwhile, In Brooklyn...: Puzzled

Me: Don't do the whole jigsaw puzzle! Leave some for me!

Shelly the Little Otter Puppet: I haven't done it all! I only did Brooklyn!

Me: But it's a puzzle of the map of Brooklyn!


365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 37: Fantasyland


Panels from Spider-Man/Deadpool #13 (March 2017); script by Joe Kelly; pencils by Ed McGuinness; inks by Ed McGuinness, John Dell, and Mark Morales; colors by Jason Keith; letters by Joe Sabino

Wednesday, February 05, 2020

The Adventures of Bully: Bully Cosplays as the Great Books of Literature


Albert Camus's The Stranger




365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 36: A Green Lantern and a talking cartoon dog walked into a bar and Walter Cronkite is there


Panel from Green Lantern/Huckleberry Hound Special #1 (one-shot) (December 2018), script by Mark Russell, pencils by Rick Leonardi, inks by Dan Green, colors by Steve Buccellato, letters by Wes Abbott

Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Bully (Makes and) Eats Food: Makin' snacks for the Big Game*!

*I guess we're playin' Risk later or somethin'.





Today in Comics History, February 4: Reggie notes that Archie doesn't like coconuts, which eventually leads to him being murdered by the Riddler


from Archie Meets Batman '66 #2 (Archie, October 2018), script by Jeff Parker and Michael Moreci, pencils by Dan Parent, inks by J. Bone, colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick, letters by Jack Morelli

The Adventures of Bully: Sauced

What am I doin' today? I bagged and boarded my Arby's sauces.


You?

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 35: Uh, what's in the bottle, Tony? Beside a demon.


Panels from Contest of Champions #10 (September 2016), script by Al Ewing, pencils and inks by Rhoald Marcellius, colors by Andrew Crossley, letters by Joe Sabino

Monday, February 03, 2020

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 34: With great mushrooms there must come great hallucinations


Panels from Amazing Spider-Man (2015 series) #1.3 (April 2016), script by Jose Molina, pencils and inks by Simone Bianchi, colors by Israel Silva and Java Tartaglia, letters by Joe Caramagna

Today in Comics History, February 3, 2016: Robots stand accused of injuring a human being or, through inaction, allowing a human being to come to harm


cover of The Vision (2016 series) #4 (Marvel, April 2016); pencils, inks, and colors by Mike Del Mundo

But please come back on March 16!

Sunday, February 02, 2020

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 33: Everybody's a critic


Panels from Amazing Spider-Man (2015 series) #31 (October 2017), script by Dan Slott, pencils by Stuart Immonen, inks by Wade Von Grawbadger, colors by Marte Gracia, letters by Joe Caramagna

Saturday, February 01, 2020

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:


Friday, January 31, 2020

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

Thursday, January 30, 2020

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.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020