Here's What I Don't Get: You Catholic girls start much too late

Hey look, it's Huntress!


Batman: Streets of Gotham #5 (December 2009), cover art by Dustin Nguyen

She's a good Catholic girl. That is, a good comic book Catholic girl. Ah, yes, comic books: the place where Catholic girls look like this:


The Ride: Die Valkyrie #1 (June 2007), cover art by Jason Pearson

Here's what I don't get about Huntress...


Panel portion from Batman: Streets of Gotham #5 (December 2009), script by Chris Yost, pencils by Dustin Nguyen, inks by Derek Fridolfs, colors by John Kalisz, letters by Sal Cipriano

...why would someone who early in her career took a freakin' gunshot to the stomach...


Panels from Batman Chronicles #1 (July 1995), script by Chuck Dixon, pencils by Lee Weeks, inks by Bill Sienkiewicz, colors by Gregory Wright, letters by Ken Lopez

...and survived because of Kevlar armor...




...later wear a a costume that exposes her stomach? Huh? Huh? That's what I don't get.




Even Batgirl doesn't get it, and she can't even see or breathe out of her costume. Disclaimer: dissing of the totally awesome Cassandra Cain Batgirl done purely for humorous effect.


Panels from Batman: Battle for the Cowl: The Network one-shot (July 2009), script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Don Kramer and Jim Calafiore, inks by Mark McKenna, colors by Jonathan D. Smith, letters by Steve Wands

Still, at least Huntress can protect her soft underbelly with a sound effect.




And at least now she has higher, leg-covering boots, which would have come in handy with her old uniform:




Still wouldn't you think that Huntress could use a helmet?




There's what I don't get.

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 277

Panels from Thor #338 (December 1983), script, pencils, and inks by Walt Simonson; colors by George Roussos; letters by John Workman

DC Ads of the Golden Age, Day 2: Na na na na

Ad from Detective Comics #40 (June 1940)

Duckburg: Hellmouth (Day 4)

Walt Disney's Donald Duck Featuring "Hobblin' Goblins" one-shot (2005)

With This Ring, I Thee PWN

Batman's great, but stealing the power ring off the finger of a Green Lantern without him even noticing it? I call shenanigans.


Panels from Justice League America v.2 #1 (October 2011), script by Geoff Johns, pencils by Jim Lee, inks by Scott Williams, colors by Alex Sinclair, letters by Patrick Brosseau

Uh huh. Yep. (He said, dismissively.) This out-of-character nonsense from the New 52niverse is a poor plot device that, let's face it, wouldn't have happened under the "old guard." Before the events of Infinite Crisis Final Crisis Flashpoint, you'd never catch a GL getting de-ringed by the Dark Knight! Not in a bajillion years.




Panels from The Batman Chronicles #15 (Winter 1998), script by Kelley Puckett, pencils by Joe Staton, inks by Bill Sienkiewicz, colors by Rob Schwager, letters by Ken Lopez

Oh. Um. Okay. Well...

Never mind.

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 276

Page from Thor Giant-Size Finale one-shot (January 2010), script by J. Michael Straczynski; pencils by Marko Djurdjevic; inks by Danny Miki, Allen Martinez, and Marko Djurdjevic; colors by Christina Strain; letters by Joe Sabino

DC Ads of the Golden Age, Day 1: This guy'll never catch on

The Mid-Day Matinee this week, all week: DC Ads of the Golden Age! Forget the New 52...let's kick it old schoo'! Here's announcements and advertisements for all the comics books that were the rage back in the cheerful, joyous happy days of the Depression and World War II, introducing a few guys who you might remember today, if they could stick around for a while. But now, less talk, more Action...on DC Ads of the Golden Age!




Inside front covers of Detective Comics #15, 16, and 17 (May, June, and July 1938)


Hey, check it out...Separated at Birth!:



Flash Comics #1 (January 1940), cover art by Sheldon Moldoff

Duckburg: Hellmouth (Day 3)

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #38 (November 1943), cover art by Carl Buettner

Thirteen of a Kind: Bells starting rings and chains rattled loud

(More Ten of a Kind here. And get ready: only ONE more until Ten of a Kind #300!)

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 275

Panel from What If? v.2 #12 (April 1990), script and pencils by Jim Valentino, inks by Sam de la Rosa, colors by Tom Vincent, letters by Phil Felix

LOL Sundays #11: Viaduct?

Panels from Batman: The Brave and the Bold #7 (September 2009), script by J. Torres, pencils and inks by J. Bone, colors by Heroic Age, letters by Travis Lanham

Duckburg: Hellmouth (Day 2)

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #566 (December 1991), cover art by William Van Horn

Same Story, Different Cover: Screamin', screamin', screamin' on the river

L: Four Color #108 (May 1946), cover art by Carl Buettner
M: The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color #4 (April 1994), cover art by Carl Barks (created by Bruce Hamilton and John Clark using Barks images)
R: Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #26 (June 1994), art by Carl Barks, adapted by Bruce Hamilton
(Click picture to terror-size)

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 274

Page from Secret Invasion: Thor #3 (December 2008), script by Matt Fraction, pencils and inks by Doug Braithwaite, colors by Brian Reber, letters by Joe Caramagna

Stan Lee Saturdays #11: It's the principal of the thing

Panels from "Principal Stanley" in Stan Lee Meets Doctor Strange one-shot (November 2006), script, art, and letters by Chris Giarrusso

Duckburg: Hellmouth (Day 1)

Walt Disney's Donald Duck and Friends #320 (October 2004), cover art by Daniel Branca and Susan Daigle-Leach


It's Halloween Month here at Comics Oughta Be Fun Spooky, and what better time to celebrate the beasts, brutes, and Beagle Boys that populate our favorite canardian city, Duckburg, Calisota! As part of the celebration, I'll be joining John Rozum's Countdown to Halloween 2011 with a daily dose of duck dread and danger. And it doesn't cost you anything, not even one thin Lucky Dime...I'll just put it on your bill!

But that's not all, my ghosties and ghoulies! Throughout the entire month of Ducktober there'll be Halloween-themed Tens of a Kind; Same Story Different Covers; Midday Matinees and the proverbian monstrous more! So don't panic, be manic as we Countdown to Halloween! It'll be boo-tiful!

Let's all go to the movies / At the New York Film Festival

Sorry for no comics-related post tonight, folks, as I've been in Movies Oughta Be Fun! mode over the past week...I've been attending the prestigious and pleasant New York Film Festival as a reviewer! You can tell because I have my "press" badge on. Or maybe that just means I need to take my shirt to get ironed.



There are many fine films to see by important directors from around the world! Unfortunately, they have chosen not to screen my submission, the eight-hour video opus Bully Plays with Toy Cars. I guess I'll have to edit it down to YouTube length first.



My best friend John is writing reviews of some of the films for our pal DB over at Unseen Films. He and I highly recommend Aki Kaurismaki's Le Havre (click here to read John's review), and we were both slightly baffled by Nicholas Ray's experimental We Can't Go Home Again (click here to read John's review). And many of the other NYFF movies are being reviewed by DB. You can find all the New York Film Festival reviews here!

If you're in New York, New York (the city so nice they named it New York), why not check out some of the great films at the NYFF? You can see some critically acclaimed alternative cinema weeks before your snooty neighbors and then talk it up to them from now until Oscar season! Who's rubbing shoulders with Martin Scorsese now, guy next door?

If, on the other hand, you need to see Gone with the Wind with me and Shelly the Little Otter Puppet once again, then click here or on the picture below, because you know you can't see Gone with the Wind with two cute little stuffed animals often enough!



Until then, see you at the movies!

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 273

Panel from Thor #194 (December 1971), script by Gerry Conway, pencils by John Buscema, inks by Sal Buscema, letters by Artie Simek

Evel Knievel Week, Day 5: Viva Knievel!

To misquote one of the greatest thinkers of our time:

Evel Knievel never had his own comic book, did he? Have you ever seen his own comic book? Hmmm? How can you say someone is great who's never had his own comic book?

Hey! Watch those words! We're not talkin' 'bout Gary Busey, Lucy!


Evel Knievel one-shot giveaway (1974), cover art by John Romita Sr. and Joe Sinnott




You can read the Evel Knievel comic book here!

More Knievelads!:


Ad from Marvel Spotlight #20 (February 1975)




Ad from The Secret Society of Super-Villains #5 (January-February 1977)




Ad from Batman Family #3 (January-February 1976)



And finally...The Greatest Beach Towel of All Time!


Ad from Fantastic Four #160 (July 1975)

Viva Knievel!

Captain America is terrible at knock-knock jokes

Panels from Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), script by Ed Herron, pencils and inks by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

365 Days with the Warriors Three, Day 272

Panel from Warriors Three #1 (January 2011), script by Bill Willingham, pencils by Neil Edwards, inks by Scott Hanna, colors by Frank Martin, letters by Clayton Cowles