365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 12: Na na na na na na na na Bat Boy

Panels from Weekly World News #1 (January 2010), script by Chris Ryall, pencils and inks by Alan Robinson, colors by Tom Smith, letters by Robbie Robbins

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 10: Uncle Ben Provides Advice, Not Rice

Panels from What If? (1977 series) #46 (August 1984), script by Peter B. Gillis, layouts by Ron Frenz, finishes by Sam de la Rosa, colors by Bob Sharen, letters by John Morelli

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 9: Spider with a cold

Panels from Peter Parker: Spider-Man #42 (June 2002), script by Zeb Wells, pencils and inks by Jim Mahfood, colors by Steve Buccelato, letters by Randy Gentile

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 8: And the Spider-Junk too. Don't forget the Spider-Junk.

Panels from Spider-Man: Reign #3 (April 2007); script, pencils, inks, and colors by Kaare Andrews; letters by Chris Eliopoulos

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 7: Wally's new powers go to his head

Panel from "Meet Kid Flash!" in The Flash (1959 series) #110 (December 1959-January 1960), script by John Broome, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Joe Giella, letters by Ira Schnapp (?)

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 6: El Grande Responsabilidad

Panels from The Amazing Spider-Man Special #1 (May 2015), script by Jeff Loveness, pencils and inks by Luca Pizzari, colors by Nolan Woodard, letters by Joe Sabino

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 5: "But it's my only line!"

Panels from Fantastic Four (2018) #3 (January 2019), script by Dan Slott, pencils and inks by Sara Pichelli and Nico Leon, colors by Marte Gracia, letters by Joe Caramagna

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 4: Waiting for the verdict

Panels from Civil War II: The Accused one-shot (October 2016), script by Marc Guggenheim, art by Ramon Bachs and Garry Brown, colors by Ruth Redmond, letters by Clayton Cowles

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 3: Not the guy who makes rice

Panels from The Amazing Spider-Man (2014 series) #13 (March 2015), script by Dan Slott, pencils by Giuseppe Camuncoli, inks by Cam Smith, colors by Justin Ponsor, letters by Chris Eliopoulis

Today in Comics History, January 2: Alfred tunes into the Incredibly Plot-Specific Channel

from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #66 (DC, December 1994), script by J.M. DeMatteis, pencils by Joe Staton, inks by Steve Mitchell, colors by Digital Chameleon, letters by Willie Schubert

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 2: It's a black-and-white situation

Panels from "In the Beginning —" in The Spectacular Spider-Man (1968 magazine series) #1 (July 1968), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Larry Lieber, inks by Bill Everett, letters by Artie Simek

The Adventures of Bully: Here we go again

Well, one down, three hundred sixty-four to go. And I hope you survive the experience.


Goodnight an' Happy New Year.

Stuff Bully Got: Comic books from Escape Pod Comics

On this fresh bright New Year's Day, we drove out to Huntington on Long Island to visit Pal Menachem Luchins's excellent shop Escape Pod Comics! I bought a buncha backissues at from his always-excellent selection, and virtually all of these will be later donated to Housing Works Bookstore and Café (where I volunteer) when I've finished reading them. I'll let you know when they're up for re-sale!


Menachem stocks a great selection of new comics and graphic novels, but I really love his huge back issue room! i could spend hours and hours in here lookin' for stuff (and I tried to, but eventually John and Randi said we had to go. Boo!)


I bought myself some books too!


So my point, and I do have one, is to git yerself (in my cowboy voice) out to Huntington, New York, and to Escape Pod Comics! Tell Menachem a li'l stuffed bull sent you! He'll say "Which one?"

Today in Comics History, January 1, 1900 and 1945, New Year's Day: Axel Brass and Jenny Sparks vie for control of the maternity ward

from Planetary #1 (WildStorm, April 1999), script by Warren Ellis, pencils and inks by John Cassaday, colors by Laura Depuy, letters by Bill O'Neil

Today in Comics History, 2019: The most accurate prediction of 2019 ever made in 1976

from Marvel Team-Up (1972 series) #45 (Marvel, May 1976), script by Bill Mantlo, breakdowns by Sal Buscema, figure finishes by Mike Esposito, background finishes by Dave Hunt, colors by George Roussos, letters by Jean Izzo

Today in Comics History, 2019: Bishop decides to settle down and just enjoy himself in the present day

from Cable (2008 series) #2 (Marvel, June 2008), script by Duane Swierczynski, painted art by Ariel Olivetti, letters by Joe Caramagna

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 1: There must come

Final panel from "Spider-Man!" in Amazing Fantasy (1962 series) #15 (September 1962), script by Stan Lee, pencils and inks by Steve Ditko, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek

Stuff Bully Got: Marvel Disney TsumTsum Advent Calendar 2018, Nights 4-7

Teeny tiny Ant-Man!


A little tree!


THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL!


And Itty-Bitty Groot!


Thanks so much, Captain Advent, for bringing me this cool calendar!*

*P.S.: It was John.

Bully and His Pals: Christmas pals

They woulda come home with me but I couldn't get ahold of John's credit card.

Bully Eats Food Drinks Beer: Blue Point Brewery's Blueberry Ale

Getting into the Christmas Spirit with Blue Point Brewery's Blueberry Ale. Tastes like Boo-Berry cereal!


Yummmm.

Now Playing (on the car radio): "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Dean Martin

Stop calling him Rudy the Red-Beaked Reindeer, Dino.

Shelly T. Otter ⁩wishes you a Happy Hanukkah!

...or, as she says:

Stuff Bully Got: Marvel Disney TsumTsum Advent Calendar 2018, Night 1

And now it's time to open the first door on my Marvel/Disney TsumTsum Advent Calendar!




Hey, I got Nick Fury! HOORAY FOR ADVENT! And hooray for plastic toys!


Thanks, Samuel L. Jackson!

Bully Eats Food: The last piece of cherry pie

Well, me and the last piece of cherry pie wish you goodnight.

Bully Eats Food on Thanksgiving: Cherry pie

Oh my cherry pie
Put a smile on your face ten miles wide
Looks so good bring a tear to your eye
Sweet cherry pie yeah!

Comics at Housing Works: Black Friday Sale

It's the Black Friday 30% off sale at ⁦Housing Works Bookstore and Café⁩, today from 10 to 6! (That includes comics too!)

Meanwhile, In Brooklyn...: Thwarted

They paved the sidewalk outside our apartment with new concrete and I drew a little picture of myself in it! But the guys who laid it down kept coming back and smoothing out everything wouldn't leave until it dried. Curse you, cement fascists!

What's Bully Watching on Thanksgiving?: Good ol' Charlie Brown!...How I hate him.

What's Bully Watching?: Well, goodnight, you corn-shuckin' suckers

Bully Eats Food: Bay Market Kitchen

We went shopping today and had lunch at Bay Market Kitchen! It's upstairs at Liberty Plaza in Industry City (where the Captain America statue is)! Eaten out in the wild: grilled chicken quesadilla (me) and spicy Korean chicken bowl with kimchi (Shelly).




Later, we went to World Market, because I'd heard I heard they named a variety of hot sauce after me...OH COME ON.


And we brought home Dark Knight Ice Cream! It's got Batman on the top, a comic on the back, and little chocolate bats in the mix. two hoofs up!




All in all, a totally excellent day for eating food.

Comics at Housing Works: A motherlode of classic comics!

Today at Housing Works Bookstore and Café I mined up a buncha comics and brought 'em to the surface in those little carts on rails that you see in Indiana Jones and also used by the Seven Dwarfs. I found two (count 'em, two!) Thanksgiving comics and other miscellaneous cool backissues for you to buy!

Bully and His Pals: The Anipals Flannel Sheets

One benefit of looking for lost glasses: changed the bedsheets to my winter flannel sheets with all my favorite anipals!

Bully and His Pals: Election Day Special

Me and Shelly T. Otter voted. That rabbit will finally get a bowl of delicious fruity Trix.