from Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority #4 (WildStorm, November 2000), script by Mark Millar, pencils by John McCrea, inks by James Hodgkins, colors by Ian Hannin, letters by Bill O'Neil
Friday, January 01, 2021
Today in Comics History, January 1, 1913: Hitler is fired
from Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority #4 (WildStorm, November 2000), script by Mark Millar, pencils by John McCrea, inks by James Hodgkins, colors by Ian Hannin, letters by Bill O'Neil
Today In Comics History, January 1, 1863: Whoa, don't cross that off your "finished" list yet, Lincoln
from "The Case of the Patriotic Crimes!" in All-Star Comics #41 (DC, June-July 1948), script by John Broome, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Frank Giacoia
Today in Comics History, January 1, 1913: Happy birthday, Jenny Sparks!
Jenny Sparks celebrates her 13th birthday with a Knickerbocker Glory and a Camel!
from Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority #4 (WildStorm, November 2000), script by Mark Millar, pencils by John McCrea, inks by James Hodgkins, colors by Ian Hannin, letters by Bill O'Neil
from Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority #4 (WildStorm, November 2000), script by Mark Millar, pencils by John McCrea, inks by James Hodgkins, colors by Ian Hannin, letters by Bill O'Neil
Today in Comics History, January 1, 1989: Cult building conveniently painted bright orange
from D.P. 7 #31 (Marvel/New Universe, May 1989), script by Mark Gruenwald, pencils by Paul Ryan, inks by Danny Bulanadi, colors by Paul Becton, letters by Janice Chiang
Today in Comics History, January 1, 2000, New Year's Day: Why not 2 K?
from "Triumph Over Tragedy" in Superman: Lex 2000 one-shot (DC, January 2001), script by Jeph Loeb, pencils by Tony Harris, inks by Ray Snyder, colors by Tanya Horie and Richard Horie, letters by Comicraft
(Click top picture to Tobor, Radar Robot-size)
Today in Comics History, New Year's Day, January 1, 2021: A stately pleasure-dome reliquary
And after sixty seconds...we're back!
from "Deadly New Year-- 2021!" in Superman (1939 series) #368 (DC, February 1982), script by Bob Rozakis, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Frank Chiaramonte, colors by Tom Ziuko, letters by John Costanza
Hah! As if the kids today even know about the droid members of the Royal Canadians.
What? According to this comic book published in 1982, everybody died in 2020 of some sort of virulent disease. Ya don't say, DC Comics.
Happy New Year and continue to stay safe, everybody.
from "Deadly New Year-- 2021!" in Superman (1939 series) #368 (DC, February 1982), script by Bob Rozakis, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Frank Chiaramonte, colors by Tom Ziuko, letters by John Costanza
Hah! As if the kids today even know about the droid members of the Royal Canadians.
What? According to this comic book published in 1982, everybody died in 2020 of some sort of virulent disease. Ya don't say, DC Comics.
Happy New Year and continue to stay safe, everybody.
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Today in Comics History, New Year's Eve, December 31, 2020: I saw this film about some people who lived in a dome / In a beautiful field next to a river of foam
Old Man Kent wishes you a Happy New Year! He also wishes those dang kids would get off his dome.
from "Deadly New Year-- 2021!" in Superman (1939 series) #368 (DC, February 1982), script by Bob Rozakis, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Frank Chiaramonte, colors by Tom Ziuko, letters by John Costanza
How will it all end? Find out...in sixty seconds!
from "Deadly New Year-- 2021!" in Superman (1939 series) #368 (DC, February 1982), script by Bob Rozakis, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Frank Chiaramonte, colors by Tom Ziuko, letters by John Costanza
How will it all end? Find out...in sixty seconds!
Friday, December 25, 2020
Today in Comics History Future, December 25, 2020, Christmas: The Shallow Grave Christmas Special!
from "The Year Santa Signed On" in 2000 AD Prog 868 (Fleetway, 1 January 1994), script by Mark Millar, art by by Ron Smith and Gina Hart, letters by Ellie DeVille
Friday, December 18, 2020
Bully and His Pals: Rat Boy!
While walking along Seventh Ave in Brooklyn today, I met a brand-new furry pal!
He was sitting outside a bodega and a couple were already watching him. The woman asked: "Is that a rat, or...?"
"That's a rat!" I said, then I added "It's your Lucky Christmas Rat!"
Another guy stopped to look and said "He's not shy, either!" And I wish I'd said "And he takes a pet so good!"
He's obviously well-fed. And that, non-New Yorkers, is why we have Bodega Cats!
He was sitting outside a bodega and a couple were already watching him. The woman asked: "Is that a rat, or...?"
"That's a rat!" I said, then I added "It's your Lucky Christmas Rat!"
Another guy stopped to look and said "He's not shy, either!" And I wish I'd said "And he takes a pet so good!"
He's obviously well-fed. And that, non-New Yorkers, is why we have Bodega Cats!
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Stuff Bully Got: Enamel Pin Advent Calendar
Hey look, I forgot to show ya this: the lovely Randi made me an advent calendar with little stocking bags! Hooray! Thank you Randi!
Let's open up today's! I'm so excited!
Let's open up today's! I'm so excited!
Friday, November 20, 2020
Real Life Stuff
Hi hi hi pals! You may have noticed I haven't been online for most of the week (altho' I have been liking posts). I wanted to tell y'all I'm fine and what happened.
On Tuesday my pal John went to the hospital and stayed there until last night. Big upfront notice: it was not COVID, altho' we thought it was at first from the symptoms. (We're all much relieved it isn't.)
John had been feeling extreme exhaustion and shortness of breath for several days. It got to the point where he couldn't walk a block without having to rest. Those are two of the symptoms of COVID, plus extreme thirstyness all the time. John has just thought he was out of shape.
But: his blood sugar had SPIKED beyond the ability of the clinic we first went went before the hospital to measure on their equipment (over 400). That ain't good.
John has diabetes type-2, and so far we have been effectively treating it with pill meds.
However: he'd run out of his meds that week, and his primary care physician did not return calls to have them refilled. They didn't from the drug store either. John's PCP is MIA. Remember these events? Same doctor. (Update: Turns out they closed their office during COVID, but zero notification of that on their outgoing message, and eventually the answering machine filled up and wouldn't take any more new messages. After all this occurred I got myself a new primary care physicain, you bet.
John stayed three days in the hospital (a block away from our home, so Randi could visit him. He was pretty well taken care of but the wheels of progress run exceedingly slow in a hospital. Whenever they tell you that you should be discharged, add another day.
For instance: the results to the COVID test, which take six hours to determine, took about 18 hours to filter back to us. (He was on an isolation ward and supposed to be transferred to a regular room after that on Wednesday, but we never made it out of that one room.)
It was obviously a repurposed room, since it had this piece of mechanical equipment sitting next to the bed. (Sound up!) Made the room very noisy and hot and kept John sleepless most nights.
Here was the only window in the hospital room. The blinds were covered in glass so you couldn't open them, so zero natural light.
The most frustrating thing, tho', was getting multiple and conflicting answers to questions about important things. John's taking insulin now, and was told these conflicting things: 1 dose a day/2 a day; 10 units/12 units; need physical therapist/don't, and many others.
Also: we had to insist on demonstrations of how to test for blood numbers and how to inject insulin. Both eventual demonstrations involved equipment that was not what we eventually got. Most egregiously, they showed us needle/bottle insulin and we got pen-injection insulin.
So we were (and continue to be) very frustrated by lack of communication, conflicting information, and poor process skills for discharge.
Luckily the wonderful Randi was there to really insist on info and ask questions (again and again) about what was going on. This was hard. I can't imagine how hard it would be for a person on their own, especially anyone with English as a second language or hearing difficulties.
So, to make a long story tedious, we did get the info and instruction and meds we needed altho' one pill was still delayed. Our med insurance does not cover meds for diabetes* (!?!?, that would be a whole other thread on how we found that out)... * Update: eventually we found that it does cover insulin.
To conclude: we're home (yay!) and John is fine, though his routine will change, and he's up for the task.
Thank you all for your kind thoughts and wishes! We all really appreciate them.
Of course a little stuffed bull loves pal John so much that I'll readily deal with one of the consequences: no cookies.
And thanks for letting me write this in third person for John. He says he loves you all.
On Tuesday my pal John went to the hospital and stayed there until last night. Big upfront notice: it was not COVID, altho' we thought it was at first from the symptoms. (We're all much relieved it isn't.)
John had been feeling extreme exhaustion and shortness of breath for several days. It got to the point where he couldn't walk a block without having to rest. Those are two of the symptoms of COVID, plus extreme thirstyness all the time. John has just thought he was out of shape.
But: his blood sugar had SPIKED beyond the ability of the clinic we first went went before the hospital to measure on their equipment (over 400). That ain't good.
John has diabetes type-2, and so far we have been effectively treating it with pill meds.
However: he'd run out of his meds that week, and his primary care physician did not return calls to have them refilled. They didn't from the drug store either. John's PCP is MIA. Remember these events? Same doctor. (Update: Turns out they closed their office during COVID, but zero notification of that on their outgoing message, and eventually the answering machine filled up and wouldn't take any more new messages. After all this occurred I got myself a new primary care physicain, you bet.
John stayed three days in the hospital (a block away from our home, so Randi could visit him. He was pretty well taken care of but the wheels of progress run exceedingly slow in a hospital. Whenever they tell you that you should be discharged, add another day.
For instance: the results to the COVID test, which take six hours to determine, took about 18 hours to filter back to us. (He was on an isolation ward and supposed to be transferred to a regular room after that on Wednesday, but we never made it out of that one room.)
It was obviously a repurposed room, since it had this piece of mechanical equipment sitting next to the bed. (Sound up!) Made the room very noisy and hot and kept John sleepless most nights.
Here was the only window in the hospital room. The blinds were covered in glass so you couldn't open them, so zero natural light.
The most frustrating thing, tho', was getting multiple and conflicting answers to questions about important things. John's taking insulin now, and was told these conflicting things: 1 dose a day/2 a day; 10 units/12 units; need physical therapist/don't, and many others.
Also: we had to insist on demonstrations of how to test for blood numbers and how to inject insulin. Both eventual demonstrations involved equipment that was not what we eventually got. Most egregiously, they showed us needle/bottle insulin and we got pen-injection insulin.
So we were (and continue to be) very frustrated by lack of communication, conflicting information, and poor process skills for discharge.
Luckily the wonderful Randi was there to really insist on info and ask questions (again and again) about what was going on. This was hard. I can't imagine how hard it would be for a person on their own, especially anyone with English as a second language or hearing difficulties.
So, to make a long story tedious, we did get the info and instruction and meds we needed altho' one pill was still delayed. Our med insurance does not cover meds for diabetes* (!?!?, that would be a whole other thread on how we found that out)... * Update: eventually we found that it does cover insulin.
To conclude: we're home (yay!) and John is fine, though his routine will change, and he's up for the task.
Thank you all for your kind thoughts and wishes! We all really appreciate them.
Of course a little stuffed bull loves pal John so much that I'll readily deal with one of the consequences: no cookies.
And thanks for letting me write this in third person for John. He says he loves you all.
Monday, November 02, 2020
Sunday, November 01, 2020
The Adventures of Bully: ♫ I feel pretty, I feel pretty ♫
Every now and then a guy just wants to look really nice in a pretty, pretty dress, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Bully and His Pals: It's Shelly's birthday!
It's Shelly T. Otter's birthday! She is eight years old. Which is a very good age to be.
Bully and His Pals: A g-g-ghost!
We got a new pal: a stuffed Halloween ghost we bought on deep deep post-Halloween discount from Target because he was missing on of the flags that spelled out "Boo".
We just named him "Bo." Bo the Ghost.
You can see I need a good washing as I too am supposed to be white. It's kind of embarrassing here.
We just named him "Bo." Bo the Ghost.
You can see I need a good washing as I too am supposed to be white. It's kind of embarrassing here.
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Stuff Bully Got: Comics from Mike Sterling's Sterling Silver Comics!
OH BOY I GOT A PACKAGE FROM Sterling Silver Comics, America's only comic book store (that's owned and run by Pal Mike Sterling!)
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Life Under Quarantine: I can't believe it's not Buddha
I steeled up my nerve and little stuffed body's natural defense organisms and got masked up to go out and do some errands. I was planning to reward myself with Chicken McNuggets when I got goin', so that's a good impetus!
Other perks of going out: I get to see the little Buddha on the corner of Ninth Avenue and Sixth Street with an orange sitting on it! (This photo from last year)
Here it is today! Buddha's got a squash pumpkin and an apple! Doubly blessed!
Here's hoping your day is as calm and blissful as a Buddha with a pumpkin! G'wan, go out and get some chicken nuggets or something.
Hey, Pal Tom, what did you have to say about this when I posted it on Twitter?
Other perks of going out: I get to see the little Buddha on the corner of Ninth Avenue and Sixth Street with an orange sitting on it! (This photo from last year)
Here it is today! Buddha's got a squash pumpkin and an apple! Doubly blessed!
Here's hoping your day is as calm and blissful as a Buddha with a pumpkin! G'wan, go out and get some chicken nuggets or something.
Hey, Pal Tom, what did you have to say about this when I posted it on Twitter?
Monday, October 12, 2020
Today in Comics History, October 12, 1944 (Let's Poke Fun at Columbus Day Special): US Navy continues on in the finest tradition of Christopher Columbus
from "The Coast Guard Lady" in Real Fact Comics #4 (DC, September 1946), script by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, and/or Bernie Breslauer
Today in Comics History, October 12, 1492 (Let's Poke Fun at Columbus Day Special): Atlanteans plot against Christopher Columbus
from Picture Stories from American History #1 (EC, November 1945), script by W. W. D. Sones and M. C. Gaines, pencils and inks by Allen Simon
Monday, October 05, 2020
What's Bully Reading?: Employee of the Month by Mary Jo Pehl
Some late night reading of Employee of the Month and Other Big Deals by Mary Jo Pehl of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and RiffTrax: humorous essays on her life and various jobs she has had!
Best blurb ever!
Stop watching me, Mary Jo!
Aw, this book is just a baby!
Anyway it's great and this little stuffed bull gives it two hoofs up. Highly recommended! Get it here! (Amazon ad)
Best blurb ever!
Stop watching me, Mary Jo!
Aw, this book is just a baby!
Anyway it's great and this little stuffed bull gives it two hoofs up. Highly recommended! Get it here! (Amazon ad)
Sunday, October 04, 2020
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Bully Eats Food: Almonds (Bold)
They're bold! So bold they are not recommended for human consumption!
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Bully Eats Food Drinks Beverages: A delicious Starbucks Frappuccino
I am having a bottled Starbucks Frappuccino! Yummmmm.
Seriously, I'm like addicted to these guys.
Seriously, I'm like addicted to these guys.
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Bully Eats Food: Breakfast sammich
John made me an egg sammich and chocolate milk!
No, I did NOT put Tabasco in the chocolate milk.
No, I did NOT put Tabasco in the chocolate milk.
Tuesday, September 01, 2020
The Adventures of Bully: Please Mister Postman
H'lo folks! I am working on my stamp collection tonight!
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Saturday, August 01, 2020
Bully and His Pals: Happy birthday, Marshall!
My kid sister Marshall turned four today! Happy Birthday, Marshall!
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