Fun with Comics: In the Harvey Universe, Marvel's Sandman is a pig.

cover of Casper the Friendly Ghost (1952 series) #54 (Harvey, March 1957), pencils and inks by Warren Kremer
And his name? Flint Porko.

The Adventures of Bully: And now, a little stuffed bull on a roll of AstroTurf

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 17: We've hidden a Power and Responsibility reference somewhere in this crowded panel of overwrought Claremont dialogue. Can you find it?

Panels from X-Men (1991 series) #2 (November 1991), co-plot and script by Chris Claremont, co-plot and pencils by Jim Lee, inks by Scott Williams, colors by Joe Rosas, letters by Tom Orzechowski

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 16: Extra, extra, read all about it

Panels from Spider-Gwen (December 2015 series) #1 (December 2015), script by Jason Latour, pencils and inks by Robbi Rodriguez, colors by Rico Renzi, letters by Clayton Cowles

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 15: In which Mary Jane lectures Kaine until he's blue in the face

Panels from Spider-Man (1990 series) #61 (August 1995), script by Howard Mackie, pencils by Tom Lyle, inks by Chris Ivy, colors by Kevin Tinsley, letters by Richard Starkings

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 14: Awww, he's leakin'

Page from Spider-Man: Chapter One #1 (December 1998); script, pencils, inks, and letters by John Byrne; colors by John Kalisz

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 13: Toy Story

Panels from "Tales of the Puppet Master!" in Spider-Man Family #4 (October 2007); script, pencils, inks and letters by Chris Eliopoulos; colors by Brad Anderson

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?"