"All of the Marvels" has won the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book!
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I'm selling a bunch of complete or continuous sets of very interesting comics--Killraven in Amazing Adventures, Beanworld, various Claremont & Hickman titles, Shade the Changing Man, the Millennium crossover, etc. Ping or PM if there's something you're seeking!
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OK. Thanks for letting me self-promote. As you were!
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And I'd be remiss if I didn't suggest that Portlanders, in particular, get their copy from Books with Pictures, a.k.a. the best comic book store in the world.
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But there are copies available this year, and it makes an excellent gift for the Marvel-comics-curious person in your life. (If you're in the U.S., go for the hardcover: the paperback that's showing up on some sites is actually the British edition.)
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(Which is a good news/bad news kind of situation for an author: great that it did so well, disastrous that nobody can get it during the biggest sales weeks of the year.)
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A self-promotional thread! At this time last year, "All of the Marvels" was unavailable through most outlets--the first printing had sold out (thanks to some very enthusiastic reviews) and the second printing didn't get distributed until the new year.
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My "romance comics that came out exactly fifty years ago this week" thread is visiting a potential new home today. Come say hi:
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Polygon asked me to speculate about what the next ten years of the MCU will look like: polygon.com/23483917/marve (I don't know about the next hundred, though!)
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Just when I thought the pronunciation question was a Schrödinger's X (see the thread at twitter.com/douglaswolk/st ), here comes to show us an alternate reality where there's a definite answer...
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Replying to @gregpak @Al_Ewing and @AshcanPress
You’re the one who canonically established that it’s pronounced with a sounded X...
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He was a fantastic musician and incredibly kind to me, and I will miss him.
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The B-side, "Psychedelic Clown," was one of Hamish's (for some reason it's "Psychedelic Ranger" on the Clean Anthology that came out a while back). And he even gave me a shout-out in the middle of it:
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A couple of years after that, I got another call from Hamish: "the Clean are about to record a new album, and I was wondering if you'd like us to make a single for you to put out too." WHY YES, YES I WOULD. (This one had artwork by Hamish too.)
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“Sure,” he said, “but I was wondering if I could do some cover artwork for it.” And a few weeks later, this gorgeous painting arrived.
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While I was putting it together, I got a call out of the blue from Hamish, who I didn’t know at all at the time. “I hear you’re putting out a Clean tribute,” he said. Yes, I said, is that OK? —
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30 years ago, I had just recently moved to NYC and started a tiny record label. The second record I put out was a 7-inch tribute to the Clean, Hamish’s best-known band—
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Very sad news: Hamish Kilgour has died. Let me tell you a small story about his kindness to me--
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Next week: vertical type!
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"Come Fly with Me," drawn by Art Cappello, is another air-pilot romance, with extensive innuendo and lingerie.
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Turns out he was lying to her, which of course is the foundation for a lasting and healthy relationship (along with intra-departmental fraternization)!
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She gets a weirdly fetishistic plainclothes assignment guarding a TV star who gets handsy with her, then looks hellaciously bored on a date with the star's friend.
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After a gratuitous shower, she goes to a party and meets Steve, who bails on her when he finds out she's a cop.
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Susan Peters, in "Love Wears No Uniform" (written by Gary Abel, drawn by his dad Jack Abel), is a newly graduated policewoman who... wait, are there rules against this stuff? There have to be...
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And then the true horror emerges, as we find out what Carl's last name is.
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He kisses Miss Wilton just to be a creep to Vikki. (EW.) She decides to protect Vikki from him by, uh... Oh god. Oh god no. Miss Wilton. No.
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Career Girl Romances #73 opens with "Beware of His Kisses," drawn by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia, in which social worker Miss Wilton (no first name given) sees one of her clients canoodling with local nogoodnik Carl.
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Oh. Mike got a raise and a promotion. That's nice, I suppose.
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FEWER. The word is FEWER.
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They move in with Mike's family, where the fish motif continues.(Oh look, an exclamation point!)
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Whoever wrote "For the Love of Mike" (drawn by A. Martinez and Jean Elier) was apparently feeling very low-key that day, and didn't have any interest in exclamation points.
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Fortunately for Gerda, she demonstrates her Charlton Romance Fisticuffs credentials and impresses the exes by assaulting a guy with a tacky bolo tie. That'll keep the chicks at bay!
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Oh crap--he has healthy, friendly relationships with his exes! And they even get along with each other!! RUN, GERDA!!!
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"I've Got THEIR Man!" is drawn by Charles Nicholas and Don Perlin. Gerda goes on vacation to the Bahamas, meets Kent, and immediately marries him, without actually knowing much about him. Oh no! What could his terrible secret be?
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Eric responds to her helicoptering by becoming a domineering jerk. Eventually, she consults his mother and figures out how to manipulate him with reverse psychology. I'm sure they'll make some divorce lawyers very wealthy someday.
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Luis Avila draws "Too Much Love," in which newlyweds Liana and "mod but icky" (!) Eric... kind of deserve each other.
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Just Married #92 has a number of creepy aspects, but none creepier than this demonstration that Charlton had run out of sexy characters from The Partridge Family to feature in its romance titles' pin-up pages.
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...but then Carl gets his pilot job back, so she dumps Philip for him just in time for the happy ending, and at this point *why are either of them still putting up with her*?
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...and then Carl does the Distracted Boyfriend thing, except with an airplane, so she dumps him for Philip (whose name literally means "horse-lover")...
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...and then Carl plays the "actually I'm gonna go farm, come with?" card, so she dumps Philip for him...
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