Keep saying Carmine Infantino to the melody of the Carmen San Diego show theme
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I finally got around to reading A Frog in the Fall. It almost didn’t matter what happened in the book, as I could just look at Linnea Sterte’s art all day.
It’s a shame that it seems to be difficult to find her books at any price at the moment, as Stages of Rot in particular deserves to be seen.
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I read Hayashi’s Gold Pollen and Other Stories, but… Isn’t the story Gold Pollen unfinished? There is even “to be continued” at the end… Where would the follow-up be?
It’s been a while but doesn’t Holmberg mention something about that in the essay at the end?
My understanding is that he stopped it to work on something else… but I checked quickly this morning.
By the way, what are the best Glacier Bay Books, in our opinion guys?
I have read F and Children of Mu-Town, both are very nice. Which others are must buy?
If you find copies I recommend Glaeolia, all three volumes are great
I have emailed them to ask if they have any left of volumes 1 and 2, fingers crossed.
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Hi guys, another piece of advice for me.
I want to buy Alberto Breccia’s Perramus, a masterpiece which I only have in an incomplete, old Italian edition. Unfortunately, the only integral edition in Italian has reduced pages, and I don’t want it.
I can either buy the Spanish hardcover edition, or the American hardcover edition.
The Spanish one has the original text, so it’s as close to the original as possible, but while I can read Spanish, it requires an effort as I don’t know all the words and I am not fluent.
The English one has a great translation, from an person who won an award with his former translation for the Eternauta; I read English perfectly, so it would be much easier… on the other end, as an Italian, it feels a bit wrong to have this double passage to English, for a Spanish-original text…
The volume costs about 50 usd in both cases.
I am split!
What would you do in my place (buying both volumes is not an option 
)?
still think about this beatnik beatifically inspecting some dog crap
RIP Al Jaffee
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Many things from Mad Magazine still frequently cross my mind. For example, from that same article, the part in the beginning where the guy is walking along reading when his glasses fall off his face.
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been trundling through initial d since i never had, am reallly appreciating shigeno’s catalogue of suprise/despair/idiot faces with the ducklips
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Just announced a reissue!
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I hope No Lost Love gets reprinted when the sequel comes out because I want to read it.
I just received it here on my trip in the USA and read it. It’s wonderful, just my type of comic book.
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Read all of Dragon Ball Z for the first time. Took me til the Buu saga to realize Viz censored out all the middle fingers 
DBZ was my “thing” in late elementary-into-middle-into-high-school, though I watched Dragon Ball subbed years later and concluded it was the better series. Only seemed fair to give DBZ a shake in its original format (or as close to it as I’m gonna get, anyway), see how it fared.
I’d say…about as expected? The Saiyan and Frieza sagas are still really good, as it turns out! But you can really feel the quality just kinda drop off during the Android and Cell sagas (I thought the whole Cell thing was cool as hell as a kid…maybe I still would, if I had grown up hearing Wakamoto voicing him). I never watched the Buu saga, so it’s interesting how it’s kind of a return to form, channeling the goofier aspects of Dragon Ball (but also shockingly gory, holy shit so many heads explode in this arc). There is a real sense of someone tapping their watch, wanting things to wrap up, though. Whole lotta nonchalance about humanity being wiped out while everyone just kinda chills out in the sky, saying “the Dragon Balls will fix it, don’t worry.”
But! Dragon Ball was always meant to be read as one whole thing (I will read the original series, some day! Maybe in a minute here, even!), over the course of a decade, and not, y’know, a week.
Even so! Nah. I think I was right, in Dragon Ball being better, and wrong, in thinking the Cell saga was cool and the Buu saga not being worth reading. Pretty sure that original run, from debut through the Daimao Jr. arcs, are the best, with the Saiyan and Frieza sagas as a nice epilogue.
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in particular I’m always shocked how few people are familiar with the Piccolo Jr arc because it’s really fun and visceral in a way that leads right into the Vegeta arc of DBZ, it splits the best of them all imo
I guess most people who start dragon ball from the start don’t get to the end
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It’s such important context for why Piccolo (and his training Gohan) is such a big deal, too.
Somehow never realized til I watched Dragon Ball that most of the techniques Gohan uses early on are Piccolo’s. They visit it again in a kinda sweet way in the newest movie.
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found a treasure in the zine pile at the xiu xiu show tonight, they had a whole wall of shit from like 1993-2018 it was crazy, total time capsule experience… but this one really spoke to me
a loyalty dude…
then in a completely different place i founded a folded up poster of the cover of the zine with thsi on it!!!
YESSSS. i love you 2dogg
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The new comic shop in my childhood neighborhood has a Dwayne McDuffie mural outside.
Back in my day the comic shop was in the back room of the fetishwear store. Got my Youngblood #1 there when it was brand new.
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My favorite comic shop as a kid was Crown Hill Stamp & Coin in Seattle. Smelled like old money and comics. Nice and quiet. Good times browsing and reading there. : ) I remember flipping through Albedo Anthropomorphics there one day after curiosity finally overcame me and feeling naughty somehow. ^_ ^
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