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Why, no, Mimi - we don't mind!

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Poking around old newspapers looking for instances of "Truth, Justice and the American Way" that predate its first use on the Adventures of Superman radio show (Sep '42). Most remarkable alignment I've found actually comes later, during Gen. MacArthur's 1944 speech to the liberated Philippines...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

You fools, every day is Make A Terrible Comic Day.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Hey folks, if you like the kinds of comics I talk about over here, you might enjoy checking out @gordo-y-mas.bsky.social where I post art (and occasionally other material) from Mexican-American cartoonist Gus Arriola's much-celebrated newspaper comic strip Gordo:

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On Gone&Forgotten today, Spider-Man and pals go Texan, yee-haw! Dallas-based department store Sanger-Harris and the Dallas Times Herald worked with Marvel Comics to create a series of specialty comics bringing familiar heroes to the Lone Star State -- and it all seems to be in canon!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

My TV doesn't have motion-smoothing, I've never seen it before, but I just watched clips of DeLaurentiis' Flash Gordon that were recorded with MS on, and now I want to see the whole movie like that. Looked like an old late 70s episode of Doctor Who shot on video. Found the one valid use-case.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments