Monday, January 23, 2012

Flash Gordon #6 Cover Preview

There's no Flash Gordon like a "classic" Flash Gordon.
Have you ever noticed that all the attempts to "update" the character modify hm so much as to be unrecognizable?
(Remember the Smallville-ized Sci-Fi, er, SyFy version?)
Thankfully, Dynamite's current series goes back to the basics, combining the best of Alex Raymond's original with the movie serial, feature film, and Filmation tv series to make a kool pastiche almost on the level of the Dini-Timm-McDuffie DC Animated universe.
Top it off with superb covers like this one for #6 by Francesco Francavilla, and it's a must-have package for high-adventure fans of all ages.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

For Valentine's Day, She'll Love...Love Diaries and Love Letters!

Art by John Buscema
Until the intro of texting, blogs, MySpace and FaceBook, the main way people kept track of their love lives was thru Love Diaries & Love Letters!
In fact, those contents of those small books with the easily-broken locks made up one of the most popular sub-categories of romance comics, with literally dozens of titillating titles!

Let our selection of the best of these these kitchy, campy (and very kool) classic comics covers help you express your true feelings on the Most Important of Days--Valentines Day on greeting cards, teddy bears, mugs, and even "naughty" undies!

And, if they can't assist your love-life, perhaps something from one of our other sections at True Love Comics Tales™ including...
All You Need is Love...
Beatrice Fairfax
Confessions
Lovers Lane
School of Love (or is that Love in School?)
WarTime Love
Weddings
Western Love
will help get your point across on the Most Important of Days!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Reading Room: SPACEHAWK "Creeping Death from Neptune"

How could you not want to read a story with a title like that?
Plus: story and art by the unique (to put it mildly) Basil Wolverton!
This premiere tale from Target Comics V1 N5 (1940) was just the tip of the iceberg!
There's much more interstellar weirdness from the mind and pen of Basil Wolverton to come!
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Friday, January 20, 2012

If MegaUpload can be Deleted, Can Picasa and Other Cloud-Based Sites be Next?

Considering Picasa, RapidShare, and other image/file lockers may (repeat MAY) have a few "inappropriate" or "copyright infringing" images on them, could they be shut down as MegaUpload was, punishing many innocent users who have nothing more insidious than Christmas pix...or Public Domain comic pages on them? ;-)
MegaUpload was shut down without the extended powers SOPA/PIPA would give the government!
Imagine what they would do with SOPA/PIPA in their arsenal!!!
Be afraid!  Be very afraid!
In the meantime...
Don't use "cloud based" servers as your only backup!
What happened to MegaUpload can happen to any of them!