Krazy! Kosmic!

So, DC's doing a Holiday / Winter special. Love that. And the cute little hat on the All-Star Superman cover is cute. Simple and cute. Love that, too.

But - you gotta admit (well, if you're .. umm.. ME, anyway), could ol' Supes be sportin' a cooler lid? Hmmm..

And.. of course the lids don't get any cooler than King Kirby's Krazy Kosmic Kool Kaps!







Hat Tip to Bully, who, it turns out, did a little writeup on this very topic that I forgot about and happens to be the number one Google search result for "Jack Kirby Hats." Thanks for the images to mess with, Li'l Bull!

Happy Birthday, Mr. Kirby.

Thank you, sir for ... well, everything!

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Bonus Kirby Goodness!


Jack Kirby. Mr. T. My head explodes.

Puny Humans Playing with Matches

Straight from the headlines of current geeky events!

Y'know? The Kirby craziness and overly dramatic Lee dialog completely sells this one.

That and The Watcher's spiffy black sweater.

(That's actually lifted straight from a photo of Steve Jobs)
(No, I'm not buying one. At least not yet.)

Enjoy your weekend, folks!

Kirby vs. The Mob

Now this is interesting! And something I've never seen before... Kirby doing mob stories? In digest size? With "Period Humor" by Aragonès? Free "Authenic" Dillinger poster?

I've would've loved this as a kid.

I mean if, of course The Mob even exists. And if it does that this book treated them kindly. Because I wouldn't want to speak ill of The Mob. If they existed. Which they don't.

New God Charming

Couldn't help it. First thing that crossed my mind as re-reading this classic. And it made me giggle.

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My mind works strangely, sometimes. And by "sometimes," I mean "every time I read comics. Especially Kirby comics."

On another note, I watched Grindhouse Saturday night at an IMAX theater at 12 am while completely drunk. Heck, I was drinking during the movie. And Dick Dale was on the car's sterio on the way to the theater. Seemed appropriate.

Needless to say, at the time I thought it was the quite possibly the best Goddammed movie ever. Now that I've sobered up, it was actually a great, great fun movie if you know what you're getting into, understand the genre they're homaging, and you have your tongue firmly planted in your cheek. If they would've cut about 15 minutes of the Tarantino dialogue (as good as it was, it was an action-buzz killer) from about halfway through Death Proof, I would have nary a complaint with it. Don't see it at midnight, though. You won't get home until 4 am. Seriously.

And as funny as Machete was, Don't was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Don't miss it! Don't!!

Hope everyone had a happy Easter! I decorated my Easter eggs to look like Plastic Man - which was very funny to me, until I pretended that poor ol' Plas had been hit by a freeze ray while caught in egg form and I started rolling him across the table, cracking him open to eat his delicious insides ... No, Plas! NOOOOO!