Saturday, July 18, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 200: I've Got a Bad Feeling About This Week, Day 6: No, that's just a bad glass of blue milk



Panel from Star Wars: Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan: The Aurorient Express #1 (February 2002), script by Mike Kennedy, pencils by Lucas Marangon, inks by Howard Shum, colors by Dan Jackson, letters by Steve Dutro

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 199: I've Got a Bad Feeling About This Week, Day 6: Even Leia is starting to get sick of George Luca's writing



Panels from "The Other" in Star Wars Tales #16 (June 2003), script by Jason Hall, pencils and inks by John McCrea, colors by Giulia Brusco, letters by Steve Dutro

Today in Comics History, July 18: Manhattan Criminal Courtroom 3 is ankle-deep in drool


from Punisher: The Trial of the Punisher #1 (Marvel, November 2013), script by Marc Guggenheim, pencils and inks by Leinil Francis Yu, colors by Sunny Gho, letters by Cory Petit

Friday, July 17, 2015

Today in Comics History, July 17: Law and Order premieres "thunk-thunk" sound effect


from Punisher: The Trial of the Punisher #1 (Marvel, November 2013), script by Marc Guggenheim, pencils and inks by Leinil Francis Yu, colors by Sunny Gho, letters by Cory Petit

Today in Comics History, July 17, 1911: Edwardian society forcibly maroons Captain Picard cosplayer


from The Flash (2011 series) #37 (DC, February 2015), script by Robert Venditti and Van Jensen, pencils by Brett Booth, inks by Norm Rapmund, colors by Andrew Dalhouse, letters by Dezi Sienty

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 198: I've Got a Bad Feeling About This Week, Day 5: Mike Sterling Alert! Mike Sterling Alert!



Panels from Ewoks (1985 Marvel/Star series) #12 (March 1987), script by Dave Manak, pencils by Warren Kremer, inks by Jon D'Agostino and Jacqueline Roettcher, colors by George Roussos, letters by Grace Kremer

Thursday, July 16, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 197: I've Got a Bad Feeling About This Week, Day 4: Inhuman Resources



Panels from "Problem Solvers" in Star Wars Tales #20 (June 2004); script, pencils, inks, colors, and letters by Chris Eliopolous

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Today in Comics History, Third Week in July: Isis freaks out Cindy by blatantly breaking the fourth wall


from "Isis...As in Crisis!" in Shazam! (1973 series) #25 (DC, September 1976), script by Denny O'Neil, pencils and inks by Dick Giordano, letters by Ben Oda

NO DON'T DROP ME BACK OFF THE CLIFF, ISIS



Today in Comics History, July 15: Louise is clearly not marrying Rob for his brains


from Breakfast After Noon #1 (Oni, May 2000), script, pencils, inks, and letters by Andi Watson

Today in Comics History, July 15, 1978: Justice League of America are destroyed; never appear again



from Justice League of America (1960 series) #159 (DC, October 1978), script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Frank McLaughlin, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by Ben Oda

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 196: I've Got a Bad Feeling About This Week, Day 3: Knife to meet you



Panels from "Death Star Pirates" in Star Wars Tales #8 (June 2001); script by Henry Gilroy; pencils, inks, and letters by Glen Murakami; colors by Don Skinner

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 195: I've Got a Bad Feeling About This Week, Day 2: One does not simply walk into Fondor


Star Wars newspaper comic strip (July 4, 1981), script by Archie Goodwin, pencils and inks by Al Williamson
(Click picture to five-newspaper-columns-size)

Monday, July 13, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 194: I've Got a Bad Feeling About This Week, Day 1: Let's All Go to the Movies


Hey, I'm hooked on a feeling!


No, no, wrong feeling...also, wrong space-fantasy franchise. Nope, I'm talkin' 'bout the reccuring in-joke of the Star Wars Universe — the line "I've got a bad feeling about this," spoken by everyone from Han Solo to…well, Han Solo's pals. It pops up in every single G-canon Star Wars movie, altho' I'm not certain if it's in The Star Wars Holiday Special or The Ewok Adventure. Because that would require me to watch those. And, just as the Star wars comic book adapt the swashbuckling lightsaber action and all-out blaster adventure, they too adapt that famous line into the comic book universe, right from the very beginning with the first Marvel adaptation.



Panels from (top) Star Wars (1977 Marvel series) #4 (top) and #5 (bottom) (October-November 1977), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Howard Chaykin, inks by Steve Leialoha, colors by Carl Gafford (#4) and Glynis Wein (#5), letters by Tom Orzechowski




Sunday, July 12, 2015

Ten of a Kind #405: This is the most Comic-Con coverage you're gonna get here, so enjoy












( See also. And there's more Ten of a Kind here.)

Today in Comics History, July 12, 1690: Garth Ennis creates new gay rights anthem using time travel


from Dicks: To the End of Time, Like #2 (Avatar, June 2014), script by Garth Ennis, pencils and inks (and letters?) by John McCrea, colors by Digikore Studios

Note: I am not allowed to read this comic book so it must have been Andrew who posted this. Who else knows more about British music of the 1970s?


"Glad to Be Gay" by Tom Robinson Band (EMI Records, 1978), written by Tom Robinson


Today in Comics History, July 12: Happy birthday, Milton Berle!

Today in 1908: Milton Berle is born, fully clad in dress shirt and blue shorts:


from "The Milton Berle Story" in Uncle Milty #1 (Cross, December 1950), pencils and inks by Cal Massey

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 193: Attack of the Starship Ginsu


Panels from Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin #2 (May 2013), script by Tim Siedell, pencils by Stephen Thompson, inks by Mark Irwin and Drew Geraci, colors by Michael Atiyeh, letters by Michael Heisler

Today in Comics History, July 12, 44 BCE: Happy Birthday, Salad Inventor Guy


from "Were You Born in July" in Amazing Man Comics #14 (July 1940), pencils and inks by Joseph A. Kaliff

Hey, wanna read more about Caesar? Sure, we all do! Check out my pal John's post on Thirteen Comic Book Caesars over at 13th Dimension! An' I helped!