Monday 16 January 2006

My Day is Now Happy

The DC Solicitations for April(-ish) are out today, and what do my eyes see?

Showcase Presents Haunted Tank!

Written by Robert Kanigher
Art by Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, Irv Novick, Jerry Grandenetti, and Jack Abel

Circle May 17 on your calendars now!

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Superman!

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Superman!

  1. It is impossible to fold superman more than seven times.
  2. There are roughly 10,000 man-made objects the size of superman orbiting the Earth!
  3. If you break superman, you will get seven years of bad luck!
  4. It's bad luck to put superman on a bed.
  5. Superman can sleep for three and a half years!
  6. The average human spends about 30 days during their life in superman.
  7. Superman is the only king without a moustache on the standard pack of cards.
  8. The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as superman!
  9. Four-fifths of the surface of superman is covered in water.
  10. American Airlines saved forty thousand dollars a year by eliminating superman from each salad served in first class.
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New Library Comics: Week of January 9, 2006

Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:


Barry, Lynda, 1956- One hundred demons /Seattle : Sasquatch Books ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2002.

Kubert, Joe, 1926- Yossel : April 19, 1943 : a story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising /New York : Ibooks : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2003.

Ottaviani, Jim. Dignifying science : stories about women scientists /[Ann Arbor, MI] : G.T. Labs, [2003]

Ottaviani, Jim. Fallout : J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the political science of the atomic bomb /Ann Arbor, MI : G.T. Labs, c2001.

Ottaviani, Jim. Two-Fisted science : stories about scientists /Ann Arbor, Mich. : G. T. Labs, 2001.

Paper Rad, B.J., and Da Dogs /New York : PictureBox, 2005.

Voltaire, 1967- Deady : the malevolent teddy /Unadilla, N.Y. : Sirius, c2004.

Zaben, Andrew. Tuesday and Thursday /Bayside, N.Y. : All Effort Comics, 2002.

MLK Day

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story comic book from 1956. Click to read the whole comic online, courtesy of Ethan Persoff.