Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Monkey Covers return just in time for the end of the year--and college football bowl season--with the cover of Magilla Gorilla #2 from 1970.

(Standard disclaimer about football-playing cartoon gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

YAMR: Best of 2006

Christmas is over, so it's time to retire the Christmas 2006 Mix on Yet Another Music Radio; it was very popular during the holidays, but we're moving on.

Our new playlist at YAMR for the next little while is Best of 2006, over 100 tracks of my favorite music from the past year.

You'll hear songs by:

Allison Moorer, Andrew T. Hunt, Annie Stella, Anoushka Shankar, The Arcade Fire, Ashley Monroe, Baby Gramps, Barenaked Ladies, The Be Good Tanyas, Beirut, Beth Orton, Boy Kill Boy, Cat Power, Cobra Starship, Corinne Bailey Rae, Corrina Repp, Damone, Delerium, Dixie Chicks, The Duhks, Elizabeth Mitchell, Enter the Haggis, Evanescence, Ferraby Lionheart, Goldfrapp, The Grates, Hello Stranger, Jack Johnson, Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins, Jewel, John Whipple, Johnny Cash, Jonathan Coulton, k.d. lang, Kasey Chambers, Kaskade, Kelly Sweet, Kevin Devine, Kim Richey, Klee, KT Tunstall, Laura Michelle Kelly, Lisa Loeb, Mark Insley, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, Mindy Smith, Natalie Walker, Neko Case, Nerina Pallot, Nina Gordon, Office, Pink, Pinmonkey, Plumb, The Ranconteurs, Rocky Votolato, Saint Etienne, Sandi Thom, SHeDAISY, Sing-Sing, Smoosh, Sol Seppy, The Sounds, Starlight Mints, Sting, Sugarplumb Fairies, Todd Snider, Venus Hum, Vienna Teng, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

It's nearly seven hours of great music, so tune on in!
 

Review: Opening Lines, Pinky Probes, and L-Bombs

Opening Lines, Pinky Probes, and L-Bombs: The Girls & Sports Dating and Relationship Playbook
by Justin Borus & Andrew Feinstein
Santa Monica Press, $14.95

Opening Lines... attempts to serve two purposes: as a collection of strips from the syndicated Girls & Sports comic strip, and as a dating guide for (heterosexual) men.

On the plus side, it's an attractively designed book; it integrates the full-color strips with tips and advice from the comic characters, with the strips and tips organized by theme (rather than chronologically as one finds in most strip collections). There's plenty of variety, with text blocks, charts, word balloons, etc. I suppose if one is a fan of the strip, this will be a winning collection.

However, I can't say that I personally am a fan of the strip. Yes I like sports, and yes I'm a single male; but G&S seems to have at its core a view of the relationship between the sexes that I don't cater to, namely one that is combative and where a person has to essentially trick a potential mate.

But then again I'm currently single, so what the heck do I know?

Rating: 2.5 (of 5)

(A review copy of this book was provided by one of the authors.)

CBLDF Fund Drive Update

I'm still looking for three more people to contribute $25 to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as part of our Third Annual CBLDF Fund Drive, so I'm extending the deadline to this Friday (the 29th) at Noon EST. Remember, I'm matching your donation of $25 to the CBLDF. I know you want to spend all of that holiday money you received from Great Aunt Susie on your favorite comics, but the best way to make sure that you can continue to buy the comics you want to but is to give a little to the CBLDF. Details here.

Christmas Covers - December 25

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

We finish this season's celebration of Christmas covers with a stained-glass scene of the nativity from the cover of 1947's Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact #35.

We'll be back in December 2007 with twenty-five more holiday-themed covers (and for those of you who have been patiently waiting, we'll be back to Monkey Covers next Sunday!)

(2005: Dell Four Color #1274)
(2004: Captain Marvel Adventures #19)

(Polite Dissent's 2006 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Two newcomers this year: ShadZ and Brendan McKillip; and Kevin Melrose does it all in one post.)

(Looking for a little Christmas cheer of your own? Tune in to free Yet Another Music Radio for our Holiday Music 2006 mix with over six and a half hours of seasonal songs.)

(Please support our Third Annual CBLDF fund drive!)
 

Christmas Covers - December 24

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

Today's Christmas Eve cover is a visit from Santa on the cover of 1955's Dell Four Color #666.

Come back tomorrow for our final Christmas cover of the year.


Just 1 more 'get-up' until Santa!

(2005: Dell Four Color #1274)
(2004: Captain Marvel Adventures #19)

(Polite Dissent's 2006 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Two newcomers this year: ShadZ and Brendan McKillip; and Kevin Melrose does it all in one post.)

(Looking for a little Christmas cheer of your own? Tune in to free Yet Another Music Radio for our Holiday Music 2006 mix with over six and a half hours of seasonal songs.)

(Please support our Third Annual CBLDF fund drive!)
 

Christmas Covers - December 23

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

Even the manga gets into the Christmas spirit on Mario Kaneda's cover for Girls Bravo vol. 6.

Come back tomorrow for our penultimate Christmas cover of the year.


Just 2 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2005: All-New Collectors' Edition #C-53)
(2004: Impulse #34)

(Polite Dissent's 2006 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Two newcomers this year: ShadZ and Brendan McKillip; and Kevin Melrose does it all in one post.)

(Looking for a little Christmas cheer of your own? Tune in to free Yet Another Music Radio for our Holiday Music 2006 mix with over six and a half hours of seasonal songs.)

(Please support our Third Annual CBLDF fund drive!)