Christmas Covers - December 2

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. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

We're making snowmen with old-school Sabrina on Dan DeCarlo's cover to Sabrina, The Teen-Age Witch #77.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 23 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2006: Dennis the Menace Bonus Magazine Series #111)
(2005: Limited Collectors' Edition #C-43)
(2004: Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #9)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

Christmas Covers - December 1

It's time once again for our annual Christmas Covers event: twenty-five more comic covers with a holiday theme, in our little virtual comic book advent calendar.

Hover over the image to reveal today's cover, and click on it to see the larger-sized version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

To kick things off, The Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman join Santa Claus in wishing you a happy holiday season on Frank Harry's cover to Comic Cavalcade #5 from 1943!

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.

Just 24 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2006: Justice League Unlimited #16)
(2005: Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #3)
(2004: Limited Collectors' Edition #C-34)
(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

YAMR: Christmas Extravataganza 2007

It's December, and that means it's time for our annual Christmas Extravataganza on Yet Another Music Radio!

Tune in and listen to more than one hundred tracks, including music by:

Adrienne Pierce; Aimee Mann; Ali Lohan; Allison Crowe; Aly & AJ; Antigone Rising; The Apples in Stereo; Asleep at the Wheel; BarlowGirl; Bethany Dillon; The Beu Sisters; Bianca Ryan; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; Billy Dean; Billy Paul Williams feat. Nicole Henry; The Bird and the Bee; Blackmore's Night; Blondfire; Brad Paisley; Britt Nicole; Built for the Sea; c. basinet; Celtic Woman; Chris Isaak; Chris Rice; Christine Evans; Christy Carlson Romano; Cliff & Danielle Young; Colbie Caillat; Cyndi Thompson; Deana Carter; Deanna Kirk; Derri Daugherty, Julie Miler & Third Day; Ellis Paul; Emily Richards; Enya; Erin Alden; Fountains of Wayne; Hayley Westenra; Hillsong; Iain Archer; Ingrid Lucia; Israel & New Breed; Jack Ingram; James Taylor; Jane Monheit; Jars of Clay; Jason Mraz; Jeff Black; Jessie Daniels; Joan Osborne; Johanna Stahley; John Tesh; Joy Williams; Kelly Willis; Kimberly Locke; KT Tunstall; Kutless; Lauri Carrigan; Leigh Nash; Lisa Loeb; Lisa Theriot; Los Straitjackets; Luscious Jackson; Martin Sexton; Matt Costa; Mediæval Bæbes; Melanie Doane; MercyMe; Michelle Tumes; Mindy Smith; Moya Brennan; Méav Ni Mhaolchatha; Natalie Grant; Nazanin; Nichole Nordeman; Nnenna Freelon; Olivia Olson; Over the Rhine; Persephone's Bees; The Pipettes; Play; Point of Grace; Rebecca St. James; Relient K; Rhonda Vincent; Rihanna; Sara Groves; Sarah McLachlan feat. Diana Krall; Saturday Looks Good to Me; Sister Hazel; Skye Sweetnam; Sleigh Ride; Sonicflood; Starfield; Sufjan Stevens; Tears for Beers; Tiffany Giardina; TRALALA; The Trophy Fire; Tywanna Jo Baskette; Universa Honey; Venus Hum; Whigfield; The Young Playthings; and ZOEgirl.

It's six and a half hours of not-your-typical Christmas music to get you into the holiday mood!

The Simpsons on Hulu

I've now got a Hulu beta account, so here's "Husbands & Knaves," the recent episode of The Simpsons that featured Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman & Dan Clowes as The League of Extraordinary Freelancers (complete with ads).

New This Week: November 29, 2007

New comics arrive Thursday this week, I guess because Thanksgiving was last week? No, it doesn't make sense to me either.


Boom! have a trade collection of their rather enjoyable Talent mini. While the story by Christopher Golden and Tom Sniegoski reads like the pilot for a television series, it's a rather good one, and the art from Paul Azaceta works well. (I reviewed issues #1, #2, #3-4.)

There's a third collection of Eric Shanower's retelling of the Trojan War, Age of Bronze. I haven't finished the second one yet, which means I'm a good-for-nothing slacker.

The first Popgun anthology is 400 full-color pages of stories from some nifty comics creators; a good bargain which some very likely good stories within.

DC have the third collection of Douglas Rushkoff's Testament, a comic which seems so tailored to my reading interests that it's no surprise that hardly anyone else is reading it; and Garth Ennis's Midnighter: Killing Machine, which I thought was good for what it was, and has art from the always-nifty Chris Sprouse.

Speaking of Ennis, he and Gary Erskine resurrect Dan Dare for Virgin Comics. (Last resurrected by Grant Morrison & Rian Hughes, so they have a lot to live up to.)

Other floppies of interest include Casanova (#11), Madman Atomic Comics (#5), Jack of Fables (#17), and All Star G-dd-amm Batman and Robin (#8)

Tons of manga this week, though not from the usual suspects (although Viz have a handful), but rather from Seven Seas, NetComics, Digital Manga, Del Rey and Dark Horse. And Fanfare/Ponent Mon have Ice Wanderer, a collection of six man vs. nature stories by the master manga-ka Jiro Taniguchi.

Why Isn't Previews Free Online?

Why isn't Diamond's Previews catalog available online for free? Seriously, they could just create a PDF file from the InDesign (or whatever program they use) file and let people download it. Sure it would be a large PDF, but so what? Then more comics and graphic novels would get exposed to those who don't get the paper version, and people who never set foot in a comic store may find something they like. Most comic stores I know of either provide Previews for free to their regular customers, or sell them at cost; so they could save on shipping charges by not having to get multiple boxes of the print version. Seems like a win-win-win situation to me.

(Of course, the information from Previews is already out there each month from the various online comic shops; but a PDF version provided by Diamond would I think be more user-friendly.)

New Library Comics: Week of November 19, 2007

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Cohen, Michael, 1950- Strange attractors / Bellingham, Wash. : RetroGrafix, 1993-1997. no. 8

Moore, Terry. Strangers in paradise / Houston, TX : Abstract Studio, c1994- nos. 5, 8

Oakley, Mark, 1970- Thieves & kings / Toronto : I Box Pub., 1994- nos. 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10

Smith, Jeff, 1960 Feb. 27- Bone / Worthington, Ohio : Cartoon Books, 1992 nos. 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 19

Smith, Jeff, 1960 Feb. 27- Bone holiday special / [Lombard, IL : Warrior Publications], c1993.

Smith, Jeff, 1960 Feb. 27- Bone sourcebook. / Anaheim, CA : Image Comics, 1995-


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