Friday Night Fights: Supergirl vs. Lobo

From Blue Beetle #18 (2007). Art by Rafael Albuquerque. Letters by Pat Brosseau. Colors by Guy Major. Story by John Rogers. (click pic for larger)

Ka-Pow? Kapow!

Friday Christmas Five of a Kind: Santa's Got a Gun!

I've collected cover scans for over 1000 comics with a Christmas theme, which at 25 per year would take me over 40 years to post them all! So every Friday during December this year I'm posting five theme-related Christmas covers.

Peace on Earth? Joy to the World? Goodwill toward Men? Bah! Nothing says Christmas like a well-armed Santa Claus!







Ernie #12 (2000)
Iron Man #254 (1990) (by Bob Layton)
Läderlappen #12 (1980)
Spectacular Spider-Man #112 (1986) (by Kyle Baker)
The Last Christmas #4 (2006) (by Rick Remender)

Bulging Artists

Bizarro is brought to you today by Creepy Grandpas.

Roger Clemens and his drug problem were back in the news this week so I thought I'd post my cartoon from this time last year. Yes, that's supposed to be me on the left and yes, I actually do have one impossibly huge and over-developed hand and no, it isn't from too many years as a single guy. (That tends to develop the wrist and elbow muscles.)

In spite of what this cartoon implies, performance-enhancing drugs are not illegal for cartoonists so I can admit without fear of prosecution that I've taken plenty: Ibuprofen, yerba mate, coffee, single-malt scotch, fine tequila, cigars, anti-depressants, and high-cocoa-content chocolate.

Speaking of performance, I just noticed that I neglected to draw the backs or legs for the chairs the characters would be sitting on. That means they're just squatting at the table, pretending they have chairs. That kind of muscle control would not be possible without performance-enhancing drugs, even for a drawing.

Christmas Covers - December 12

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.)

A woman ponders an age-old comic book question on Janet L. Hetherington's cover to Eternal Romance #3 (1997).

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


Just 13 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Liberty Meadows #24)
(2006: Veronica #6)
(2005: Dell Movie Classic #725)
(2004: Treasure Chest vol. 23 #8)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)