My Comeback Blog

Bizarro is brought to you by my long absence. Thanks for your patience and all of the notes and comments expressing a wish for my return to daily blogging. I've been away from home for three weeks, a rarity for me, partly on holiday in Hawaii and partly in Austin, Texas for my daughter's wedding. It was a terrific trip all around.

I'll post some holiday pics in the coming days or week, if I can get them downloaded and sorted and all that. Just the good/funny/weird ones. I don't want to subject you to boring personal moments or anything.

Speaking of boring personal moments, here are a couple of nice pics of my two daughters and me at the wedding. I'm the dark guy on the right who just got back from two weeks in Hawaii. The one in the light dress is Krapuzar, my eldest and the new bride, the one in the disgraceful, upstage-your-sister-at-her-own-wedding red dress is Krelspeth, the youngest. The "K2" that regularly appears in my cartoons stands for them.

















And here, as proof that I was indeed in Hawaii, is a picture of me underwater at a Maui beach.

By the way, a handful of readers wrote to me asking what the above cartoon meant. If you were similarly confused, if you rearrange the letters in each word of the speaker's balloon, you get "There is no god." Hence the atheist anagram.

More shenanigans tomorrow!

FCBM6 Day 10

It's day ten of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Robert Wilkinson. The five comics that Robert likes are:

1. All-Star Superman
2. Hellboy
3. Invincible
4. Cthulhu Tales
5. anything by Michael Turner

And his other thing of interest is the history and mythology of Angels.

For Robert I have the first issue of the Witchblade spin-off Angelus by Ron Marz & Stjepan Sejic. Plus I'm throwing in Top Cow Triple Play #1 which contains previews of Freshmen, The Necromancer, and V.I.C.E.

For Robert's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Star Wars Halloween comic.

Robert's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
23 entries
32 free comics sent so far
21 days remaining

FCBM6 Day 9

It's day nine of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Bryan Irrera. The five comics that Bryan likes are:

1. Tiny Titans
2. Owly and Friends
3. Love & Capes
4. Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers
5. Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam!

And his other thing of interest is the game Apples to Apples.

For Bryan I have Giant Size Mini-Marvels Starring Spidey #1 by Chris Giarrusso..

For Bryan's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Casper/Little Lulu Halloween comic.

Bryan's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
21 entries
29 free comics sent so far
22 days remaining

FCBM6 Day 8

It's day eight of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Steve Lougheed. The five comics that Steve likes are:

1. The Muppet Show
2. The Unwritten
3. Little Nemo
4. Angry Youth Comix
5. Seaguy

And his other thing of interest is George Romero's Day of the Dead.

For Steve I have a two-fer: the first issues of I, Zombie, the new Vertigo comic by Chris Roberson & Mike Allred; and the first issue of FVZA: Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency by David Hine & Roy Allan Martinez.

For Steve's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Casper/Little Lulu Halloween comic.

Steve's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
19 entries
27 free comics sent so far
23 days remaining

FCBM6 Day 7

It's day seven of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Jon Cox. The five comics that Jon likes are:

1. Stumptown
2. Watchmen
3. Scott Pilgrim
4. The Sixth Gun
5. Asterios Polyp

And his other thing of interest is Lost.

For Jon I have the first issue of Chynna Clugston & Ian Shayghnessy's Strangetown, plus I'm throwing in the first issue of Joe the Barbarian by Grant Morrison & Sean Murphy.

For Jon's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Popeye Halloween comic.

Jon's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
14 entries
24 free comics sent so far
24 days remaining

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this morning. All the previous caveats apply.


1 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2 (-). Kick-Ass
3 (+33). The Flash: Rebirth
4 (-1). Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
5 (+1). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5 *
6 (-2). Wilson
7 (+6). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
8 (+3). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
9 (+6). Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3 (Deluxe Edition) *
10 (+2). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
11 (+3). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat
12 (R). Invincible Iron Man Omnibus, Vol. 1
13 (+5). Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984
14 (-9). Instructions
15 (-5). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour *
16 (-). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
17 (+32). Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead
18 (+10). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
19 (+14). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
20 (-). The Boys Volume 6 SC
21 (-4). Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
22 (+5). Batman: The Killing Joke
23 (+25). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
24 (R). Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
25 (-). The Walking Dead Book 5 *
26 (R). Irredeemable: Volume 1
27 (-8). Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe
28 (N). Treasury of the Lost Litter Box: A Get Fuzzy Treasury
29 (R). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
30 (+5). The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel *
31 (R). Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume
32 (-1). V for Vendetta
33 (N). Bloom County: The Complete Library Volume 3 *
34 (R). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art *
35 (+9). Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days
36 (-14). Asterios Polyp
37 (N). Blackest Night *
38 (R). The Arrival
39 (-30). The Losers: Book One (Vols. 1 & 2)
40 (+1). Batman: Year One
41 (+5). Black Bird, Vol. 4
42 (R). Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt
43 (N). Black Butler, Vol. 2 *
44 (-21). Watchmen
45 (R). The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 2
46 (-3). Green Lantern: Blackest Night *
47 (-5). Irredeemable Vol 2
48 (R). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
49 (R). Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels *



Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.

N = New listing appearing on list for first time
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks


Commentary:

* I have to admit, I'm completely shocked to see The Flash: Rebirth rocket up to the #3 spot. Yes, this morning The Flash is more popular than Twilight!

* It looks like the Invincible Iron Man Omnibus is the beneficiary of Iron Man 2 movie coattails. There are no other Iron Man collections on the charts at all. Kick-Ass remains strong a few weeks out from its movie, though The Losers plummets down thirty places.

* The highest debut belongs to the latest Get Fuzzy Treasury, and the pre-order for the third Complete Bloom County also debuts.

Will Free Comic Book Month End Up Being Free Comic Book Week?

As of this morning I have only seven entries for this year's Free Comic Book Month. Which means that, if I don't get any more in today, we'll be stopped at one week.

Interest in FCBM has been going down over the past couple of years, most likely due to the fact that I do a lot less posting these days.

In 2009 at this point I had 16 entries, and ended FCBM with exactly 31 entries (after a bit of begging near the end).

In 2008 I already had 31 entries after seven days!

The good news for you is that if you enter now, you're pretty much guaranteed to get free comics (in fact, everyone who has entered from year 2 onward has received free comics!)

Entering is easy; you just have to send an email with your five favorite comics and one more thing of interest, and I attempt to match you up with a comic you'll like. Details are here.

It really is free.

So don't delay; enter today!