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Archive for September, 2009
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(EDIT: The server issues were a big fat botch on the part of our hosting company, which we have now left. This website comes to you courtesy DC McQueen and the good people at Media Temple who spent many hours fixing what Dreamhost broke. My site was not full functioning – and indeed, not online – for the better part of an entire week.)
I am not here.
And because I am not here, this place is your playground, so everyone be nice.
There is something I would like you to do while I am going that is way more fun than just being nice.
It would be loads of comics goodness to take a bunch of utterly lame comic book characters and try to make a decent comic out of them. Yeah, I know, that’s what the Inferior Five was about, but I’m serious. Let’s make a good comic out of crap comics.
There’s this utterly obscure character named Ultraa I’ve always wanted a shot at. I adored this character back in the day. He only appeared a few times. I suppose I kinda dug the guy because 1) he had long red hair 2) he had kind of a sexy Legion of Superheroes/Dave Cockrum-type costume, and 3) he was Australian, raised by Aborigines. Aussie dudes are hot.
And he also came from Earth Prime, which was the DC version of the real world.
I totally stole this image from this website.
For some reason, in his second appearance, it looks like the artist drew him as a giant. Either that, or the perspective was way off in every shot. Dunno.
Years after he appeared twice in the Justice League series, he’s shown up a couple more times, wearing more clothes and sporting a new origin. But I always liked the idea that he had been raised in the Outback. A Superman analog raised by Aborigines.
Anyway, lame with lame sauce, right?
But, there ARE no lame characters! No lame concepts! Only lame execution! That’s my motto and I’m sticking to it.
OK, let’s engage in fannish glee.
What lame character would you like to see revived? Provide links so we can see just how lame lame is.
If you were going to pick something totally lame for me, feel free. If you’d rather pick something for you, tell us all about it and what you would like to do.
Chances of any of these things ever being done are about the same as getting all your money back from Bernie Madoff, but who cares? Let’s just giggle in public. Because, we can.
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Ultraa © ® DC Comics. God help them.
We’re having some server problems so the site is slow and posting is difficult. My apologies. We should be on a new machine, soon.
Here’s some interesting things I saw this past week.
In the new National Geographic, New York when Henry Hudson first saw it in 1609:
Apparently, author Somerset Maugham was not a very nice fellow. Noel Coward called him “The Lizard of Oz”.
Gerald also preyed on housemaids, debutantes and married women, and liked to boast that while in Siam he had bought a 12-year-old girl for a tin of condensed milk.
Another remembrance of Dominick Dunne, this one from the LA Times.
Like Truman Capote, another social chronicler, Dunne often bit the well-manicured hands that fed him. A friend of Alfred and Betsy Bloomingdale of the department store fortune, he turned Alfred’s relationship with his mistress, Vicki Morgan, into a roman a clef, “An Inconvenient Woman” (1990). Similarly, Dunne, who had been a guest at the 1950 wedding of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel, turned his theories about the culpability of Ethel’s nephew, Michael Skakel, in a long-unsolved slaying into another novel, “A Season in Purgatory” (1993). Skakel ultimately was tried and convicted. His cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., blamed Dunne for the conviction and told talk show host Larry King that the writer was “not a journalist. He’s a gossip columnist.”
My very dear friend Jozef Szekeres of Black Mermaid makes incredible dolls.
I’m not a doll collector, but this is the word of a lady who has a dozen dolls. Including Jozef’s.
A wonderful website with a very entertaining gallery of propaganda posters.
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