Is it a competitor, or is it another link in the chain a la Starbucks?




Either way, here it is. Isn't it

?

Rival post-a-thons. Who would win? The one with more posts I guess?

Cough syrup strength, maybe.

Who would win? The thread offering ocean cruises, "herbal remedies" and boxes of jewels to it's participants I suspect.

But in suspecting, I know too much. I must now turn into a silhouette and flee across the top of upcoming posts.

That guy is trying to give you your complimentary Super Duper glowstick.

I would accept it, if only he didn't keep thrusting it into my face like he were trying to stab me.

When he was told to torch the evidence, he didn't quite understand what was required.

Whoops, almost blew my silhouette cover ...

Wait... I thought this was the post-a-thon around the corner, in which one slowly falls in love with a fellow poster, not realizing that they are, in reality, that co-worker you always bicker with!

FORGET IT, ESTER.

No, it's surely the binoculars optional thread where you're convinced that everyone across any street has it better than you. It's self fulfilling, as you sink into bitter acrimony with everyone you encounter, ensuring that your side of the street is the worst.

Is the other Post-A-Thon on the sunny side of the street? This one is kinda shady.

I'm fairly sure that if we all went over to that other thread it would be shady in no time

Longtime Legion fans knows that the silhouettes of the two people at the very bottom right are actually Myron Marks and Flynt Brojii! Apparently they were cut out of #38 to save space, even though they clearly foiled the Time Trapper off-panel.

I believe the Elza Perkins sitting shiva bit for Superboy was also cut out, though rumors of it being in non-USA copies persist.

I'm sorry Jacques. While you are indeed invisible, there's a rather obvious side effect. Besides, we're not allowed to show smoking in the future.

I'm still smiling from Cobalt Kid's post.

But hey, I'm not here to steal space from this thread. That's this guy's job...

Well, don't try to steal time! The Trapper hates competition.

When the movie of this thread is made, Lash and I are going to fight over who gets to be the tough-looking dark-haired dame puffing on a coffin nail. (I'll use fake cigs, though.)

Of course there are things beyond time... beyond space.




But the good news is that the rent is decent and there are vacancies.

Baron Winters shows another couple of Night Force hopefuls around the old mansion.

I'd not heard of Midnight Tales until I started careening around the GCD. The covers are appealing, "horror" with humor. They're not available on the DCM or CB+ (possibly just a little too new for public domain) so maybe I'll look for issues at the next comic show.

Click cover to read comic!

What's this? Free comics? Full of golden age wholesome goodness?

Well I WAS saving that as Lash Bait, but there's no stopping that action I suppose.

I should have just skipped on for the scantily clad smuggling operation really.

The bullseyes are a nice touch. Now we all know where exactly to aim!

Be right back. Stealing this.

That was actually what they were used for. They would attract bullets. I looked for the panel where someone fired a missile at them, but no luck.

I must investigate this crime scene, but I have less than a second to do it at 70kmph, for I am the flying detective.

Don't forget your cough syrup, dear.

Brit looks particularly splash page-y at 2:47.

Damn this was a long time ago.

No, I'm not going to watch a Spears video unless I know for sure which bottle is the poison. No way.

Rip Kirby -- I loved that strip when I was little.

Is it still going or is it RIP RIP?

I don't know if it's still going. I stopped reading the newspaper strips years ago because they were getting smaller and less enjoyable.

I wonder if I can pretend my post was really anything more than just having two RIPS together and chuckling. Yes, I think I can. I just have to do it in a way than Fanfie never finds out about...

Probably knot.

I adore this Ripley.

And, Thothkins, I got the joke and it made me chuckle, too, it's just I get melancholy when I think of newspaper strips.

Whew! I felt bad. Well, I felt an urge to talk about Terry and the Pirates actually. So much talent...

There's nothing worse than someone trying to get one last success out of a tired old concept or post-a-thon. They're not fooling anyone.

Streets ahead?

Eek! Stick with cough syrup!

When I was getting the photo for the previous post, I thought I saw a listing for "Captain America Buttrock".

Another tragic celebrity rodent overdose. Why do we put them through such a harsh maze of life? Why put that kind of pressure on them?

That was a cue, sentients.

The first thing that went through my mind is that Tom's favorite song from the last few years must be La Roux's "Bulletproof".

"Buttrock" was not on Cap's list in the sequel.


Might make Winter Soldier's, though.

Winter Soldier certainly has the hair for buttrock.

Exactly.

Winter Solider has hairy buttocks? I suppose it's for the warmth...

Are the hairy buttocks on fire? Is that where all that smoke is coming from?

Flame on.

Now I'm tempted to post the video for Cheap Trick's sappy power ballad, "The Flame."

No serenade, no fire brigade, just pyromania.

Ahhhhhh. MUCH better. Thank you, Teeds.

What do you want? What do you want?

If it's sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, arson, or butts, this is your Post-A-Thon. You betcha!

Who would have thought that just across the street was thatside of town?

Right. I've got these Time Trapper robes...

I don't.

That reminds me, did we ever settle this issue?

The Trapper can look back through time. So he/she/it knows when people are leaving their time to visit.

Those are the only times the trapper bothers with the robes. Te rest of the time he/she/it leaps around the end of time starkers.

There are also the times when the purple robes are at the Laundry at the End of Time.

MORE DOC

MORE RAWK




PS: capes > robes

I will pay really fake money to anyone who can post a pic of Captain Marvel (Billy) and/or Martian Manhunter throwing up the metal horns.

Throwing up? Like ? *gasp*

Cough up the pics, mac.

Back off! It's my turn to jump up and down on him.

I think it's funny that the guy on the floor has both a spit-curl and a receding hairline!

Go ahead, jump.

The photographer knows something about having to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

Just the sort of practical How-To guide I've been looking for! Not to mention some rotogravure for the more adult, discerning reader.

I think she is too late, he looks dead. ha ha.

I was scared of clowns before I watched that "film".

But I did get what your point was there.

Doctor Rockso is certainly one to TOOT his own horn.

He CRACKs me up.

He knows where to DRAW THE LINE.

I might watch it again ...

BLOW, BLOW, BLOW the man down.

I thought she was trying to protect the chair.

ROCK on.

I love the fact that there was a comic about photographers.

He found a new place to dwell at GiggleSNORT Hotel.

Now I'm in a never ending Dr Rokso Youtube loop.

Speaking of loops, I'll bet Toucan Sam could put away a big fat line of cocaine.

There was short lived spin off title called Inside Insurance, about the life insurance salesmen who sold policies to the photographers. Just the 1 issue, but not as short lived as the lives of the cameramen.

Why couldn't he get a shot of the trunks before the dive anyway?

Loop was the MMB's designer drug back in, oh, 2004.

Man, I'd so buy a Bert Brandon, Interplanetary Insurance Inc., title in a heartbeat if DC would publish it!

A year before I got here. Oh, the unfairness.

The Didio DC?

where's the china cat when you need it.

Roy used up all the China Cat, the greedy bastard.

good night post a thon ers.


dont watch too much dr rokso clips.

I remember things tended to get all psychedelic when Sam "followed his nose"!

Where do you THINK it is?

Just follow the pink bubble wrap road....

LOL That's right!

And then there's what-his-name, the Honey Smacks frog. He just had to be on uppers.

Mystery in Sales Monthly.

Building up to the Bert Brandon/ Policy Pam team up.

With added gore and continuity porn.

One's a clown...

The other does cocaine...

Can Marvel Team-Up beat that?

Well, Marvel Team Up was briefly written by Dr. Mayavale's possibly coked-up creator, J.M. De Matteis.

I should probably change the thread title to "The Post-A-Thon in the Seedy Alley".

Urban renewal time.

That's not going to helps sales. I mean hits. I mean POSTS.

How about using page views as a metric instead? I mean, some people are shy about posting and others are just plain lazy.

I could do Post breakfast cereal jokes...

Is Urban renewal the right way? Could the alley be seedier?

Karl Urban renewal -- renew your career by not doing bad movies based on 2000 AD characters.

Ughh, God, the Bruce Jones Hulk era. That's even more sickening than Post breakfast cereals.

Easiest paycheck Byrne ever took home!

It was also the very issue that started the Peter David/John Byrne feud.

PAD was a Marvel staffer at the time, and there was some accidental mix-up with the pages. I don't remember the details, but basically Byrne blamed PAD, and the rest was history.

"You fool PAD! Page 5 is supposed to have the white cat with it's eyes closed in the snowstorm and you've put in the closed eyed albino penguins in a snowstorm page instead!"

More on this here

Aha. Thank you, Thoth. Very amusing.

Byrne really lives in his own little world, methinks.

Herring guts. Great.

I bet Rocky would have something to say about that.

More herring guts!

That link also helpful for figuring out where we want to imbibe large portions of beef in Toledo in March 1985.

Beef...

Banana Walrus Wafers for dessert!

Goo-goo-ga-joob.

EDIT: Or is it Cuckoo-ka-choo?

Just inhale a little more and it won't matter.

I said *a little*, not to LIKING IKE levels.

By Gawn I can smell that from here ...

LOL

Makes me glad I've never done it in Real Life.

Did Mayavale kill this thread? It's supposed to be the other way around.

He's decided to become proactive in this life.

Mayavale huffs Proactiv.

Pity the poor soul who caused him to get acne. I bet it's that horrid Dream Girl. She can't stand the thought of anyone being prettier than she.

Marvelman and the Inca idol are playing 20 Questions, and the idol just got stumped. That's why he's throwing his hands in the air.

Mmmm hmmm.

Uh-huh.

And after that, Marvelman invites him to dance. "Raise the rooooof!"

Christian von Meyer finally made the connection between the dinosaurs and the birds. But how to tell anyone without his eyes being pecked out?

They're brainwashing him while he sleeps!

Dennis found himself sleeping alone when he told his wife he dreamt of other birds.

Heh. In Filipino, "bird" is slang for a man's....

ooooh the Freudian dreams of Dennis.

Perhaps the big bird will finally make Dennis happy.

Batman on the analyst's couch?

Ouch!

What if that's Doctor Hugo Strange analyzing him? Hmmm!

You may look smug Sigmund, but who's the one fondling the cigar? Hmmm?


Yay for Pulp!

LOL

I always knew I saw a lot of myself in Veronica.

^ The outfit's pretty awesome, considering.

The "rain washed away the labels" game was a big hit at Cobie's college dorm.

Kasusuklaman means to hate. I guess the little girl's mortified by her mon's outfit.

I hope that guy doesn't have a tattoo of a bear...

He's green! Brainiac 5 go back in time again?

I miss the days when restaurants used to give out free comics teaching grenade and dynamite safety!

Are you getting high again, FL?

I'm high on life, Teeds.

So yes.

Is that allowed in this thread? Why, you rebellious rapscallion!

*Giggle*

Well, that's the best thing to be high on!

Is the Fifth Dimension the new space?

TIN SHIN FIEFDOM.

MENS ION HID TIFF.

SHIT, MINI OFFEND

FOND IF IN SMITHE

MOT.

FINISHED.

FIN!

I guess we'll move on, then.

Until the sequel rolls around, anyway.

Either she's hallucinating from drinking too much, or it's an invisible killer.

What really matters, though, is that she's beautiful and has a lovely head of hair.

Yeah, that chump under the dock on page 2 had better spruce up if he wants sympathy for his cover plight.

Does Fritzi make the cut?

I never even heard of Fritzi Ritz.

Nancy is evil.

Well, yeah, Nancy drugged Fritzi and made off with her comic strip.

The little chia-headed sadist!

Little Lulu scoffs at anything Nancy does.

^^Wow, that woman from Colu looks really sinister.

It's Sharn Nux!

No, it's Brainiac 4!

"She's a Brainiac, Brainiac at your door, and she's dancing like she never has before."

Hi, I'm the Invisible Maniac Brainiac, and I will be your dance partner tonight.

"Dance, dance to the radio..."

^^Ooh, I like Mimi D'Arcay. She looks like she has style and attitude.

Quite a handful, isn't she? Her move must be so complicated that she needs two men to support her.

Forget that dime-a-dance loser! Let's talk more about Mimi D'Arcay!!

She has class! And she's sizzling hot!

And she's got wavy raven locks.

And that sultry, classy pose!

She's awesome. Which raises the question, why doesn't she have her own comic?

She's so awesome, she can turn some gay men straight!

This thread is still pretty crooked, though.

I love this crooked thread.

I honestly love it.

Crooked thread, crooked thread, I?

Crooked forum too.

But do we really want either the thread or the forum to go straight?

This one's the slightly seedy one.

The Seeds were a garage rock band from the 60s who were very influential on the post-punk musicians who grew up listening to them.

The Tagalog word for "seed" is also slang for...

Come again?

Don't mind if I do

Creamy!

Plenty of egg whites went into that

For some reason I'm thinking of an uncorked champagne bottle...

Oh, that deserves a good shaking.

Archie's so pure, he radiates light that scares away creepy monsters!

These boys and girls have got nothing on him.

This thread now BACK FROM THE DEAD. With poison accessories as shown here!

^Could it be a hoax? Not a ghost of a chance!

Ghosts make me want to bite my fingernails too!

If that's arsenic, then the lady with the lamp must be wearing old lace.

Poor lucretia's dementia was really kicking in, resulting in her repeating the same phrase for hours on end...



One of Lucretia's tips concerned subtlety. "Never let them see the poison," she said. Presumably giant bottles suspended from stairwells could be considered a bit of a tip off.

So is pouring your excess poison on the dresses of your victims.

Crack AND poison AND air pollution. Perfect.

If the poison don't get 'em, the smoke inhalation will. A two fer one offer from the League of Assassins.

It's not the deaths' headed capsule that worries Doll Man. It's that the kids throw used syringes and condoms into the city reservoir.

At least they're using condoms...

It's a mo fo'in post athon up in here!!!

So what's your poison, Peebs?

John Wayne is big leggy. Just ask Haysi Fantazee.

Well hello THERE!

Everyone and everything is a haysi fantazee. Just ask Mayavale.

Mayavale's favorite Peter, Paul, and Mary song is "Puff the Magic Dragon".

Sounds like a deal to me.

Emerald Empress just told me this is the best party she's been to in years!




Also she wants a Thundercat fur coat ... I think she was joking ... I think ...

Poor Peebs. Struck space-dead before he could hit TT-hood.

SERIOUSLY.

My computer wouldn't load LW.net ....

Post-A-Thon FAIL!!!!!!!!

Also I went out for Chinese food.

AW YEAH.

Old school technical difficulties:

See, a modern day laptop would not do that.

It could steal your credit card info, but not that.

Literally. Oh dear.

Lots of points for the art, minus quite a few for the subtlety of the crime.

And he was doing so well hiding his nastiness under his boyish good looks.

PICK YOUR POISON

OMG, that's Teeds on the right, me during my peroxide days on the left, and EDE on top.

These LADY KILLER covers!!!!

Lady, lady, lady,
Se pinta los ojos de azul...

TRANSLATION:

Lady, lady, lady,
She paints her eyes blue...

The Lady Vanishes is one of Alfred Hitchcock's more underrated films.

Lady Luck was a Golden Age masked crimefighter.

Lady Luck inspired a thread in Gym'll's, but not because of this:

I love Lady Luck's costume.

The Lady Wore Green.

Green is a color that has always lent itself well to super-hero comics. Remember in the mid-90s when DC was using a lot of neon green? I liked that.

Green Lantern was my favorite hero as a kid because green is my favorite color.

I am finding I'm liking mint green backgrounds. Remember awesome Avengers 11?

Ooh, very nice, Teeds.

Silver Age Marvel had awesome colors, thanks to Stan Goldberg.

I'm still waiting for you and/or Cobie to start that thread!

So discriminatory against robots.

Guilty, guilty, guilty as a girl can be.

Robots are people too!

Er... wait?

My Robot chronometer claims it is Saturday.

So why aren't you dancing?

This one can't find the thread. I blame discrimination against robots. See above.

It's in the mysterious wilds of page 2.

Who me?
Yes, You!
Wow! I might have won something great...oh it's a choice of painful death. Thanks a bunch Fate.

I wonder what Bruce Gentry got.

What about the ass of Fate? WHAT ABOUT THAT?

Someone's horning in on your liquor-bottle flinging action!!

Or is that your medicine??

MY LIQUOR BOTTLE!!!!

HEY BOTH ARE STOOPID!

WELL NOT EVERYONE CAN HAVE AN E-Z POUR DRUG HOLE LIKE YOU, LASH!

Some people have to work harder at it!

^Is the above for real? If so, DC truly has run out of original ideas if they are recycling one from 1971!

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Lantern_Vol_2_85

Huh, you would think Jason Todd would be the junkie of the Bat Family, not Tim Drake.

Still, I'm always happy to see somebody pointing out that Batman's a total jerk. Not that it should be difficult at this point.

This post-a-thon can't die. It's a classic, ill.

Drink, drink, and be merry.

Drink some more, be sentimental, drink still more, become rubber-legged, drink even more, black out.

^^Cobie goes back in time to 1984, gets delirious at a Prince and the Revolution concert, and has a vivid fantasy about Gloria Estefan in her Doctor Beat nurse outfit.

Legion World ad...

Hmmm...What Would Brainy Do?

Having trouble breaking up? Are there people in your life, you want to put firmly in their place? Then it's time to summon *your* inner Coluan with thothInc's Omega Milk! It's the last drink you'll ever need!


Sideffects may include urge to build blonde bombshell robots

Old romance comics and a...is that a syringe?

Is it? I'm distracted somehow... Must be my weakness for romance covers...

As the images unwind
Like the syringes(?) that you find
In the Windmill Comics of your mind

Planet Comics or, to give it it's full name from the publisher information on the first inside page, United Planet Comics, would strongly influence a number of Legion writers over the years.

The main character from Dante's People (not to be confused with dance troupe Pan's People) was one of the members of the Devil's Dozen from Tartarus. His ability to create terrifying thought forms made him a great agent for Evillo. There really were a dozen members in the group, but like the Legion, many were away on missions at any given time.

Universo Solvent, taken from the cover's second tale, was a story found in Mort Weisinger's desk drawer. The deaths of so many innocent citizens, transmuted by the villains device was considered to be too much for the target audience, even if Rond Vidar did get to save the day.

Focus: Danger shows an early use of Mordru's undead army, collected from mankind's darkest points in history to do his bidding... and I don't mean at an auction house folks!

Dammit Roy Harper, you said it would make me better for the ball game! But that's a cat skull in there.... in a China Cat Drip! >choke!<

Would Rick Master join the groovy '70s Titans? Read On....

I'd forgotten all about the China Cat thing. Yesterday I did take more stuff to the thrift shop, though: including a pair of ceramic lucky cats.

It's okay, though. I still have about 300 other cat images, curios, books, etc. scattered around the house.

Super-stoned...in Space!




I blame Mayavale.

I blame Kelloggs, Post, and General Mills.

In the future, the Church of El get things a bit confused when it comes to resurrection. "So, we just put him on top of all these Bizarro Easter Eggs?"

Gee, all the super hero names must have been used up if Steve Duncan was forced to become Super Cargo.

The lady's clearly heard speech despite having a hand firmly over her mouth, would indicate that The Ventriloquist was the villain behind the dope peddling fiends!

"Hop that rat, you dropped-up knife!"

Mary Fleener, one of my very fave alternative cartoonists, had a book with a talking knife. She could totally remake this saga in her own image.

"Skirts Peddling Drop Dying Copper!"

If he is Super-Cargo, does he turn into a large crate that can fly?

I just thought that Super Cargo really could guarantee next day delivery.

No, but his sidekick Amazon can. Quite a strong and fast gal, that one

With Super Cargo going commercial, Hermes did some publicity work for a florist before focusing on bags.

An Hermes tie with cargo shorts. All the rage this year for club-hopping Amazons!

Toddlers selling liquor? Who am I to Judge? Besides, 1933' s toddler bartender scrimped on the measures. I can't believe he lasted all year.

They’re only selling, not drinking

He's 1934 years old. Solid drinking between 1 and 3 AD stunted his growth. But what a party !

Only one more year until Alcoholics Anonymous would be founded. Possibly 1934 played a big part in that.

The first step in the program was originally "Don't get your toddler drunk"

This thread ain't dead..





YET.

A cover that has so much going on. dead father, greiving daughter (in comics/ crime novel parlance, this equals available/romantic interest), poisoner and, of course, reassuring man with a pipe (is the size of this pipe overcompensation?). But there's space around the chair or, in its natural habitat, around a corpse, for a black cat.

Oh and for would-be murderers out there. Put the poison out before the body is lying dead on the floor. Putting it out afterwards draws attention to you, and is just odd.

If there's already a body on the floor when you get there, then it's either your lucky day or someone has beaten you to it (don't be fooled by that grieving daughter act).