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Giant Girls Need Pho

Parker — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:10:11 +0000

Don’t forget, MA Avengers #24 is on stands today.

Rory Root

Parker — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:12:08 +0000

I woke up in the middle of the night, foolishly decided to poke in online, and saw that Rory Root had died after surgery. Even if you’ve never been to the West Coast, if you’ve read any national article on comic books you’ve probably seen a quote by someone with the alliterative name of a comics character who owned the famous Comic Relief shop in Berkeley. And if you had anything to do with independent comics then you had a champion in Rory. His fellow Bay area retailer Brian Hibbs has a remembrance over at Savage Critic. Rory was a great help to me when I published The Interman, and was always someone I looked forward to talking to- listening to, really. Another very hard loss for Comics.

What’s in the Avengers’ Cafeteria?

Parker — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:01:20 +0000

Over at Marvel Noise, David has a preview of next week’s Marvel Adventures Avengers. Hopefully we’ll get to the bottom of what Captain America really wants in the lunchroom, tatertots…

Or CORN.

And if you’re lucky, we might have some of that square pizza and applesauce on Wednesday.

How Punk is that?

Parker — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:59:46 +0000

Punk. As. HAIL.

As I often do, I was flipping through a Silver Age DC comic, ~~raiding it for ideas~~ for a laugh when I was struck by a supporting character in a public service ad featuring Binky, National Comics’ Archie wannabe. But I don’t think Archie ever had a character like young “Allergy” who not only has THREE MOHAWKS but rocks a giant black tie and clown pants. And he’s still one of the popular kids that has to authorize new kids’ existence. Damn that’s PUNK.