All the best to readers of the blog for 2008, and have a great time tonight. I’m off down South with the girlfriend for a couple days, so I’ll see you on the flip side.
As this panel from Fantastic Four #133 shows, it’s easy to get carried at New Year. Why, even the smartest man alive [...]
Entries from December 2007
December 31, 2007
Have a Fantastic New Year!
December 30, 2007
The best song of 2007
It’s probably a sign of my sad, slow decline into middle age that I would even consider Take That’s Rule the World for my best single of the year. A decade ago I would have punched you in the nose if you even suggested I liked any of their tracks but, like the lads, perhaps [...]
December 30, 2007
The best moment of 2007
This was when the entire country started to really believe that we could qualify for the 2008 European Champsionships, a moment of sublime swagger that caught everyone off guard.
For the briefest second when the ball hit the back of the net I leaned forward and questioned if I was actually seeing [...]
December 28, 2007
Shagging on the SHIELD Helicarrier
Out of context action, from this week’s Ultimate Spider-Man #117.
December 28, 2007
It’s Funny Panel Friday
The Man of Steel gets a wee bit too excited when he meets the Webbed Wonder.
December 27, 2007
The best comic of 2007
In this study of mortality, Grant Morrison reminds us that the adventures of the Man of Steel are not always about Superman, but rather they can be about Superman.
There’s an inevitability to the entire issue, the cover isn’t one of those Silver Age “What if?” scenarios and the story is called Funeral in Smallville, but [...]
December 27, 2007
Spider-Man: One More Day T-shirts
Cracking the Internet in half this week is the news that the fourth and final instalment of the One More Day story, currently running through the Spider-Man titles, pushes the Reset button and rubs out 20 years of continuity by making Peter’s marriage to Mary Jane seem like it never happened.
Yes, in a plot device [...]
December 26, 2007
Superman Vs Batman film scheduled for 2012
At least according to I Am Legend (out today in the UK).
Let’s hope it looks like this.
