Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin
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My Fantastic Four-ay: Part Fourteen.
[NOTE: this entry involves the last two panels of Fantastic Four #18, the 2026 series, which came out just last week as I write this.] So when we last left our intrepid team, they were about to be face-to-merged-faces with this alien warlord fella, an amalgam of two powerful and…
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Sir Patrick Stewart (1940 – 2026).
So a long time ago, in my college days, not too terribly long after Star Trek: The Next Generation came on the air, I shared a Shakespeare class at UC Santa Barbara with a couple of good fellows. One, named Ray, actually worked just down the street from the comic shop where I…
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Okay, so I’m eleven years late on this.
So I was searching through my emails, trying to track down something or ‘nother, when I came across a promotional message sent to the ProgRuin mailboxes back in 2015. Now, I did read it at the time, but of course had no recollection of doing as such over a decade later. And…
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Walter Koenig (1936 – 2026).
Walter Koenig was more than just Chekov on Star Trek…he was a screenwriter and a playwright, and acted on stage and in many other TV shows and movies. Did you know he wrote the Land of the Lost episode with the first appearance of Enik, the intelligent Sleestak? He certainly…
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Nothing I love more than something I wrote inspiring art.
So your pal Mike sells comics for a living, or at least attempts to (this past Sunday was bit of a wash, ugh), and as part of that living, he…or, rather, I price a lot of back issues. Boy, I do love back issues. If I could just price and sell ’em all day, I ... Read more
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The most difficult decision in all of history, human or otherwise.
So I got an email from the publisher Act 4, who is, in conjunction with Skybound and DC Comics, releasing the Bissette and Totleben’s Swamp Thing Artist’s Edition hardcover next year. Measuring 12 by 17 inches, and “collecting over 170 pieces of art,” this book will be available…
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The sort of thing you’ll get a pass on once.
So here is what Young Hellboy: Thrilling Sky Adventures (fourth and final issue out today!): …has been reminding me of, just a little bit: Yes, Limited Collectors’ Edition #C-47 from 1976, the infamous treasury-format release entitled “Superman Salutes the Bicentennial.” Why is…
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The Final ’90s Countdown, Part Twenty-Six.
Behold, our second two-vote-receiver in the favorite indie comics of the ’90s poll…and it’s a title I’m pretty sure you’re all familiar with: Gen 13 (Image Comics, 1994) Even as the comics industry was starting to collapse all around us at the time, there were still the Hot…
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Whither the second printing?
I guess this post can be seen as an epilogue of sorts to my posts about the John Byrne reboot of the Superman titles in the mid-1980s. Essentially, I came across this 1988 issue of Superman from near the tail end of Byrne’s run: …where you might see this oddly-formatted blurb in…
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Smith and Jones.
So a little while back, comics artist Steve Lieber posted to his Bluesky account a piece of work of such shocking significance to the artform — nay, to the world — that I could not help but message him and ask how I could acquire this immortal piece. Alas, quoth Steve, the…
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Warning: lightly naughty covers ahead.
Okay, a lot of business to attend to here: First, there’s been a small influx of A.I.-generated comments on the site, with links to A.I.-related companies. It’s particularly insidious, signing themselves in with real-sounding names and generating comments from stuff either I or…