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The back cover of New York World’s Fair Comics (1939; reprinted in DC Comics Rarities Archives Vol 1):

A lovely sentiment.

And here’s a couple of panels from the Zatara story within:

Ah, so…

And some of the sights of the Fair, as detailed in the numerous Sheldon Moldoff info pages scattered amongst the various stories by Siegel/Shuster, FINGER/kane, Fred Schwab, and other early DC luminaries: 

Not even our friends from the Red Planet are safe from negative stereotyping:

What a wonderful world.

Beautiful song. My favourite from George Harrison’s solo career. Billy Preston rocks it hard. 

(Laura, you’re not allowed to watch this. I know you have a crush on Dhani Harrison.)

(Pic from Blog@Newsarama.)

Nice to see that Steven Spielberg can even manage to incorporate product placement into a candid on-set photo. Still got it!

What’s not to love? It’s cheesy, it’s easy… it sounds kinda like Mac And Me. Perfection.

(Too bad it’s only a prop.)

I’m forcing myself to blog, even though I really have nothing of interest to write. So I will provide you with an account of two things I like, and two things I don’t like. I hope you enjoy them.

Two things I don’t like:

- Scalpel jockeys/number crunchers/ambulance chasers who decide to take a Cinema class cos they think it’ll be a lark. Although I do like it when they can’t deal with the waves upon waves of obscure theory that comes to bear on Cinema Studies. Kind of a drag that classes get dumbed down because the day trippers know shit all, though.

- Endless rehashes of public domain fantasy properties (Oz, Wonderland, etc). P.S. Look out for my new series, “Moonface Chronicles”, based on the straight-up coolest character from Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree series. Coming Summer ‘09 from Image Comics!*

Two things I like:

- When you try to make conversation with little kids and they just stare at you blankly, offering no response whatsoever.

- I actually can’t think of a second thing I like. I kind of like Lemon Chicken. Anyone had any good Lemon Chicken lately?

* Kidding, obviously. Although I would love to totally be a hypocrite and write a new Faraway Tree series.

DRIFTWOOD SAX!

I always laugh whenever I see this ad. It’s for TSR’s Dungeon game, a board game based on the fantasy tropes of D&D.

There is just something so awkward about the framing of the picture. It looks like the jocks are playing the game just to humour the little geeky kid… like they’re about to kick his ass or something. And the geek knows it, too:

“That’s a twenty, gents. Looks like Kragamor The Destroyer wins the day again, heh, heh.”

“Your ass is grass, Poindexter!”
“Yeah, when we get back from shopping for more geometric-print sweaters, you are DONE!”

BONUS: Clip from the final episode of Freaks and Geeks, where the AV Club invites bad-ass Daniel to join their D&D campaign.