Jon Maki
@jonmaki.bsky.social
Just some guy.
He/Him.
I like comics. I write about them here: https://www.opendoor-comics.com/unbagged/
Patreon:
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...I am now tempted to make a card that features this on the front and that information on the inside and mail it to Mar-a-Lago.
I don't remember many of the issue of Richie Rich I had as a kid, but I do remember having this one.
Just never occurred to me that the asbestos stuff in comics was the same as the "aspestus" (that's how it sounded to me) that I'd hear people talking about. I figured asbestos was some made up thing, like inertron.
I remember as a kid I'd hear stuff about asbestos in the news and see Element Lad turning the air into an asbestos shield or whatever and not making the connection between the two. My mental pronunciation of the written word didn't match the actual pronunciation.
Element Lad frequently turned things into asbestos in Legion stories as well.
I missed the third issue when it came out, though in fairness I wasn't really looking for it. Didn't read the full story until I picked up the Absolute Edition of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, which includes it.
One of my favorites, right up there with the jumping out of a plane issue you mentioned.
Yeah, I picked up the foil version of that.
The Pull List For 3.20.24
Batman / Superman: World’s Finest #25A Dan Mora Regular Release: Mar 19, 2024 Join Batman and Superman as the World’s Finest team celebrates 25 issues of World’s Finest! This oversized…
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My reprint copy is on the top of the stack.
The Haul: Big Lick Comic Con Edition
Because it was nearby – and because it’s my birthday – today I swung by Big Lick Comic Con NOVA for a bit. I didn’t stay too long, as I didn’t have a lot of money to s…
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My copy is a reprint, which I didn't realize at the time I ordered it, but I'm okay with it. Especially now that I've gotten it signed by Walt.
I remember the original being pretty flimsy. I know mine fell apart rapidly.
Also, I DID believe the last page because I'd already seen it in the newspaper. That it got a lot of mainstream news coverage is why it was so hard to find a copy.
I may have done this one before, but I'm too lazy to check.
Sold out at the comic shop before I could get a copy. Had to recruit my sister and my mom into tracking down a copy and was surprised with one my mom found when I went home from college for Thanksgiving.
#TopShelfFriday #comicbooks
If you want to take a bullet for the co-star of the 1990 box office and critical failure GHOSTS CAN'T DO IT, who was listed dead last in the credits - after the dog - go ahead and find a way to do it that doesn't involve hurting anyone else.
Check out this post in particular to find out how my love affair with comics began.
Why Comics?
I toyed with the notion of calling this one “Unbagging Jon,” but ultimately – and obviously – decided against it. But that’s kind of what this is; I’ve been thin…
www.opendoor-comics.comI am, of course, in love with #comics, which is why Comics Unbagged exists.
As I recall, I found that first issue in a gas station on a random road trip months after it hit the stands. Don't think I ever saw it sold at any of the places I normally got comics from.
I liked the three that I picked up regularly. The random issues I had didn't really give me enough to go on, so I can't say if they were good or not. I liked the premise of Nightmask but I think I just didn't come across any other issues of it. My access to comics was sporadic then.
Never picked up Kickers, Inc. or Mark Hazard. I think I picked up a random issue of Psi-Force. Star Brand is the only one that I still have any (7) issues of in my collection.
I missed most of the first issues, but DP7, Justice, and Star Brand were the ones I picked up most regularly. Probably stuck with Star Brand longer than any of the others. Other than that I think I picked up just the first issue of Nightmask and a random issue of Spitfire and the Troubleshooters.
Petra is my #2.
#1 is Corinna Harney. I don't *know* that she's gone MAGA, but I've seen some recent pictures of her that just give that vibe.
She was probably #3 in my list of favorite Playmates.
From what I've seen, it looks like my #1 has gone MAGA, but at least I haven't had to learn that she ever did anything worse and I hope I never do.
She credited that message from his as being what motivated her to keep hanging on.
Her name was Mary Lou. She hated being called Mary...which is why my dad would do it all the time, as he loved getting her riled up.
When she finally fully came to, she said, "I saw dad. He told me that I have to fight. He said, 'Fight it, Mary,' because he knew that would make me mad."
and was only semi-conscious.
At one point she told me that she could see my dad (who had died 4 years earlier).
I said, "Yeah, he's here to tell you that you have to keep on living."
She said, "I don't know..."
I persisted. "He's saying, 'Fight it, Mary. You have to live.'"
They create jobs! The jobs we work at to keep ourselves alive! We owe them our very lives!
I had gotten that shirt for MY birthday about a month and a half earlier. The things that we do - like getting that shirt - and do not remember - most of the other things I got for my birthday - are strange.
I'm not as uptight about continuity as I once was and I've learned to live with it, but it does get a little annoying at times. Especially when fairly big changes happen within a series once a new writer takes over.
The current state of everyone and everything is, "Whatever, man."
If a given story calls for them to be merged, they're merged. If it doesn't, they're not.
Characters are dead in one series, alive in another, never existed in the first place in still another.
It's Calvinball.
It may have been 1985 now that I think about it more, but regardless, it remains one of the finest demonstrations of what I refer to as my cranial magnetism, my head's ability to attract thrown objects.
At the party, we were playing frisbee golf, and someone - not deliberately, but such a thing wouldn't have been out of the question - managed to nail me with the frisbee in the exact spot the rock had.
My dad let go of the mower and ran over to check on me. I was okay, but that area was, obviously, quite tender.
I know it happened on this day - though the year is a guess - because today is the birthday of an old friend, and I remember that later that day I went to his birthday party.
Thong has a whip-specific meaning.
Whip Anatomy - The different parts of a whip
The body of a whip is comprised of many different pieces, and it is important to them all. This page lists what the different parts are, and what they're for.
www.canadawhips.caTo accompany:
How about Bazooka Joe?
Or rather, coming up with prompts that AI will use to paint flowers and write short stories. That's the only hobby left.
"Generative AI, which can provide thoughtful and thorough responses to questions and prompts"
