The Monday Meme: Superman’s Crazy Eyes

When I was reading through the second installment of Bob Kanigher’s Bat-Witch Saga last week, I came across this little gem…

 

 

…and if ever there was a panel that cried out for digital manipulation, that is it.

I mean, really: He might well be ordering his best friend and said friend’s famous ancestor to fight each other to the death for his own amusement, but can even that be the source of such intense mania? I think not.

No, I think that crazed gleam in his eye can only come from the anticipation of the Daily Planet’s Thursday lunch menu:

 

 

Of course, Mark Hale thinks the Man of Steel’s just psyched about passing a message of safety to The Kids:

 

 

What do you think, readers?

 

 

Ah, user-generated content. The lazy blogger’s truest friend.

 


 

The Readers Respond

 

In addition to the ones posted in the comments section, I always get a few of these in email, and then immediately forget about them. But not this time! Here’s what you guys had to offer:

 

Aaron Rushton brings some new shit to light with these two:

 

 

Filthy McMonkey violates the ISB’s standing “No Star Wars” Rule:

 

Jim “Flashback” Shelley offers up this trio:

 

 

 

Thanks, everybody!

The Monday Meme: Grumpus Loves Betty

This may not come as a surprise to anyone, but I own a lot of comics.

It’s a pretty obvious fact that I’ve become acutely aware of over the past few days, since I’ve been moving my collection around into a new set of boxes, but what surprised me even more than the fact that I’ve got an entire run of John Ostrander’s Martian Manhunter series that I’ve never read a single issue of was the sheer amount of Archie books that I’ve got. Admittedly, I’ve been buying the entire line for more than a year now, but still: There’s a ton of ’em.

It stuck out to me so much that I decided–as any right-minded person would–to take a picture of myself holding a bunch of them and scowling and, for reasons that were obvious at the time, send it to a bunch of my pals:

 

 

Incidentally, if it looks like I never sleep, it’s because… well, probably because I’m up late writing about the Bat-Witch or something every night.

Kevin Church was the first to respond with an image that provided tonight’s title:

 

 

Next up, Mark Hale casts aspersions on the motivating force behind my Riverdalean obsessions:

 

 

Then Dave Lartigue decided to throw in a little of the urban flava that we’ve come to expect from the ISB:

 

 

The possibilities are endless. Join us, won’t you?