FOURTH WORLD BLUES

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Weekend Wars, round 10! Jim Shooter! Mike Zeck! Doctor Doom! #comics #secretwars

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Treat yo self. #comics #jackkirby #king

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Brace yourself! It’s the Weekend Wars, round 9. Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck, Secret Wars issue 9. Let’s get it on. #comics #secretwars

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This was a logo I developed to accompany ComicsAlliance’s coverage of Superman’s 75th anniversary. It obviously never got used, which is a shame cuz I think it’s really cool.

Free Comic Book Day Haul.

Up top is free stuff: 2000 AD’s sampler (I really need to be reading Zombo), Marvel’s Infinity, Dark Horse’s Star Wars / Captain Midnight / Avatar, Oni Press’ The Strangers (which looks 110% My Kind of Thing™), the Valiant sampler (mostly previews and some pages from Harbinger Wars #1), Red 5’s Atomic Robo (always a good time), DC’s Beware the Batman / Teen Titans Go! flip-book, and a signed preview of Gilbert Hernandez’s Marble Season from D&Q.

At the bottom, stuff I bought: Two Love & Rockets collections, my pull-box from the last couple of weeks, which includes the $1 first issue of the Cyborg 009 reboot from Archaia, the last issues of Hawkeye, MLP (for my daughters, I promise), The Unwritten, Manhattan Projects and FF; and this gloriously Silver Age issue of Action Comics (#296) that includes an ant-headed Superman commanding a bunch of Super-Ants to capture Lois so he can make her his queen. Mort Weisinger, you were an intolerable butthole, but man, you sure knew how to make ‘em.

Not pictured: sausages from the Sausagefest truck, my kids’ impressive amassment of comics and three Slurpees for the ride back home.

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Weekend Wars, #FCBD edition! Issue 8! Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck, and Spider-Man’s new costume! Let’s do this thing! #comics #secretwars

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Weekend Wars. Issue 7. Jim “Yeah, Him” Shooter writes. Mike “Aw Heck!” Zeck draws. Lives are lost! Limbs are severed! Butts are kicked! #comics #secretwars

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Got my @fantagraphics books today! Two volumes of Fletcher Hanks weirdness, Basil Wolverton’s SPACEHAWK and @wei_ss_man ‘s BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. #comics

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Teaser of my poster for the Alternate Reality Comics group show for May. #comics #DOOOOOOOM

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Weekend Wars are back with issue 6. Written by Jim Shooter, pencilled by Mike Zeck, commented on by me. Let’s go. #comics #secretwars #dubious

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Super. #comics

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From “Dan Hastings” by Ken Fitch & Fred Guardineer. As contained in @fantagraphics SUPERMEN! collection. #comics #messingthingsup

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BEYOND. #comics #batman

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Tim Sievert’s CLANDESTINAUTS is pretty much the jam, y’all. From DOUBLE BARREL, issue 9. #comics

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Alright, round three of The Weekend Wars begins with issue #3 of SECRET WARS by Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck, Bob Layton, et al. Follow along on Instagram (bigredrobot) for all the action.