Boxing Day comes earlier every year...
But more in keeping with decorative gourd season, here’s a “sample” of a Bruce Campbell helmed Sgt. Rock fighting Nazombies. Issue 2 is out next week.
Bruce Campbell, of course, is the lantern-jawed hero of the Evil Dead movies and master of the multiversal Spider-Man cameo.
While we’re in the sweet goodies mood, why not try out a few pages of the return of Alan Moore’s Neil Gaiman’s Miracleman?
Uel has more details just on just how looooooong a time coming this version of Miracleman happens to be in the New Comic Book Day roundup:
The sampling can’t stop, won’t stop
Here are some recent #1s you may have slept on:
A few pages from stylish revenge Western: Above Snakes
and a few pages from post-post-apocalypse adventure: Eve: Children of the Moon
As an aside, between the various categories of all-ages, young adult, etc… I would like to make the case for a slightly different label: protagonist-appropriate, meaning, if you’re around the same age as the protagonist, you should generally be able to handle the subject matter and presentation of the material in such “protagonist-appropriate” books.
If you’ve previewed both Above Snakes and Eve: Children of the Moon, you can see how a parent might be wary of letting a child read one versus another, but at the same time, you can see how these books are both reasonably “protagonist-appropriate.”
If you look at books this way, it’s actually now more difficult to think of examples of “protagonist-inappropriate” books, and probably most of them are by Mark Millar.
But back to Boxing Day
Along with bagged milk, Boxing Day is another tradition we use to sniff out Secret Canadians hiding amongst us, but according to the infallible and incorruptible wikipedia, Boxing Day was…
observed as a holiday on which postmen, errand boys, and servants of various kinds expect to receive a Christmas box
Well, if you are a titan of industry with $400 burning a hole in your silk-lined pockets, may we suggest you gift your chauffeur this amazing 40th anniversary box set of Love & Rockets, reprinting issues 1-50 in a handsome hardcover set!
Yes, Canadians and non-Canadians alike, it’s time to feel old…
Lamentably we will not be stocking 1000 copies of a $400 seven-plus volume gift set as usual, but we will gleefully accept pre-paid orders in the spirit of Boxing Day. Huzzah, hosers one and all!
Your dose of Gizmo
Anyone have addy / vyvanse who can meet this morning near campus? Have cash .