Four Color Fridays: The Hulk (Tales to Astonish #81)
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Four Color Fridays: The Hulk (Tales to Astonish #81)

Obviously one of the tricks of writing good superhero comics is to create credible adversaries. Although it's always fun to see someone fight out of his weight class, for the most part you want heroes to fight someone roughly equivalent to them. If you're a normal human who relies on his fists, wits and…
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Monster of the Day #621
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Monster of the Day #621

As I noted yesterday, I've run out of Jack the Giant Killer pictures. So let's go from a Jim Danforth kidde pic to one that went in a rather different direction. This and The Stewardesses (in 3-D!) remain the only 'adult' movies I've seen in a  theater, and both of those would probably be…
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Monster of the Day #620
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Monster of the Day #620

And so ends, sadly, our look at Jack the Giant Killer. What a high note, though! The Sea Dragon is fabulous. So goofy and so cool at the same time.
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Ringing in the New Year…
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Ringing in the New Year…

OK, I have some ideas for 2013, but I'd love suggestions on what you'd like to see here. Aside from the obvious "Maybe you could actually write some stuff." Yeah, that would probably be a good idea. Let's admit it, Monster of the Day has been the only thing keeping the site afloat for…
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Monster of the Day #614
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Monster of the Day #614

Ah, look everyone, Baby New Year is here! I hope and trust everyone vastly enjoyed the recent multitude of holidays; back to the 'none for five months' thing. Just had a feverish realization that there are basically only THREE WEEKS now until B-Fest. Yikes! Time to get going on that. Speaking of, tickets went…
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