Bat Theft Auto

I want Grand Theft Auto IV as much as the next emotionally retarded thirty-something, but I'm damned if I'm going to spend a fortune on a PS3 or X-Box just to play one game.

Still, in honour of the latest chapter in the World's most hyped video game here's Golden Age Batman "borrowing" a car to run down and rough up a drunk driver...






Batman "borrowed" quite a few cars in the golden age. The Proof is all HERE

Last week's comics TODAY!

I missed new comic day last week, but on a trip to the West End with the missus to buy doormats and baby seats, I nicked five minutes in GOSH!

Really, I needn't have bothered. After all last week's shopping list was probably the shortest I've ever compiled. Seriously, I only picked up two comics for a total spend of £4. At least they were good comics. First in the old nerd sack was Northlanders #5: More Viking based tomfoolery and a nice preview of the forthcoming reboot of House of Mystery. House of Mystery was a firm favourite of mine as a kid, and I'd be delighted if this latest attempt to resurrect the old favourite worked out. With Bill Willingham scripting, it has a decent chance.

The other comic on my list was Checkmate #25. Greg Rucka's last. Boooooo! I doubt this title will last much longer without Rucka at the reins, which is a shame as he's done a great job of getting me excited about a relatively obscure corner of the DC Universe. Now that it's done, I might just have to go back and read all 25 issues again. Yes, it was that good.

Boring

Strangely Wayne Boring was responsible for the Superman scan I put up yesterday. Strange because I only noticed his name on it today, yet put it up at the end of a post about David Boring yesterday.

David Boring's estranged father is (or was) a comic book artist.

Anyway, never mind that, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking What if David Boring was a black rapper? Well, I like to think he'd sound a little like this...



Ahh Sir Mix-A-Lot. Now there's a name I never expected to feature on LLC.

Pictures!

AND THE SENTENCE IS SCANSSS!

Yes chums, a quick change of ISP, and I'm once again able to connect to the internet at speeds fast enough to allow me to reproduce other people's work without their permission.

A cheery result.

The week in the cottage was a bit of a disaster. My son developed a fever of 104 the night before we were meant to travel and stayed ill for the next four days. We eventually got out of London for three nights, but it was hardly the relaxing break I'd planned on. Ho-Hum.

As a result I only got one book read - David Boring. A fine effort this one, the tale of a man who likes fucking girls with big arses from behind because the shape of their butts reminds him of his mother's hairdo...

Yeah. Anyway, David has two friends: a lesbian named Dot who digs straight girls with boyfriends, and Whitey, a trilby wearing schoolfriend who travels light. They live vacuous lives in a paranoid world that might or might not be under attack from some unknown terror organization.

David, who drifts between unsatisfactory relationships, falls for a girl named Wanda and embarks on a boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets shot in the head sort of affair. He sees God, holes up on an Island inhabited by the distant relatives of a bunch of mad Irish servants and gets tangled up in a murder investigation.

Those are the bare bones of it chums. To be honest I'm not entirely sure what it was REALLY about, but I liked it a lot.

Its an odd and darkly humorous tale.
Its handsomely crafted by Daniel Ghost World Clowes.
It was written eight years ago.
I recommend it. End of.

Now, just because I can, here's a scan from Alter Ego #11 which I picked up in Hackney Oxfam for 19p!


The scan of Judge Death also comes from Oxfam and can be found in the 1995 compilation Judge Dredd in the collected Judge Anderson from Titan books. It cost me 99p and is probably out of print now. Thus is revealed the beauty of the charity shop comic.

Holiday Reading

I'm off to sit in an old cottage in the lake district for a week; how very Withnail.

Anyway, it has no internet so I'll be unable to post any updates until I return. You'll cope.

While I'm away I'm hoping that a broadband connection will be restored to my London lair so that on my return I can share some scans from the exceptional Showcase Presents Legion of Super-Heroes Volume Two.

Obviously that weighty tome is the first thing I'll be packing, but I plan on loading the old nerd sack up with plenty more comic goodness. Here (minus the aforementioned Legion) is my reading list

Queen & Country Definitive Edition Volume #1
DMZ Volume #3
Hawaiian Dick Volume #1
Scott Pilgrim Volumes #3 and #4
Monster Volume #6
Captain America: War and Remembrance
David Boring

I'll also be taking a stack of single issues along just in case. Sadly I won't be including this week's World Of Dungeons and Dragons #1 in that pile. I had high hopes for this title, but a quick scan through reveals that it deals in Elves and Orcs.

Bah!

I was hoping for the real world of Dungeons & Dragons. You know, the one inhabited by snarling teenage boys armed with nothing more than pencils, a tobacco tin full of many sided dice and a array of silly NPC voices.

Another golden opportunity missed.

Back in a week.

The ONLY thing that matters this week...

is this...

Showcase Presents: The Legion of Super-Heroes, Volume Two

500 pages of silver age shenanigans in glorious monochrome!

Oh blessed new comic day, you can't come quickly enough.

LINKS!

Yes, LINKS!

Still unable to use a scanner on this ancient laptop or connect to the internet at speeds faster than a stationary bullet, I am falling back on other people's websites for content. Yay other people! Don't you just love 'em?

First piece of borrowed content comes courtesy of Mr Wheatley who sent me a link to THIS FLIKR GALLERY

Obviously it takes an age to load the images on my machine, but I'm hoping you can see them clearly on your beautiful high speed interweb receivers. Here's my favourite...


Look out for Lantern Lincoln and Wolverine Washington too. Them's some real American heroes. FUCK YEAH!

After you've had your fill of defaced dollars, please, please take the time to read about the (non) adventures of the (not so) superfolk of Manchester in the brilliant TRUTH SERUM. God Bless The Hoodwinker, Super-Villain par excellence.

Next up, it's a two year old link. WooHoo, hot new comic content! Yes, as flagged up in the final issue of Suburban Glamour, it's Jamie McKelvie's redesign of Wonder Woman's costume.

And lastly, for no reason other than the fact that it made me laugh, here's a pic of a bad Batman tattoo. There's every chance it's not a real tattoo of course, but you have to love the comment left by the outraged tatt/Bat fan at the end: "you're an embarrassment to batman fans around the world".

I want that written on my gravestone.

Night night.