Oz Squad

 

I've written before about my life-long fascination with L. Frank Baum's Oz books and their many multimedia spinoffs.

Like most people, I saw the Wicked movie opening weekend and loved it, just like I loved the musical and the books it's based on.

But for my money, the best revisionist Dark Oz of all is the Caliber Comics version. Yes Caliber, home of goth vigilante The Crow and zombie apocalypse road trip DeadWorld, did a take on Dorothy and her pals, and it's grimngritty as all hell.

Image from Romance In Rags, the one where Scraps, The Patchwork Girl Of Oz, tries to win The Scarecrow, currently suffering from a mind control spell by the witch Mombi and working for the evil Nome King, back to the side of the Emerald City freedom fighters.  

The series was recently released as a series of trade paperbacks, essential reading for all you My Chemical Romance fans.

The Quack Parade

 

I finally got my hands on Donald Duck: Vacation Parade , and it was worth the wait.

 Fréderic Brémaud and Federico Bertolucci have created a charming graphic novel that reads like a lost cartoon from the 1950s.

There aren't any words in this comic, but you can hear the sputtering and squawking.

The colors are gorgeous.

The story doesn't need words to flow from panel to panel, like storyboards for a lost classic short cartoon.  Your favorite character and mine, Humphrey Bear makes a triumphant return.

Chip and Dale are here also.

Vacation Parade is a truly all-ages comic.  Little kids who have trouble reading will have no problem following the story and laughing at the gags.  Mature sophisticates like us will enjoy the beautiful art and retro style.  Highly recommended, Disney Weirdness-approved.

I'm just a simple caveman, your world frightens and confuses me

 

Jonathan Bigfoot is the courtroom drama you didn't know you needed.

How The Mouse Stumbled 

That's All, Folks!

 

Well, that's it.  I can officially retire from comic book collecting, because I did it.  I FUCKIN DID IT:

I finally completed my set of  Air Pirates Funnies.

Yes, I know about Dan O'Neill's Comics and Stories, and the Tortoise and the Hare, and Dirty Duck, and the Air Pirates newspaper, but I don't care. Like Ash Katchum, I caught them all.  

Stay tuned for this blog's new focus:  Collecting Loungefly backpacks.

3 Hits From Dell

 The latest issue of Henry and Glenn has some nostalgic and/or cursed images for punk rock and/or Dell Comics fans:

The Greatest Generation

 

Gen Z does not care about Disney.

 Speaking as someone who suffers from food allergies, Disney can kindly fuck off with this bullshit.

I am not throwing away Blood-shot

 

Valiant superhero and failed Vin Diesel vehicle Bloodshot to battle Steamboat Willie

 

 

Welcome To The Party, Pal

 

A member of the Bubbles Forum recently reminded me of Tyler Hutchinson's "Die Homer."

The elevator pitch is "Die Hard but with cartoon characters I can draw from memory," and as you can see, it delivers:

If anybody stumbles on a printed copy of this let me know, because I need to own this comic.

Gross Anatomy

 

Some (relatively) work-safe pages from 1976's Bicentennial Gross-Outs:

That's about all I want to post, follow the link for the unforgettable conclusion.

Steamboat Willie Sucks

 

The Public Domain Mouse appears on a poster for Primus.

Mystery Solved

 

Since I was like 3 years old I have been haunted by this stupid cartoon

Which in my little kid memory I had mixed up with this disco Disney thing

All these years I thought it was some kinda churchy anti-drug propaganda but it turns out it’s just Canadian.

Outta My Way, Jerkass

 

"The Gang's All Here" by Jerkface- Montclair, NJ

I'm A Cult Hero

 

Now that this early incarnation of The Cult is back, I hope they use their old logo on the t-shirts.

Don't even blink.

 

I'm such a Swiftie that I almost didn't notice Mark Hoppus's t-shirt:

Smoking Popes

 

They lived inside Disneyland. Their house is still at the park today.

Comic Shop News

 Marvel to Publish Uncle $crooge Comic

Eh, I don't know.  I like Jason Aaron OK but I don't know that he'd be my first pick for this type of thing. Hope I'm wrong!

Mickey Mouse Joins Cast of Savage Dragon

Oh Erik Larsen, never change.

 

Nathan Rabin listened to Mickey Unrapped so you don't have to.

 

WHO BUILT THE MOUSE IN THE HOUSE THE MOUSE BUILT?

TV Party Tonight

 

Hate the Drake

 

Professor Ludwig Von Drake Tells You Who To Vote For

(Vote Quimby)

Welcome Foolish Reader

 

Well, your ol' pal Wimbledon Green has done it again!  After nearly 20 years, I have finally completed my collection of all seven issues of the SLG Haunted Mansion series, at last scoring the elusive issue #4.

Now that I have it in my hot little hands, I can see why this issue was so hard to find at a reasonable price: every story is drawn by a good artist!

You've got Lenore's Roman Dirge, Serenity Rose creator Aaron Alexovitch, the spooktackular Drew Rausch-  this is a murderer's row of goth comics...literally.

Well, now that my collection is complete I can finally relax and rest in peace. Muah ha ha ha ha

"AI" stands for "Annoying Images"

 

There is an AI Steamboat Willie image generator

and it doesn't work very well.

The Apprentice

 

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Marv Wolfman, Stephen DeStefano, Gary Martin, David Cody Weiss, and Cris Palomino

From Mickey Mouse Adventures #9, 1991

 Tribute to Gary Hallgren of the Air Pirates

Roll The Dice

 

Pages of interest from the Fantagraphics anthology Snake Eyes

Days Of Future Past

 

The House of the Future of the Past

Kazoo 2

 

Original Art For Mystery Mini-Comic Kazoo #2

Ol' Yeller

 

Yellow Dog Comix #24:  Mickey Raton Visit The Disneelund