Enthusiasm Klaxon Alert! Good crikey! Ngozi Ukazu’s “Orion” is absolutely brilliant! I read the Fourth World when it appeared in 1970-2. In all the years since, I’ve never enountered storytelling that understands Kirby like Ngozi Ukazu, that channels that insight & builds on it so gloriously.

“Quote with who you would select for your seven member team!” From the 1995 list: Hawkeye. She-Hulk. The Vision. Wonderman. The Beast. Carol (but as Captain Marvel) Danvers. Black Widow. Are there any other possible choices? Surely not.

Daryl@maconfleetwood.bsky.social · 23h ago

Quote with who you would select for your seven member team! Mine is Hercules, Black Knight, She-Hulk, Wonder Man, Wasp, Tigra, and Crystal. (Image from Avengers #385)

“The Garden Of Evil!” One of the truly out-there covers for imaginary DC Comics alt-world stories by Mark Waid & Ty Templeton from 1999’s Elseworlds: 80 page giant.

Alfred Hitchcock, by Otto Bettmann, 1950.

Peter Frampton in 1978, being escorted back from the performers’ facilities at California’s Anaheim Stadium by his road manager Mr Tiny, by Brad Elterman.

The BBC’s Listener magazine celebrated its 50th birthday in 1979 with a cover featuring many of the most respected contributors from the mag’s existence. I’m always fascinated by fame & how it ebbs, or doesn’t, & I can’t help but wonder how many of these cultural commentators are well-known now.

The mighty & much-missed Lemmy, in his Hollywood apartment, 1991, by Ross Halfin.

Spider-Man, in his particularly fetching black costume, chasing down the Hobgoblin, by Charles Vess, 1992.

A 1962 poster for Lambretta motor scooters featuring Jayne Mansfield.

The mighty & much-missed Lemmy, in his Hollywood apartment, 1991, by Ross Halfin.

And so to Titus Groan, again, a book that scares the very pants off of me from its very second paragraph.

Spider-Man, in his particularly fetching black costume, chasing down the Hobgoblin, by Charles Vess, 1992.

Very hot days are perfect for revisiting Genesis’ “A Trick Of The Tail”. It sounded great during 1976’s long hot summer when it was fresh out, and it sounds just great in 2026’s heatwave too. It is, after all, an album that’s in part about fierce heat, endless drought and -poor squonks- extinction.

A 1962 poster for Lambretta motor scooters featuring Jayne Mansfield.

Billionaire Merit Badges, by Ivan Ehlers, 2025, from TNY.

The Rabble Rouser, by George Grosz, 1928. From the fashness to the yellow trousers, it still feel very familiar today, almost a century later. Sadly.

Things I’m still fascinated by from 1962.

The great E. McKnight Kauffer’s fabulous cover for the 1950 Modern Library edition of “Dracula” by Bram Stoker.

Steve Ditko’s fabulous cover for the 1965 fanzine “all stars!” #

Billionaire Merit Badges, by Ivan Ehlers, 2025, from TNY.

Things I’m still fascinated by from 1962.

The great E. McKnight Kauffer’s fabulous cover for the 1950 Modern Library edition of “Dracula” by Bram Stoker.

The Rabble Rouser, by George Grosz, 1928. From the fashness to the yellow trousers, it still feel very familiar today, almost a century later. Sadly.

In March 1962’s Adventure Comics #294, Siegel & Forte show the Bizarro-World adults celebrating Bizarro-Halloween by wearing masks of horribly human Americans like President John Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mantle & Jerry Lee Lewis while abusing their Bizarro-neighbours & Bizarro-pets.

Teddy boy Colin Donellan, outside London’s fashionable Cecil Gee menswear shop, October 10th 1953, by Charles Hewitt. Donellan was the subject of a Picture Post article & mildly famous/infamous because of his appearance & because of his many scrapes with the law, including stays in borstal & prison.

Panther has been playing with his new David Meowie catnip toy. Bless.

In 1950, the US govt published a booklet called “Survival under atomic attack”, which seems far more concerned with reassuring its readers than truly preparing them for the worst. In the pic below, citizens were shown where all the life-saving help would come from if the nukes start falling. (!)

Nazi air-raid on Soviet Moscow, July 26, 1941, as captured by the quite frankly brilliant Margaret Bourke-White.

I’m darn fond of the jam cover for 1944’s anthology The Big All-American Comic Book. (I’m also taken by the fact this is Sargon the Sorcerer’s only Golden Age cover appearance and the poor fellow doesn’t even have a story inside.)

In 1950, the US govt published a booklet called “Survival under atomic attack”, which seems far more concerned with reassuring its readers than truly preparing them for the worst. In the pic below, citizens were shown where all the life-saving help would come from if the nukes start falling. (!)