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Sluggo Saturday: The Antemortem.

So here’s what my original plan was: After posting the final Sluggo Saturday and writing up my goodbyes, farewells, and amens, my initial intention was to do “Satan Saturdays.” However, I found I...

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The post that would not end.

So I received a used copy of this hardcover in a collection I purchased the other day: And, well, I did have it in the shop as a new item before, but I never really did sit down and give it a good...

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The End of Civilization will have to wait ’til tomorrow…

…as I have been too short on time in the last couple of days to give it the proper attention it deserves. It will be up Friday, I’m reasonably certain. In the meantime, a few clarifications: It sort of...

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I wonder if Ian ever notices when I reference him in my blog posts.

Back to your questions…cruisin’ in with the following is Pedro de Pacas: “So how DOES the sausage get made?” Well, I take some of the excess bits of Progressive Ruin, ground it up, and…okay, that’s not...

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And every Valentine’s Day for the past decade, I think about doing another...

I’d been on hiatus from the Trouble with Comics crew for a bit, since of late what small amount of blogging time I’ve had I’ve been focusing right here on this site, keeping the content up, patching up...

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Happy Nude Year!

Here’s to a happy and safe and successful and occasionally nude 2018 for all of us! Now, for you, a Progressive Ruin Secret: almost since the beginning of this blog, what, 30, 40 years ago, I had...

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It’s dumb o’clock in the morning…

…my planned Monday post is only halfway completed, my computer keeps hanging on me, and if I don’t go to bed now, I’m going to be of no use…well, even less use…at work. So, sorry pals, I hate starting...

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I swear this isn’t just a commercial for my eBay store, but if you happened...

So here’s the thing: I’m still planning on an End of Civilization post, but I just haven’t had the time to start putting it together yet. I’ve barely even cracked open the new Previews…I have no idea...

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Sluggo Saturday: The Antemortem.

So here’s what my original plan was: After posting the final Sluggo Saturday and writing up my goodbyes, farewells, and amens, my initial intention was to do “Satan Saturdays.” However, I found I...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The post that would not end.

So I received a used copy of this hardcover in a collection I purchased the other day: And, well, I did have it in the shop as a new item before, but I never really did sit down and give it a good...

View Article

The End of Civilization will have to wait ’til tomorrow…

…as I have been too short on time in the last couple of days to give it the proper attention it deserves. It will be up Friday, I’m reasonably certain. In the meantime, a few clarifications: It sort of...

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I wonder if Ian ever notices when I reference him in my blog posts.

Back to your questions…cruisin’ in with the following is Pedro de Pacas: “So how DOES the sausage get made?” Well, I take some of the excess bits of Progressive Ruin, ground it up, and…okay, that’s not...

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And every Valentine’s Day for the past decade, I think about doing another...

I’d been on hiatus from the Trouble with Comics crew for a bit, since of late what small amount of blogging time I’ve had I’ve been focusing right here on this site, keeping the content up, patching up...

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Image may be NSFW.
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Happy Nude Year!

Here’s to a happy and safe and successful and occasionally nude 2018 for all of us! Now, for you, a Progressive Ruin Secret: almost since the beginning of this blog, what, 30, 40 years ago, I had...

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It’s dumb o’clock in the morning…

…my planned Monday post is only halfway completed, my computer keeps hanging on me, and if I don’t go to bed now, I’m going to be of no use…well, even less use…at work. So, sorry pals, I hate starting...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

I swear this isn’t just a commercial for my eBay store, but if you happened...

So here’s the thing: I’m still planning on an End of Civilization post, but I just haven’t had the time to start putting it together yet. I’ve barely even cracked open the new Previews…I have no idea...

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I know about the images-in-the-feed issue.

I’ve been informed that since I’ve secured the site, my images aren’t making it through on the RSS feeds. I’m aware of the issue, and will try to get it corrected shortly. Thank you for your patience!

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Quick. someone Ask Jeeves.

So the plan was to continue my dicussion of DC’s history of getting superhero chocolate into Swamp Thing’s peanut butter, and to do so I was going to, ahem, “borrow” some images from the DC Universe...

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You get to retell stories you’ve already told once you’re an old person like me.

Okee doke, finally going back to this question posed by Twitter pal Tim (which I first mentioned in this post): “Best example of people overvaluing comics which they were attempting to sell to you...

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I keep rememering another employee every couple of minutes to add to that list.

So first, a correction/addendum to a previous post. I was talking to my former boss Ralph, who owned the comic shop I used to work at, the other day, and he had a bone to pick with me. “I was reading...

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