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Seriously, these two items on your person, circa 1972? Free trip to Sextown, USA.

The Rack: The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

10 reasons why Fantastic Four #51 is my favorite comic book.

The Rack: Staff Picks For The Week Of January 21st, 2009

The Only DC Solicitation That Matters.

SEAGUY: THE SLAVES OF MICKEY EYE #1
Written by Grant Morrison
Art and cover by Cameron Stewart
In 2008 alone, superstar writer Grant Morrison killed Batman, put the entire DC Universe through its FINAL CRISIS and concluded the unanimously beloved ALL-STAR SUPERMAN. But what does a writer who’s written every significant Super Hero do when he can create any Super Hero he wants? The answer, of course, is SEAGUY! Morrison (THE INVISIBLES) rejoins original SEAGUY artist Cameron Stewart (SEVEN SOLDIERS) in an all-new adventure starring the cult-favorite character!

In Seaguy’s cartoon future world, everyone is a Super Hero and no one dies. It’s absolutely perfect…Or is it? In this follow-up to the cult 2004 miniseries, Seaguy resurfaces with a sinister new partner, a hatred of the sea and a rebel restlessness he can’t explain. Why are Doc Hero and his ex-archenemy Silvan Niltoid, the Alien from Planet Earth, whispering strange equations? Why is Death so useless? And can that really be the ghost of Chubby Da Choona mumbling uncanny warnings and dire prophecies of ultimate catastrophe?

When the grotesque powers lurking behind the corporation known as Mickey Eye and the Happy Group attempt to erase Seaguy’s entire existence, can he possibly get it together in time to save a world so far gone it can’t even imagine the horror lying in wait? Find out here in Morrison’s own personal reframing of the Super Hero concept for the 21st century.
On sale April 1 • 1 of 3 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • MATURE READERS

Links! They are the lazy blogger who is busy working on something else’s best friend!

• Matt Maxwell’s Strangeways has moved to Robot 6 at Comic Book Resources.
  
• Kyle Baker is going to do a biography of Barack Obama.
  
• If you have 15 minutes, please fill out this grammar survey to help improve English instruction. If you know me, you know what sort of…let’s just say National Socialist I am for a lot of the grammatical arts.
  
• And the best is last: Lance and Carla are out of the hospital. She’s been on Twitter a bit lately and I’m pretty sure he’s already wrestling bears, so, you know, they’ll be up to spec quickly. You should still pay attention to those auctions, though because I’m pretty sure they’ll need more shekels.

Gorillas are ungrateful assholes.

Waimea: “When Matty Met Saffron, Part 4″

The Rack: A New Career In A New Town

J Jonah Jameson, by Rick Veitch

Galactus…

…disapproves.

So, hey, I’m back.

What’d I miss? Nobody killed Batman or anything, right?

Oh, they did? Let me take a look at this.

Oh, hey, there’s no reason at all people would flip out and scream bloody murder over his final actions, because he explained how he was breaking the one rule he would never break before and the situation demanded it, is there? I mean, he addresses the elephant in the room before even pulling out the gun.

Oh, they did? And they’re still?

…

Wow.

OK, but I mean, it’s Batman. He made them like ten crudzillion dollars last year with that movie. Morrison put an out for the situation in the first four pages of that comic, to be used by the one character who could be trusted with that sort of power, you know? Surely comic book readers have to…

Oh, really?

Damn, people.

Damn.

“Bubbilicious,” Rex The Dog.

The Rack: Fired Up

The Rack: It’s decision time again.

So, yeah, racism’s dead in America now that we elected Obama, right? Ha.

I got an email from a friend of mine in the South today about how his local shop handled the Obama/Spider-Man cover. Please note that it contains racially-charged language that may be considered offensive but is still very much part of the vocabulary of people who really shouldn’t be slinging it around:

OK, here’s what happened at my LCS today. You are not going to fucking believe this…

The Rack: Hard Times

The Rack: Staff Picks For The Week That Will Live In Comics Infamy

I’m busy this week.

Business travel, blah blah blah. So don’t expect any updates besides me saying “Oh hey, here’s the latest installment of The Rack” until Saturday or Sunday at the earliest.