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I am doing this post because right now I am in - between posts and after all the things I had to do this and last week and the consecutive sleep deprivation I´m not in the mood for a FLASH FRIDAY WITH PAUL RYAN post. The good thing is that I already know what my next posts are going to be but I still have to prepare some stuff before I can get to it. One thing is THE BIG CHRISTMAS CONTEST for which I not only have to go through all of my free comics but I also have to decide IF and HOW I am going to do it.
Now I know that some people out there might say that it´s a bit early for a contest that will be at Christmas but usually you have to start three months earlier if you don´t want to get swamped in the final days and we are already at October. As I haven´t done this last year - because I DIDN`T manage to start three months before Christmas - I should kind of explain what this big contest is about especially since it´s done pretty quickly. The word " contest " might be a bit misleading here because there is no real contest involved. It´s basically me giving away a lot of free comics.
To complete stranger. Without expecting anything in return.
I know what you are thinking : " Okay, where´s the catch ? Nobody gives anything - and especially NOT comic books - away for free if he doesn´t get something from it. What´s in it for you ? What´s your agenda ? "
The catch is that there is no catch. I just want to get rid of a lot of comic books that would otherwise clog up my house and drive my mother crazy. And as anybody who has collected comics for some time can attest comics become like your kids so you can´t just throw them out ( I still cringe whenever I hear somebody tearing up paper because it reminds me of what happened to my first comic book collection ) you want to make sure they get a good home. Let´s get back to the part of the comics clogging up my house for a minute. The thing with free comics is that there are different ways to go at it. There are of course the regular guys who say : " Oh, a free comic book. That´s nice. " but doesn´t go out of his way to get specific issues. Then there´s the more experienced comic book reader who knows which comics are available when for free and gives his list to the comic book dealer of his choice. And there are those for who it´s a contest where they have to get them all and they become obsessed.
Now with comic book readers the collecting gene is a bit more developed than with others per se and I´m not saying that this doesn´t also apply to me. It´s only natural. And when this whole free comic book thing started I naturally wanted to get as much out of it as possible. Which I have come to learn doesn´t mean to hoard as many free comic books as you can. As ridiculous as that may sound. Especially if you keep in mind that to do the whole Christmas contest thing I DO need a certain amount of free comics because otherwise it´s not worth the effort. To back this up a little you might wonder where these free comics I am giving away come from. If I have a secret source where I can get uncounted quantities of free comics.
Damn, here I am constantly complaining that he never gets any review copies from any of the big companies like other blogs out there and the I am giving away comics. Which means that I am either a liar or a crook.
To make that clear. I still don´t get any review copies from any comic book companies out there except for the occassional album from my good pal Terry Hooper from BLACK TOWER COMICS. So I have to buy all the comics I read and write about on the blog myself out of my own pocket. Which is the reason why I am always pimping stuff when it´s available at a bargain price and it´s also the reason why I tell you a comic book is crap when it´s crap. Because I bought it myself, I didn´t get it for free and as long as no comic company deems me worthy of supporting or sponsoring I am going to write thins like I see them. That doesn´t mean other people are not entitled to their own opinion as some people might love those comics.
Now while I don´t get any free comics directly from any of the comic companies there are however the free comics you can get at FREE COMIC BOOK DAY and GRATIS COMIC TAG. Which are limited to a certain number you can get at your local comic shop and you have to pay for the rest of them. Like I said earlier when I first became aware of this I tried to get as many free comics as possible because I love to read comics and the more the better. I had my list that I gave to my comic dealer but after a few years my regular comic shop went out of business - mostly due to the german customs office impounding the complete shipment of comics four months in a row - and I had to go back to the Sammlerecke in Esslingen which thankfully picked up all of my subscriptions without any big hitches.
But in the interim my list of free comics got lost in the shuffle and for some reason or another I never had the time to properly do the whole free comic thing. At the same time I found out that the online comic shop where I had to go to close those gaps in my comic collection caused by the transition between the two comic shops gave you one free comic for every 10 Euros of your order. Now I´m not ordering huge amounts of comics online every month. But with a few orders throughout the years those free comics accumulate and I had been ordering for a few years before I found this out. And while I don´t go out of my way to order comics online comics are pretty expensive here in Germany so that it´s relatively easy to have an order of 50 bucks or above which is when you get free shipping. Also since I don´t have a lot of money for comics each month there are series where I get behind and when I try to catch up I can´t find the back issues anywhere. So I have to order them online and if I have to do that anyway why not get some free comics at the same time ?
Right now I have finally caught up on CASE CLOSED - which is the only manga I´m reading - but I was more than ten books behind. I´m also at book 4 of THE TRIGAN EMPIRE ( at least that´s how it is called in Germany ) by Don Lawrence while the current book in comic shops is number 12.
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There are also the collected editions of CAPRICORN, NATASCHA or YOKO TSUNO of which I can only afford to buy one book once in a while. There also are other comics like the SECRET WARS II omnibus which I could not find anywhere else. Which meant that I had to pay the full price but by ordering from my online comic shop I got ten free comics out of the deal.
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So now that we have established where I get my free comic from the question remains why I have decided to give them away. As I have said, some people hoard the free comics - for whatever reason - while I have come to the point where I see this as a chance to test new comic series.
With the state the comic market is right now the best comics are no longer produced by the big two companies but there are so many comics out there that keeping up with all of them has become an impossible task. You can go with recommendations and the best lists that are published every year but I have learned that a lot of the comics that are on those lists don´t manage to hold my attention or make we want to spend my money on them while the comics I enjoy and love are mostly not on those lists. So free comics have become a valuable source to determine if a comic book series is worth reading because you can sample one issue without any financial risk. And sometimes the comics you read and don´t like are the best because now you know which comic series to avoid.
So I see the free comic book events as a chance to try out new things which is one of the reasons why I prefer series I don´t already know. Okay, now that I´m doing the free comics Christmas contests I do order things like Moebius´ THE INCAL because I know that I want to have that as a free giveaway since there is always one comic book reader out there who may have heard of it but never tried it and this is a comic that belongs in every comic book collection. But when I order the free comics I go for comics I don´t already know and thanks to the big two flushing their respective comic book universes down the toilet with their constant reboots, their big crossover events, incessant retconning and the SJW´s taking over the reigns at Marvel this year my first free comics were from other companies and mostly sci fi books. Anyway, when I order my free comics I do have some favorite series I already know and love and buy but I make sure to go for series I don´t know first. Which is kind of a win - win scenario because if I already am reading a title I can give away the free comic that much easier and if I don´t know a series but don´t like it it´s a no - brainer.
So yes, I give away comics but not because I have aspirations to sainthood or because I want people to like me or think I´m a cool guy. I´m pretty pragmatic about it because on one side like I said after a few years these free comics do pile up and I don´t have limitless space in my house. There´s no tesseract to store them and it´s not bigger on the inside.
There are some free comics I want to keep but there are a lot which I read and am not going to read twice and of course some I hate and can´t get rid of fast enough. That still doesn´t explain why I do the whole Christmas contest which my brother thinks should be a real contest where I give the participants some almost Herculean impossible labors before I hand out the free copies. Which completely goes against the whole reason why I´m doing this. I can´t throw comics away. Not as long as they are readable in any way, shape or form. Even the most battered comic book, when it still has all of it pages and the cover attached I prefer to bring it to my comic book store and sell it - even if I only get 1 cent for it - before I throw it away because I know that somebody else can enjoy it. So the contest is not a real contest ( although I think it sounds cooler than the time when Subzero gives away free comics and it´s shorter ) because I don´t want anybody competing for the comics which can lead to bad blood. There is already enough of that in the comic community. I also don´t want the people who get the free comics have to earn the comics. No, you get these comics for free and you don´t have to do anything for it. Which is the reason why I decided to do these contests - or rather non contests - around Christmas. People seem more willing to accept free stuff at that time and if anyone feels guilty about that they can send me the postage or even some comics they don´t want in their comic book collection anymore. Which may also end up in the raffle for the following year. But anyway, I get more much neede space in my house, I get to read a comics for free and other people get some of the comics so everybody wins.
That said it still takes a lot of time, work and coordination and I don´t know if I can burden that this year with all the other things I have going on. So my idea was that instead of having to do all the work to just give them to one place where they are distributed to people who would otherwise not get them. I know that one of the comic shops I visit on a frequent basis is the FANTASY STRONGHOLD in Ludwigsburg and I know that they don´t participate in these free comic book events because they can´t afford them. These free comic book things are not free for the comic shops ( so keep that in mind next year and don´t be so greedy ) and at least here in Germany you have to take the whole set even if you know that you are only certain books are interesting for your clientele.
I already talked to the owner if he might be willing to do something with free comics - especially since Halloween is just around the corner and he might use the occassion to do something like Halloween Comicfest - and he´s interested. So when I have selected the comics that I am going to give away this year I could just bring them to the shop so he can decide if he wants to do it or not. For me it´s easier than writing announcements here and in two comic book message boards and if the shop owner does not want ALL of the free comics I can still do that. Or I could just tell people that anyone who wants free comics can go to that comic shop.
But I have to decide soon because I already have most of the free comics I am interested in from FREE COMIC BOOK DAY and GRATIS COMIC TAG and if these are for a Halloween comic event I can´t get any from this year´s Halloween Comicfest. If I do this on Christmas I can get new Halloween Comicfest comics but if we DO a Halloween comic event I have to dig out all the free Halloween Comicfest comics first. In any case, what do my readers think ? Should I go the usual route and burden myself with a lot of work or go the easier way and just drop them off at the comic store ?
The other post I have planned but can´t write just now because I still have to prepare some stuff for it will be a return to the dreaded decade of comic book declination commonly referred to as the awful 90s which will come as no surprise to longtime readers. I have written about his decade on numerous posts since I don´t think that it was a s bad as some people paint it ( and by paint it I also mean the many artists who churned out art that gives me a headache ) because I was actually reading comics in the 90s and while there was a lot of crap out there there also were some gold nuggets and some of my all time favorite comic books are from that era.
What ultimately spurred me on to do this post - or rather series of posts since it seems that I can´t do the topic justice with just one post - is that while doing the research for some other post I came across original art by Joe Madureiras for Battle Chasers and Uncanny X - Men, 2 books I loved.
To back this up a little, Joe Madureiras was a real juggernaut in the 90s. He was a monster. When all the big artists left Marvel to form iMAGE Joe Madureiras was one of the artists who took up the slack - together with the Kubert brothers and a few select others - and he became a big super star on UNCANNY X - MEN. He then left to do BATTLE CHASERS which became a sales phenomenon that injected new live into the swords and sorcery genre but he pretty much crashed and burnt his career because he preferred to play video games instead of drawing a monthly series and earning obscene amounts of money. He once said that if his wife knew how much money he basically threw away to play games she´d kill him.
Anyway, he has since then returned to comics but he has lost most of his fans and now he´s just one artist among others. His art still looks unique but most of the times his intricate pencils get butchered by the inkers and I think he was at his peak when he was doing BATTLE CHASERS.
In any case, when I saw the original art it rekindled the spark and I went back to my old issues of UNCANNY X - MEN because some of my favorite stories are in there. It took me a while to find them and in one comic box I found some crushed comics ( which I had to expel from my comic book collection so I will bring them to the Sammlerecke to sell on my next visit ) but I am currently re - reading my favorite issues and they still hold up.
Like I said, I am an advocate of the 90s and another pet peeve - especially with Today´s new comic readers who do not know anything about the history of comic books - is giving props to underrated comic creators who never appear in any best of lists. One of these writers is Scott Lobdell, who wrote a humongous chunk of X - MEN books in a time that was plagued by a lot of crossovers and he managed to spin gold out of it.
What´s more a lot of these issues are done in one issues which I also want to spotlight because it has become a dying art with modern comic writers who target their whole career for the trade market. So the next post will spotlight all my favorite UNCANNY X - MEN stories from the 90s by Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureiras - as soon as I have figured out my top ten. Because the difficult thing was not to pin down my favorite stories - that was done in one minute or less - but rather rating them. At the moment I have my number one ( which was never any question at all and longtime readers might already have deducted which one it is ), my number two and the bottom ones but numbers three to five are still in flux. Maybe I will not give all of them numbers but like I said, there´s still stuff to do.
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September 26th
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singing sexbomb Christina Milian. Not only does she sing like an angel she´s also absolutely hot.
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Collien Fernandez german photomodel / singer ( but don´t remind her ) / tv presenter / starlet 36
Collien is one of the hottest celebrities in Germany but despite numerous photoshoots she never was in PLAYBOY. What a gip !
If you ask me it´s all the fault of such magazines like MAXIM, HQ and others. There used to be only PLAYBOY, PENTHOUSE and Lui. But now there are all kind of magazines for girly men who are too embarrassed to buy something like PLAYBOY but still want to look at hot picks. They don´t even care that they are not naked. For me that´s kind of stupid - it´s too much tease and no payoff.
Besides doing lots of photoshoots Collieen´s on various tv shows : apart from being on a lot of shows on VIVA ( Germany´s answer to Mtv ) she was on a show that was the german version of THE SIMPLE LIFE. Only better because it had twice as much boobs.
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September 29th
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mexican Über Power Girl Ninel Conde who celebrates her 47th birthday and who I have cast as Zatanna in my Justice League casting and
Ninel Conde is a mexican singer and actress and - with her incredible chest size of course - model who has starred in the very popular telenovela REBELDE which you can see in a lot of countries like Spain.
Ninel Conde was born on September the 29th 1970 in Toluca which means that when I made the post with her red plunging cleavage dress from the Latin Grammy Awards she was around ...... 40 years ? ? ? Holy Makarel !
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I bet if you look in the mexican dictionary under MILF ( or MMIGF in that case ) there´s a picture of Ninel Conde. And it´s a probably a foldout.
September 30th
Candice Michelle playmate, erotic movie star and wrestling diva Candice Michelle ( she really has done it all ), the model who put GoDaddy on the map with her commercials that were so hot they were strongly censored celebrates her 39th birthday.
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I cast Candice Michelle as Catwoman in my Wrestling Babes and Swimsuit Models Special Edition of Casting The Justice League Of America which also includes April O´Neil, Cori Nadine, 36DD bombshells Tylene Buck a.k.a.
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Major Gunns ( another wrestling sexbomb ) and mega busty hasian LeAnna Scott who were in the same Ironman Swimsuit Spectacular with April Hunter.
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October 5th Terri Runnels 51
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Julie DuPage 44 Juliette on Extreme Limite
Julie DuPage on the french tv show EXTREME LIMITE ( it was called Die Draufgänger in Germany which means The Daredevils, but then another show got the same title and whenever you look for it on amazon you only find the wrong one ) who didn´t have very big breasts but boy, did she know how to squeeze ´em right. I bet Mutenroshi would be beyond himself and when I saw this I instantly knew which part would fit perfectly between Julie´s funbags.
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Ah, that´s what I call poetry in motion, guys. Merci beaucoup, Julie !
Lucie on the french soap SOUS LE SOLEIL ( Under the Sun ) or simply St. Tropez in german with Florence Geanty plays ex - stripper Marie ( Marion in the german version )
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I am doing this post because right now I am in - between posts and after all the things I had to do this and last week and the consecutive sleep deprivation I´m not in the mood for a FLASH FRIDAY WITH PAUL RYAN post. The good thing is that I already know what my next posts are going to be but I still have to prepare some stuff before I can get to it. One thing is THE BIG CHRISTMAS CONTEST for which I not only have to go through all of my free comics but I also have to decide IF and HOW I am going to do it.
Now I know that some people out there might say that it´s a bit early for a contest that will be at Christmas but usually you have to start three months earlier if you don´t want to get swamped in the final days and we are already at October. As I haven´t done this last year - because I DIDN`T manage to start three months before Christmas - I should kind of explain what this big contest is about especially since it´s done pretty quickly. The word " contest " might be a bit misleading here because there is no real contest involved. It´s basically me giving away a lot of free comics.
To complete stranger. Without expecting anything in return.
I know what you are thinking : " Okay, where´s the catch ? Nobody gives anything - and especially NOT comic books - away for free if he doesn´t get something from it. What´s in it for you ? What´s your agenda ? "
The catch is that there is no catch. I just want to get rid of a lot of comic books that would otherwise clog up my house and drive my mother crazy. And as anybody who has collected comics for some time can attest comics become like your kids so you can´t just throw them out ( I still cringe whenever I hear somebody tearing up paper because it reminds me of what happened to my first comic book collection ) you want to make sure they get a good home. Let´s get back to the part of the comics clogging up my house for a minute. The thing with free comics is that there are different ways to go at it. There are of course the regular guys who say : " Oh, a free comic book. That´s nice. " but doesn´t go out of his way to get specific issues. Then there´s the more experienced comic book reader who knows which comics are available when for free and gives his list to the comic book dealer of his choice. And there are those for who it´s a contest where they have to get them all and they become obsessed.
Now with comic book readers the collecting gene is a bit more developed than with others per se and I´m not saying that this doesn´t also apply to me. It´s only natural. And when this whole free comic book thing started I naturally wanted to get as much out of it as possible. Which I have come to learn doesn´t mean to hoard as many free comic books as you can. As ridiculous as that may sound. Especially if you keep in mind that to do the whole Christmas contest thing I DO need a certain amount of free comics because otherwise it´s not worth the effort. To back this up a little you might wonder where these free comics I am giving away come from. If I have a secret source where I can get uncounted quantities of free comics.
Damn, here I am constantly complaining that he never gets any review copies from any of the big companies like other blogs out there and the I am giving away comics. Which means that I am either a liar or a crook.
To make that clear. I still don´t get any review copies from any comic book companies out there except for the occassional album from my good pal Terry Hooper from BLACK TOWER COMICS. So I have to buy all the comics I read and write about on the blog myself out of my own pocket. Which is the reason why I am always pimping stuff when it´s available at a bargain price and it´s also the reason why I tell you a comic book is crap when it´s crap. Because I bought it myself, I didn´t get it for free and as long as no comic company deems me worthy of supporting or sponsoring I am going to write thins like I see them. That doesn´t mean other people are not entitled to their own opinion as some people might love those comics.
Now while I don´t get any free comics directly from any of the comic companies there are however the free comics you can get at FREE COMIC BOOK DAY and GRATIS COMIC TAG. Which are limited to a certain number you can get at your local comic shop and you have to pay for the rest of them. Like I said earlier when I first became aware of this I tried to get as many free comics as possible because I love to read comics and the more the better. I had my list that I gave to my comic dealer but after a few years my regular comic shop went out of business - mostly due to the german customs office impounding the complete shipment of comics four months in a row - and I had to go back to the Sammlerecke in Esslingen which thankfully picked up all of my subscriptions without any big hitches.
But in the interim my list of free comics got lost in the shuffle and for some reason or another I never had the time to properly do the whole free comic thing. At the same time I found out that the online comic shop where I had to go to close those gaps in my comic collection caused by the transition between the two comic shops gave you one free comic for every 10 Euros of your order. Now I´m not ordering huge amounts of comics online every month. But with a few orders throughout the years those free comics accumulate and I had been ordering for a few years before I found this out. And while I don´t go out of my way to order comics online comics are pretty expensive here in Germany so that it´s relatively easy to have an order of 50 bucks or above which is when you get free shipping. Also since I don´t have a lot of money for comics each month there are series where I get behind and when I try to catch up I can´t find the back issues anywhere. So I have to order them online and if I have to do that anyway why not get some free comics at the same time ?
Right now I have finally caught up on CASE CLOSED - which is the only manga I´m reading - but I was more than ten books behind. I´m also at book 4 of THE TRIGAN EMPIRE ( at least that´s how it is called in Germany ) by Don Lawrence while the current book in comic shops is number 12.
There are also the collected editions of CAPRICORN, NATASCHA or YOKO TSUNO of which I can only afford to buy one book once in a while. There also are other comics like the SECRET WARS II omnibus which I could not find anywhere else. Which meant that I had to pay the full price but by ordering from my online comic shop I got ten free comics out of the deal.
So now that we have established where I get my free comic from the question remains why I have decided to give them away. As I have said, some people hoard the free comics - for whatever reason - while I have come to the point where I see this as a chance to test new comic series.
With the state the comic market is right now the best comics are no longer produced by the big two companies but there are so many comics out there that keeping up with all of them has become an impossible task. You can go with recommendations and the best lists that are published every year but I have learned that a lot of the comics that are on those lists don´t manage to hold my attention or make we want to spend my money on them while the comics I enjoy and love are mostly not on those lists. So free comics have become a valuable source to determine if a comic book series is worth reading because you can sample one issue without any financial risk. And sometimes the comics you read and don´t like are the best because now you know which comic series to avoid.
So I see the free comic book events as a chance to try out new things which is one of the reasons why I prefer series I don´t already know. Okay, now that I´m doing the free comics Christmas contests I do order things like Moebius´ THE INCAL because I know that I want to have that as a free giveaway since there is always one comic book reader out there who may have heard of it but never tried it and this is a comic that belongs in every comic book collection. But when I order the free comics I go for comics I don´t already know and thanks to the big two flushing their respective comic book universes down the toilet with their constant reboots, their big crossover events, incessant retconning and the SJW´s taking over the reigns at Marvel this year my first free comics were from other companies and mostly sci fi books. Anyway, when I order my free comics I do have some favorite series I already know and love and buy but I make sure to go for series I don´t know first. Which is kind of a win - win scenario because if I already am reading a title I can give away the free comic that much easier and if I don´t know a series but don´t like it it´s a no - brainer.
So yes, I give away comics but not because I have aspirations to sainthood or because I want people to like me or think I´m a cool guy. I´m pretty pragmatic about it because on one side like I said after a few years these free comics do pile up and I don´t have limitless space in my house. There´s no tesseract to store them and it´s not bigger on the inside.
There are some free comics I want to keep but there are a lot which I read and am not going to read twice and of course some I hate and can´t get rid of fast enough. That still doesn´t explain why I do the whole Christmas contest which my brother thinks should be a real contest where I give the participants some almost Herculean impossible labors before I hand out the free copies. Which completely goes against the whole reason why I´m doing this. I can´t throw comics away. Not as long as they are readable in any way, shape or form. Even the most battered comic book, when it still has all of it pages and the cover attached I prefer to bring it to my comic book store and sell it - even if I only get 1 cent for it - before I throw it away because I know that somebody else can enjoy it. So the contest is not a real contest ( although I think it sounds cooler than the time when Subzero gives away free comics and it´s shorter ) because I don´t want anybody competing for the comics which can lead to bad blood. There is already enough of that in the comic community. I also don´t want the people who get the free comics have to earn the comics. No, you get these comics for free and you don´t have to do anything for it. Which is the reason why I decided to do these contests - or rather non contests - around Christmas. People seem more willing to accept free stuff at that time and if anyone feels guilty about that they can send me the postage or even some comics they don´t want in their comic book collection anymore. Which may also end up in the raffle for the following year. But anyway, I get more much neede space in my house, I get to read a comics for free and other people get some of the comics so everybody wins.
That said it still takes a lot of time, work and coordination and I don´t know if I can burden that this year with all the other things I have going on. So my idea was that instead of having to do all the work to just give them to one place where they are distributed to people who would otherwise not get them. I know that one of the comic shops I visit on a frequent basis is the FANTASY STRONGHOLD in Ludwigsburg and I know that they don´t participate in these free comic book events because they can´t afford them. These free comic book things are not free for the comic shops ( so keep that in mind next year and don´t be so greedy ) and at least here in Germany you have to take the whole set even if you know that you are only certain books are interesting for your clientele.
I already talked to the owner if he might be willing to do something with free comics - especially since Halloween is just around the corner and he might use the occassion to do something like Halloween Comicfest - and he´s interested. So when I have selected the comics that I am going to give away this year I could just bring them to the shop so he can decide if he wants to do it or not. For me it´s easier than writing announcements here and in two comic book message boards and if the shop owner does not want ALL of the free comics I can still do that. Or I could just tell people that anyone who wants free comics can go to that comic shop.
But I have to decide soon because I already have most of the free comics I am interested in from FREE COMIC BOOK DAY and GRATIS COMIC TAG and if these are for a Halloween comic event I can´t get any from this year´s Halloween Comicfest. If I do this on Christmas I can get new Halloween Comicfest comics but if we DO a Halloween comic event I have to dig out all the free Halloween Comicfest comics first. In any case, what do my readers think ? Should I go the usual route and burden myself with a lot of work or go the easier way and just drop them off at the comic store ?
The other post I have planned but can´t write just now because I still have to prepare some stuff for it will be a return to the dreaded decade of comic book declination commonly referred to as the awful 90s which will come as no surprise to longtime readers. I have written about his decade on numerous posts since I don´t think that it was a s bad as some people paint it ( and by paint it I also mean the many artists who churned out art that gives me a headache ) because I was actually reading comics in the 90s and while there was a lot of crap out there there also were some gold nuggets and some of my all time favorite comic books are from that era.
What ultimately spurred me on to do this post - or rather series of posts since it seems that I can´t do the topic justice with just one post - is that while doing the research for some other post I came across original art by Joe Madureiras for Battle Chasers and Uncanny X - Men, 2 books I loved.
To back this up a little, Joe Madureiras was a real juggernaut in the 90s. He was a monster. When all the big artists left Marvel to form iMAGE Joe Madureiras was one of the artists who took up the slack - together with the Kubert brothers and a few select others - and he became a big super star on UNCANNY X - MEN. He then left to do BATTLE CHASERS which became a sales phenomenon that injected new live into the swords and sorcery genre but he pretty much crashed and burnt his career because he preferred to play video games instead of drawing a monthly series and earning obscene amounts of money. He once said that if his wife knew how much money he basically threw away to play games she´d kill him.
Anyway, he has since then returned to comics but he has lost most of his fans and now he´s just one artist among others. His art still looks unique but most of the times his intricate pencils get butchered by the inkers and I think he was at his peak when he was doing BATTLE CHASERS.
In any case, when I saw the original art it rekindled the spark and I went back to my old issues of UNCANNY X - MEN because some of my favorite stories are in there. It took me a while to find them and in one comic box I found some crushed comics ( which I had to expel from my comic book collection so I will bring them to the Sammlerecke to sell on my next visit ) but I am currently re - reading my favorite issues and they still hold up.
Like I said, I am an advocate of the 90s and another pet peeve - especially with Today´s new comic readers who do not know anything about the history of comic books - is giving props to underrated comic creators who never appear in any best of lists. One of these writers is Scott Lobdell, who wrote a humongous chunk of X - MEN books in a time that was plagued by a lot of crossovers and he managed to spin gold out of it.
What´s more a lot of these issues are done in one issues which I also want to spotlight because it has become a dying art with modern comic writers who target their whole career for the trade market. So the next post will spotlight all my favorite UNCANNY X - MEN stories from the 90s by Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureiras - as soon as I have figured out my top ten. Because the difficult thing was not to pin down my favorite stories - that was done in one minute or less - but rather rating them. At the moment I have my number one ( which was never any question at all and longtime readers might already have deducted which one it is ), my number two and the bottom ones but numbers three to five are still in flux. Maybe I will not give all of them numbers but like I said, there´s still stuff to do.
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September 26th
Christina Milian 36
singing sexbomb Christina Milian. Not only does she sing like an angel she´s also absolutely hot.
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Collien Fernandez german photomodel / singer ( but don´t remind her ) / tv presenter / starlet 36
Collien is one of the hottest celebrities in Germany but despite numerous photoshoots she never was in PLAYBOY. What a gip !
If you ask me it´s all the fault of such magazines like MAXIM, HQ and others. There used to be only PLAYBOY, PENTHOUSE and Lui. But now there are all kind of magazines for girly men who are too embarrassed to buy something like PLAYBOY but still want to look at hot picks. They don´t even care that they are not naked. For me that´s kind of stupid - it´s too much tease and no payoff.
Besides doing lots of photoshoots Collieen´s on various tv shows : apart from being on a lot of shows on VIVA ( Germany´s answer to Mtv ) she was on a show that was the german version of THE SIMPLE LIFE. Only better because it had twice as much boobs.
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September 29th
mexican 40C Power Girl Ninel Conde as Zatanna
mexican Über Power Girl Ninel Conde who celebrates her 47th birthday and who I have cast as Zatanna in my Justice League casting and
Ninel Conde is a mexican singer and actress and - with her incredible chest size of course - model who has starred in the very popular telenovela REBELDE which you can see in a lot of countries like Spain.
Ninel Conde was born on September the 29th 1970 in Toluca which means that when I made the post with her red plunging cleavage dress from the Latin Grammy Awards she was around ...... 40 years ? ? ? Holy Makarel !
I bet if you look in the mexican dictionary under MILF ( or MMIGF in that case ) there´s a picture of Ninel Conde. And it´s a probably a foldout.
September 30th
Candice Michelle playmate, erotic movie star and wrestling diva Candice Michelle ( she really has done it all ), the model who put GoDaddy on the map with her commercials that were so hot they were strongly censored celebrates her 39th birthday.
I cast Candice Michelle as Catwoman in my Wrestling Babes and Swimsuit Models Special Edition of Casting The Justice League Of America which also includes April O´Neil, Cori Nadine, 36DD bombshells Tylene Buck a.k.a.
Major Gunns ( another wrestling sexbomb ) and mega busty hasian LeAnna Scott who were in the same Ironman Swimsuit Spectacular with April Hunter.
October 5th Terri Runnels 51
and the usual WWE Diva videos like Divas in Hedonism , Divas Tropical Pleasure or Postcards from the Carribean and
and Terri Runnels backstage distracting the APA guys by pouring beer on her shirt and
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todays birthdays
Julie DuPage 44 Juliette on Extreme Limite
Julie DuPage on the french tv show EXTREME LIMITE ( it was called Die Draufgänger in Germany which means The Daredevils, but then another show got the same title and whenever you look for it on amazon you only find the wrong one ) who didn´t have very big breasts but boy, did she know how to squeeze ´em right. I bet Mutenroshi would be beyond himself and when I saw this I instantly knew which part would fit perfectly between Julie´s funbags.
Ah, that´s what I call poetry in motion, guys. Merci beaucoup, Julie !
Lucie on the french soap SOUS LE SOLEIL ( Under the Sun ) or simply St. Tropez in german with Florence Geanty plays ex - stripper Marie ( Marion in the german version )
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