God I love steve Ditko's art.

Posted June 20, 2008 11:12 PM by Craig R

Mmm...Ditko and Sim...my head is already exploding.

Posted June 20, 2008 11:30 PM by John A Arkansawyer

*snrk* "The Rejects" from the witzend scans is hilarious. "Justify that margin." Heehee.

Posted June 21, 2008 12:02 AM by Michael Roberts

> If I were a billionaire, I’d try to get Ditko and Dave Sim to collaborate on a philosophical comic

That's just about the scariest idea I've ever heard. I'd buy a copy, but I'd keep it in a sealed container so it couldn't talk to my other comics.

Posted June 21, 2008 1:10 AM by Steve Taylor

When I see "Veitch" I usually think of Tom Veitch and Greg Irons, of "Legion of Charlies" fame.

Posted June 21, 2008 2:47 AM by Earl Cooley III

Baking the Buddha

(They appeared as part of a Martha Stewart contest.)

Posted June 21, 2008 12:08 PM by C. Wingate

Question to all copyeditors and proofreaders re: something in that Ditko strip:

Can the word "you've" REALLY be hyphenated for a line break? i.e.:

"...you-

've..."

I love Ditko's work, even when he's drinking the Objectivist kool-aid, but seeing that in one of the word balloons just broke me completely out of the story.

Posted June 21, 2008 4:55 PM by Bruce Arthurs

Thanks for the Prisk links! Had never heard of him before this.

My personal favourite Nighthawks reference is in Transmetropolitan.

Posted June 21, 2008 6:02 PM by Tlönista

Bruce Arthurs, I've learned from the WashPost that any word can be hyphenated at any point. I've sort of gotten used to it, but it used to drive me nuts.

Posted June 21, 2008 11:48 PM by Marilee

Hyphenat-
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lank verse bei-
ng the only f-
orm I've mastere-
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Posted June 22, 2008 9:59 PM by Michael Roberts

All right, sorry to get off topic, but where's the post on the summer solstice, and the wonderful poems pertinent thereto, that I have awaited these 6 months?

Posted June 22, 2008 10:53 PM by Angiportus

The solstice is done.
Already the days grow short.
And it's just as well, because when those (#$ birds start singing outside the window at two-thirty in the (#&$ morning, it wakes me up and TOTALLY (#@ pisses me off.

Oops... so much for haiku.

Posted June 23, 2008 11:51 AM by mjfgates

If I were a billionaire, I’d try to get Ditko and Dave Sim to collaborate

Not sure being a billionaire would help - from what I hear, Ditko reacts to bribery attempts much the same as Mr. A does.....well, maybe a *little* less violently.

Posted June 23, 2008 2:29 PM by Sarah

If Dave Sim and Steve Ditko made a comic, it would open with Mr A marrying Jaka in a Wiccan ceremony at a Ren-faire outside of San Francisco. For 2,200 pages, Mr A deliberates over whether or not to waive his right to keep his vasectomy a secret from Jaka, with much wackiness ensuing from Jaka trying to sow his seed in her womb. Mr A finally relents and commits to being a father, undoing his painful vasectomy. But before he is ready to make his first honest attempt at fatherhood, Jaka announces that she's pregnant. Mr A confronts Jaka on the rooftop of their apartment building and informs her that he knows he isn't her baby's father, and starts to walk away. Jaka draws a dagger and lunges to stab Mr A in the back, but she trips on the testicles of the true father of her baby, which Mr A nonchalantly dropped as he turned his back on her, causing her to fall from the roof to her death.

Posted June 23, 2008 5:45 PM by Mike

#12 - Best. Haiku. Ever. (form be damned!)

Mama Raccoon (out on the deck) actually stopped eating long enough to look in and wonder what those funny strangling noises coming from her pet human were...

ps: Best Solstice present ever: Mama brought her biggest litter ever (five!) up to start eating our bird food Saturday night, and I just finally got to to see them a few hours ago...

Posted June 24, 2008 5:04 AM by Edward Oleander