4th of July

Happy 4th of July!

Have a picnic.

Enjoy some fireworks.

Most of all enjoy your day off!

We'll see ya next week as we're all taking a vacation too! 

A Real Vacation

Howdy everyone!  Lee here for a quick update.

The crew at ComicsAnd..., Jim, Gwen, Thomm, Matthew, and myself have managed to post something new every single day for the past five years.  It's been lots of fun but it's time.  Time for a vacation.  Time to just read books without worrying about reviewing them.  Time to read the previews not worrying about which books to pick.  Time to relax and enjoy the sun.

This is not an ending, just a short break.  It is the summer and if I learned anything from the French last year it's that everyone needs a vacation.


There may be sporadic posts during the next month but nothing on a regular basis. 

We shall return with our regularly scheduled program Aug 13 just in time for school to start.

See ya soon.

Summer Reading Plan 2012 (or What's in your suitcase?)

"Vacation -- All I ever wanted.  Vacation -- Had to get away." Go-Gos

Well, if all goes as planned I'll be heading west today with my family for our annual 5000 mile round-trip driving excursion.  Actually, the first leg will just be me and the six kids as my wife is staying behind the first week to put our rental house up for sale. So as always happens this time of year, I'm left with the daunting task of deciding what reading material to pack (not to mention the daunting task of driving 9+ hours and 500+ miles by myself for the first two days). 

Sure, I've got TONS of things that I need to catch up on, but those Omniboos aren't really designed for travel.  I don't even want to take any Masterworks either (and I'm suspending my successful Avengers Reading Inititive for the time being -- up to 20+ issues in each group so far! [more on that another time]).  Anyway, this year I determined to pare things down and not overpack.  I'm pretty sure I failed in that regard, but judge for yourself, since I'm going to show you what I selected.  Y'all can be my accountablity parnters on whether I actually read any of this stuff.

Blame it on Lee (and a nice segway from yesterday), but first up is the original 12-issues of the Micronauts. Technically, I'm bringing the 5-issue Baxter reprint series, but I wanted to show off my favorite Micro cover. (Yes, I was too lazy to take some of these out of their bags to scan...)

6 more after the break (I always wanted to say that -- not really)

Vacation

In case you missed it, this week has been busy between work (me, Greg), computer problems (Matthew), and a move to Florida (Jim).  Thomm has always been difficult so that's nothing new... so in honor of too much going on, today is declared a vacation!

I shall include a cool cover that you probably haven't see.  A classic from Zap comix, 1974, by Spain Rodriguez

Now go outside and do something fun!

But, the cover I wanted to use today, but might have not have been completely appropriate, is below if you want to see something cool...