Author: Gary

Mash-Up #166 Dr Doom vs Challengers of the Unknown

Sure, the Challengers look scared but come on, who wouldn’t be with Doom’s huge metal face staring down at them?

100 Issues Ago July 2011 (Part 3)

I came across this “100 Issues Ago” panel in an old JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA and thought I’d tidy it up and re-purpose it. If one month = one issue, what was I reading 100 Issues Ago?

Judd Winick’s so-so run on POWER GIRL ended with the previous issue, leaving Matthew Sturges to step in for the final two, this and the next one.

And oh, how I wished he’d taken over from Palmiotti and Gray instead of Winick – the last two issues were just great fun, free from the angst and gloom of the previous issues, they showed just what a great character Power Girl can be in the right hands.

With the New 52 looming, however, the series was cancelled and it would be a while before we saw Kara again . . . but we’ll get to that next year at this rate.

Mash-Up #165 Batman vs Adam Strange

Another Adam Strange tale . . . another mind-control tale . . .

Should Have Known Better

Been quiet here the last few days (apart from the scheduled Mash-Ups) due to a power outage on my PC last weekend.

There I was, happily typing away when pop! The monitor went dead and the PC just died. Pressed buttons, swapped cables, changed sockets, did all the things I could think of before starting to wail and gnash my teeth.

Thankfully, Mrs Earth-Prime found a local repair man who was able to come out, diagnose the problem as the power adaptor inside the PC, and – once I’d bought one from Amazon – came round a couple of days later and fitted it.

It’s at that point that I realised – despite working in an IT related profession – that I didn’t have anything near a recent back-up of all my files. All my nerdy financial spreadsheets; all the scanned covers for my comics database; all the mash-ups that I’ve done months in advance . . .

If I hadn’t been able to get back in, there was a chance that some or all of that would be lost.

Regular back-ups are now on the cards for me, my friends, let me tell you.

Am away for a few days celebrating Mrs Earth-Prime’s birthday so back to normal from the weekend onwards.

(And yes, that’s another little gif I’ve done!)