Posted by
Icarus on Monday, December 04, 2006 9:55:57 PM
If you're not reading his Bleat or listening to him at
The Diner then you are missing a great American Humorist.
Today's
Bleat may not be his best, but it does feature two classic Action Comic covers. And, unlike Mr. Lileks, I am a Superman fan. If you can make out the number on the Superman-Perry White cover you can see this the Issue #297. Today DC's Action Comics sits at #845. Just 155 issues to go and Action Comics will hit #1,000. That is a lot of comics. I don't think any other title has reached that number.
Lileks may not be a Superman fan but, when Superman meets the "Girl of Tomorrow", he can certainly make you laugh:
"Would you care to wager that the Girl of Tomorrow, who came from the
future to use mind-reading powers to trap an alien into a loveless
marriage – a proposition whose horrible prospect made Superman leap, as
though his hindquarters had involuntarily loosed a gas-blast sufficient
to lift him off his feet and billow his cape – did not succeed in
telling the whole world his useless secret?"
Or maybe it's just the kid in me who thinks that flatulance is almost always funny.