Dark Horse Comics’ 2003 limited series was a reprint of issues #24 to #33 (1988 to 1990) from Comico’s original publication of “Grendel.”
Throwback Thursday: this unfortunate 1984 ad for the network premiere of “Alien” (1979)
If you are even remotely familiar with Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” then you know that ABC’s marketing staff was not.
John Hurt is looking pretty spry. (At least they had the good sense to leave Ian Holm and Veronica Cartwright out of this mess.)
Anyway … did it really take “Alien” five years to reach network television? I seem to remember (falsely, I suppose) that it hit TV when I was still a very young child. Yes, HBO carried it only a year after its theatrical release — maybe that’s what I’m remembering. (People just called it “Home Box” back in the day. Being a little kid, I thought they meant the physical “box” –the converter — that sat atop the television.)
Yet I also seem to recall my family having Showtime, but not HBO … and people on my street still just called any premium channel “Home Box?” Whatever … it was a verrrry long time ago, and I wasn’t the brightest kid out there, anyway.
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Cover to “Batman” #356, Ed Hannigan & Dick Giordano, 1983
DC Comics.
Those little elves are bastards. Stomp ’em, I say.
Somebody stop me. I’d been doing so well — I’d eliminated my pot belly almost entirely. I was feeling lean and mean.
Yet, slooooowly old eating habits are trying to reassert themselves. It isn’t even that I really crave candy at night. It’s that I specifically crave chocolate.
It’s like this … at some point, I’ll have a little bit of chocolate before bedtime. But then I will want chocolate EVERY night; it’s like a little switch gets thrown in my brain.
There’s a neat little article right here about whether chocolate should be considered addictive.
“Ulysses and the Sirens,” Otto Greiner, circa 1900
Oil on cardboard.
F**K broccoli.
Goddam communist vegetable. I didn’t want you for dinner anyway.
Or, more properly, f*** whoever wrote these stupid instructions on the back of the package. A half a cup of water will obviously NOT suffice to cook half a giganto-sized package of frozen broccoli. And I didn’t read it wrong! I’m wearing my glasses!
This maddening confusion does not accompany cheeseburgers! And I always know the recipe is right because I have my own recipes!!!
[Update — hold up! Turns out I was entirely too hasty in my judgement of this broccoli! A half a cup of water is indeed enough, given how it … seeps upward in the pot. (Steams?) I dunno, it’s kitchen physics. And I’m not really an expert on kitchen stuff.]
Cover to “Superman” #682, Alex Ross, 2009
DC Comics.
“Gifted, willful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end …”
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 