Atomic Romance

Great Moments in Comic Book History

2014-01-18T21:41:00.004-08:00

Roger Visits his Aunt!

From Nova #9

-Swinebread

Happy New Year!

2014-01-01T22:58:00.004-08:00

Best wishes to all of you!

-Swinebread

Merry Christmas

2013-12-25T07:10:00.000-08:00

Have a great holiday everybody!

-Swinebread

Nova's "Necking and Such"

2013-12-10T11:58:00.000-08:00

So I’m reading my copy of Nova Classic, ‘cause that’s what all the cool adults do, when I come to issue five of the original ‘70s Nova series and a section on the Comics Code jumps out at me.

Richard Rider, AKA Nova the Human Rocket, visited Marvel’s offices hoping to get a comic book title based on himself. Amazingly, Nova wants the comic to show all his sexual conquests (“Necking and Such”) rather than be censored by that pesky Comics Code. Sadly, of course, the “Necking and Such” adult content would never appear. Not wanting to miss a lost opportunity nor bow to past censorship, I’ve decided to reconstruct these possible lost scenes using actual dialog from the Nova comics, Enjoy!

-Swinebread

Saturday Morning Cartoon Ads

2013-11-29T12:53:00.000-08:00

Here are some cartoon ads that appeared in Comic books

Challenge of the Gobots 1986

Jestsons and Galtar and the Golden Lance, 1986

NBC's moring lineup 1978, Including the Fantastic Four with no Human Torch and Godzilla with his little buddy Godzuki

-Swinebread

Happy Thanksgiving

2013-11-28T13:56:00.000-08:00

Sorry some folks will be getting screwed over because they have to work.

I will NOT be going to any Black Thanksgiving sales. Just Chillin' at home

Happy Halloween

2013-10-31T19:50:00.001-07:00

Scares and Chills for all!

I never forgot this cover!

-Swinebread

Thundarr Gangnam Style

2013-10-30T22:55:00.000-07:00

Long time No see!

Here's my own Gangnam Style music video I threw together from some old Thundarr VHS I had laying around, enjoy.

-Swinebread

Great Moments in Comic History

2013-04-14T22:11:00.000-07:00

Bruce Banner almost gets raped in Hulk Magazine #23!

Now we know why he's always angry!!!

-Swinebread

2013-03-22T18:20:00.000-07:00

There are worse fates I suppose...

-Swinebread

My Response to the Republican Convention

2012-09-05T05:08:00.000-07:00

Rebutting all the lies and nonsense aside, this is a great rejoinder to the so-called "family values crowd"

The fact that this country produced the Cramps always gives me hope

-Swinebread

At the time it seemed the logical thing to do

2012-08-26T22:02:00.001-07:00

I went to Trek in the Park for the last performance of season 4. It was a lot of fun watching them perform Journey to Babel. Plus, Garret Wang showed up in the role of an extra.

Fight scene:

CBS video about the production:

-Swinebread

Joe Kubert has died

2012-08-13T19:37:00.000-07:00

I just can't believe it. Good old Joe Kubert has passed away at the age of 85. There is so much to say but all I can muster is that he truly was one of the greats. He will be deeply missed. I loved just about everything he did. Go Easy Joe, Go Easy…

-Swinebread

2012-06-15T18:55:00.000-07:00

The GOP plan for the Middle-Class and the Poor:

-Swinebread

Malibu's Imprint House Ads 1989-'90

2012-06-12T19:23:00.000-07:00

Malibu Comics had several imprint lines based on comic companies it had acquired over its existence. The house ads here are from Aircel, Eternity, and Adventure

Malibu was eventually bought by Marvel

-Swimebread

House Ads for Pacific Comic 1983

2012-06-05T17:34:00.001-07:00

From the short-lived but interesting publisher Pacific Comics

Some of Pacific Comics titles were picked up by Eclipse Comics after Pacific went bankrupt.

-Swinebread

Ernie Chan Has Died

2012-05-18T16:59:00.000-07:00

It is tough news to hear that fan favorite Ernie Chan has died of cancer, just one week after the awful news that Tony DeZuñiga died last week.

Ernie was such a fantastic creator; I really love his body of work and his artistic style. I have many of the Dark Horse trades with his Conan stories, plus other collections and individual issues like Red Sonja, Claw, Power Man etc. He is one of my top five favorite artists so this really hurts.

I had the good fortune of meeting Ernie in 2008 and had him sign a few of my Conan comic trades. It is a great legacy he leaves us with but sadly it is a legacy that now has an end point. Paalam -Swinebread

Tony DeZuñiga has passed away

2012-05-15T19:16:00.000-07:00

I was unbelievably saddened to hear that artist Tony DeZuñiga died last week and that his illness leading up to his death caused financial hardship for his family. He was one of the true greats and I consider it an honor to have met him. If you don’t know Tony, you don’t know comics imho. I have a copy of Jonah Hex #9 (of the 2006 series) that I had him autograph in 2008. I’ll treasure it forever.

-Swinebread

Eclipse Comics House Ads from 1988

2012-05-11T20:09:00.000-07:00

Here are four house ads from the defunct Eclipse Comics. In '88 they were #3 in the comic biz...

-Swinebread

2012-03-15T22:19:00.003-07:00

I saw John Carter this last weekend... It was a lot of fun. Ignore the critics and Disney's horrible marketing campaign and just enjoy the movie.

Here a fun clip with Woola!

-Swinebread

Happy Veterans Day

2011-11-11T18:11:00.000-08:00

I'm outing myself here but yes I was in the Army way back when.

As you can tell from the photo I was still a gen-x geek even while in uniform as attested by such things as:

The spike Gremlin in front of the pentium computer.

The empty bag of chips on the floor

A copy of PC Gamer on the Chair

Hellraiser Puzzle box on the coffee table

and the Call of Cthulhu RPG books on the shelf

-Swinebread

Captain Power... I remember

2011-10-17T21:59:00.000-07:00

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Hauptmann Amerika

2011-07-28T23:06:00.000-07:00

This has got to be one of the weirdest things for me in the Universe... Captain America in German!

I think I heard something in there about sending the Führer to hell

Here is trailer two in German

The Red Skull sounds awesome!

-Swinebread

An Unexpected Delight

2011-07-28T18:36:00.000-07:00

Holy Crap! The Irish Times call Captian America "An unexpected delight."

See Link Here

Maybe folks overseas will like movie Steve Rogers after all.

-Swinebread

Ave Marvel

2011-07-23T05:39:00.000-07:00

In all of the SDCC news dump this small tidbit jumped out for me. It's been announced that Strikeforce: Morituri is being delvoped into a Movie.

SFM would actually work quite well as film since all of the characters would be under a death sentence. They tried to get a TV version of of this in 2003 so I'm not holding my breath though.

see link here