Previously on Tales from the Kryptonian

It´s been a while since my last post and although some of you might have suspected I ended this blog on a high note - the 450th post - I was delayed by life, taxes and death. Well, not death but I was seriously injured.

But I´ll come to that in a moment. If I say I was delayed by life I mean that there have been the usual things that prevent me writing new posts.

Which are most importantly : old posts.

IF YOU´RE NOT CHEATING YOU´RE NOT TRYING

You see, when a post is written that doesn´t mean that I have finished working on it. There is proof reading and you can read and re - read a post a dozen times and still find some writing or spelling errors or a phrase that suddenly makes no sense which you somehow overlooked.

And that´s just the normal amount of fiddling with a post, in the case of my last two posts I was trying to find a way to achieve the following :

a.) make the 450th post a bit shorter so it´s easier to navigate
b.) put the cut parts in the previous " best of " posts
c.) include some of the links from last post in the " best of " list
d.) still keep the previous " best of " posts from becoming too long

As you might have seen - if you have been visiting the blog the past few days - I managed to do that, although some might say that´s cheating since the posts are not how I originally wrote them. But in answer to that I might quote a certain wrestler of mexican heritage - see header above. I´m all for keeping it real but the main thing is to keep this blog readable even if I have to take some shortcuts here and there. For the moment the last two posts are finished although I´m thinking about removing some pictures of Leslie Easterbrook in her wet t - shirt from post 450.

I had a readers request for a picture in higher resolution but with my old picture archive gone I had to rely on what I could find on the internet.

So while I found some pictures of that I´m not 100 percent sure they are in better quality then the ones I had posted so far. Nevertheless I included them in the post about MOVIE CULT SIREN JANET JONES since that was my big post about the mostly unknown sexbombs in the Police Academy movies as well as a lot of other stuff. Now I also included the pictures in post 450 since that was the post where the original request was made.

But because post 450 is a post that is supposed to be read by all new readers of TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN I´m thinking more about how the post is going to look four or five years down the road. So I only kept the new pictures on that one while all the pictures are still in the main post. Two pictures are more than enough to get the point along ( and if I have to explain what that is there´s no hope for you ) and it´s not the purpose of my latest " best of " post to go into all the details, much rather to point the readers in the direction of the best posts and give little hints - if deemed necessary - why the posts might be worth reading. If there are actually people who use the links at the bottom of the posts to find more interesting posts. You never know if anybody out there is really interested in what you write about or if you are just being obnoxious.

So I just hope all of this work on the " best of the best " posts helps some of the readers and it´s not just me wasting days over some HQ pictures.

One might question if it´s really worth it. But for one thing I really don´t get that many requests to begin with and I always try to satisfy my loyal readership - so to speak - as long as the demands are not for outright pornographic material. I know there are readers who don´t want to see too much pictures of scantily clad female bodies - unrelated or not - so I try to walk the fine line between tittilation and oversexed as best as I can. On the other side I know that there is another part of my readership that has less of a problem with that or just landed on this blog looking for Power Girl´s boob window or topless pictures of cult siren Joyce Hyser.

Yup, trying to keep both parts of my audience happy is not as easy as it was, way back when I also had another blog which one of my readers christened affectionately the BOOB BLOG. Man, I should have copyrighted that name. Anyway, I also posted all the pictures of Leslie Easterbrook´s wet t - shirt on the last post, just to be on the safe side. Because if the reader who requested them checks out the comments he will read that I added some pictures but if he checks the post there will be less pictures. So if he reads the next post he will see that I spoke the truth. I know, it´s a lot of trouble just for some hot babe wet t - shirt pictures but it goes a long way to keep the readers happy. And where´s the harm in that ?

But that´s not all I have kept myself busy with these last weeks. Yes, you might think a bloggers life is just all about wet t - shirts and nudie pics.

And while that sounds really glamorous it´s more than that. Coming back to post 450, now that I had put up this list with the best of the last five years on the blog ( and at the bottom of each new post from now on ) I felt it my duty to check the posts I included there one more time. I mean if I pick them as the best examples of this blog then the least I can do is give them another look to make sure they are okay. And since I had added some post to the previous " best of " posts I also had to check out all the links on that posts as well. I know, it sounds like a lot of unnecessary extra work but no matter how often you check a post you will always find a thing or two that needs changing. There is a typo you missed, a link you included that´s not working anymore or something you forgot to add. As a matter of fact, just Yesterday - when I initially wanted to write this post - I made some last minute changes to the post about movie siren Janet Jones I mentioned above : one of them adding a new video since the previous one posted of DINNER FOR NO ONE was deleted from YouTube.

Alas, not everything in these last days has been about old posts, some of the things that have kept me busy had to do with future posts. And past.

JOURNEY INTO THE MYSTERIES OF GESPENSTER KRIMI´S COVERS

What I mean by future AND past posts is that one of the links on post 450 was to a post I wrote about german horror pulps I used to read in school.

Which made me go back to the many folders of my new picture archive only to discover that there was one full with material for a post I had planned to do but never gotten around to finish. I know, that´s business as usual with me. What was worse is that apparently I never got around to put all the material in order and instead just dumped it all into one folder. So I spent a few days on that which was extremely difficult since I had either lost or misplaced the website I originally used for reference.

Now the post I wanted to do - and which I WILL do in the next weeks - was about the covers for those german pulp series and one series in particular called GESPENSTER KRIMI  ( Ghost Crime Stories ) that had all kind of stories by many writers but also the first issues of DAMONA KING

or JOHN SINCLAIR before they got their own spin off titles. 

Now since I began doing the posts on my laptop there is a new section which I like to call DEJA VUE which is about comic cover homages.

Comic artists love to re - use old covers. And we fans also love them. It´s like an easter egg when we find a cover that pays homage to a previous one. Especially if it´s a famous one. And some artists are very good at it and put a lot of effort on it. Like Kevin Maguire. He does just one version after another of his cover for JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 1 and each is better than the one before. Just check this one out with all The Doctors.

Well, with GESPENSTER KRIMI they didn´t even put that much work into it and just used the same cover for two different series. Cover of issue 81

and also the cover of issue 53 of the collector´s edition of DOKTOR ZAMORRA and Hexentanz becomes Das Hexendorf.

In some cases just part of the covers were swiped from movie posters, horror movie stills and even comic books. Yes, some of the covers were blatantly swiped from old war comics and even Marvel horror mags.

But that´s a topic for another post now that I have finally lined up all the necessary material. Except the unexpected stuff you didn´t prepare for.

Which always happens. At least the way I write this blog. It´s a way to keep things interesting for me since I never really know what I will write about in the end ( like I just plan on writing about what I do between posts and before you know it I´m writing about wet t - shirts and stuff ) but I´m not so sure my readers appreciate it. I like to think it´s one of the main attracting forces for readers ( that and Joyce Hyser topless ) that they never know what to expect when a new post is up but some of them have surely either caved in to my writing style or are just annoyed by it. But I guess it´s too late to change my approach to blogging now.

Speaking about possible topics for future posts and my other blog I was thinking about re - starting the UNKNOWN POWER GIRLS series here.

I have done a number of posts on Power Girl ( not so many lately since the NEW 52 fiasco ) and one of the arguments I have always heard is that she´s just the personification of male fantasies and women in the real world are not built like that. So I started a series to prove that they do.

There exist women like that. I haven´t thought about that series for a long time but with the sudden selfie explosion on the internet these last years I´m thinking about resurrecting it. The Power Girls are out there.

IT ONLY HURTS WHEN I WALK

Okay, at the beginning of the post I said we will talk about how I got injured in a minute and now it´s almost the end of the post which makes it really more than a minute if you go by the time it takes you to read it.

In fact if you go by the time it has taken me to write this it´s several hours so it´s about time to talk about it. Health is one of the things you only miss after it´s gone and for over a week or so I have serious troubles with my left knee. As usual all the troubles started on one of my free days just after I had spend the previous day going all over Ludwigsburg doing important stuff. So the next day I just wanted to stay in bed and relax and give my body time to regenerate. And that was exactly when my body decided to get a cramp in the left calf. After that my knee hurt a bit but not so much that I didn´t get to work. Normally that´s no problem because I have a day or two between work to heal. Unless I spend too much time working on the blog instead of taking care of myself.

To make matters worse I also didn´t get much sleep that week although I thought once my Mum was back in Spain that problem would be solved.

I mean, now there´s nobody who tells me to get up on my free day just to do stuff because you have to do stuff. No, that never made any sense to me either. Anyway, it looks like the new boss is just the same as the old boss because it seems my mother is not the only one who wants to force me to adapt to their daily rhythm whether it makes sense or not. Back to my knee injury it just kept getting worse and worse until last Saturday when I almost couldn´t walk at work. That did take me off posting for almost a week. Since then it´s gotten much better but at my age the healing process is a slow one. My older brother even did something nice for a change and got me a bandage without which I could not have worked Yesterday. Today I was at the doctor and I have to see an orthopedist to check if my meniscus is hurt. And because I spent most of the day doing that and on writing this post I didn´t get much better Today either.

ONE LAST THING OR TWO BEFORE CLOSING THE POST

Which brings us almost up to speed on what I have been doing the last few days. After all this personal stuff I wanted to mention CRIVENS ! COMICBOOKS, CARTOONS & CLASSIC COLLECTABLES ! a blog that I have frequented quite often the last few weeks. There are tons of great cover galleries like the newest ETERNAL galleries with Jack Kirby, John Byrne´s Fantastic Four or other lost or forgotten comic treasuries like Johnny Future, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents or Doctor Who. But Today I want to steer you towards two particular posts. The first one is part 1 of the fantastic FAVORITE COMICS OF THE PAST series, Daredevil issue 53 by Gene Colan.
  

The second one is about POWER RECORDS presents THE FANTASTIC FOUR - HOW IT BEGAN . I just love those Power Records since I heard of them.

It reprints issue 126 of FANTASTIC FOUR and the post has some nice John Buscema pictures and some YouTube videos with the audio of the record.

Wow, with eight posts this has really been a busy month even if only half of them were about comics. Just don´t expect this every month.

For Today´s video at the end of the post I picked one which I found because of the documentary INK - ALTER EGOS EXPOSED : DEATH & RESURRECTION Terry Hooper posted on his ComicBitsOnline blog.

That led me to a whole bunch of interesting comic videos on YouTube. Originally I wanted to post the BBC documentary IN SEARCH OF MOEBIUS ( known as MOEBIUS REDUX in Europe ) but since Terry already posted it last Sunday here is THE MASTERS OF COMIC BOOK ART from 1987. It´s one hour long but it´s totally worth it since it´s hosted by none other than sci fi legend and comic fan Harlan Ellison. Sadly there is just a statement by Steve Ditko which Harlan reads out but it features such great comic artists as Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, Berni Wrightson, Moebius, Frank Miller, Dave Sim, and Art Spiegelman.
   


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Best of the rest : what didn´t make the cut

Yes, I just had to cut some of the links from my best of list but I still think some of them might be interesting for my readers new and old.

I really thought I could eliminate more to shorten my BEST OF THE BEST post considerably, but at the moment I don´t know what is expendable from the post. Who knows ? A few days down the line things might look different. In any case, after working on this for three days I´m entitled to a break, especially since it´s Good Friday and I have to work Tomorrow.

So without any further ado here are the other links of interest :

The good, the bad and the ugly compares three animated DC movies, Batman Gotham Knight, Superman Doomsday and Wonder Woman.

Not really a great post but rather an interesting one deals with ADAM HUGHES` LOST GEN 13 COMIC and I tell you where you can find this gem.

A Halloween post that goes from Edgar Allen Poe illustrated by Bernie Wrightson and Richard Corben to interesting posts about guns to  hot celebrity birthday babes Jamie Gertz, Lauren Holly and Gabrielle Union

to some reading recommendations for Halloween to cult tv series SLEDGE HAMMER which was not only hilarious but also had stunning sexbomb Anne Marie Martin playing the scorching Dori Doreau on the show.

We continue with comic pimping. A lot of posts deal with comics I want to promote because I think they are great or they are offered at a bargain price at amazon. Not all of them are really extensive and some of them also cover other topics. So the ones I culled are about Bendis All New X - Men , Mark Waid´s Daredevil , Hulk - Red and green by Jeph Loeb, Arthur Adams and Frank Cho, Wednesday Comics, iZombie and Hellboy House of the Living Dead and the mega crossover event Avengers vs X - Men .

Another series I read as a kid was The Phantom by Lee Falk and there also is a post about him . It´s the first of a series to be continued.

Talking about pop culture icons, one about which I have written many posts is of course The Doctor and I wanted to include some of the posts just to show that we talk Who here. But going over them I noticed that it´s basically just me talking about my experiences with watching Doctor Who or reading the comics which are probably pretty boring to other people. My Who posts were  IT`S A BIG WHO - NIVERSE OUT THERE , THINGS TO DO WHILE WAITING FOR THE DOCTOR and KNOCK ON TORCHWOOD which is about Torchwood, Paul Grist and The Doctor.

Some readers seem to enjoy my travels so here are some posts from my last trip to Spain : HOME AGAIN , MEANWHILE IN A LITTLE VILLAGE IN SPAIN - which for some reason is my fourth most popular post  - probably for the nice pictures of Elvira, Stacy Kamano, Anastacia or Jewel Santini.

Or it could be my review of the tv show Human Target. One more post from Spain : SO MANY COMICS SO LITTLE TIME . 

Another area of interest for my readers seem to be comic conventions and Free Comic Book Day or the german equivalent GRATIS COMIC TAG.

I decided to cut the posts from Free Comic Book Day 2009 because they are redundant. But since they are the most popular post of all times - if you can believe that - here are part 1 , part 2 and the the big finale . Much more painful was getting rid of the following bunch of posts :

I continued my reports from the greatest comic convention in Germany in 2010 with My second Erlangen diary - day 1 and Day 1 continued . I never got to the second day but maybe I can still finish it since I found my notes on this comic convention and a few others just recently while cleaning up. And I didn´t have more luck in 2012 since I only managed to cover the 1st day ( I think ) in Suddenly : Erlangen ! and My Erlangen crash course . One reason why readers might like these posts are that apart from these posts about the Stuttgarter Comicbörse in 2009 , in 2010 , in 2011 in May and in November I don´t get to pimp current comics from Germany often.

   
With the german version of FREE COMIC BOOK DAY I wrote about what really went down that day in my Top 10 things not to do on Gratis Comic Tag post and one about the Muppet Show comic by Roger Langridge that also has a recommendation for the DARK AVENGERS hardcover by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato. Back then it was offered at amazon at half price but the current price of 37 bucks is still not bad for a 50 dollar book. Another account of one of my odysseys on Gratis Comic Tag is Now that you´re naked, why don´t you jump into this field of cactuses ? a fun read ( well, not for me ). And here is a post about my one and only trip to the Comicbörse in Leonberg which didn´t go any better and in which I talk quite a lot about the old 80s POWER MAN and IRON FIST comic book.

More about german comics can be found in ACH DU LIEBER ! MEINE GERMAN COMIC READS and my rant about tv series and german superheroes . This post is partially about german comic artist Gerhard Seyfried and the rest is about my recommendation of Stan Lee´s Amazing Marvel Universe, a book that talks. Literally ! THE VOICE OF STAN LEE

TRIPPING THE RIFT is of course about the animated cartoon show with that title and the sexy Android Six. Another cult siren post is BETTY OF TWO WORLDS about Betty Brosmer, of the most famous pin up models of the 50s who was one of the first models to receive residuals every time her picture was published and the first one to own rights to her photos and magazines. In the 60s she married fitness mogul Joe Weider and for some strange reason it´s one of the most spammed posts on this blog.

And finally I have to include the 20 days later - the all butt edition and the HAPPY BIG CULO DAY 2014 ! posts, mainly because they really are not among the best posts I ever made. I included it in the list for pure self indulgence and just because I can. But let´s be honest : you didn´t really think they were going to make it, did you ? Still worth checking out....

And finally I wanted to mention that I tried to fulfill the multiple requests ( by one reader ) for HQ pics of Leslie Easterbrook in a wet t - shirt from

POLICE ACADEMY 4 - CITIZENS ON PATROL in my last post but these are the best I could find. If you find any in better quality please let me know.

To end this post here´s one of the funniest clips I found on YouTube lately, a crossover between DEXTER and DEXTER´S LABORATORY. It´s hilarious.



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Post 450 - Best of the Best ( final version )

This has been a difficult post because on one side I really only wanted to include the very best of the best. On the other side these posts are all like my children and I don´t want to leave anybody out. But I have to.

Going over the last 5 years of posts - which is the time since I last did one of these posts to add to the bottom of each post - I found a lot of posts that would be worthy additions. But I had to narrow it down so I´m going in the order of what I think is most important for my readers.

Now in my first Top Ten post I included my first post ever which was a mission statement about the blog and what I wanted to achieve. I don´t have that kind of post in this one ( as obviously you can only have one first post ) but I touched upon similar ground on this post about the 5 year anniversary of spanish bloggers / independent comic publishers Rabtifuso. In the intro I´m writing a lot about how I write my own blog.

Likewise this post answers any questions you might have.

Okay, time to get serious. What I want to include first are my posts about one of the greatest comic artists ever, the late Moebius since I don´t get to write too often about comic artists who don´t make superhero comics. One of the reasons I HAVE to include these is that I worked a long time on them and the other one is that there still may be people in America ( or Europe for that matter ) that are new to comics and not aware of his art.

So far I have done four posts about Moebius : Worlds Greatest Comic Artists : Moebius which is about the science fiction comics he did as Moebius, Greatest Comic Artists EVER : Jean Giraud which is about his other work ( for some reason this is one of my most spammed posts ), Worlds Greatest Comics : Blueberry about his famous western BD and Movie rummage table : Time Masters about a french animation film from the 80s for which he did the designs. I still haven´t gotten around to do a post about his best known science fiction series THE INCAL. Sorry.

The next post I just had to include is of a more recent date, and it´s all about giving props to cosplayers which everybody seemed to like.

Cosplaying has become a sub culture in itself and a lot of the people that are involved have become professionals with costumes that are just incredible. So instead of the usual hot cosplay girls I wanted to showcase a few of the more unusual costumes. Don´t get me wrong, I´m not above appreciating a sexy girl dressed up as a comic character but there are so many hard working people out there who deserve a spotlight feature.

In the future there will be more of these posts - probably with a certain common theme from the various categories - and this was my first one.

Another source of excellent posts have been my trips to movieland and tv series from my youth. The first three posts I have to include in this list are movies that are related to comics like the sci fi classic Logan´s run which was adapted to comics a few times, the first time by George Perez ( ! ), horror cult flick Pumpkinhead which was adapted by Dark Horse and Dellamorte Dellamore better known as CEMETERY MAN in America.

It´s a horror cult movie based on a book written by Tiziano Sclavi, the author of Italy´s most successful comic DYLAN DOG which I wrote about at length in this post . The main character is brilliantly played by Rupert Everett and Anna Falchi plays the female lead ( and a few other women ).

Which brings me to my next section, the ever popular tv / movie cult sirens. And I say popular because I always get the most comments on these. They also get lot of spam but them´s the breaks as we say.

The reasons for these posts are not always happy ones, the post about Movie Cult Siren Tura Satana who died in 2011 was one of these cases.


On a more upbeat note is the next cult siren, Elvira, of who I did two posts, a rather long one about the Mistress of the Dark herself ( with her bio ) and one about her comics . This one is for my old pal Terry Hooper.

( Elvira picture above by DennisBudd on DeviantArt ) 

Horror is also the topic of my post about JaMILF Lee Curtis although I also talk about her comedy movies like SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE and A FISH CALLED WANDA. But most of it is about her sexy striptease in True Lies.
 

I also have to include the post about italian mega MILF Simona Ventura because of her good sense of humor and a body that just won´t quit.

She has the best outfits on tv ever and is not afraid to show her stuff. She´s not megastacked but she has a lot of sexappeal no matter if she´s wearing a shirt with a cleavage or a black dress that barely covers her.

And she also has no problem with bending over a lot especially when she could spill out of her dress at any moment. Really, she shows a lot !!!

A bit more " over the place " is the post about movie cult siren Janet Jones Gretzky , Playboy model and wife of famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky who was in POLICE ACADEMY 5 - ASSIGNMENT MIAMI BEACH.

Which in this case means anything from the Police Academy comics to the Police Academy cartoon show ( the less said about that the better ) to the Police Academy movies with real life Power Girl Leslie Easterbrook who played officer Debbi Callahan and had her best scene in POLICE ACADEMY 4 - CITIZENS ON PATROL where she was in a pool with a wet t - shirt.
 

( There have been some requests for HQ pics of the scene but these are the best I could find. If you find any in better quality let me know.)

We then continue to - naturally - Dirty Harry, Carmen Electra, Pamela Anderson and Becky Mullen a.k.a. Sally, the Farmer´s Daughter on GLOW  which brings us back to comics via ROBI a.k.a. Rochus Hahn a.k.a. Horst Brack Der Bestrafer on Germany´s cult wrestling show CATCH UP on RTL.

Speaking about coming back to more comic content : the next cult siren post contains the usual musing from me about the cult tv series Wonder Woman played by Lynda Carter on one of her birthdays . I also did another post on Lynda Carter about her work as an actor and singer outside of the Wonder Woman series and one about Wonder Woman comic covers . 

A rather new post is Wonder Woman Wednesday ( once again on Lynda Carter´s birthday ) about John Byrne´s run on the book I just re - read.

John Byrne brings me back to the next point on the agenda, which are my favorite artists. Which means two of my favorite Batman artists. For me Jim Aparo was always the definitive Batman artist but I also was a huge fan of his other series like AQUAMAN, THE SPECTRE or THE OUTSIDERS .

The combined original covers to the crossover from The New Teen Titans 37 by George Perez and Batman and the Outsiders 5 by Jim Aparo.

Anybody knows who did this homage with the Avengers and the X - Men ?

Number 3 on my list of Batman artists is Norm Breyfogle ( number 2 is Neal Adams ) who got his own Greatest Comic Artists post. There´s also Norm Breyfogle´s Batman : a different look an article written by David Fernández on the occasion of the release of his Batman run with Alan Grant in the spanish hardcover edition which I translated to english. And there´s this years Norm Breyfogle Wednesday done on Norm´s birthday and which covers everything I haven´t talked about in the previous posts.

George Perez.

I just love me some George Perez. He´s one of my favorite artists of all times and I get all excited whenever a new hardcover collects some of his work. Just last month I got the fabulous The Art of George Perez book and it´s incredible. So it´s no wonder that some of my longest and best posts are about his work. Remember The Titans is as the name says all about his time on NEW TEEN TITANS or rather the german version JUNGE GIGANTEN which is where I read those comics first. I continued this a bit with The Dual Dynamics of the Dynamic Duo , which goes on about why Robin gets older but Batman doesn´t and the many deaths of the Robins.

Of course he worked on other books like his AVENGERS which I mentioned in this post where I whined about the fact that there is not enough of John Buscema´s run available in hardcover as well as in my Guardians of the Galaxy - my Secret Origin post which I´m including here since there´s a big blockbuster movie coming out now. With Rocket Racoon in it.

George Perez also worked on one of Mark Gruenwald´s most beloved stories The Project Cadmus epic from MARVEL - TWO - IN - ONE .

Darick Robertson Donnerstag made on his birthday takes a look on his career and NEW WARRIORS, WOLVERINE and TRANSMETROPOLITAN.

I tried to continue it 2 days later but ended up with something completely different : a post about german horror comics and cheap pulp novels .

Other artist spotlights include Pasqual Ferry , done on his birthday

and this post about the passing of Gene Colan one of the comic greats.

Most posts here are about superhero comics but there are a few exceptions where I wandered outside of my comfort zone - or at least found some interesting independent comics to write about.

First I have to mention Black Tower Comics, the one man independent publishing machine of Terry Hooper from the excellent ComicBitsOnline blog. I haven´t done as many reviews I would have liked and I hope to continue with them as soon as I can. So far I have done reviews on One bat, two bats, The Bat triumphant ! , Germany´s first super hero team called D - Gruppe, D - Gruppe returns and it´s about time ! and Twilight of the super heroes . Terry Hooper also brought the work of Dave Gordon to my attention. You can check it out yourself in my excessive reading .

Have sword will travel is about one of my favorite independent books Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai ( sadly on hiatus at the moment ) and Mike Mignola´s Hellboy is mentioned in a number of posts. Viva Hellboy ! is about HELLBOY IN MEXICO by Richard Corben, Mike Mignola´s work on HULK and ROCKET RACOON ( did I mention Rocket Racoon before ? ) in the 80s and masked luchadores like El Santo De Plata ( I have finally managed to see El Santo y las Mujeres Vampiro ). Another Hellboy comic by Richard Corben, THE CROOKED MAN, is one of my recommendations on this Halloween post ( the other is BATMAN THE UNSEEN ). Hellboy is also mentioned on this post about german censorship and swastikas, What could possibly be my last post but wasn´t. Instead this was the post that nearly ended my blog , maybe someday I´ll tell the story behind it.

Yes, Tales fro the Kryptonian also does westerns. Not often but Hex appeal takes an indepth look at JONAH HEX by Jordi Bernet and Wild Wild West Germany is all about the german western comics I read as a kid.

And speaking about comics I read as a kid IZNOGOUD one of the best comics in the world was among them. It´s a french BD and since it may not be well known outside of Europe I had to include it here. I also did a post about the Iznogoud and Mick Tanguy movies that might interest you.

Now I can´t talk about indie comics without mentioning the great Mike Allred.  Don´t get even - get MADMAN ! is ultra long and one of the few posts where I managed to stay focused. It´s also the famous post where I explain what Rubbelbilder are for all my readers outside of Germany.

LOVE AND CAPES is another great independent superhero series which gets my unconditional recommendation and I´m sure it´s also going to be your next favorite superhero book . In more indie related stuff I wrote about the resurrection of Valiant in The fall of DC - The rise of Valiant ? and I did a rundown on the Valiant books I used to read in this post . 

Before returning to superhero books here are the links for my Neil Gaiman tribute , Die großen Phantastic Comics about the german fantasy comics I read as a teenager and My epicly illustrated journey to Dreadstar about the german edition of EPIC COMICS, Marvel graphic novels in the german and original version, Jim Starlin and the COSMIC ODYSSEY saga.

As you could guess from the title I´m a big Superman fan so I should have probably started there. Since my last roundup of excellency there have been quite a few number of posts about The Man of Tomorrow on my self declared Superman Day , Man of Steel Monday , Man of Testosterone Tuesday and me bitching about the new Superman movie . Great Rao !

One of my favorite super teams is the Justice Society of America ( and not only because Power Girl is a member ) and I blame the Society is about my favorite JSA story Thy Kingdom Come as well as the penciler for the following storylines, Jesus Merino and which comics he did in Spain.

Readers seem to especially like my posts down memory lane so I want to close the DC section with It´s ( not married anymore ) Flash Friday and The return of Flash Friday a new series about how I started reading the FLASH books with Wally West and why he´s my favorite Flash.

The Marvel section starts with  I`m recommending a Spider - Man book because this will probably be the only Spider - Man recommendation for the forseeable future. I think this was the last good Spider - Man story and if there are posts about Spidey they will be like  Some Spider - Man for your ears and eyes about some spotlight episodes on ComicGeekSpeak and the beloved Power Records or Enter : Die erstaunliche Spinne ! and Make Mein Marvel Monday about the german Spider - Man comics of my generation. The same is true for THE INCREDIBLE HULK and I pay tribute to one of the best runs of HULK - the one by Len Wein, Sal Buscema and Ernie Chan ( and Josef Rubinstein ) - in This man this monster Tuesday .

Another favorite Marvel series of all times is FANTASTIC FOUR and there have been some great posts on the book. It seems that I especially like to do them on the anniversaries of the blog since Essential ESSENTIAL Fantastic Four was done on the fifth year anniversary and there´s also A post for this blog´s sixth anniversary ( which continues The Coming of Gabriel storyline from the More essential Fantastic Four reading post ) and goes into the german publishing history of DIE FANTASTISCHEN VIER.

Speaking about another Kirby creation form the pages of THE FANTASTIC FOUR, I want to mention Instead of Halloween - Black Panther and Black Panther - a different kind of monster , two excellent posts.

More Bronze Age Marvel stuff in these posts about the David Micheline, John Romita Jr, Bob Layton run on IRON MAN in this post and here , I re - visit two of the most iconic stories from the Chris Claremont and John Byrne run on UNCANNY X - MEN in Days of Future Pasts long gone by and What happens in Phoenix stays in Phoenix about PHOENIX : THE UNTOLD STORY, take a look at old crossover events like INFERNO in Like a book out of hell - start the fire and Like a book out of hell - fan the flame , get all misty eyed in This was my Secret Wars and Secret Wars II : black was the new black and even find something positive about the AVENGERS period between the end of John Buscema´s and Walter Simonson´s tenure on the world´s greatest superheroes´ book and the HEROES REBORN re - start with Mark Waid and George Perez namely The Gatherers storyline  .

Wow, this really has gotten longer than I expected. As a bonus for holding out so long I want to include is my post about  Popculture TV Siren Markie Post . I know that this post is in the " most popular post " sidebar gadget ( although only at number 5, what´s up with that ? ) but I´m including it just in case that ever changes. You never know. And a lot of people seem to have discovered my blog through this post so it helps increase traffic. 

There is also some stuff about Heather Thomas in the post since she also appeared on FALL GUY. I still haven´t gotten around to give Heather a post of her own which I´m hoping to do on her birthday one of these days.

And with that we really are at the end of the posts that is going to be included at the bottom of each new post on Tales from the Kryptonian.

I´ll try to shorten it a bit in the coming days but I´m not sure I can leave out anything else. If you want to see the parts I had to cut just click on the next post or follow this link . Me, I´m going to be busy the next few weeks ( or rather months ) going over all the posts I linked to - when I´m not writing a new post - so I´m wishing all my readers a Happy Easter !

I thought about which clip I should add that would be right for the best of post but since I couldn´t decide which of the ones I hadn´t posted yet was the best - and I couldn´t find It´s the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown !  - here´s a movie I mentioned in the Hellboy in Mexico post : It´s SANTO EL ENMASCARADO DE PLATA CONTRA LAS MUJERES VAMPIRO. Not really the right thing for the holidays but a long post deserves a long video. Arriba !



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