Some comics are remembered for being good, some comics are remembered for being terrible, and some comics are remembered solely because of a stategically placed house ad. Oh, sure, it’s possible to find the planet’s biggest and only Slash Maraud or Electric Warrior fan with some extensive digging, but good luck finding someone who will [...]

Meanwhile, Michael Jackson was still recovering from his horrific burns, Iraq continued to deploy chemical weapons against Iran, and young Andrew was stuck at some hippie-run nature camp with the rest of his sixth grade class.

Maybe, but Dern would just be finishing the job Adam himself began with the excremental Vive Le Rock. Oh, do you think I’m being too harsh on that 1985 crime against vinyl? I’d say I’m not being harsh enough by half. World Gone Wild is one of those flicks I theoretically should enjoy, but could [...]

Sometimes a Nobody’s Favorite post requires a couple hundred words of autobiographical anecdotes and historical context, and sometimes all it requires is a single house ad ganked from the back of a tattered issue of How to Draw Robotech. It’s a good thing, too, because it spares me from having to track down the actual [...]

Recommended listening: For those of you too young or too fortunate to remember.

Be sure to remove your date’s faceplate… …before parking in a bad area. Pioneer really played up the cyberpunk angle in its late 1980s ad campaigns, because nothing screams “burning chrome” like some blowcombed yuppie rocking out to Taylor Dayne in his Dodge Conquest. Recommended listening: Be sure to knock first.

I tend to shy away from applying superlatives to my objects of geeky affection. While there are a few beloved constants — The Clash, Captain Marvel Adventures, WKRP in Cincinatti — the “favorites” tag is an ephemeral thing applied to an ever cycling collection of things which have presently caught my attention. As my focus [...]

DC’s Sonic Disruptors has gained a well-deserved level of notoriety for getting shitcanned in the middle of its planned twelve-issue run, but its demise was hardly a unique or unprecedented event. Roughly three years before the parties involved decided to abandon that funnybook wreck by the side of the road, the folks in charge of [...]

In my freshman year of high school — which was actually the final year of junior high in my district at the time — I chose art over earth science as an elective. After nearly flunking eight grade algebra (because I didn’t wear my glasses and was stuck at the back of a class where [...]

Eddie Money – Think I’m in Love From a bygone era when rock could just be rock and music videos could be high concept silliness.