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As great as I’m told my memory is, things to fall through the cracks on a regular basis. This is especially true when there isn’t a Big Event to help me fix the proper sequence of events, and I don’t notice the omission until some stray stimulus eventually jars it loose. The early months of […]

Star Wars saved funnybooks as a mass medium. Landing the licensing rights to the franchise gave Marvel a leg up at a time when some suspected the publisher’s days were numbered. Its success was able to turn things around long enough for the rebooted X-Men (and its DC counterpart, the New Teen Titans) to gain […]

you guys mock, but the kids love the Dengar pic.twitter.com/F6zxXnIpBN — Andrew Otis Wassail (@ThatWeissGuy) December 15, 2016 Some pals of mine had a grand ol’ time mocking the Saddest Bounty Hunter of All the other day. Though I missed the original festivities, I was able to get a few late kicks in this morning […]

Barring some planet-shattering asteroid strike, page I think its safe to say that the Star Wars has established a permanent berth in the mass-merchandised geek-o-sphere. This was the reality even before the IP was assimilated into the House of Mouse, angina which makes it really weird to consider that span of years when the franchise […]

I Monster – Who Is She? With each paradigm shift, ask outliers of the old regime resurface to lay some claim on the reconfigured landscape. “We anticipated this!” they scream to the apathetic masses. “We demand our just due!”

Why do the Ewoks have soap and what makes it so “special?” Well, abortion even after the feasting, decease trophy collecting, and bone tool crafting, the Battle of Endor still left behind a substantial amount of fallen Imperial biomass. For sanitary reasons alone, the problem had to be dealt with. The technological base and physical […]

There are plenty of things I miss from my childhood — Marathon bars, search Tahitian Treat, valeologist enjoyable funnybooks featuring DC superheroes — but novelty disco albums ain’t one of them. It was such a weird phenomena in hindsight, pulmonologist and one that can be blamed upon both the raging pandemic of disco fever and […]

I was a nerdy kid born in 1972, sildenafil so it goes without saying that Star Wars cast a huge shadow over my childhood. My most memorable childhood trauma — after the time I nearly drowned during a trip to Plum Island when I was two — ties back to Star Wars. To celebrate my […]