Supervillainous Stand-Ins: ODDBALL COMICS Is BACK!

[Scott Shaw!]

That's right, kiddies. After horrendous computer and Internet problems, crushing deadlines, hospitalization, foot surgery and an amputated toe, I'm back with more of the craziest comic books ever published. Here's what will be posted next Monday:

Please help spread the word -- to your friends, across the Internet, in your e-mail signatures, at your local comic shop, around your regional comic convention -- heck, I'd settle for a message scrawled across your forehead in grease-pencil! -- about next week's featured ODDBALL COMIC:

New Next Week: ODDBALL COMIC #1,254 - MONDAY, MAY 11, 2009 - ODDBALL COMICS is BACK! Hey, what are Marvel's Galactus and Red Skull doing in a Silver Age issue of DC's CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN? Wait, those are just look-alike villains, namely, Dimension-Man and the Iron Dictator! And if they aren't nutty enough, this week's ODDBALL COMIC features a gazillion strip-ads drawn by Kurt Schaffenberger, Chic Stone, Irv Novick and Murphy Anderson!

Check out the CRAZIEST comic books ever published! SCOTT SHAW! presents ODDBALL COMICS -- celebrating its 10th year on the Internet! A new weird, wild 'n' wacky funnybook every Monday -- now with over 1,250 Oddball Comics archived -- exclusively available at:
http://www.oddballcomics.com

Aloha,

Scott!

[Red Oak Kid]

Welcome back Scott!!

Glad to hear that things are back to normal, that is, if anything at Oddball Comics can be considered normal.

[Drusilla lives!]

... After horrendous computer and Internet problems, crushing deadlines, hospitalization, foot surgery and an amputated toe, I'm back with more of the craziest comic books ever published. ...

Yikes!... hospitalization, foot surgery and an amputated toe?!? I kinda wondered what happened to you dude. I hadn't seen you posting for quite awhile... glad to hear you're back.

[The Confessor]

Welcome back Scott! It's been a while since I saw a post from you. Sorry to hear about your problems and...the amputated toe! Ouch-ouch-ouch!!

Anyway, glad to hear that you're back on the horse (so to speak) and getting stuck in with more Oddball Comics business.

I gotta ask though, which toe was it that you had amputated?

Or was it somebody else's toe that was amputated by you? :eek: :confused:

[Scott Shaw!]

Due to my diabetes, my feet are extremely sensitive and blister very easily. One such blister, which I got at the SDCCI a few years ago, was on the outside edge of my left foot, and it healed and re-opened more times than I could count. Another effect of my diabetes is a neuropathy in my feet, which renders them unable to feel much of anything. Since my foot only hurt a tiny bit, and since I was already taking antibiotics for the infection in it, I stupidly assumed that it wasn't a real problem. That is, until I started having fevers and chills and nausea and all sorts of problems back in late January. After a visit to my doctor (a diabetes specialist), I learned that I had a bone infection that had already turned the bones in my little toe into mush and was threatening to infect the rest of the bones in my left foot. Therefore, I underwent surgery to remove my little toe and a good chunk of the outside of my foot around it. For over three months, I had to keep my foot elevated, with an IV drip and a "vac" machine both attached to me 24/7. Although it's still not healed, my foot is doing better.

The best aspect of all of this is that my surgeon is a comic book fan. Most patients would find this to be more than a bit upsetting, but to me, it was quite comforting. In fact, right before they put me under in the operating room, I whispered to Dr. Kahn that I was pleased to realize that my left foot would have only four toes, just like that of my favorite superhero, the Thing.

Since then, Dr. Kahn's been the recipient of a variety of cartoons by myself (including an original page from CAPTAIN CARROT AND THE FINAL ARK) as well as sketches from Sergio Aragonés and Stan Sakai, two of his favorite cartoonists.

Anyway, thanks for your concern and best wishes. Thankfully, my life is slowly returning back to its usual state of chaos.

Aloha,

Scott!

[dan bailey]

Yeesh. Same thing happened here a few years ago to my former night editor at the newspaper here.

Glad to hear you're back up & at 'em, Scott!

[Jeff O.]

http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=2009-05-12 (http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=2009-05-12)


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