Meanwhile.... Pt. 2

[QUOTE=dan bailey;16563972]I generally have very vivid & offbeat dreams (like the one two nights ago about the brain of the great-aunt of more or less raised me being transplanted into the head of a raccoon, with Ty Cobb's personality somehow being incorporated as well ...), but they very rarely involve comics characters. I'm still trying to parse last night's, though, in which Superman, to prevent Batman's secret identity from being discovered by villains (or something like that), hurled him to the moon after wrapping or encasing him in some sort of protection against the friction of Earth's atmosphere & then the coldness & airlnessness of space. Once Batman arrived there, though, lo & behold here came Sgt. Fury & the Howling Commandos, flying through the air. At which point Batman wound up back on Earth, where Robin unmasked him to reveal ... someone I can't remember, but it wasn't Bruce Wayne.[/QUOTE]

the reveal is elliot ness - if you google it you will find its a not uncommon dream.

diagnosis: lsd flashbacks

[QUOTE=dr chimp;16566205]the reveal is elliot ness - if you google it you will find its a not uncommon dream.

diagnosis: lsd flashbacks[/QUOTE]

You fail to mention that after finding out that Ness turns out to be make up applied to the face of...

Maxwell Smart, who surprises us at the level of taciturn vigilantism that he's kept supressed for many years.

And according to the latest study, it is actually flashbacks from that [B][I][COLOR="#800080"]purple[/COLOR][/I][/B] LSD at Woodstock. Those foolish kids, why didn't they listen to the PA guy?

I had my LCS pul a Spider-man 700 for me. Imagine my shock when i realized it was 7.99 ? I gave it back. I just wanna read it to see what all the hoopla is about. No wonder comics are on life support.

[QUOTE=icctrombone;16572290]I had my LCS pul a Spider-man 700 for me. Imagine my shock when i realized it was 7.99 ? I gave it back. I just wanna read it to see what all the hoopla is about. No wonder comics are on life support.[/QUOTE]

It's almost 100 pages, or 3x the size of a regular comic...doesn't happen often.

icctrombone for ASM 700 I would recommend waiting a couple of months as depending on stores they put the recent issues in the back issue bins for maybe a buck or two dollars. Also at stores ask if they have any damaged copies as often these retail for less than half of the original price.

If memory (as apparently corroborated just now by Wikipedia) serves, Bart Allen -- Impulse -- wound up in Manchester (presumably a stand-in for Birmingham), Alabama, with Max Mercury fairly early on. I gather he's recently taken a job with the state, because the income tax return I filed Wednesday yielded a refund in my checking account this morning. That's at least 2 months earlier than expected, based on past experience. And here I thought last year's federal refund showed up bizarrely fast (something like 2 1/2 weeks) ...

Have been thinking a lot about my friend who is now unable to walk. Its just so devastating. I still don't know when he will be able to leave hospital and from there I'm not sure where he will go? I assume plans are going on with his family to move him into a care facility asap since he is no longer able to care for himself. He's one of few people who I trust completely. And over the years we have shared some amazing times together. Also heartbreak. Just like any good friends do. I cry a lot thinking about his current situation.

Sorry man. Some really terrible things happen in this world.

At least you're a friend to him, and he's going to esp need good friends and family more than ever. It's amazing what life throws at us sometimes.

[QUOTE=dan bailey;16576016]If memory (as apparently corroborated just now by Wikipedia) serves, Bart Allen -- Impulse -- wound up in Manchester (presumably a stand-in for Birmingham), Alabama, with Max Mercury fairly early on. I gather he's recently taken a job with the state, because the income tax return I filed Wednesday yielded a refund in my checking account this morning. That's at least 2 months earlier than expected, based on past experience. And here I thought last year's federal refund showed up bizarrely fast (something like 2 1/2 weeks) ...[/QUOTE]

That's good. My friend filed his last Thursday and was told to expect it by 2/7. He was filing single, as I assume you are. We filed ours last Thursday or Friday and it's waiting on the IRS-married filing jointly but with nothing but standard deductions for kids et al.

I'll be mailing off a couple of decent sized checks on April 15th.

[QUOTE=Slam_Bradley;16577648]I'll be mailing off a couple of decent sized checks on April 15th.[/QUOTE]

Thanks in advance! Having been married once upon a time to an IRS employee, I am of course authorized to accept all Classics Forum posters' payments.

[QUOTE=dan bailey;16577857]Thanks in advance! Having been married once upon a time to an IRS employee, I am of course authorized to accept all Classics Forum posters' payments.[/QUOTE]

You'd just spend it on slabbed funnybooks. Or invading Uzbekistan. I know your type.

I wonder if a slabbed comic could deflect a bullet?

Probably not.

Still, I'm picturing a cordon of police marching against rock-throwing protesters & holding up slabbed Marvel Treasury Editions or DC Limited Collectors Editions as shields.

I keep running into interesting stuff...

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And also:

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