Comments on: Nightmare Spectacles

By: wallruss

wallruss — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:43:35 +0000

This John Smith character is a great find. Thanks! I’m always looking for more positive portrayals of Black characters in comics.

By: Dorian

Dorian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:21:51 +0000

So now we know where Louis Farrakhan got his fashion style.

I’m…really not quite sure what your point there is. Balbo wears a bow-tie too. Is that where Tucker Carlson got his style from?

By: buzz

buzz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:43:58 +0000

So now we know where Louis Farrakhan got his fashion style.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:22:14 +0000

How many giant octopuses had to die before all the evil optometrists of the WWII era were routed, I wonder?

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:45:42 +0000

I’m impressed they used an actual and arguably semi-obscure historical figure for the villain. Popular literature that anticipates that a young audience would know things!

By: hydrogenguy

hydrogenguy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:29:41 +0000

Good to see a black character from the era who’s depicted as a human being and not a shuckin’, jivin’ stereotype, though.

A comic book from 1943 that’s less racist than a contemporary Michael Bay movie. Huh.

By: Sallyp

Sallyp — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:37:25 +0000

I too was charmed by the use of the word “addlepate”. Not an epithet that gets tossed around too much any more, which is a shame. I also like ninnyhammer.

By: Bourgeois Nerd

Bourgeois Nerd — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:08:42 +0000

“It seems that Mr. Walsh panicked because he’s being tormented by a man claiming to be immortal magician Caliostro who keeps threatening to show him things that grow bigger.”

Sounds like a typical Friday night to me.

By: John G

John G — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:16:19 +0000

Not only is John Smith sophisticated in dress, but he has a quick eye for contract law!

By: Scipio

Scipio — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:25:22 +0000

“Addlepate”?

That made my day. Thank you, 800-year-old evil dwarf assistant from the Golden Age!