Here's something for the ladies. The Korbinite ladies, I guess.

From Silver Surfer #121, "Execution Day" Written by George Perez, pencils by Scot Eaton, inks by Don Hudson. This was the conclusion of a ten, eleven part "Uni-Lord" saga written by Perez; involving the Surfer being split into several pieces and distributed between a batch of aliens. Not great. The Surfer gets himself together, and back to our reality, but also is zapped by a mysterious light...

He's found by his pals Beta Ray Bill and Quasar; the three had been called the Star Masters. I'm not sure by who. Bill had also been redesigned a bit, since in Warren Ellis's brief run on Thor, the World Tree Yggdrasil removed Thor's power from him. It looked like he was going to killed off, but Bill would return with the above costume and modified Stormbreaker hammer. Bill and Thor both had some terrible costumes there for a while.

Re-reading the last couple of years worth of Silver Surfer this afternoon, mostly written by J.M. DeMatteis, with a good stretch of art by Ron Garney. Mostly pretty good. I am mildly curious why I had Big Black Kiss #2 in the same box as a bunch of Silver Surfer and Micronauts...

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Yeah, "To be concluded" in six or eight months, when I find that goddamn issue.

Ooh, son of a biscuit. Is there anything more frustrating than picking up a good-looking pile of comics--say, half a dozen Ennis Punisher issues--and then realizing you have #11, #12, and #42-45? How the hell does that even happen?

I've also just realized that B.P.R.D. is a bear to sort. Some of the inside covers have "Issue such-and-such of a series" but some don't. There's one-shots too, and some are five-issue runs, and at least one was only three, and I keep expecting them to run six-issues. Right now, I'm still looking for issues in three different story arcs...

I don't think of myself as a huge Superman fan either, but I've got an entire longbox full of random Superman, Action, Adventures, spin-offs, annuals, one-shots, this and that. The vast majority of it, I think, was pulled from the quarter boxes. Actually, I think my Legion of Super Heroes are in there as well...maybe? Damn, I had the kid label the boxes, then I think half of them got turned around so the labels are facing the wall. Point is, I've lost and bought back a lot of Legion issues, like most of the "Five Years Later" run.

Batman has about a longbox and maybe a half, so far, spread across umpteen books. There are long stretches, runs I've had and held on to forever, like Parobeck's Batman Adventures or Breyfogle's or Jones' art.

Anyhoo, the sorting continues, like six days in. I still have a couple more days to wrap it up, and this Sunday we've got a special post, then hopefully a new homemade comic on Monday. See if I'm done by then...

Panels from Punisher (MAX) #11, "Kitchen Irish, part five" Written by Garth Ennis, art by Leandro Fernandez; and B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs #3, written by Mike Mignola and art by Guy Davis. Read more!