Kolorful Kang or: The Once And Future Doom Into the grab bag and out with the Avengers #23. The “new” Avengers (Cap, Wanda, Pietro and Hawkeye) are in disarray. Cap …

Return of Cold Gold or: What The (Dashin’ Donnie) Heck Not sure what happened but, last Sunday’s post has dissappeared from the site… D’oh! Let’s try it again. While we’re …

Kitty Redux or Bonzo Go Bedtime Nighty night      

Stranger In A Strange Land or: Knucklehead Goes to Japan All righty, pick box, grab blindly and… Shadow and Flame #2 (of 5) Lockheed and his pet girl Kitty go …

CSI or: Characters per Square Inch This week’s grab bag reveals the Mighty Thor #134. Titled “the People Breeders” it might well have been called “the Big Denouement,” as it …

Anarchist’s Assemble or: V For Very, Very, Extraordinary This weeks grab bag reveals V for Vendetta. Once upon a time, there was an anthology magazine from the UK called Warrior. …

Fish Story or: Five Finger Discount Oh, my stars and garters, I’m a thief. This weeks grab bag reveals the Fantastic Four 512.  It’s a mirror image of a cover …

Serkis Circus or: the Sound of One Klaw Clapping Caught the last Avengers flick on the tube. Andy Serkis needs to stop doing motion capture. His three minutes as Klaw …

@#$%!!! or: The Land of Broken Things Well snap, snap, snapitty, snap, snap, snap! Stupid garbage disposal freezes up. Before I can get to it, it goes silent. The stench …

Holy Moley or: Great Googley Moogley This one’s a bit of a cheat… I did it yesterday. I was trying to send some red white and gold magic to the …

Oh, Mai or: The Comics Cultural Exchange Program Mai, the Psychic Girl, traveled from Japan to America via Eclipse Comics in the late 80’s. My awareness of manga was pretty …

Happy New Year or: Let’s Try This Again Hooked up with old rididin’ buddy, and fellow scalawag, Mike Baron for New Years. What better way to roll it in than …

Get That Elf Off My Shelf or: Post X-Mas Blowout Last post of the year. Woo hoo! Sketches from the last year are piling up. Call it house cleaning or …

Leapin’ Lizards or: Mi Pantano es Su Pantano No, I’m not on a mean green streak. Just luck that this week’s pull is Amazing Spider-Man #6 starring the lovely and …

Scary Christmas or: Jingle Bombs It’s that most wonderful time of the year. Here’s hoping you get all the toys you can eat. So, Bah, Humbug everyone and I’m off …

I Think I’m Pregnant or:Smitty’s Jones I must be expecting. Came time to draw and I didn’t even go to the boxes. I just decided I was drawing Legionnaires. Not …

the Robots Are Coming or: Yesterday’s Tomorrow Long day, short post. Rather than go to the longboxes, I’m going to carry over a Russ Manning theme from last week. Happy …

Alien Enterprise or: Give Peace a Chance Believe me kiddies, I’m not trying to turn this into an ongoing discussion on war and peace. This is purely luck of the …

Strange Days or: the idiot plot Idiot plot is a term I picked up in my days in Hollywood. It’s a type of story that can only unfold as it …

Dodging the Speeding Bullet or: The Amazing Technicolor Nightmare Coat Caught a documentary last night on the Tim Burton/Nick Cage Superman that never was. Boy, did we dodge the bullet …

Brothers and Monsters or: Standin on the Corner Down at 12th St and Vine My late brother Willi was basically Scottie from Star Trek. A maritime engineer, if he could …

Spider and the Fly or: What if… So I’m sitting at home, not bothering anyone. I’m doodling, not really paying attention to what I’m doing. Turns out what I’m doing …

Return of Dummy Up or: Part the Second Nothin’ much this week. Just finishing up on last weeks entry. Happy Trails, Smitty      

Dummy Up or: Blockheads Anonymous Oh, you’re in for a treat girls and boys as this weeks grab reveals SunRunners #2 from Eclipse Comics, in the back of which ran …

Lone Wolf And Cub or: Have Sword Will Travel Welcome back girls and boys to Uncle Smitty’s Comic Book Grab bag. This week’s catch is Koike and Kojima’s Lone Wolf …

It’s Colorin’ Time! or: Again With Unto the Breach Hey Kids, Uncle Smitty just got permission to share the colors for the X-600 cover I posted some months back. Woo …

The Wrecker’s Ball or: Tough Love This weeks grab bag is… The Mighty Thor #148 starring the Wrecker. Thor’s done something to peeve his father. Big Daddy Odin isn’t too …

Here There Be Dragons or: Fire Breathing Funnies So, I’m on the phone with Todd Dezago the other day. DragonMan comes up… who knows why… now I’ve got him on …

Janitor Duty or: Where’d All This @#$%! Come From? Once upon a time, I kid thee not, everything I needed fit in the trunk of my beat up old Volvo… …