They're watchin' every single thing you say..

For those of you that are interested, here are the comics (and comic related items) due to ship this week that I'm interested in obtaining or at least checking out.

DARK HORSE
Goon #21
Hellboy Novel Emerald Hell

DC COMICS
American Virgin #23*
Bat Lash #3
Booster Gold #0
Connor Hawke Dragons Blood TP
Countdown To Final Crisis #11
DC Minimates Wave Seven*
Green Arrow Black Canary #5
Green Lantern Corps #21
Legion Of Super Heroes In The 31st Century #11
Showcase Presents Enemy Ace TP Vol 1
Superman #673
Time Masters TP
Tiny Titans #1*
Wonder Woman #17

EVIL TWIN COMICS
Awesome Indie Spinner Rack Anthology Vol 1 TP

HYPERION BOOKS
Jellaby GN Vol 01*

IMAGE COMICS
Brit #4*
Jack Staff #14
Walking Dead #46

MARVEL COMICS
Amazing Spider-Man #550 BND
Captain Marvel #3
Fantastic Four #554
Fantastic Four Lost Adventure
Iron Man Enter Mandarin #5*
New Avengers #38
Nova Annual #1
Punisher War Journal #16
Spider-Man Family #7
Ultimate Spider-Man HC Vol 9

* = Asterisks (for me) mean extra awesome

And since this is essentially a nothing post, I will offset it with an Achewood that always, always makes me laugh.

I would sincerely love to own all of those shirts.
I think they do a fantastic job of capturing my own world view at the moment.

Can't you see my world is fallin' apart?

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I think this looks awesome.

And the plans that accompany it?

Also awesome.

To me.

I'm just one dude though.

One dude who says "awesome" more than most.

You think you know what you're doing..

There was a point not so very long ago that I felt like I was ready to give up on music. Not just on pursuing it in some fashion, but I was just kinda sick of it all.
Sick of listening to it.
Sick of old stuff I liked.
Sick of trying to listen to new stuff.
I was just sick of music.
I didn't want to listen to it at work. I didn't want to listen to it in the car.
Sick of it.

I've gotten over it though, and I'm glad that I have.

That wasn't Gun Men..

Thomas has found the greatest thing ever purchased for $3.

If you can find them..

I long to hear..

And since I've gone post crazy today, why don't we all enjoy the just released teaser poster for A Quantum of Solace (AKA Bond 22).

You are the enemy..

I had a free minute today, so I colored this old picture of Curt dressed like Richie Rich that I did.

Best of 2007 : Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four

This was Mike Wieringo's last published comic work and even if the story hadn't been an outstanding, fun read, this book would have found a special place on my recap of 2007.

I'm not going to do a big post about it, instead I just wanted to share this one panel that I think says it all.

Wherein I continue my DC love..

"That’s the greatest thing about the DC Universe – the heroes are heroes. They’re people to aspire to. They are not perfect. They’re like people we know. People we like. They’re people who struggle, but they carry on. Just like all of us. They work together and help each other.

I like that the evil in the DC Universe gets really evil – really dark and twisted – but the heroes break through it, and rise to the challenge. They might not win every time, which is great for stories, but they persevere.

That’s something that appeals to me much more than a universe where everything is gray." - Geoff Johns (again)

You said it, Geoff.

Also, JAMES ROBINSON has just been named the new writer of Superman.

I believe in DC Comics.

"I believe in DC Comics. I believe in the characters and have since I first discovered this wonderful universe. I believe in where we’re going and what we’re fighting for. You know, we can’t take our readers for granted. We screw up, we lose. We gotta learn from our mistakes and the mistakes others make. We gotta fight hard to create better books every month that are worth your time." - Geoff Johns, via Newsarama

It gets bad...

Hellbunny.

I just like things...

This came out yesterday.
Target has it for $9.
Go buy it.
You don't have to buy it at Target, but go buy it somewhere.
I want this show to succeed in every arena.

Take me home..

The Legion of Atheist Super-Heroes!
Comic book characters grouped by religious affiliation.
It's a real website.
Well researched and fun... if not a little weird.

This just in..

Lawsuits, here! Get'cher lawsuits!

The actress was fired..

Don't forget to catch Batman and Brownman on this week's Dancing with the Stars.

So go already..

This, for me, is victory..

No matter which way you go..

You'd better believe he's Iron Man.

CBR has ton of great screen grabs from last night's Super Bowl ad.

Call now!

Certainly the funniest thing I've seen in some time.

omc...

No need to cry..

One step closer.
It's all up to Maggie now.

Rain, sleet, or snow..

So there's a blurry, camera-phone look at the "blueprint" for something we'll be taking with us to MoCCA.

We're tied to the 90s...

If you can believe it (and I could not), Curt has updated his blog not once, but twice!
One of the updates even includes art by me done as a gift to Curt for being so awesome.

Taking too much air..

Speaking of action figures, I love this site dedicated to the new DC Universe figures.
I'd especially recommend checking out the pictures of the upcoming Solomon Grundy Build-A-Figure. He's huge!

Flickers in my mind..

Cracked.com gives us The 5 Most Ill-Conceived Action Figures.

Near The Box Of Boom...

This was a Robin redesign I did a while back and never got around to posting.

It's only some tweaks here and there as opposed to a full fledged redesign, but I still really like it.

I've taken a couple swings at coloring it and hated them all, so if anyone with some talent would like to have a go at it, please proceed with my blessing.

What makes a man..

When life sucks for reasons you can do nothing about, now you're a man.

Time will waste you..

Countdown to Final Crisis #15.
Is this cover hilarious to anyone else?

You get the wrong impression..

The second in my series of trivia sketches.

I need a drink..

I sent the original picture to someone I work with (which was actually creepier looking) and I got this back.

This is no comment on the guy or his politics or whatever, it's just fun.

Thrust into the world..

First in a series of quick sketches I did at trivia last night in Joey's little photo idea book.

The theme (as suggested by Joey) will quickly emerge.

Though done between rounds, they did not help us win... which is to say, we did not win.

More organic..

The Fortress of Soliloquy presents REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN in 30 seconds!

Update : I also wanted to include Das Übernerd's 30 second (not really) recap of the entire history of the DCU.

Fun with the Solicits!

Wouldn't this help at least a little?

Fun with the Solicits!

Tonight on Ow! My Balls!

I'll fake it, don't wanna make it..

Also, I just got done hanging up my new Venture Bros. calendar at work.. so that's pretty awesome.

One if you leave..

So here are some possible business card ideas..

CHRISHALEY
Knowing me makes you feel special.

CHRISHALEY
Black History Month.

CHRISHALEY
Believe it or not it's just me.

CHRISHALEY

You know... from the internet.

CHRISHALEY

Thank God he knocked.

CHRISHALEY

I'm sweating. I'm literally sweating.

CHRISHALEY

Sex Knife.

CHRISHALEY

I can't not look at it.

Feel free to share your thoughts.

If you go..

The earliest known proof.

Stand 10 feet tall..

Caleb has compiled a list of the worst lines (in comics) of 2007.
I don't think it's nearly long enough.

I'm holding out..

This both cracked me up and was totally awesome to me.

I have a lot of faith..

The ol' blog has been experiencing something of a renaissance as of late and I have you (the people who are good enough to keep visiting and pushing that hit counter up) to thank for inspiring it.
It's a lot easier to try to put some effort into things when you feel like there are people out there interested in reading it, so I sincerely thank you.

If you can believe it (and I'm fully prepared to accept that you cannot), Curt has returned to the blogiverse. I thank him for returning to us.

And finally, I'd like to thank Mattel and The Four Horsemen for not ruining one of my favorite characters and changing their upcoming "Classic" Firestorm from awful to awesome.


(Pictured left to right : Unrequested Sodomy Firestorm, Classic Firestorm)

Best of 2007 : New Avengers #34

Instead of trying to come up with some kind of comprehensive list, I thought I'd just take a moment or two here and there to talk about some of my favorite books or moments from 2007.

New Avengers #34

I've enlisted the help of everyone's favorite wall-crawler and current New Avenger, Spider-Man to help me talk about why this issue was one of the best of 2007.

(To help keep things straight Spidey's commentary will be italicized.)

So Spidey, what was so great about this issue?

Nothing?

Really?

Come on, Pete, what about when you confessed to being all Skrully?

Oh yeah. Heh. I guess that was pretty funny.

Why am I walking around with my mask off?

Or when we found out Luke and Jessica named their baby after Iron Fist? Wasn't that heartwarming and sweet? I mean, look at how happy Iron Fist is.

Yeah, I guess that was pretty nice.

Danny was pretty much bursting with pride.

Danny Partridge, I mean.

Of course.

Or what about when he and Dr. Strange were talking about their eventual replacements?

Haha! I'd forgotten about that.. they had a little moment, didn't they?

I've told both of them it could be a lot worse.

They could be replaced by a clone in a sleeveless sweatshirt?

Exactly.

Speaking of clothes, or a lack thereof, how about Hawkeye and Echo's shower scene?

Listen, bud, I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm a happily married man.
Yeah, about that..

What?

Nevermind.

Moving on, it was pretty nice when you guys finally came together as a team again.

I gotta say I did feel pretty inspired after that.

So, all in all, a pretty great issue, eh?

Hey waitaminit!

What?

You forgot the best part!

I did? Which part was that?

Allow me..

There you have it, folks!

New Avengers #34. One of the best comics of 2007.

Funny, heartwarming, inspiring genital mutilation for the whole family!

I'd like to give a very special thanks to the spectacular, the sensational, the amazing Spider-Man for his help.

Everybody gets one, kid.

I'll see the rest of you next time.

Get off the freeway..

I (via Blog@ (via Newsarama (via TimesOnline (via Ain't It Cool)))) have "discovered" some of the only reasons to watch Aw Hell Naw Legend.

This post was essentially an excuse to do three things :

1) Post that picture.

2) Use Jon Morris' hilarious Legend title.

3) Do the parentheses gag.

I wanna share it with you...

So, I find that how embarrassed I am about my blog is directly related to how cool or judgmental the person reading it is.

I made a chart.

Everything is said and done..

Collider.com has a "ton" of photos from UNDER THE INFLUENCE - A Tribute to Stan Lee.

This one was my favorite.

Not directly related, but apparently Spider-Man and Billy Joel have a lot more in common than I'd originally thought.

With a single sigh...

A guy in my office just said that Queen's best album was "the greatest hits CD with the red cover".
And people wonder why I want to explode sometimes.
Worst of all, this guy's a "musician" (in that he writes and plays music in a band).
To me, saying a band's best album is one of their "Greatest Hits" collections is like saying, "I sure am glad I voted for George W. Bush."

Update : In that it says you are an idiot.

I don't believe in Peter Pan..

I know you're all fully capable of hopping around all the comic blogs yourself, but I can't help but share things.

It's what I do here.

For the last 5+ years.

So when I see this exceptional condemnation of "One More Day", I have no choice but to share it with you.

That's just how it works.

Plus, I've got to tell you about something if I'm going to make it to 400 posts this year.

I'll also say that though I hated everything about OMD, the previews I've seen of the first issue of "Brand New Day" look great. That doesn't mean I'll buy them, but it also doesn't stop me from saying they look great.

I'll also say that no longer having access to Flickr at work has really made dealing with images a pain.

Searching for the reason..

You can rearrange the letters in "Chris Haley" into "Ash lyric, eh?"
That is awesome.

I guess it helps to know Ash is one of my top five favorite bands of all time.

It could be worse..

Fizzit has an outstanding 30 Second Recap of Aquaman : Sword of Atlantis.
Please go enjoy it.

If you must pretend..

I got this today.
It's pretty awesome.
The figure is called "Crime Stopper Batman".
That is hilarious to me.
I may put him on my desk at work.

It's the girl in the front..

So 4 years and 6 issues of Mighty Avengers later (I'm estimating how long it's taken Frank Cho to finish these six issues), Bendis' ridiculous re-imagining of the "thought bubble" finally gives us two panels with insight into the characters' thoughts that were worth wasting all our time over.





Let us all thank Mr. Bendis.

Movies Released in 2007 That I Saw

(in order of release)

Ghost Rider
300
Meet the Robinsons
Grindhouse
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Spider-Man 3
Pirates 3
Knocked Up
Fantastic Four 2
Ratatouille
Transformers
The Simpsons Movie
Hot Rod
Superbad
Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Wow.
This must have been my slowest movie-going year ever.
This is headed somewhere, so naturally, there's more to come...

All day the radio's been playin' the same song..

So I saw Sweeney Todd over the weekend.
I liked it okay as I left the theater, but the further away from it I've gotten the more I like it.
I think the grammar, tense-wise, in that last sentence was all over the place, but what do you care, this is free.

Once I get access to better, less restricted internet I'll have some real, worthwhile content on the way.
I may have to breakdown and pay for the internet at home. Boooo!

You want antidote..

I'm still famous!
On the internets!
Say It Backwards has a whole post up just about little ol' me.
Wonders never cease.
My thanks, of course, to Thomas for the acknowledgment.

I tried to get back on the Werewolf vs Zombies ball last night, by drawing a new strip.. at a bar. As you can imagine, things didn't go very well.
I did manage a decent idea though, so I'll do it up for real soon.

Don't stop til you hit the ground..

28


I swear to you, answered this 100% truthfully.

UPDATE : If the thing isn't showing up properly, this is the link http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/
and I could take out 28 five year olds.

The clouds are starting to unwind...

More Werewolf vs Zombie is on the way, but the holidays really screwed my internal calendar up. I felt really bad for missing last week, but I honestly had no idea an entire week had passed since I'd posted the last one. I was having too much fun not having to work, I guess.
Now that my schedule is back to normal (blah) I should be back on the ball with it.
My thanks to Jason for reminding me that I needed to post this WvZ update.

I'm going to a town..

Also, and this has nothing to do with anything, but I'm going to try to break 400 posts this year.
I'm not really into the resolutions thing, but I'd like to set this goal for myself.
I also will make the promise to you (the reader) that I will try not to pad it out with bullshit posts like this.


Unless I'm really, really behind come October.

I need to know you love me..

Check it out, I'm famous again!
I'm now an official resident of Hanna-Barbera Town which puts me (quite happily) in some very good company.

That 50s movie monster..

So here's how my lunch went.
This is 100% true.

Taco Bell Drive-Thru Lady (TBDTL) : How are you doing today?
Me : I'm great, how're you?
TBDTL : Fine, can I take your order?
Me : What's the sauce I'm seeing on the Cheesy Gordita Crunch?
TBDTL : That's our Baja Sauce.
Me : Oh, well that's good, okay.
TBDTL : But we're out of it.
Me : The sauce or the whole thing?
TBDTL : The Baja sauce.
Me : Oh. Okay. Can I order it anyway?
TBDTL : Yes, sir.
Me : Will it cost less? (at this point Maggie, who's in the car with me, cracks up)
TBDTL : (Laughs) No, sir.
Me : Okay. Well, I'd like the combo.
TBDTL : Okay. I could put sour cream on it for you instead.
Me : Oh, no thanks, I'm actually allergic to sour cream.
TBDTL : I'm sorry.

I'm spilling my guts out here..

The Wii-mote Weapon Kit.
That's right.

Rain rhymes with train..

This list is despicable.

We want Sweet!

The Weekly Crisis has put together a thoroughly enjoyable Best of 2007.
I can't say as I agree with all of it, but that's what's fun about these lists, isn't it?

And everything you think it's about..

At some point earlier this year I started writing (and abandoned) alternate lyrics to the old Spider-Man theme song.

Spider-Man, Spider-Man
Does whatever I tell him too
Spins a web, hits on guys
Catches thieves with curly fries

That's as far as I got.
This honestly made me laugh when I rediscovered it, so I thought I'd share it as a Christmas present to you.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I made an omelette for Satan..

I wonder if anyone has eaten as many Junior Mints as me.

Superman Retires

Werewolf vs Zombie - 3. Holidays

Happy Holidays!

Do you... wanna.. play...

I lied, here's some content.



Pencils and inks by me.
Awesome colors by (New) Jason Horn.
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