Mike
@mrpsmissives.bsky.social
lifelong fan of geek culture, history & lifelong reader/learner, avid rpg player/DM & collector of things D&D, sword & sorcery, comics, art & vintage paperbacks
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I was asked elsewhere what my tastes in comics were-favorites, etc. As usual for me, I was long winded in my response, but here is what I said.. a🧵
I am simply a fan of the medium of comics-the use of words and pictures arranged in panels and pages to tell stories.
I am simply a fan of the medium of comics-the use of words and pictures arranged in panels and pages to tell stories.
#NCBD #comicsky
Big day for me @superflycomics.bsky.social Here's what I came home with. Looking forward to diving in to these. New Brubaker/Phillips Criminal is always a plus
Big day for me @superflycomics.bsky.social Here's what I came home with. Looking forward to diving in to these. New Brubaker/Phillips Criminal is always a plus
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Big day for me @superflycomics.bsky.social Here's what I came home with. Looking forward to diving in to these. New Brubaker/Phillips Criminal is always a plus
Big day for me @superflycomics.bsky.social Here's what I came home with. Looking forward to diving in to these. New Brubaker/Phillips Criminal is always a plus
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 19 Hawkwoman
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Day 19 Hawkwoman
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Day 19 Hawkwoman
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Day 19 Hawkwoman
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Day 18 Princess Aura (Flash Gordon)
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Day 18 Princess Aura (Flash Gordon)
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Day 18 Princess Aura (Flash Gordon)
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Day 18 Princess Aura (Flash Gordon)
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Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 17 Wanda Maximoff The Scarlet Witch
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Day 17 Wanda Maximoff The Scarlet Witch
December 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Day 17 Wanda Maximoff The Scarlet Witch
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Day 17 Wanda Maximoff The Scarlet Witch
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Mail call today-Basically Strange #1 from '82, Corben cover, stories by Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Frank Thorne.
Mail call today-Basically Strange #1 from '82, Corben cover, stories by Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Frank Thorne.
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Mail call today-Basically Strange #1 from '82, Corben cover, stories by Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Frank Thorne.
Mail call today-Basically Strange #1 from '82, Corben cover, stories by Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Frank Thorne.
What have been your #LCS local comic shops over the years?
The Bookie E. Htfd CT '84-89
New England Comics Coolidge Corner '89-91
The Eye Opener Newington CT '92-97
Buried Under Books Manchester CT '98-03
Dark Star Books Yellow Springs, OH '03-07
hiatus '07-'12
Main Street Comics Spfd OH '12-16
1/2
The Bookie E. Htfd CT '84-89
New England Comics Coolidge Corner '89-91
The Eye Opener Newington CT '92-97
Buried Under Books Manchester CT '98-03
Dark Star Books Yellow Springs, OH '03-07
hiatus '07-'12
Main Street Comics Spfd OH '12-16
1/2
What have been your #LCS local comic shops over the years? Mine:
Child: Local Newsagent, Wisbech, Cambs & Just Comics mail order
90-92: None
93: comic shop in neighbouring town I can’t remember the name of
94-97: Central City Comics, Ipswich, Suffolk, at college
97-00: various shops
Child: Local Newsagent, Wisbech, Cambs & Just Comics mail order
90-92: None
93: comic shop in neighbouring town I can’t remember the name of
94-97: Central City Comics, Ipswich, Suffolk, at college
97-00: various shops
What have been your #LCS local comic shops over the years? Mine:
Teen/College: Taurus Comics, Marquette, MI
Decades later:
Laughing Ogre, Leesburg, VA (Fairfax, VA location after they closed in Leesburg)
Comic Logic, Ashburn, VA
Teen/College: Taurus Comics, Marquette, MI
Decades later:
Laughing Ogre, Leesburg, VA (Fairfax, VA location after they closed in Leesburg)
Comic Logic, Ashburn, VA
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
What have been your #LCS local comic shops over the years?
The Bookie E. Htfd CT '84-89
New England Comics Coolidge Corner '89-91
The Eye Opener Newington CT '92-97
Buried Under Books Manchester CT '98-03
Dark Star Books Yellow Springs, OH '03-07
hiatus '07-'12
Main Street Comics Spfd OH '12-16
1/2
The Bookie E. Htfd CT '84-89
New England Comics Coolidge Corner '89-91
The Eye Opener Newington CT '92-97
Buried Under Books Manchester CT '98-03
Dark Star Books Yellow Springs, OH '03-07
hiatus '07-'12
Main Street Comics Spfd OH '12-16
1/2
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 16 Black Canary
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Day 16 Black Canary
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Day 16 Black Canary
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Day 16 Black Canary
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Day 15 Princess Ariel (the sorceress)
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Day 15 Princess Ariel (the sorceress)
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Day 15 Princess Ariel (the sorceress)
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Day 15 Princess Ariel (the sorceress)
Was thinking about childhood toys after another discussion elsewhere and kept coming back to one of my favorites-The Mighty Man and Monster Maker from Tomy in 1979. Did anyone else have this?
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Was thinking about childhood toys after another discussion elsewhere and kept coming back to one of my favorites-The Mighty Man and Monster Maker from Tomy in 1979. Did anyone else have this?
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 14 Catwoman
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Day 14 Catwoman
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Day 14 Catwoman
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Day 14 Catwoman
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Living Colour
King Crimson
Robert Fripp
Chuck Berry (part of a Rock & Roll Revival Show)
Pink Floyd
Living Colour
King Crimson
Robert Fripp
Chuck Berry (part of a Rock & Roll Revival Show)
Pink Floyd
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Herbert Hancock & Wayne Shorter
Wynton Marsalis
Santana
Bob Dylan
The Mingus Big Band
Herbert Hancock & Wayne Shorter
Wynton Marsalis
Santana
Bob Dylan
The Mingus Big Band
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Hoyt Axton
McCoy Tyner (pianist for the John Coltrane Quartet)
Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit concert ('98 & '99)
Stephen Lynch/Mitch Hedberg
The Linda Lindas
Hoyt Axton
McCoy Tyner (pianist for the John Coltrane Quartet)
Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit concert ('98 & '99)
Stephen Lynch/Mitch Hedberg
The Linda Lindas
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Living Colour
King Crimson
Robert Fripp
Chuck Berry (part of a Rock & Roll Revival Show)
Pink Floyd
Living Colour
King Crimson
Robert Fripp
Chuck Berry (part of a Rock & Roll Revival Show)
Pink Floyd
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 13 Madame Xanadu
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Day 13 Madame Xanadu
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Day 13 Madame Xanadu
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Day 13 Madame Xanadu
To all who are celebrating, have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
To all who are celebrating, have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
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Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 12 Clea
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Day 12 Clea
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Day 12 Clea
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Day 12 Clea
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Francine Peters
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Francine Peters
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Francine Peters
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Francine Peters
#comics #comicbooks #comicsky #Toth
Mail call, picked up a quartet of comics-Jimmy Wakely #1 low grade but the draw for me is the Toth art inside and that's intact. One more Supergirl to get closer to completing that run and 2 books to fill holes in other runs-GL and Adventurers Book II.
Mail call, picked up a quartet of comics-Jimmy Wakely #1 low grade but the draw for me is the Toth art inside and that's intact. One more Supergirl to get closer to completing that run and 2 books to fill holes in other runs-GL and Adventurers Book II.
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#comics #comicbooks #comicsky #Toth
Mail call, picked up a quartet of comics-Jimmy Wakely #1 low grade but the draw for me is the Toth art inside and that's intact. One more Supergirl to get closer to completing that run and 2 books to fill holes in other runs-GL and Adventurers Book II.
Mail call, picked up a quartet of comics-Jimmy Wakely #1 low grade but the draw for me is the Toth art inside and that's intact. One more Supergirl to get closer to completing that run and 2 books to fill holes in other runs-GL and Adventurers Book II.
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 10 Marie ("Katchoo") Choovanski
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Day 10 Marie ("Katchoo") Choovanski
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 10 Marie ("Katchoo") Choovanski
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 10 Marie ("Katchoo") Choovanski
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Latest read for my Veteran's Month comics read through-Combat Kelly & The Deadly Dozen #1-9 (full run). A spin-off of Sgt. Fury/Capt. Savage by Friedrich & Ayers. A solid war comic w/a terrible final issue, rushed & unsatisfying. Lots of unrealized potential in series.
Latest read for my Veteran's Month comics read through-Combat Kelly & The Deadly Dozen #1-9 (full run). A spin-off of Sgt. Fury/Capt. Savage by Friedrich & Ayers. A solid war comic w/a terrible final issue, rushed & unsatisfying. Lots of unrealized potential in series.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
#comicsky #comicbooks #comics
Latest read for my Veteran's Month comics read through-Combat Kelly & The Deadly Dozen #1-9 (full run). A spin-off of Sgt. Fury/Capt. Savage by Friedrich & Ayers. A solid war comic w/a terrible final issue, rushed & unsatisfying. Lots of unrealized potential in series.
Latest read for my Veteran's Month comics read through-Combat Kelly & The Deadly Dozen #1-9 (full run). A spin-off of Sgt. Fury/Capt. Savage by Friedrich & Ayers. A solid war comic w/a terrible final issue, rushed & unsatisfying. Lots of unrealized potential in series.
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 9 Mademoiselle Marie
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Day 9 Mademoiselle Marie
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 9 Mademoiselle Marie
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 9 Mademoiselle Marie
Any reason is a good reason to read some Toth.
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Any reason is a good reason to read some Toth.
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Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 8 Kitsune
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Day 8 Kitsune
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Day 8 Kitsune
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Day 8 Kitsune
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Day 7 Chance Falconer
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Day 7 Chance Falconer
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Day 7 Chance Falconer
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Day 7 Chance Falconer
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Latest read John Lee Hooker One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer OGN by Jarrett Williams Gabe Soria Kyle Baker Taylan Kurtullus & Dave Chisholm. Excellent read, if you like music bio OGN this is a good one. Tells Hooker's story by telling stories of people around him.
Latest read John Lee Hooker One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer OGN by Jarrett Williams Gabe Soria Kyle Baker Taylan Kurtullus & Dave Chisholm. Excellent read, if you like music bio OGN this is a good one. Tells Hooker's story by telling stories of people around him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
#comics #comicksky #musicsky #blues
Latest read John Lee Hooker One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer OGN by Jarrett Williams Gabe Soria Kyle Baker Taylan Kurtullus & Dave Chisholm. Excellent read, if you like music bio OGN this is a good one. Tells Hooker's story by telling stories of people around him.
Latest read John Lee Hooker One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer OGN by Jarrett Williams Gabe Soria Kyle Baker Taylan Kurtullus & Dave Chisholm. Excellent read, if you like music bio OGN this is a good one. Tells Hooker's story by telling stories of people around him.
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 6 Dian Belmont (Sandman Mystery Theatre)
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 6 Dian Belmont (Sandman Mystery Theatre)
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 6 Dian Belmont (Sandman Mystery Theatre)
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
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Day 6 Dian Belmont (Sandman Mystery Theatre)