In addition to a Dirty Ghetto Kids cap, a David Sedaris book, and the Dog the Bounty Hunter signed promo poster, Rennolds sent me some primo MAHFood-does-Marvel comix.

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #9 - Bendis and MAHFood break the 4th wall, repeatedly... and send Parker out for coffees. Not bad, not bad. Highlight is the Skrulls rampaging through the Marvel offices, of course.

Wha... huh? - Bendis, Brubaker, BKV and others employ MAHFood to put forth crazy What If ideas, including 'What if Stan Lee wrote Spiderman?' and 'What if Galactus got indigestion?' The kicker is, of course, that having read that Galactus story on Christmas night, I awoke with severe GI issues. The power of suggestion, I guess.

What If... Featuring Thor (Kirkman/Oeming) - Not a bad story. Galactus comes for Asgard, Thor does Silver Surfer to spare Asgard, then does a 180 of sorts. Cool beans, for sure. I wonder if Kirkman shits on his old Marvel stuff these days, or if it's out of Kirkman continuity.

What if... The F4 battled Doctor Doom before they got their powers? Okay, the Watcher is corny. And so are comics from this era (ca. 1990), and it's shocking how poor the print quality is compared to what we're used to today. But there is of course a certain charm to both the predictability of the writing and the grainy print and the formulaic stories therein. I don't need to read tons of these books but one every once in a while is a good reminder of comics' past.

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so I'm in a band now:
album ---> http://greenwoodburns.bandcamp.com/releases
Soundcloud ---> http://soundcloud.com/greenwood-burns

my own stuff -->http://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband

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