Makin’ Links # 134


Just how convoluted is modern comics continuity? Try to make some sense out of this special Mother’s Day list (?? Don’t look at me. It’s dated yesterday) of the Ten Best and Worst Mothers in comics.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/10-best-and-worst-mothers-in-comics-0248/
Thomas Haller Buchanan offers a brief but nicely illustrated reminiscence of the 1940′s Batman serials, the 15 segment chapterplays (something they don’t have anymore) that one could catch weekly at your local neighborhood theater (something else they don’t have anymore).
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/serial-batman-1.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/serial-batman-2.html
Speaking of Mr. Buchanan, his Whirled of Kelly blog has been taking a look at one of the minor Okefenokee Players in Walt Kelly’s Pogo in recent days, the perpetually one week old bunny, L’l Awry.
http://whirledofkelly.blogspot.com/search/label/Li%27l%27%20Awry
What’s that? You want some comic book stories? Well, here’s a ton of Treasure Chest reprints with art by the great Reed Crandall courtesy of Mr Door Tree. Unless you had a Catholic childhood in the fifties and sixties, you probably never saw these except in junk shops with old comics for a nickel each. Another something else they don’t have anymore. Sigh.
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/02/reed-crandall-1917-1982-treasure-chest.html

— booksteve

































