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Opus (December 17, ). Play the oboe and bagpipes merrily&#;it’s time for our anyule extravaganza, for which we include a wildly illustrated celebration of Popeye’s 90th birthday. We also contemplate Playboy-like covers of comicbooks (the end of the year signaling, as it used to, the emergence of a fresh crop of calendar girls) and editoonery coverage of The Impeachment and Alan Moore’s beard and hair. We review the end of Mad and the start of Crazy, Peanuts Papers, the awful finale of tv’s “Watchmen,” graphic novels Corto Maltese: The Early Years and Stumptown, and IDW’s Dick Tracy, plus long, appreciative obits for Howard Cruse, Gahan Wilson, and Tom Spurgeon. Here, cryptically, is what’s here, in order, by department&#;:
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Back Issue Biz Booming
Lendelof’s “Watchmen” Ends Awfully
Clifford Starts a New Television Adventure
Mankoff’s New Gig
Zapiro Gets French Award
Lynda Barry in Family Circus
Alan Moore says He’ll Be Voting This Time
Drag Show at Comics Store
Heroes in a Paper Bag
FUNNYBOOK FAN FARE
Trees: Three Fates
Short Ribs
Jughead the Hunger vs Vampironica
Gunning for Hits
Dying Is Easy
Yondu
Moonshine
Pretty Deadly
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Opus (May 27, ). The date you just read is the approximate date that I finished writing this colyum of trifling languor, indifferent whimsy and lasting trivolity. This introductory effusion, however—the paragraph now under your very eyeballs—I wrote on the day after Doomsday, May 21, when, as you doubtless shudder to remember (thanks to some 5, billboards that erupted across the nation’s landscape lately), the “Rapture” was supposed to transport into Heaven all those human sapiens (sic) worthy of salvation, leaving the rest of us miserable, deep-dyed unrepentant sinners all, to a fate worse than death—apocalyptic deterioration of the social order and rampant individual barking insanity everywhere we look (or, perhaps—if we’re lucky—death itself).
Well, I’m still here on Sunday, May And so is my wife and the entire congregation of the church we went to this morning. This means one of two things: (1) either the wizened calculator of the date, radio personality Harold Camping, age 89, made a mistake in setting May 21 as the date of Wholesale Evaporation (like the mistake he made before when he predicted the same Doom in ) (or was it ? I forge