James Brown's 1974 Hit Song About Gerald Ford

Country do you know just what I meant
We just changed
Got a brand new funky president

Funky President (People It's Bad) via Metafilter
Full lyric

City Outlives Ford

Nation mourns talent scout who discovered Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and George H. W. Bush.

Who Is The Mystery Man?

One possible answer here.

Stan Lee TV, circa 1970

Taft, Hartley, God, Archie

• They Hate Us Because We Love Freedom:

The US Army is considering measures to force striking workers back to their jobs at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Kansas in the face of a looming shortage of tyres for Humvee trucks and other military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

• The Seattle Times decided to publish today, which is good because Mark Rahner reviewed four video games including Marvel Ultimate Alliance and--joy of joys--Left Behind:

In the real-time strategy action — and by "action," I mean "tedium and frustration" — you control puny humans from high above. (You're not God, or the controls would be less awkward and you'd be able to see everything better.) Your goal: convert as many people in New York City as possible to the side of God, and keep them through prayer. Things that weaken the converts include guitar music and swearing. Just think what HBO would do.

• Archie Comics get shocking new look [via Metafilter]:

"Help Me Find A Shovel, Doc."

Rev. Ted Haggard's escort sells a book.

Great Dave Zirin column about the Knicks-Nuggets brawl:

Young black men scuffling, even scuffling in a way that would make foxy boxing seem threatening, has become cause for an astounding amount of public hand-wringing.

Very bad day for 52 species of animals and plants.

Joe Barbera takes "limited animation" to new extreme.

Laura Bush to fake her death.

John Carpenter's The Thing remake planned.

Dan Daredevil

When artiste Chris "The Filth" Weston ( know he has other credits, I just like calling him "The Filth") saw the poster for Frank Miller's upcoming movie of Will Eisner's The Spirit, it inspired him to go Miller on another classic comics hero:




Dan Dare at Wikipedia

Chris' blog (Currently very active)

Chris at Amazon

Miller's Spirit movie

Let's try an experiment. I have a mailing list where you can receive occasional (one to three times a month) updates on my work; you can subscribe by sending an email to stuartcomics at mindspring.com . (Except don't use the "at," dumbass!) Here's a slightly abridged version of the latest mailer, minus the backlist listings. If you like it...you know what to do!

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Welcome to Stuart Moore Mailer #56. Some miscellaneous December madness:

• My final issue of FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MAN, issue #32, is in stores this Wednesday, December 13th. It's an epilogue to the storyline "In My Father's House," bringing this run of FIRESTORM to a thematic conclusion. Jamal Igle returned to fully pencil this one, before moving on to his new gig on NIGHTWING (coming soon!). It's our little holiday gift to you, as Jason (Firestorm) Rusch contemplates his past, present, and future on New Year's Eve. Plus killer cyborgs in space, the snowstorm that might destroy Manhattan, and some surprising supporting-character hookups.

FIRESTORM's been a blast these last two years -- I'd like to thank everybody who bought the book. And I can't wait to work with Jamal again, hopefully sometime soon. Hope you like our final outing together (for now).

• Just soliciting now: DETECTIVE COMICS #829 and 830, both out in March, feature "The Siege," a two-part story written by me featuring the siege of Wayne Tower by a mad bomber called Vox. Trapped in a conference room with civilians, Bruce Wayne must direct Robin remotely to stop the terrorist. Featuring a halfway-point cliffhanger I'm particularly proud of, and the absolutely stunning art of Andy Clarke, recently of the "Face the Face" storyline in the Batman books. This guy'll be drawing ULTIMATE CIVIL CRISIS in a year, mark my words. I'll try to get some promo art out soon.

• And finally: Last week, while I wasn't looking, STARGATE ATLANTIS: WRAITHFALL #2 slipped out to comic shops. I've determined from a scientific study of internet message boards that absolutely nobody is reading this book...which is a shame, as I think it's a good story, Mauricio Melo draws great tech and likenesses, we had no licensor problems at all, and I've designed the book to be accessible whether you've seen the show or not. Yes, it's late. Yes, it has eight hundred variant covers. Don't worry about that -- just pick one. And buy it!

Avatar's solicitation is here. (Scroll down past several books with "Dead" or "Death" in the title.)

Thanks and happy holidays. This time I mean it!

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Edited because I typed in my own email address wrong. Who's the dumbass now?

Be Careful, Daisuke

Red Sox have plane waiting to take Matsuzaka to Boston
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