Must...find...Doom...pin
LGP | Homepage | 05.23.05 - 11:33 am | #

That Archie pin is the ginchiest.

The Superman sherrif's badge has that Unlicensed quality that so many beatiful women seem to love.

The DC kids button says to me "DC comics are Craptastic comics"
Batfatty | 05.23.05 - 1:44 pm | #

Did they actually kill the current Starman before going into the much better-written one? Because I have to separate the comics as I'm filing them, and I'd hate to think that they actually offed him as opposed to just sort of forgetting that he existed.
The Ferrett | Email | 05.23.05 - 3:09 pm | #

JP - that Superman pin is 100% authorized, believe it or not!

The Ferrett - That version of Starman wasn't killed off so much as...well, incorporated into yet another version of Starman during the James Robinson series. That's about as much as I'd want to say without becoming Mr. Spoily-pants.
Mikester | Homepage | 05.23.05 - 3:46 pm | #

Yeah. They were actually quite respectful to the old Starman, much more so than probably 95% of revamps have ever been respectful to previous incarnations.

Considering how mediocre the Will Payton Starman was, it was something of a miracle.
Tim | Email | Homepage | 05.23.05 - 5:28 pm | #

I bow before your truly awesome collection. I mean it.

"Fifth - hey, remember DC's imprint Paradox Press? Neither does DC."

Wow. I thought that was a trippy Punisher button.
N | Email | Homepage | 05.23.05 - 5:45 pm | #

The Kree button looks right, but I could never figure out the damn Shi'ar button, either.

I do love comics promo buttons, though, because free stuff is always cool, even if it's kinda lame. I hear DC has Legion pins among their assortment this year, so I'm hoping they have a booth at Wiz World Boston.
Bill Doughty | Email | Homepage | 05.23.05 - 6:09 pm | #

DC remembers Paradox if for no other reason than it gave them both Road to Perdition and the upcoming Acts of Violence (is that the right name?) media properties. Plus the Big Books were solid catalog items for them for a good while.

I know that you're just kidding, but Piranha/Paradox had/has some really good stuff that DC hasn't really done much with - when they do re-release it (like Gregory or Brooklyn Dreams or Epicurus the Sage), they just dribble it out like everything else they have that isn't some stupid spandex crossover series.
Jim Kosmicki | Email | Homepage | 05.23.05 - 7:33 pm | #

I still have my promo "Win Cash with the Flash!" pin from 7-11 when they were running (ha!) that sweepstakes to get people other than me and my friend Darren to watch the show.
Mark Anthony | Email | Homepage | 05.24.05 - 12:04 am | #

I'd kill for the 4 Supermen badge and the Comic Guy one.
Michael Rebain | Email | 05.24.05 - 9:05 am | #

Didn't Paradox publish Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children? There's something that should be in a series of trades.

I think Grant urged people to make and wear their own blank badges for the Invisibles. That is, when they weren't boosting sales by... other methods.
DougBot | Homepage | 05.24.05 - 9:36 am | #

"...other methods."

I've heard vague references to that story before. Does it involve everybody's favorite Chaos Magic method?
Chaz Ervin | 05.24.05 - 9:46 am | #

I thought for sure Morrison mentioned wanting the Invisibles pins to be blank somewhere in the letters page, but I didn't see it in the first 10 issues. I know I read him saying this somewhere. Someone in those letters DOES ask when blank badges as seen in the comic will be made available, and Grant mentions how easy it is to make your own, as DougBot says.
Dave Lartigue | Email | Homepage | 05.24.05 - 10:19 am | #

Jim - yeah, I was just a jerk. Dorian and I were talking about Paradox just the other day, and how the non-release of the Big Book of Wild Women apparently killed the line. Too bad...the Big Books always sold well for us.

DougBot - Beautiful Stories was from Piranha, and there was at least one trade (reprinting the clown stories, plus a new "adventure). There was also a collection of those creators' earlier strips (The Wastelands, I think). This whole series deserves to be back in print, I think.

Dave L. - I don't doubt that Morrison said such a thing, and I'm sure I must have read it at some point myself...I just couldn't come up with the reference off the top of my head. My memory's failing in my dotage!
Mikester | Homepage | 05.24.05 - 10:25 am | #

but Piranha morphed into Paradox when the original editor resigned/was fired/left and a different editor took over. Mark Nevelow was the original editor -- he was from a book editing background, IIRC, and was a pretty abrasive personality. needless to say, some creators loved him and most seemed to hate him. Andrew Helfer took over when it changed to Paradox, and Helfer was one of the few editors whose name alone was enough to get me to try a book, so I thought he was a good match. and the subsequent crossover success of Paradox materials shows that he had a good sense of the larger non-comic shop sense of storytelling and subject matter.

Speaking of completely overlooked Piranha/Paradox gems -- the six issue mini-series from Piranha "Invaders from Home." as I get older and my kids grow up, this just strikes me as more and more interesting of a series.
Jim Kosmicki | Email | Homepage | 05.25.05 - 7:51 am | #

I have both that Archie pin AND the tri-color Archie pen!!!
Brian Cronin | Email | Homepage | 05.25.05 - 4:36 pm | #

Jim K. - I liked Invaders from Home, too. In fact, I enjoyed most of Piranha Press' output.

Secret Mikester fact: I own every Piranha Press release. Sad, isn't it?
Mikester | Homepage | 05.25.05 - 7:37 pm | #

Don't forget the free DC and Marvel pins given out during the DC vs. Marvel miniseries.

I also have a Sandman pin made by DC. I think they made a pin for the Jack Knight Starman, too.
collected editions | Homepage | 05.28.05 - 8:14 am | #

gly Children (under construction) at beautifulstoriesforuglychildren.com

All the books are being posted, as well as animated adaptations (just the trailer for now) of the clowns from A Cotton Candy Autopsy. Click on "Movie 1" -- it works better.

Fan post still to be built.
joey punchinello | Email | 06.21.05 - 5:56 pm | #