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Read Tintin in Tibet (1960) for the first time. Tintin has a premonition of his friend Chang (whom he befriended in The Blue Lotus adventure) then learns his plane crashed in the Himalayas in Tibet. He is determined to go and search for his friend and has a perilous journey, but against all odds is successful - his friend being saved and guarded by a yeti.

Read The Red Sea Sharks (1958) for the first time. Wow, a lot of reoccurring character appearances in this story - General Alcazar, Abdullah, Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, Doctor Müller, Oliveira da Figueira, Jolyon Wagg, Bianca Castafiore, and the reappearance of villains Rastapopoulos and ship captain Allan Thompson. A fun adventure with many perilous situations but, as usual, with a satisfactory ending. Although the villain Rastapopoulos does escape in spectacular fashion.

Read The Calculus Affair (1956). A fun Tintin tale of espionage with lots of cool cars and chases. Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Snowy succeed in solving the mystery and rescuing Professor Calculus.

My favorite comic acquisitions this year. Three very good old Batman comics. One Penguin, one Joker, and one Riddler. I enjoy reading them.

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Read Explorers on the Moon (1954). Tintin's journey to and exploration of the moon. A fun tale with some great artwork. Per usual, there is intrigue and conspiracy. Colonel Boris Jorgen, previously seen in King Ottokar's Sceptre, is the villain. But all ends well with Tintin back on earth.

Man, so much cool art in this auction. Batman art, Wrightson art, EC art...

Golf in the Kingdom When an American traveler on his way to India stops to play a round on one of the most beautiful and legendary golf courses in Scotland, he doesn’t know that his game—and his life—are about to change forever. He is introduced to Shivas Irons, a mysterious golf pro whose sublime insights stick with him long after the eighteenth hole. From the first swing of the Scotsman’s club, he realizes he is in for a most extraordinary day. By turns comic, existential, and semi-autobiographical, Michael Murphy’s tale traces the arc of twenty-four hours, from a round of golf on the Links of Burningbush to a night fueled by whiskey, wisdom, and wandering—even a sighting of Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts the hole they call Lucifer’s Rug.

Read Destination Moon (1953). A fun tale of professor Cuthbert Calculus designing a nuclear-powered rocket to go to the moon. Tintin and Captain Haddock get involved in the project and some intrigue along the way ending with the rocket launching to the moon with them aboard. Continued in the next album Explorers on the Moon...

Read The Land of Black Gold. Very entertaining tale of sabotage and international intrigue leading Tintin, Captain Haddock, and the Thomson twins to Arabia. Tintin has a run in with Dr Muller whom we last saw in the Black Island. The story ends satisfactorily with resolution of the mystery.

Read Prisoners of the Sun. A continuation of the adventure in Peru. A classic Tintin tale with lots of peril, twists, and turns culminating in their breaking into the inner sanctum of an ancient Inca temple. All ends well and our heros are back on their way home to Europe. Next up is Tintin in the Land of Black Gold.

Read The Seven Crystal Balls for the first time. A fun Tintin mystery/adventure where members of an expedition to bring back an Incan mummy are targeted by an apparent curse involving crystal balls. The adventure ends on a cliffhanger and continues in Prisoners of the Sun (which I've also never read).

So would that mean for a short time Luke was hand solo? 🤔

After taking the summer off, I decided there was no better day to restart reading Tintin than 10/10. Read Red Rackham's Treasure. One of Herge's best Tintin stories. Leaving off from The Secret of the Unicorn, Tintin and Captain Haddock set out on a voyage to find the wreck of the Unicorn. They are joined by a new character, Professor Calculus. Discovering the island and the wreck (thanks to the professor's shark submarine), they have an adventure recovering items from the sunken ship but no treasure. They return home when Tintin discovers that the Bird brothers home (Marlinespike Hall from the previous story) is the ancestral home of Haddock. With Professor Calculus' help, Haddock buys the home and they find the treasure. A great end to a great Tintin story.

I was reading CFA-APA #47 recently and there is an article by Ray Cuthbert about the art for Al Williamson's Flash Gordon #1. He has the art on his Comic Art Fans page. https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1395 Including the cover.

I hadn't seen the 1980 movie in a long time so I recently watched it with my wife and teenage son (they'd never seen it). Ultimately, they liked it but both remarked about a half hour in about how sexual the movie was (almost uncomfortably so). I could kinda see their point. Guess that's why I was such a fan as a teenager.

Love The Goon. Still have all my issues I bought off the rack.

I thought the Old West crypto mining episode was the best so far. https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/08/new-clips-futurama-crew-mosey-out-to-crypto-country/

I watched them on Friday night with my teenage son. We enjoyed them.

I just got Hulu to finally watch this series. Watched the pilot. Interesting so far...