Duffman_Comics

Well, it seems that "Sleep no more" is present as an expression in both plays - though I readily concede the Hamlet instance is the stronger case for attribution.

Hamlet. “To die, to sleep—No more—and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to—'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.”

The link may not work because the story is paywalled here in Oz and therefore may present further problems Stateside. I'll echo @Brian Peck's view - steer well clear of this criminal.

Bugger me, no wonder I haven't been able to finish the run @OtherEric has been competing. With me. Cue confected outrage. I require four more to finish it off, and given the likely source will be located in the USofA I'd love to soften the shipping blow by getting them from the same source. Ah well, back to scouring the internet.

This is classic Robot Man. I am stealing this bit.

Interesting article, if a little incomprehensible - "The comic starts in the usual way. Steve the glamorous leaves his glamorous "boss lady" *What? Steve the glamorous?* (apparently in the US all Bosses are gorgeous females) . . ." Again, what? The rest is equally difficult to decipher, even from a Trotsky perspective (that's a joke, Joyce) What is far more disturbing is the "shaded" article purporting to be from Phoenix - "The Home of the Brave".

I guess someone did not understand the correct manner of returns processing.

Here's a copy and paste from a post I made in (yet another) GSP thread in 2015, Linky "I'm on the record here as a GSP hater. I find it loathsome, and will not buy from sellers who use it. Period. What a lot here seem to be missing is the elephant in the room. All packages shipped to the GSP hub in Kentucky are opened there! The USPS doesn't open outgoing packages unless it has a reasonable suspicion that something's "not right". When a package is opened by the USPS, pretty strict guidelines have to be followed in order that there are no "shenanigans". EVERY package shipped to Kentucky is opened, to "check". Yeah, right. I'd love to believe that their facility, when it comes to opening packages, is held to the same standard as the USPS. I doubt it though. Leaving all this aside, how comfortable are you as a seller with the notion that someone else is going to repackage your carefully constructed parcel?" I followed it up with a reference published in the Boston Globe: Linky Relevant extract: "Under the eBay program, sellers mail items to a Pitney Bowes warehouse in Erlanger, Ky., where employees open and repackage items, billing the buyers — not sellers — for shipping and customs fees. A handling fee is added into the charges, but neither eBay nor Pitney Bowes would disclose how the fee is calculated." Bolded for emphasis." Use it, don't use it, it's all good as long as both parties are aware of what it entails. I am aware and refuse to engage with sellers who use it.

That twist is so redolent of the fate of Ned Kelly. "Let's fix him up to execute him". George Evans, and even moreso colourist Marie Severin manage to keep a VERY static story (lots of beds and earnest conversations) interesting by way of some dramatic "lighting" and unconventional viewpoints. It didn't help the title's success (obviously, only lasted five issues) but a brave experiment.

Leaving aside the questionable narrative, demanding an English speaking officer be presented and the "we'll huff and puff and blow your house down threat", that bunker is a remarkable artifact. Must be a two storey (at least) arrangement and when was the last time an emplacement of this nature had the access on the same side as the armaments? Of course, there may be weapons mounted in all directions, which begs the question what exactly is it defending? Itself? Still, a pretty good cover.

I think Dr Burke plays a mean air guitar. *Boom-Tish*

I've had this happen, and then found them "two in a bag" with the backing board separating them. Usually happens when bagging books and run low on supplies and then forget to separate and bag and board the "doubled" issues when further supplies are secured. I didn't notice it straight away as the books are pretty tight in the boxes and i'm only looking at the book covers facing me - not the backs. Just a thought.

Paul did love to "experiment" with page layouts, didn't he? Hard to determine the order in which each panel should be read at times. "Umba el Ruc" What? Just terrific, typical Australian Golden Age yarns. Confusing in dialogue, art and editing.

10 to the power of 2, or 139 to be exact. I often wonder how comics "arrive" at certain places around the world. A WWII Pommie Mickey Mouse is unlikely to have arrived in Tasmania in 1943. UK emigrant with kids post war? Who knows, idle speculation, great fodder for these boards.

Now, I was reading the "Donald Duck" #26 Yarn "Trick or Treat" and nine pages in Uncle Carl throws up this panel: "Macbeth" Act 4, Scene 1. These were supposed to be funny animal books for little kids, so he throws a little Shakespeare in. He sure wasn't condescending to his audience. I know, the quote is very well known and what better dialogue for a "Witches' Brew" scene, but still . . .

Been a while, but here's a couple of group shots of recent pickups. That "Uncle Scrooge" means I am down to needing four to complete the 71 issue Barks run. I really like the colour on the "Donald Duck" #71. It just "pops".

If you are talking about Jean Giraud aka Moebius, he died in 2012 at the age of 73.

This lass is quite the handywoman isn't she? I see she's been painting. Has a paint brush loaded with yellow paint. OK. Wait on. She's got two paint tins near the brush. One is a red can, yellow on the can's edge where the brush's excess is removed. Hmmm. The paint inside is black. Hmmm. Other can? White on the outside. Yellow on the rim. Contents are white. Hmmm. There's another can on top of the step ladder. It's got yellow dribbles on the outside but who knows what lies within. Ahhh, the Charlton attention to detail. Oh, and I see Joe is driving a woody. I wonder if that's the only one in this scene . . .

Cannot let this one go by without comment. I thought initially it was a map of the U.S.A.'s "flyover" states. No, it's just some random shapes that the graphic art jobsworth thought did the job of defining areas so that the teasers could be similarly confined. Now, "Medical Man". I guess he is, the outfit is sort of a white chemist jacket arrangement, but what's with the blue piping? Chelsea F.C. fan? Possibly. This is a pence comic after all. Oh, and what part of the "medico's" training involved diagnosing and treating "winsome"? Must be a subset of the "cute" module. Good stuff Marwood and I.

Sha, I think the shower curtain is a solid colour but the "artist" is trying to give the impression of "waviness" by alluding to different shades as the thing "moves". And the latch is actually the shower curtain rail. Held in place by a Skyhook. No idea what the "wall space that looks like a door" is.

"While I was dead . . ." Said no-one EVER.

There's something vaguely familiar here, but I just can't quite put my finger on it . . .

Is there a better feeling than getting a hold of a book you once had as a child, remembering how good it was and "reliving" the reading experience? No wonder you're a Duck man. This issue (with the exception of the back cover), is all Barks story and art. Great get

GW? Think you'll find it's Andrew Jackson on the $US20 note. Duffman. Nitpicking since 1974. Oh, and who do you reckon the covers artist is? I'm thinking Bramley. He did a lot of Horwitz work.