Dear Reader, you owe it to yourself to read Chris Sims’ Invincible Super-Blog—that is, if you love the sweet and terrible world of comics as much as Professor Fury and I do. The Sims effortlessly magnifies all the wonderful heights and 1990’s-era Marvel lows of comics, and he throws it at your face like a robot shark.
He’s been highlighting Christmas (“Holiday”) comics lately, and the most recent Xmas special is on a particular favorite of mine—”Starlight, Starbright, Furthest Star I See Tonight,” a tragicomedy starring Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes—and Dr. Sims was kind enough to dedicate it to me! After I, you know, kept leaving comment after comment about it.
This is all I have to say about Chris Sims: “His body was mangled beyond repair in the airplane crash that killed his family . . . but the post-war science of a dozen bastard worlds combined to create CHRS-INVNCBL, the dashing pipe-smoking cyborg who would roam the post-nuclear Earth of 20X8, spreading the ancient lore of COMICS, and fighting evil wherever he found it.
“And also, there was the making out with the hott chixx. Basically, there was just, you know, fighting dog-headed monsters and making out. I mean, everybody always thinks the post-nuclear holocaust earth is going to be, you know, all tragic and stuff, but really, the making out ratio, it was pretty great.”
Happy Future Hanukkah, Everybody!!
