
(the Archie daily comic strip, 5/24/2011)
Those punk kids these days with their Kathy Perrys and Gaga Ladies and Richard Rosses… What is the world coming to?
Recommended listening: I never felt so much a’ like a’ like a’ like ‘a…
In case you were wondering about the lack of updates lately, I’ve decided to switch from a regular schedule to simply posting whenever I damn well feel like it.
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Article tags: Archie, haircuts, mind the generation gap, trying too hard

(from What If…? v1 #38, April 1983; by Rick Margopoulos, Dan Reed & Mike Esposito)
PRO TIP: Remove all studs and piercings before reaheating leftover punks in your microwave.
Recommended listening: Then more than ever.
(With thanks to Bully, the Little Stuffed Pogo-dancer.)
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Article tags: Captain America, mind the generation gap, trying too hard, What If

(from New Teen Titans v2 #33, July 1987; by Paul Levitz, Erik Larsen & Romeo Tanghal)
Toss in a couple of vaguely contextual Bible quotes and you’d have the makings one bitchin’ Jack Chick tract.
Recommended listening: Keep your hand on the stick at all times.
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Article tags: New Teen Titans, that sinking feeling, vroom

(from New Teen Titans v2 #24, October 1986; by Wolfman, Barreto & Tanghal)
I could have mentioned I was taking last week off, but how punk rock would that have been?
Recommended listening: Like all power pop romances, it works best if you imagine the subject has no idea who the singer is.
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Article tags: making the scene, mind the generation gap, New Teen Titans, trying too hard

(from Scare Tactics #7, June 1997; by Kaminski, Williams & Lanning)
I saw a dead punk idol shooting smack in the alley behind Seditionaries. And his hair was spiky.
Recommended listening: Idolatry? No. Pity? Yes.
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Article tags: feeding the habit, gratuitous Zevon references, Scare Tactics, Sid Vicious, trying too hard

(from Secret Wars II #2, August 1985; by Shooter, Milgrom, Leialoha & Rubenstein)
What if…Tim Gunn was the Beyonder?
Recommended listening: There’s no place like home for the hardcore.
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(from Secret Wars II #2, August 1985; by Shooter, Milgrom, Leialoha & Rubenstein)
Boooooooooooring.
Recommended listening: Not boring.
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Article tags: boring, Charlie Carcrash, Secret Wars II, so boring

(from Marvel Fanfare #20, May 1985; by Jim Starlin & Al Milgrom)
James Fenimore Cooper’s Studs ‘n’ Leatherstocking Tales, featuring Natty Punko.
Recommended listening: Give a hoot.
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Article tags: Charlie Carcrash, Marvel Fanfare, not even trying, The Thing

(from Batman: The Cult #3, 1988; by Jim Starlin, Berni Wrightson & Bill Wray)
There are some folks out there who’ll tell you Batman: The Cult is a profoundly terrible comic.
They are wrong. There is nothing profound about this misbegotten piece of shit.
Recommended listening: Change the channel, please.
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Article tags: Batman, making the scene

(from Ronin: Book Two, September 1983; by Frank Miller & Lynn Varley)
Ronin becomes a lot less impressive after one realizes the working title of the series was “Frank Miller Spent a Long Weekend Reading Lone Wolf and Cub and Akira.”
Recommended listening: Beg for it.
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Article tags: making the scene, Ronin, trying too hard