A Soothing Way To Start Your Morning!

Tough day ahead?

Here's something to help out to a great start to your morning. So sip your coffee or tea or Red Bull, and enjoy the soothing sounds of robot laughter:

Sorry about that.

But don't worry about poor H.E.R.B.I.E., friends. He hasn't really gone around the bend. He's just possessed by the disembodied intelligence of Tomb Of Dracula villain Doctor Sun. And the character created for children's' television solves that little problem by committing violent suicide!!

Hmmm, that probably wasn't too soothing either, was it?

From Fantastic Four #217 (1980)

Guess What?

Hey, computer that has been bedeviling me for 3 weeks...guess what?





I win!!

New computer: obtained. File:s mostly sorta transferred. Advanced blogging capabilities: restored.

Watch out, world...

Yes, This Really Happened Chapter 76

Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary tale:

Yes, this really happened:

**The much derided H.E.R.B.I.E., created for the fantastic Four cartoon because Marvel had leased the righst for the Human Torch to someone else, was made a "real" part of the Marvel Universe. Yes, that really happened.

**Ben Grimm called him a "tin galoot" on the cover. Yes, that really happened.

**H.E.R.B.I.E. was possessed by the bodiless intelligence of an old Tomb Of Dracula villain, Doctor Sun, who proceeded to try to kill the Fantastic Four. Yes, an old Tomb Of Dracula villain. Yes, that really happened.

Indeed, some people don't value Marv Wolfman's run on FF enough, in part because he used it to clear up all his old Marvel loose ends before leaving for DC. Old Tomb Of Dracula villains, finishing up his Nova/Sphinx story...yeah, at times, the FF seemed a guest-star in their own book.

But a Tomb Of Dracula villain possessing H.E.R.B.I.E. to kill the FF? Gosh, I love comics!

**Comics for only 40¢? Yes, that really happened...

Forget The Flying Cars--Where The Hell Is My Computer?!?

Sorry, kiddies, apparently they had to get a time machine, travel back into the past, and bribe some corrupt government official to invent new technology for the enslaved Mayans to build in order to find an "impossible to find' part for my 3 year old computer.

Fortunately, my schedule clears up considerably next week, so the increased time (along with the benevolence of friends and their machines) should see an increase to something resembling normal posting. Sigh....where's H.E.R.B.I.E. when you need him??