Intermission — April 23 — Bigfoot Problems

Posted on April 23, 2026 by Brad Guigar

There are some Bigfoot problems that hit harder than others — and for certain legendary figures, male pattern baldness anxiety isn’t just about looks… it’s about legacy. Today’s comic imagines what happens when one very famous cryptid starts wondering if his myth might not survive a receding hairline.

What I’m Watching: Invincible, JJK, and the Great Animation Trade-Off

I’ve been watching Invincible with my sons, and I’ve got… thoughts.

First off: the story? Very, very good. Genuinely compelling stuff — even though the violence and gore is way past my personal comfort range. I'm not super comfortable with one character shooting another. The stuff that happens on a median-level episode of Invincible is a real challenge for me.

As someone who does NSFW comics, I'm constantly amazed at how perfectly acceptable Invincible is... yet an animated series based on Phil Foglio's XXXenophile would have people losing their ever-loving minds.

Further, it's a little disappointing to go from watching Jujutsu Kaisen (which we're also following at the moment) to watching Invincible.

JJK features jaw-dropping visuals and animation that constantly raises the bar episode after episode. It's phenomenal.

On the other side of the spectrum, Invincible clearly put all of its budget into getting celebrity voice talent. Some of them are very good.

I just wish a few of those Amazon dollars had been spent on the animation. Some of the scenes are pretty clearly PNGs that get enlarged to show an object moving through space, and it's a goddamned embarrassment.

But the story itself is very, very good.

Wizard: Guilty of Insider Trading?

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Brad Guigar

Wizard: Guilty of Insider Trading?

[NEWSARAMA] CBarger of Wonderworld Comics …questioned whether one eBay seller might have been given information that other retailers were not, as Wizard Universe, which is owned by the same company as Wizard Magazine, sold hundreds of issues of Captain America #25 on eBay on Wednesday at prices from $10 to $50 an issue.

“I think this is a case of life imitating art,” Barger said. “In Civil War Frontline #11, we find out that Tony Stark and Stark Industries were the real profiteers behind the entire Civil War. And now we find out that Wizard Magazine has abused their privilege as one of comics’ media sources to get info on this book, get a variant for their convention exclusive the week after it’s released, and on top of that, have their sales arm of the company order way in excess of what any retailer was privy to and start selling them on ebay the morning the story broke — before many of us were even open to start selling the book to our customers.”

“If they really had that much foresight to order that many more issues of this comic to sell on ebay, then kudos to them,” said Pierce of Alter Ego about all the ebay sellers who capitalized on the situation. “But it seems that there was the equivalent of insider trading going on. Some information was passed that the rest of the retailing world didn’t seem to get.”

Shea of Famous Faces & Funnies agreed. “Wizard seems to be the biggest offender in this situation and I’m sure this won’t be the last time an event like this has them at the center of it,” he said. “As they’ve now revealed their upcoming Cap cover on the next Wizard issue featuring 18 pages of Captain America articles, it’s obvious they knew all about this well in advance. As Wizard certainly gets early insider information, it’s a complete conflict of interest that they’re carrying this comic in such incredibly deep levels and selling them for such insane amounts considering they knew what was going to happen in this issue while no other retailers were clued in. I do understand the reluctance of Marvel to give every retailer all the details as it would have surely slipped out somewhere along the way, and we wouldn’t have had the full media blitz that we saw the last few days. However, Wizard being both a news source and an online retailer is really questionable territory.”

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