Influential Appearances

Here are the close-up images and brief notes for the final cards of my decked-out desktop.

Bizarro #1 wants to know why he didn't see a doorbell.

Somebody ratted the Wolf Man's bouffant, it looks like!

We sure liked watching Magnum, PI in the 80s.  The fun was increased when our oldest came along.  When the theme music came on, Matthew went into what he called his Crazy Dance, which involved spinning around, wiping out, and bouncing off the furniture.  Wish I had a home movie of that!

Chris Reeve was a great Superman.  Too bad the corporate suits shoehorned him into the third and fourth movies, yuk!

Of course you all know Mazeppa hisself!?!?

Joni Mitchell's voice, songs, and oddball guitar stylings shot me through the heart in the Seventies, and beyond.

You knew the job was dangerous when you took it!

See you on Monday!

  

The Bottom But Not of the Barrel!

Here are half the card on the bottom row of my laptop desktop, with notes.

The combination of studied anarchy, elucidation, joyful ethnic humor, and the wonderful Margaret Dumont (not pictured) make the Brothers Marx some of my idols.

Franz Liszt wrote music passionate and/or rational.  He's also my idol for his stupendous piano transcriptions of the Beethoven Symphonies, played revelatorily by Cyprien Katsaris. 

Who could fail to be charmed and inspired by this Neal Adams depiction of Supergirl, from the cover of Action #373.

Mr Waverly, the head of the New York HQ of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

Two robots everybody should know!

Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder Dog stood for goodness and rightness, especially against Crabby Appleton.

See you on Thursday for the final installment of this tour of these formative impressers on my character!