Wednesday, December 3, 2025
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Lynda Carter and Linda Carter
In 1972, Lynda Carter, (born July 24, 1951) won a local Arizona beauty contest and gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA 1972, representing Arizona. In the international Miss World 1972 pageant, representing the United States she reached the Top 15. She took acting classes at several New York acting schools during the early 1970s. One of her acting partners during this time was future CBS president Les Moonves. Carter made her first acting appearance in "Roots of Anger", an episode of the 1974 police drama Nakia. She began making appearances on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch and Cos, as well as appearances in several "B" movies. She achieved fame playing Wonder Woman in a series that aired on ABC and later on CBS from 1975 to 1979.
Marvel Comics published a comic book titled Night Nurse for four issues in late 1972 and early 1973. The series was originally introduced as one of a trio of Marvel Comics aimed at a female audience, alongside Claws of the Cat and Shanna the She-Devil. Night Nurse straddled several different genres, and focused on the adventures of three female roommates who worked the night shift at the fictional Metropolitan General Hospital in New York City: Linda Carter, Georgia Jenkins, and Christine Palmer.
Linda Carter, one of the series' three central characters, previously was the lead of an earlier Marvel series, Linda Carter, Student Nurse, published in 1961. Other central characters included Georgia Jenkins and Christine Palmer; both Linda Carter and Christine Palmer would later be explicitly incorporated into the larger 616 Marvel Universe comics.
The Evolution of the Thing's Skin During Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four

Knowledge Waits is a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me.
In another piece dealing with Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott, I recently discussed an old Comic Book Legends Revealed that I did about how Jack Kirby initially intended for the Thing to look like he had sort of dinosaur hide. As Kirby noted at one point, “If you’ll notice, the beginnings of Ben, he was kind of lumpy. I felt he had the power of a dinosaur, and I began to think along those lines. I wanted his flesh to look like dinosaur hide.”
However, that approach was not translated well by Kirby's inkers. He went through a pile of different inkers on Fantastic Four until Joe Sinnott took over the series. The difference between Sinnott and the others is that unlike the other inkers, who Kirby would not let affect how he drew the Thing, he actually changed his approach to the Thing once Sinnott got there. Kirby began to pencil the Thing as Sinnott was inking him. That has been the Thing's look ever since.
But how did we get there?
Let's watch the Thing evolve from inker to inker in the early years of the Fantastic Four!
PROBABLY GEORGE KLEIN
No one is ABSOLUTELY sure who inked Jack Kirby on the first issue of Fantastic Four, but the most likely candidate is George Klein. He got pretty close to the dinosaur look...

DEFINITELY GEORGE KLEIN
On the off chance that Klein did not ink #1, he did ink #2, so we'll share that one, too, just to be safe...

SOL BRODSKY
Brodsky kept things mostly the same over his two issues.

JOE SINNOTT FILL-IN
So did Sinnott when he did a fill-in issue in Fantastic Four #5.

DICK AYERS
Here is where the change came in. Ayers clearly went to a more nuanced approach, with less of an emphasis on the lumpiness....

STEVE DITKO
Ditko did a fill-in in the middle of Ayers' run and Ditko went for a pretty darn lumpy look...

DICK AYERS AT THE END
However, by the time that Ayers left the book, you can see that he has already begun to adopt the sort of rock-like look that would eventually define the Thing....

Page 2: [valnet-url-page page=2 paginated=0 text='George Roussos makes the big change!']
GEORGE ROUSSOS
Roussos, though, who was the background inker for Bob Kane back in the early 1940s (when Jerry Robinson was inking Kane), was the guy who really went all in on the rocks right away during his run from Fantastic Four #21-27...

CHIC STONE
Chic Stone, though, pulled back a bit on his run from Fantastic Four #28-38...

He was doing a bit more of a scaly look.
FRANK GIACOIA
By the time Giacoia did a fill-in issue, though, the rocky look was pretty well-established...

VINCE COLLETTA
In his short run from Fantastic Four #40-43, Colletta definitely went big on the rocks...

JOE SINNOTT
Actually, looking at it now, Sinnott's work seems like it a part of the natural progression of the earlier artists, doesn't it?

The big difference is that Sinnott's version was now the one that Kirby would draw. So it is more that Sinnott locked in this specific rocky version of the Thing, as seen in Fantastic Four #50...

And then that was THE look for the Thing from that point forward.
It is cool how actually looking at the progression shows you things you didn't notice before. I thought the change from Stone to Sinnott was more dramatic, and to a certain extent it WAS, but that progression was blunted by the fact that Giacoia and Colletta had already THEMSELVES moved on dramatically from Stone's take on the Thing. Look at that Colletta Thing from #40. That pretty much IS the rockiness of the Sinnott thing, right? The big difference is that Sinnott just smoothed things out a bit to make them a bit more defined. So Sinnott is still key (as I noted, Kirby was still drawing the Thing the old way for years - the inkers just interpreted it their own way, until Sinnott), but he is far less key than I have thought.
https://www.cbr.com/fantastic-four-thing-rocky-skin-evolution/
Sunday, August 4, 2024
St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes
Só hoje percebi porque é que o Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes em inglês, famoso poema do padre jesuita António Vieira, é St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes e não St Anthony's Speech to the Fish. É por causa da rima do terceiro para o quarto versos na tradução para inglês.
Aqui fica o poema todo, conforme tradução de Abraham a Sancta-Clara:
Saint Anthony at church
Was left in the lurch,
So he went to the ditches
And preached to the fishes.
They wriggled their tails,
In the sun glanced their scales.
The carps, with their spawn,
Are all thither drawn;
Have opened their jaws,
Eager for each clause.
No sermon beside
Had the carps so edified.
Sharp-snouted pikes,
Who keep fighting like tikes,
Now swam up harmonious
To hear Saint Antonius.
No sermon beside
Had the pikes so edified.
And that very odd fish,
Who loves fast-days, the cod-fish,
The stock-fish, I mean,
At the sermon was seen.
No sermon beside
Had the cods so edified.
Good eels and sturgeon,
Which aldermen gorge on,
Went out of their way
To hear preaching that day.
No sermon beside
Had the eels so edified.
Crabs and turtles also,
Who always move low,
Made haste from the bottom
As if the devil had got 'em.
No sermon beside
The crabs so edified.
Fish great and fish small,
Lords, lackeys, and all,
Each looked at the preacher
Like a reasonable creature.
At God's word,
They Anthony heard.
The sermon now ended,
Each turned and descended;
The pikes went on stealing,
The eels went on eeling.
Much delighted were they,
But preferred the old way.
The crabs are backsliders,
The stock-fish thick-siders,
The carps are sharp-set,
All the sermon forget.
Much delighted were they,
But preferred the old way.
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Como resolver dores nos joelhos com exercícios
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Citação de Norm McDonald
"I will say this ... Before I met my wife I always thought I was incomplete. Now, I'm finished."
Monday, March 30, 2020
Citação de Norm McDonald
Norm McDonald on Letterman
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Meme Muito Mau

Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Citação: Alex Velluto
Alex Velluto standup Stop Your Racist Reflexes
Friday, March 23, 2018
Citação: Steven Wright
Steven Wright
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
As 11 Canções Plagiadas da Carreira de Tony
O Ministério Público acusou o cantor Tony Carreira de plagiar 11 músicas de autores estrangeiros, com a colaboração do compositor Ricardo Landum, também arguido, considerando que se “arrogaram autores de obras alheias” após modificarem os temas originais.
As músicas Depois de ti mais nada, Sonhos de menino, Se acordo e tu não estás eu morro, Adeus até um dia, Esta falta de ti, Já que te vais, Leva-me ao céu, Nas horas da dor, O anjo que era eu, Por ti e Porque é que vens são as 11 canções alegadamente plagiadas, segundo o despacho de acusação do MP.
https://www.publico.pt/2017/09/13/culturaipsilon/noticia/ministerio-publico-acusa-tony-carreira-de-plagiar-11-musicas-1785281
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Citação: Craig Ferguson
- Yes. Compared to me, other people are just stitious.
Craig Ferguson with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Friday, July 7, 2017
Citação: Gallagher
Gallagher
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
Citação: Joan Rivers
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Monday, March 6, 2017
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Citação: Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson
Monday, October 17, 2016
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
Citação: Donald Trump e as Gordas
Trump: I had sex with women who got fat.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Citação: Emily Galati
Citação: Brad Wenzel
CITAÇÃO: Timothy Olyphant
Friday, September 9, 2016
Citação: Matthew Broussard piada
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Citação: Jim Jefferies
Jim Jefferies
Monday, June 27, 2016
Citação de Bill Maher sobre o Brexit: paralelismos com os livros de Jane Austen
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Citação: Daniel Tosh
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Citação: Crónicas de Shannara

Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Citação: Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson
Monday, March 7, 2016
As Crónicas de Shannara
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Canibalismo Envenenado
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Adèle vs Kate Tempest
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
X Files S10e03
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Massacre no Texas saga: uma curta opinião
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Web site Commenting Services
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No topless in Swordfish TV version

14 Forgotten TV Superheroes

Monday, January 18, 2016
Citação: Parto e Rita Rudner
Rita Rudner
Monday, January 11, 2016
Blade Runner: o futuro em miniatura

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