New Year's Resolution--Be More Like Trapster!!

See how Paste-Pot Pete actually believes himself  "the most powerful man in the world"?!?

I mean, this guy is essentially the comedy relief of the Frightful Four! In Marvel-616, he was probably a punchline every single night to one of Johnny Carson's jokes.

Yet here he is, using the power of positive thinking to secure high-paying jobs from guys like the Red Skull, and kidnapping beautiful S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and playing with "totally supreme weapons"!!

That's the power of positive thinking!!

So this year, I'm going to be more like the Trapster!!

From Captain America #108 (1968)

New Year's Resolution--Be More Like Zemo!

So, a man has come to deliver supplies to a "remote, unexplored South American jungle."

And whom do we find there?

Oh, Zemo--dominating the natives so they have to carry you around on their shoulders? How cliche!!

What else do you have?

OK, that's more like it!!

You guys know any big group that wants to volunteer to throw themselves on the ground so my feet don't touch the soil? I don't want to get my kicks dirty...

From Avengers #6 (1964)

Meet The New Year, Same As The Old Year

I'm really no good at this review the old year/look forward to the new year type of stuff.

Hell, without going back to look up dates & stuff, I couldn't begin to compile lists or reflect on events of the past year or any of the other stuff a card-carrying blotter is supposed to do this time of year.

As to 2012, really, what's to resolve? The piles of books and comics I need to read, TV and movies I need to see, music I need to listen to, etc, grow ever higher and higher. So I suppose I resolve yo fiddle with the space -time continuum to find an extra hour or so in every day.

But that's about as self-reflective as I ever get, so I'm just going to keep on keepin' on.

Oh, I'll try to be a little less curmudgeonly, to spend more time reading and commenting on the blogs of my comic-commenting colleagues, and to read (and write about) every comic ever printed.

Oh, yeah. I promise to fully embrace our better-than-Star-Trek-ever-imagined technology of the future. For example,this post was 100% composed on my Kindle Fire. Seriously, flying cars aside, we're living in the future, and I'd love to hop back in time 30 years and blow my young mind with a phone more powerful than contemporary supercomputers...

So as we head towards a) Mayan-predicted doomsday and b) the new James Bond movie, let's wallow once more in the philosophy that will guide me through this brave new world we face :

Oh, Tony, you're such a douche...

Comic Character New Years Resolutions--Roy Harper

Comic book characters make New Years resolutions, too. For example, take Roy Harper:

"I resolve not to shoot up any more."

Well, you're half way there, Roy...

OK, sorry about that. Won't happen again...at least until DC's next dismemberment...