T-shirt #329 - The Pixies

T-shirt #329 - 

The Pixies

On Saturday the 8th, just five days ago, my step-daughter Piper and her boyfriend Adam went to see the Pixies in Detroit.

When I listed my top ten favorite bands (which was actually a top thirteen) in T-shirt #273, I did not list the Pixies. But they were in my secondary list.

Here's what I wrote in T-shirt #273, which was dedicated to U2 and the Vertigo Tour and I think it bears repeating because for some of you, this is the way you see it for the first time and for regular readers, it never hurts to see it again (because who am I kidding, how many people click ANY of my links):

TOP TEN FAVORITE BANDS
... okay, actually the top thirteen and a secondary list of many.

U2 is definitely a favorite band, but would it make my top ten? I don't think so. Here's a quick list of absolute top ten bands:

The Jam, Cocteau Twins, 10,000 Maniacs, The Indigo Girls, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Everything But the Girl, King Crimson, Radiohead, Stereolab, Spyro Gyra, Sigur Rós, The Clash.
Okay, that's thirteen. But I was going by iTunes playlists and most frequent listening stats. And there's a secondary list, and this is where you will find U2:

Kraftwerk, The Innocence Mission, Japan, Talking Heads, U2, REM, The Art of Noise, Genesis, Hooverphonic, DEVO, Simon and Garfunkel, Haircut 100, They Might Be Giants, New Order, Joy Division, The Style Council, Cabaret Voltaire, Lush, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, The Pixies.

And I am still leaving out many great bands and groups of artists who function like bands, such as Aphex Twin and most especially Machine Love(note the link to my entry on them in my other blog). I have given Machine Love some LOVE on my pages before, but in 273 posts, I am not sure where.

I would say this is a pretty good start to the favorite bands list. Though not a top ten, those thirteen bands are those I have listened to most often over the years. Though great and frequently in my rotation, U2 falls into a secondary category of favorites that I adore but for one reason or another were not as constantly played as first thirteen. I also think it's worth noting that of the thirteen "favorites," I have blog posts specifically dedicated to nine of those thirteen top bands, and I have plans for posts with three more of them.

All that said, though U2 is not in that top thirteen bands, I do love U2 and have a long history of loving them and listening to them.

I believe that when I made up my lists in T-shirt #273 that I had quite forgotten my list in T-shirt #46. Here's what I wrote in that post:

This list excludes childhood loves (the Partridge Family, the Osmonds, the Jackson Five), musical artists who are not bands even though they may be backed by a band, and newer bands that I have not loved long enough to consider placing in the top ten. I also do a little doubling up.
Though numbered, the bands are not ranked.

1. 10,000 Maniacs
2. Cocteau Twins
3. The Jam/ Style Council
4. Spyro Gyra
5. Steely Dan
6. Pink Floyd
7. Everything But The Girl
8. King Crimson
9. The Indigo Girls
10. Talking Heads

As much as I love Devo, they do not make this list. And other bands who I love with a great burning passion, like Joy Division (see T-shirt #35), Kraftwerk (T-shirt #36), and Sigur Rós (T-shirt #12); other great bands do not break the top ten but would be in my top twenty, such as Radiohead, Roxy Music, the Clash, Dead Can Dance, and the Police.

Even though DEVO is not in the top ten favorites, they are in the list of bands or musical artists that I want to see live. A list that also includes bands I cannot see live, such as Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, and the Jam.

So the lists are similar though not identical. For instance, the Clash is not on the earlier list. Neither is Sigur Rós, Radiohead, or Radiohead. I had Talking Heads originally in that early top ten list and then dropped them upon consideration to a secondary list.

The Pixies make that secondary list not because I am a huge Pixies fan gone berserk with Pixies adoration but because the Pixies are one of those bands that one is supped to like if you are someone like me given my other fandom focuses and general aesthetics. Now, don't get me wrong, I like the Pixies. I like them a lot. I think they are a GREAT band. But I am not as completely off my rocker nuts about them as other people in my orbit are and I resist the pressure I feel to be so nuts.

The next question is whether or not I would put the Pixies on a list of greatest bands in the history of modern music, and I think I can say without reservation that I would. Many of my favorite bands would not make that list, a more objective list, measuring greatness, impact, and some kind of seminal factor.

I featured the Pixies many semesters in my musical artists of the week and talked about the band's importance to modern music as we know it.

I had the pleasure of seeing the Pixies during their first reunion tour in 2004 11 years after their inexplicable break up in 1993.

I saw one of the shows at the Aragon and ran into many other Kalamazooans there.

It was a great show. The Pixies were dead on target with their music and their set. The distance and time from the original recordings and early years had given them a necessary perspective allowing them to play songs lovingly and without sounding forced.

Given my companion at the time, I did not dance but actually secured seats from which to sit and watch and listen. It was an unusual way to see a band that gets me dancing.

Before the concert, I ate at a nearby Vietnamese restaurant in Chicago.

I also bought the live recordings through a service that records the show and produces high quality CDs mixed from the sound directly from the concert's sound board.

 When I met the woman who is now my wife, Liesel, I discovered that she was also a Pixies fan. I had the word "huge" originally modifying "Pixies," and I took it out because I do not consider myself or Liesel a "HUGE" Pixies fan. I like the Pixies. I recognize how great they are. But there are many other bands I love more from a purely personal taste perspective.

One thing that has always struck me about my wife, Liesel, is that she has great taste. She has great taste in everything but especially in music. Our musical tastes do not align perfectly, but we're pretty closely synced.

We adopted "Velouria," the first song off the 1990 album Bossanova.

We used some of the lyrics in our wedding invitation: "We will wade in the shine of the ever."

Perfect.

Priceless.

More on this story in the entry for T-shirt #279: thirtysomething.

THE PIXIES OFFICIAL SITE

HERE'S MY TOP FIVE FAVORITE PIXIES SONGS. TOUGH CHOICE. BUT HERE YOU GO.

I have a few other goodies to share, also.

THE VIDEOS

A song with lyrics based on Un Chien Andalou, the 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí, is going to be one of my favorites. But the song has such a great hook. I think it's one of the Pixies' best songs.

Pixies - Debaser (Official Video)

Girls playing the bass are super hot and awesome. Kim Deal happens to transcend this tawdry praise and achieves a hole new level. This is a fantastic song and proof that Frank does not have to be the front man on every song.

The Pixies - Gigantic

Yes, I am going with the best known Pixies song as a fave. What of it? But this video is so awesome. And I prefer the UK surf version of this song. I first heard it on the X-Files, which may be how I came to connect with the Pixies for the first time.

The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)

Since I leaving "Velouria" for last, my fourth choice is very tough because there's tons of great songs to choose from. A lot of people might choose "Where's My Mind?" or "Bone Machine" is popular. Though top tracks in You Tube are a bit puzzling. Check out this list.

• Top tracks
• Albums

Where Is My Mind?		3:56
Hey		3:32
Trompe le Monde		1:49
Cecilia Ann		2:06
Space		4:21
Debaser		2:57
Gigantic		3:57
Alec Eiffel		2:55
Here Comes Your Man		3:20
Bone Machine		3:04

My fourth is going to prove that Doolittle is my favorite album. But I also have to go with this clip from Letterman.

The Pixies- Monkey Gone to Heaven

And lastly "VELOURIA," one of the two songs that Liesel and I consider "our songs." I own recordings of the Brixton shows featured here, so a final Pixies treat. The lyrics of this song are capable of transporting me to the early days of my relationship with Liesel. It always kindles our love for each other.

"Velouria"

hold my head
we'll trampoline
finally through the roof
on to somewhere near
and far in time
velouria
her covering
travelling career
she can really move
oh velveteen!

my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore you
my velouria

say to me
where have you been
finally through the roof
and how does lemur skin
reflect the sea?

we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the tides of the summer
every summer
every summer
every
my velouria
my velouria

forevergreen
i know she's here
in California
i can see the tears
of shastasheen

my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore your
my velouria

Pixies - Velouria (live)

And now for those treats that I mentioned...

bowie on Pixies

Great stuff by the masterful Mr. Bowie!! If you look at You Tube, you will also find a video of Radiohead talking about the influence of the Pixies.

Though not the Pixies, this next is from the Breeders, whom I may love more (at least The Last Splash) than the Pixies for the excellence of the Deal sisters.

Cannonball - The Breeders

Damn that's a great song.

Okay, Okay, I LOVE THE PIXIES. Damn you. Damn you all.

It's true.

Not put down the pipe.

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T-shirt #328 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

HIATUS TEXT: I am taking a short hiatus. A "hiatus" for the 365 T-shirts Blog does not mean that there will not be shirts or that I will skip posting on any forthcoming day. There will be shirts. But the shirts will not be exciting or the featured shirts will not require me to write a small novel to properly generate the content I feel is sufficient. I created a category for my hiatus so as to group together those "easy" shirts that I consider to be "hiatus shirts." The goal of the hiatus is to fill in many blog days with easy shirts in order to complete longer love letters to beloved popular culture icons on more special shirts and to write more complex entries AHEAD OF TIME. The daily grind is becoming too much and causing me to fall behind and to be forced to post incomplete entries. I am hoping that a series of hiatus shirts will allow me to catch up, get ahead, and stay ahead. Ideally, I would like to be writing the bulk of each entry three days ahead while always working on at least one other. I have a lot of great shirts to share before the end of my blog year (after all I was just given SIXTEEN shirts for my birthday). Stay tuned. I promise to post the more interesting and longer T-shirt entries as I finish them. Thanks for reading. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.

T-shirt #328 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I had to post this as incomplete last night. I am now writing to you from the future. It's Thursday for me though this blog shows it is Wednesday.

It's time for some comedy in the form of the greatest comedy of all time: MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. Since this is supposedly HIATUS time for me, I am presenting again text from T-shirt #271 - SPAMALOT and a short bit from T-shirt #187 as both that shirt and this one were gifted to me by the Lord of Chaos.

But first, I would like to explain Grading Robot's ordeal.

Grading Robot has completed another arduous test of his grading prowess, rendering grades at a record speed though not in a record time. Grades were submitted one hour before the deadline, which I should congratulate myself is at least not one minute before the deadline. The main problem with grades for this school is that every week two sets of assignments (about 120 in all if every student submits which never happens) are due by Friday at 9 a.m. I get one set on Sunday night and the other on Monday night prior to that Friday deadline. Usually this haul is not so bad, especially with later assignments, as many students fail to submit. One week, out of 30 students, I had NINE submit the paper on time. It's easy to give zeroes. It's also easy to give 100/100. It's the grades in between that take time and consideration.

FINAL GRADES, which are what I just finished, are always due one day before the usual Friday deadline, so THURSDAY at 9 a.m. Since I am often up at 5 a.m. and grading feverishly to meet the Friday at 9 a.m. deadline, one can imagine that a deadline 24 hours earlier would send me into a panic. This is further compounded by how many late assignments I have. As students submit late work, I let it pile up until I have time go through it all as the new assignments, the on time assignments, are tied to that deadline that I have to meet each week. This semester I was good, and I dispensed with a big set of late work after week three of the five week term. But more built up since then, despite my cut offs and in some cases refusal to accept late work. So, starting Monday, I had two sets of assignments to grade and LATE WORK plus other classes and responsibilities.

I knew things were not going well when I did not get much accomplished Monday because of class, family, and assorted other obligations. Tuesday was crunch time, but I could see I would need every minute to make that Thursday morning deadline. Wednesday morning I had my programming  class to attend, and then other daily work, and so it was nearly 3 p.m. Wednesday before I could start to crank up Grading Robot to full power. I had dismissed the first two sets of assignments on Tuesday as they were easy. This left final drafts of persuasive essays and all the late work, over a dozen papers, to finish by 9 a.m. Thursday, permitting myself a decent night's sleep. I do not care how much work I have to do, I am not being paid enough to work late into the night. 9 p.m. is the latest I have ever worked for this job and that was too late and due to extenuating circumstances (staying up with Liesel or waiting for Liesel, I forget).

I did two things to speed up. I re-used grade feedback. If the student did not make any changes to the fourth assignment and basically submitted it again for the final draft fifth assignment, then why rewrite all the same comments? The grades were different, but the comments remained the same. Furthermore, if the student submitted late, essentially the Week Three-Week Five assignments were probably all the same or nearly. Once again, the same comments were warranted but with different grades as the preliminary draft (#3) is not held to the same standard as the final draft (#5). This saved me a lot of time as I was able to re-use grade feedback and clear out two late assignments by looking at and grading just one draft. As a result, Grading Robot graded at must faster pace and managed to get to bed at a decent hour, even sleeping in a little rather than bounding out of bed at 5 a.m.

Thanks for reading. I know that these ruminations on my process are probably much more fascinating to me than to anyone else, though I do like the act of writing down what I have done, how, and why.

But today's entry is dedicated to the very great and quite stupendous comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (As for the picture above, this book is a great item to enjoy the film as, sadly, I cannot locate my DVD.

This LINK takes you to a group of nine movies which may be the entire movie of Monty Python and the Holy Grail broken into parts that You Tube will not remove (with German subtitles).

There is a smart chap who made a modern styled preview with action parts and scary parts of Monty Python and the Holy Grail that sells it as an action film.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Modern "Trailer"

By the time I started college, I knew Monty Python well and found many, many people who loved it, too. In fact, loving Monty Python seemed to be almost a requirement for admission to Kalamazoo College along with knowing the air velocity of a laden swallow.

Emphasizing this like-mindedness, this shirt was a gift from my best friend and college buddy Tom Meyers, who may love Monty Python more than I do (which is saying something) as he memorized the entire Word Association Football sketch. Though it was not a recent gift, so it does not qualify as a New T-shirt acquired since the blog's inception.

There are many, many subjects worth exploring about Monty Python, and I am not devoting the time and text to all of them at this juncture. There's the brilliant three-sided LP record Matching Tie and Handkerchief; the most ingenious comedy movie ever made: Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Live concerts like Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl and Secret Policeman's Other Ball;and the TV show that started it all Monty Python's Flying Circus, which wisely burned very bright for 45 episodes and stopped production before they ran it into the ground.

In part, I presented these videos before but I present them all again (plus one) because they are, in my opinion, some of the best (though maybe not definitively the best) bits from this great film.

THE VIDEOS

I am sure that every single person reading my blog has seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail at least once. If you have not seen it, this is something to dedicate yourself to IMMEDIATELY. If you do not have time to go get and watch the movie, then check out these favorite scenes of mine. If you have seen the movie, you will surely enjoy seeing these scenes again. I will try to keep my set of videos here to a minimum, but I would rather post the ENTIRE MOVIE, obviously. heh. "Obviously." Guard scene. But first, the full French Taunting sequence.

French Taunting - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

There's no reason that this scene should have been left out of Spamalot. Very silly. It's one of my very favorite bits in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Classic John Cleese: "She turned me into a newt" following the longest pause in comedy film: "I got better."


She's a witch!

Surely, no collection of videos for my favorite scenes Monty Python and the Holy Grail could leave out this completely hilarious and often quoted scene. LOVE IT!!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Guards Scene

Monty Python Holy Grail Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

Monty Python And The Holy Grail - Help Help I'm Being Repressed

I know, I know. I am leaving out MANY great scenes. Though the KILLER RABBIT never did much for me, so not that one.

Hey, I said I would keep it to a minimum. Four is rather a lot, really. THREE. "Five sir." Five!
Sorry. I get carried away thinking about this movie. :-)

If you want to see more, go SEE THE MOVIE. Again, this LINK may help with that viewing option.

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T-shirt #327 - WMU Scrubs

T-shirt #327 - WMU Scrubs

"Don't want no Scrubs."

HIATUS TEXT: I am taking a short hiatus. A "hiatus" for the 365 T-shirts Blog does not mean that there will not be shirts or that I will skip posting on any forthcoming day. There will be shirts. But the shirts will not be exciting or the featured shirts will not require me to write a small novel to properly generate the content I feel is sufficient. I created a category for my hiatus so as to group together those "easy" shirts that I consider to be "hiatus shirts." The goal of the hiatus is to fill in many blog days with easy shirts in order to complete longer love letters to beloved popular culture icons on more special shirts and to write more complex entries AHEAD OF TIME. The daily grind is becoming too much and causing me to fall behind and to be forced to post incomplete entries. I am hoping that a series of hiatus shirts will allow me to catch up, get ahead, and stay ahead. Ideally, I would like to be writing the bulk of each entry three days ahead while always working on at least one other. I have a lot of great shirts to share before the end of my blog year (after all I was just given SIXTEEN shirts for my birthday). Stay tuned. I promise to post the more interesting and longer T-shirt entries as I finish them. Thanks for reading. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.

Is this brief enough?

Grading Robot is at full power. Final grade deadline looms. I need life support.

Please resuscitate.

Meanwhile, I am having a glass of WHISKEY!

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T-shirt #326 - Another TPTA Corporate Olympics Shirt

T-shirt #326 - Another TPTA Corporate Olympics Shirt

There's my blurry image in the above photo. Another TPTA Corporate Olympics shirt to go with the entries for T-shirt #307, T-shirt #309, and T-shirt #318.

I was told by a dear reader and a dear friend to focus on brevity.

In the two photos below, you will see the shirt I am actually wearing today. Originally shared this shirt in T-shirt #27: The Iron Fist. It's funny because I originally posted these pictures on yesterday's blog entry, which, as of this writing, is still unfinished, and so I decided to move these pictures today's blog entry.

BETTER ACCESS

We don't say "I wish they made that" or "I wish you could get that kind of thing" so much any more.

This is what I think about when I don the Iron Fist shirt. Back in the 1970s, I would have killed for this shirt. Okay, maybe not literally killed, but I would have loved to have a shirt with the Iron Fist logo on it.


In part, this whole thing with T-shirts may be a way to make up for all those times I said "I wish they made a shirt with the Iron Fist logo" or "I wish they made a shirt that was a kind of replica of the Star Trek uniform" or as I may reveal some day soon "I wish they made a shirt for the Partridge Family."

Occasionally, I still say that sentence. For instance, recently I went searching for a shirt dedicated to Jim Starlin's Adam Warlock from Marvel Comics. There are some shirts with Adam Warlock on them, but none that are specifically JUST Adam Warlock, let alone a cover from one of the great 1970s Starlin comics. I have a Jim Starlin category (check it out). Before I am done with the blog for the year I have to find some way to write about Adam Warlock as he is #5 from my list from T-shirt #322. I will include the Adam Warlock art I have been holding on to. I also need to edit those lists to make clear that I mean ADAM WARLOCK not Warlock from the New Mutants.
I am thinking about revising my entry for Iron Fist.

Is this cheating?


I have more to share about Iron Fist and rather than stick that in a new entry, I might rather revise.

In any case these are more dynamic pictures than the original.

HIATUS TEXT: I am taking a short hiatus. A "hiatus" for the 365 T-shirts Blog does not mean that there will not be shirts or that I will skip posting on any forthcoming day. There will be shirts. But the shirts will not be exciting or the featured shirts will not require me to write a small novel to properly generate the content I feel is sufficient. I created a category for my hiatus so as to group together those "easy" shirts that I consider to be "hiatus shirts." The goal of the hiatus is to fill in many blog days with easy shirts in order to complete longer love letters to beloved popular culture icons on more special shirts and to write more complex entries AHEAD OF TIME. The daily grind is becoming too much and causing me to fall behind and to be forced to post incomplete entries. I am hoping that a series of hiatus shirts will allow me to catch up, get ahead, and stay ahead. Ideally, I would like to be writing the bulk of each entry three days ahead while always working on at least one other. I have a lot of great shirts to share before the end of my blog year (after all I was just given SIXTEEN shirts for my birthday). Stay tuned. I promise to post the more interesting and longer T-shirt entries as I finish them. Thanks for reading. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.

Just for fun here's a few pictures of other shirts I have worn in the last week. Enjoy the look back. :-)

ADAM WARLOCK BY JIM STARLIN 

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T-shirt #325 - 10 years of The Walking Dead

T-shirt #325 - 10 years of The Walking Dead

Tonight the second part of season four of The Walking Dead premieres.

I have written about The Walking Dead many times on the blog as each month (and lately twice a month) it always tops my weekly comic book list. I have reviewed the comic a few times, such as in T-shirt #206. Also, recently, I thanked Darrough West for turning me on to this comic.

Yeah, yeah, I was NOT a fan of The Walking Dead from the start. I did not catch on until issue #43 and then I bought all the trades and read the entire thing. I can't buy every comic, and I cannot keep my finger on the pulse of what is hot, was hot, or may become hot according to some people.

Check out the cool write up at THE WALKING DEAD on COMIC VINE.

I am not calling this one a "hiatus" post. This is not what I consider a "hiatus" shirt. Actually, this is a brand new shirt, which just arrived at Fanfare as described back on Friday in my Weekly Comics List entry.

LATE POSTING

Once again, I posted an incomplete entry. It's now Monday, and I am back in time yet again finishing up another blog post. But this does give me the privilege of hindsight in a sense. I have already watched the premiere of the second half of season four of The Walking Dead. No review from me. I will leave that for better minds. But I enjoyed it.

I LIKE SURVIVAL STORIES

I like survival stories. As a young boy, Swiss Family Robinson was a particular favorite. It's no surprise, then, that my favorite Stephen King novel is the Stand. The greatest element that attracts me to The Walking Dead is that survival story element. I especially like apocalyptic survival stories, so much so that I am writing one. I was working on my survival novel the morning of September 11th, 2001. In my novel, planes fall out of the sky. I gave up working on that novel back then, which, is now over 12 years ago. I have been plugging away at the novel, which is meant for YA readers, ever since, but I have not yet finished it. The Walking Dead inspires me to work on it. What's the first priority during an apocalypse? What are the second through fifth priorities? Surely, the situation impacts the priorities. Safety from zombies is an issue in The Walking Dead but not in my novel.


But gathering supplies, safety, and coping with the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse fascinates me. I like thinking about what people would do, how they would behave. Who emerges as a leader in the new world? How does the aftermath of an apocalypse change people? I am still working on the answers to these questions. I find the way The Walking Dead is answering these questions to be riveting: a good story well told.

WHY IS THE WALKING DEAD ALWAYS ON TOP OF MY COMIC STACK EACH WEEK?

Mainly, it's an easy read. I know that reading the comic will not take very long at all. So, sometimes, a comic will fall in the stack based on the time it takes to read it. With The Walking Dead and its most recent issues, I am not fully entranced by the All Out War story line. I think it's inevitable, and it's interesting. But I do not agree with all the story choices. Mainly, the comic hits the top of my stack because it's an easy read. I like it very much, but I might not put it among my top five favorite current titles.

And, so, I am going to have to do more exploration of how I rank titles and what it means.

While I am on this subject, I moved up some titles in the most recent comics stack. I had integrated the stack from 1402.05 with some from the previous week, and I bumped up Uber, God Is Dead, and Codename: Action in my reading last night.

I am still intending to dole out some reviews. I have a huge stack of comics in my office waiting, begging, to be reviewed.

Ultimately, to wrap up this blog entry, as I have no more shirts for this TV show/comic book, I am on board for the long haul. I like that Kirkman is dedicated to The Walking Dead comic as a long term project, interested in what the post-apocalypse world looks like five years out, ten years out, and more.

The TV show deviates significantly from the comic book, but many plot elements sync. From a story telling point of view, I am very interested in how these stories align and the ways in which they do not.

Also, just as a quick final aside, the CASTING for the TV show is brilliant, and in some cases superior to the comic book versions (such as in the case of Herschel, Maggie, and the Governor). I am sure that I will continue to write about The Walking Dead in this blog and in the transition blog after my t-shirt year ends even without a shirt to focus my efforts. For now, enjoy some of what I feel are the best covers from the comic book series.

The Walking Dead COVER GALLERY

Favorite The Walking Dead covers. The only criteria is that I like them.

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