The actor from hits like “Desperado” and “From Dusk Till Dawn” will be coming to the Detroit suburbs for the event. This three-day celebration of Reeve’s quartet of “Superman” movies will feature cast members like Mariel Hemingway (Lacy Warfield, 1987’s “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace”) and Marc McClure (Jimmy Olsen in all four), plus an exclusive limited-edition “variant cover” of “Superman ’78 #1” - a 2021 comic book by Con guest Wilfredo Torres that’s set in the universe of Reeve’s original 1978 movie.Ģ. We’d include more, but we’re still trying to finish our Princess Leia cosplay costume and the hair buns aren’t going well.ġ.
To help plan your visit, here are 10 cool things from the current schedule. More: William Shatner talks saving world, staying hip at 91 in advance of Motor City Comic Con It would take all three days to cover the Con’s enormous lineup of meet-and-greets with celebrities and comic book creators, panel discussions, vendor displays and attractions. And the cosplay contest? That’s probably worth the price of admission alone. ISBN 0-970.Saturday’s appearance by “Star Trek” legend William Shatner is a highlight of the 2022 Motor City Comic Con, which runs Friday to Sunday at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi.īut it’s not the only draw of this year’s pop-culture-palooza. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924–1995: The Complete Index. Thank you for your loyalty to the strip." References The following month, the cartoonist wrote to the fans of the strip in the Detroit Free Press: "I was extremely gratified and happy to receive all the letters from Free Press readers concerning the demise of Arnold. (When Tommy asks, "What I am supposed to do now?", his apparently unconcerned mother merely says, "Goodbye, Tommy," and hangs up on him.) However, Tommy is told that a giant bird had grabbed Arnold and flew off with him. In the last regular strip, which ran on Saturday, Ap(an unrelated Sunday strip was seen the next day), Tommy calls Arnold's parents and asks to speak to him. McCormick decided to end "Arnold" in 1988, in a suitably bizarre fashion. Sid frequently grabbed hold of others by holding on with his mouth. Toward the end of the run, a baby brother to Arnold, named Sid, was born. He would also be abused by various school sports coaches, especially his football coach Tommy would sometimes be seen wearing his helmet backwards, as the coach did not think much of Tommy's suggestions. Tommy had a particular aversion to "wet bread" and occasionally brought a thinly-veiled Christian attitude to his reactions to the other characters (cartoonist McCormick became a born-again Christian after ending the strip and is now a youth pastor ). Lester), as well as turning the school's safety patrol in his own, private para-military unit. Arnold also ran a newspaper called The Vicious Rumor (which often made fun of Tommy and Mr. These three were usually the only characters actually seen in the strip, with off-stage voices coming from the other characters (such as parents, bullies, teachers, coaches and other authority figures).Īrnold often yelled "AIEEE!" at random moments, and both characters had run-ins with the school cafeteria ladies-specifically Arnold, who referred to mayonnaise as "WHITE DEATH!" at the top of his lungs. Lester, Arnold and Tommy's schoolteacher. The main characters were Arnold Melville, a strange, volatile child Tommy Jordan, his well-meaning but clueless friend and Mr. The strip was characterized by an off-beat sense of humor and random interjections by the title character, Arnold. Arnold was a syndicated comic strip by Kevin McCormick that ran at its height in 56 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit Free Press, from December 13, 1982, through April 17, 1988.
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