I AM JONNY ALGIERS AND I ANSWER TO NO ONE

NIGHTHAWKS MULTIVERSE: THIS WILL FIT WITH AN UPCOMING POST

TRUMP: ORANGE PUPPET

You can see the stylized D and T there, right? In the 90s, Mark Millar wrote a very good Elseworlds comic for DC. SUPERMAN: RED SON was an idea about how, if Jor-El's rocket had landed twelve hours earlier/later, Kal-El would have been found in Leningrad and not Smallville, Kansas, not far from Wichita, USA.

And now we have a similar, if obese, version in the White House.

PS Putin, if your guys are reading this, all the hugs and love you deserve.

TRUMP AND PUTIN: I HOPE DARYL PHILBIN IS HAPPY. ON THE OFFICE, in 2012, HE EXPRESSED WANTING TO SEE ALL TYPES OF PRESIDENTS

THIS IS THE PHONE NUMBER FOR DAVID THE GUY WHO SELLS DVDs FOR TWO DOLLARS ON THE RED LINE, NOW I'LL NEVER MISPLACE IT

FIRESTORM CLOCK

Last month, I attended a BBQ with a few friends, hosted by Mark Braun, all around cool guy who is working on his first novel. I had to bring something as a token of gratitude, and picked up this gem at the Salvation Army. George Barth was given this clock, missing whatever was on the pedestal, after working 30 years at Continental Glass, a factory on the far NW side of Chicago. Since I had a few duplicate action figures, I went with Firestorm to cover the hole where the display had been, using brown packing tape.I intended to make it more of a man cave clock by putting Hawkgirl on it, but the wings  presented a problem.

Gifts aren't cool unless they are bizarre. Maybe the clock will be as murder weapon in Mark's novel.

MY CURRENT STATUS AS A WRITER

THE DECAY OF FULLER PARK

The smallest of Chicago's 88 neighborhoods, about two square miles of despair.

CLIMBING UP A TRUCK ROAD NEXT TO THE BERLIN WALL, A VIEW OF THE WILLIS TOWER

WALKING UNDER THE BERLIN WALL, SEPARATING FULLER PARK FROM CANARYVILLE