Oh Hi, I Write for NYC Tourism Now

Oh, this was a fun one. After doing some offline writing for New York’s own tourism board to present in slide presentations (plus the voiceover!), I’ve taken my shtick to their website in a very, very on-brand assignment. Thoes fine folks tapped me to visit Marvel’s offices and sign a binding number and anchoring amount … Read more

The Justice League Sitcom Is Proof We Live on Earth-2

It’s amazing how much of my Hot Dog output is ninth-gen bootleg VHS tapes I bought in the ’90s & ’00s, waiting for this website to be born. The Almighty Hot Dog’s arrival reverberates even backwards in time. Back in the ’80s there was a comic called, by various turns, Justice League, Justice League International, … Read more

1-900-HOTDOG: The Weirdest Agitprop Comic Is…Cyborg Sean Hannity

I’m back on 1-900-HOTDOG’s Dogg Zzone 9000, talking about a bonkers 2005 semi-satire called Liberality for All, in which those dastardly libs win the 2000 election and the unthinkable happens: they fail to prevent 9/11. The capitulating, America-hating betrayers on the left make us weak to our enemies, but also create a fascist state capable … Read more

Stardust’s Greatest Kills, Part II: The Weirdening

Last month and also week, we began making fun of Stardust the Super Wizard over at 1-900-HOTDOG. This month, we conclude making fun of Stardust over at 1-900-HOTDOG. Nature has an order to it, you see. I mentioned on the journal entry for part one, about how Stardust might just be the demigod I’m looking … Read more

Stardust is Superman’s Weirdest Knock-Off

A new two-parter begins today at 1-900-HOTDOG, in which the mad mind of Fletcher Hanks gives us Stardust the Super Wizard, a merciless arbiter of…justice? Vengeance? Let’s just call it punishment. It’s weird! It was always weird! There are kids born in 1930 who have living memories today of thinking this was weird. Though he … Read more