Welcome back to Ad Nauseam, where I once again dig through the glittery landfill of comic book advertisements like an archaeologist who majored in terrible decisions. If youโve ever wondered what life was like before ad targeting โdonโt worry, comic books already had you covered with full-page pitches for romance novels, forgotten sitcoms, and products …
The Ninja Turtle Guide To Murder & Violence
Unfortunately we cannot be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Can we be teenagers? Definitely. Can we be mutants? Arguably. Turtles? I mean, spiritually. Ninjas? You bet your sweet bippy we can be ninjas. And who better to teach us than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themselves?! Well probably Master Splinter. But in 1986 Solson Publications took it upon themselves to release several …
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How I Draw (Sometimes)…
Instead of simply posting a finish drawing, I decided to break it down in an informal "step-by-step" and how we got to the finish line, dudes and dudettes. I drew this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sketch using a Wacom Tablet and Photoshop. I worked on it the past two weeks, about maybe 40ish minutes per …
Ad Nauseam: X-Men #60
Welcome back to my retrospective series of articles in which I sit in my dark apartment, listen to synthwave, and thumb through back issues in hopes of sparking shadowed memories of simpler times! An exciting Saturday night is finding a 24 year old advertisement for Dinosaur Eggs oatmeal. How can life possibly offer anything more? …
Ad Nauseam: Fantastic Force #2
Welcome back, Space Ranger, to another "stomping" edition of Ad Nauseam! It's the only article on the web published at 12:53 PM that features old comic ads likely forgotten for a reason written by someone with arrested development! Tonight we travel back to December 1994, a time where the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers ruled our …

