Now, we’ve mentioned comic book legal titan Tiger Lawyer before. The series was created and written by Ryan Ferrier, and we’ve mentioned it previously here, here, and here.  We’re really thinking about getting a print of this neat poster, depicted above. Do you think it would fit well in our office next to our diplomas?

Oh, no.  “ABC Considering 50 Scripts for Live-Action ‘Star Wars’ TV Series.” You know how we feel about that.

The Strange Brewing Company of Denver, Colorado is in a trademark dispute with a Massachusetts home brew shoppe called Strange Brew.  Oh, to be able to serve requests for production in that case! For more, see here. (Hat tip: Beer Pulse).

One again, @TweetsOfOld showcases the curious laws of yesteryear, this time the phone etiquette statute in Nebraska in 1910.

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As we noted yesterday, today is our third birthday. Depicted above is Steppenwolf’s At Your Birthday Party LP,  released way, way back in 1969.  (Hey, we can’t do a comic book cover every week!) Anyway, this record featured a number of great Steppenwolf tunes, including “Rock Me,” “Jupiter’s Child, and of course, “It’s Never Too Late,” our personal favorite. Indeed!

Best. Warning. Label Ever. (Thanks to Walter Olson of Overlawyered for pointing this one out.).

Friend of the blog Jonathan Sink has published his very first post over at the North Carolina Law Blog.  The title: “Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Waving Goodbye to Student Discipline in America’s Public Schools.”  That sounds heavy duty.

Our pal Jay Hornack a/k/a The Panic Street Lawyer, writing in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, shares his 10 favorite live concerts of 2012.

Here’s a good one for the new year: “11 Signs, Announcements, and Disclaimers That Are No Longer Necessary.”

We  hope you made it through the first week of 2013. We admit that it took some effort to get back into the swing of things. But here we are, back in blogging action, ready to bring you new content for the new year. Watch out!

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas week. Above, you’ll find the cover of Marvel Holiday Special #1994, published way back in December of 1994. Those were the days, weren’t they? Ah, 1994. Let us pause to reflect upon the simpler times of that era. Maybe we’re just nostalgic for that era because we weren’t quite lawyers yet then. Oh, well.

Tweet of the week, from @TweetsOfOld, which takes old newspaper blurbs and republishes them as tweets: “The Seattle courts have ruled that a dog has a right to bite a man that steps on the dog’s tail. IL1911” We would love to track down that opinion. Surely there’s a way to track that down, no?

Check out this recent interview with Shauna Barnes, the general counsel of Delaware’s wonderful Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, conducted by Don Tartaglione of The Natonal Law Journal. Our reaction: How awesome must it be to serve as general counsel for a craft beer company? (Hat Tip: Beer Pulse). A somewhat relevant aside: Remember back in May of 2011, when we interviewed Adam Avery of the Avery Brewery, about his company’s Collaboration Not Litigation Ale? If not, see here.

Whoa! Our writer Rob Green was cited on The Volokh Conspiracy! See here! Whoa again!

Our friends at The Law and the Multiverse blog ask: “Can you get a restraining order against Santa Claus?” One of these days, we need to square off with those guys in a pop culture mock trial.

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Well, if you’re reading this, we may have actually survived the 2012 apocalypse.  That, or the end of the world is just a bit tardy.  To observe this unusual occasion, we direct your attention to the cover of Doomsday +1 #1, published way, way back in July of 1975. The noted website Comicvine describes the plot as follows: “After a nuclear holocaust wipes out humanity three astronauts return to Earth, team-up with a newly thawed-out caveman and have loads of exciting adventures.” (To learn more about the series, click here.).

As we previously mentioned, the ABA Journal named us to the Blawg 100, the list of their favorite legal blogs in the nation. As you read these words, the ABA Journal is asking its readers to vote for their favorites, as well. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a moment to vote for us! Today is the last day you can do so. To vote, please go here.

Since it’s the holiday season, we direct you to “12 Toys From the 1980s That Didn’t Take Off.” How many of them do you remember?

As you know, each Friday, we  share some links to other sites and articles of interest.  Keeping with this week’s theme – the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the release of A Few Good Men – we’ve collected some links related to the film.

Here’s an interesting piece from The New York Times, published last year, noting that at least four former military lawyers have claimed to be the lawyer upon which the A Few Good Men‘s protagonist is based. How about that? It wasn’t one of us, that’s for certain.

Did you know that in 2008 the ABA Journal named A Few Good Men Number 14 on its list of Top 25 Greatest Legal Movies?

In an article, also from 2008, M. J. Tocci explains that A Few Good Men teaches us that “jurors give their own meaning to the different ways that men and women express themselves.”

Here is the official blog of the U.S. Navy JAG Corps.

Whoa! “Law versus Crime!” Depicted above is the cover of Mr. District Attorney #1, published way, way back in 1948.  “When Gangland Ran Rampant,” the cover proudly exclaims. “The Five Days That Shook A City!”  Representing those five days, of course, is an actual calendar emblazoned across the background of the cover.   We guess Mr. District Attorney was not yet using Outlook.  Oh, well.

Our pal Max Kennerly, a Plaintiff’s lawyer and blogger at the Litigation & Trial law blog, writes us with the following tale:

When you have little kids, you don’t go out to see movies as much. Yesterday, buying a bunch of kids stuff at Walgreen’s, I saw a display rack for a new movie out on DVD: The Dark Knight Rises.

I apparently spent so time procrastinating on making time to see it that it came out on DVD without me even noticing it left theaters. I can’t tell if this is a win or a fail.

This is troubling news.  After all, we here at Abnormal Use saw The Dark Knight Rises on opening weekend. How could one not? We hope Max will find time next week to see The Hobbit; we have already calendared an appointment to do so here in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Finally, rest in peace, Dave Brubeck. Time Out, from 1958, is such a fine, fine record.

Above is the cover of Three Who Came Back!, a comic book published by the Social Security Administration in 1965. (Yes, you read that right: a comic book about Social Security).  You can read the whole issue here.  Here’s what Slate had to say about it:

Some of these comics sold the program as a way that the government could help free young people from familial obligation. The crew-cut young men and well-dressed girls wanted to help parents in dire straits, but they shouldn’t have to. Social Security would make sure Tom wouldn’t have to skip engineering school to take over the family farm, and Janet wouldn’t have to postpone her wedding to earn money for her family. (Yes, Janet’s “dream” was marriage, even in a comic published in 1965; the 1950s died hard.) The SSA also published a book of “factoids” that associated Social Security with celebrities (the program was “the world’s largest autograph collection”) and tried to impress with the program’s technological reach (the names were held on 2005 reels of microfilm!).

(Hat tip: Slate).

Truly, this is a chilling newspaper obituary section. Not to be missed.

The November/December edition of the Greenville County Bar News is now available online.  Check it out here!

Finally, as we previously mentioned, the ABA Journal named us to the Blawg 100, the list of their favorite legal blogs in the nation. Now, the ABA Journal is asking readers to vote for their favorites, as well. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a moment to vote for us!

To vote, please go here. A menu will pop-up in the middle of the screen saying: “Click here to register now!” Click on that box to continue.

A very brief registration menu will appear, and you’ll be asked for a username and email addresses. This should take just a moment.

Once you have registered, you’ll be returned to the main blog menu. Take a look at the blue menu and click on the “Torts” header, which will cause a new menu of five blogs to appear. Click “Vote Now!” next to the entry for Abnormal Use.

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We here at Abnormal Use and Gallivan, White, & Boyd, P.A. hope you had a swell Thanksgiving holiday yesterday!

Above you’ll find the cover of Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #15, published way, way back in 1941.  December of 1941, to be exact.  Wow.  We revisit a lot of old comic book covers here at Abnormal Use, and many of them are many decades old.  But when you stop and think about the publication date of December 1941, it’s astonishing to consider what the people who first saw or bought this issue at that time were doing and thinking that month. December of 1941 is one of those eras you learn about in the history books, and it’s always somewhat jarring to see the artifacts of everyday life pop up from such a notable time period. And how about that ten cent cover price, too?

Whatever the case, it looks like Donald Duck had an eventful Thanksgiving that year.

Yesterday, we here at Abnormal Use saw Steven Spielberg’s new film, Lincoln, and we were pleased to see actor Raynor Scheine in a brief cameo as a member of the House of Representatives.  As you may recall, in My Cousin Vinny, Scheine played Ernie Crane, the eyewitness for the prosecution whose ability to see through a dirty window, trees, vegetation, and foliage is fodder for Vinny during cross examination. As you also may recall, we interviewed Scheine earlier this year as a part of our coverage of My Cousin Vinny‘s 20th anniversary, and in that piece, Scheine let us know that he’d “just had a call back audition for Steven Spielberg’s Abraham Lincoln he’s doing here in Virginia.”  We’re glad he got the part!

Please check out this recent blog entry at Comics Alliance dedicated to Thanksgiving comic book covers!

Happy belated blog birthday to our friends at the great legal tech blog, iPhone J.D.! Way, way back in January of 2011, we here at Abnormal Use interviewed Jeff Richardson, the author of iPhone J.D. Click here to revisit that fateful post!

“How I Fry A Turkey,” by Brian Comer of the South Carolina Products Liability Law Blog.  Enough said.

Well, two weeks ago, we featured the cover of Tiger Lawyer #1, published earlier this year. We couldn’t resist revisiting the character, so above, you’ll find the cover to Tiger Lawyer #2. What a fierce litigator he is! We can’t wait to see him take a deposition. As we’ve previously noted, the series was created and written by Ryan Ferrier (whose work we previously mentioned here back in May of this year).

We here at Abnormal Use and Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A. are pleased to announce that our very own Art Howson has been selected by his peers to receive the 2012 Tommy Thomason Award, which is given annually by the Greenville County Bar Association.  The Tommy Thomason Award is given to an attorney who displays the qualities of compassion, optimism, diplomacy, public service, justice, and integrity throughout his or her legal career.

Did you know that Lou Reed once released an album called Mistrial?

How long has it been since you’ve read the official Abnormal Use mission statement, published way, way back on January 4, 2010? Well, that’s too long!

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It’s our first edition of “Friday Links” after this year’s fateful Election Day, so we figured, what better comic book cover to feature than Superman #706, published just last year in 2011? Are you sick of maps yet? Well, it’s neat, isn’t it, even if Superman’s expression appears to be a bit creepy under the circumstances? (It’s not a disturbing as those bizarre 3D graphics that CNN always uses, though.). Oh, well.

If you’re a South Carolina taxpayer, or if you have been in the past, make sure you visit this page regarding options available following the cyberattack on the South Carolina Department of Revenue.

No, we haven’t yet offered our opinions on George Lucas’ sale of the Star Wars franchise.  But we will.  Trust  us, we’re just biding our time. In the meantime, you should revisit our 2011 Star Wars April Fool’s Day joke. Those were the days, weren’t they?

We lament the passing of famed University of Texas football coach Darrell K. Royal.  Our friend Ryan Steans put it best: “It’s kind of hard to imagine living a better life than that guy.” Rest in peace, Coach.

This past May, our own Nick Farr reviewed the pilot episode of USA’s “Common Law,” a television series about two bickering police officers who are ordered to couples therapy.  Really, we’re not sure why it was called “Common Law,” as it was about cops, not judges. Whatever the case, the show has now been canceled.