Reading Room: CAPTAIN AERO "Alien Invasion"

What do you do with a wartime character after the war?

In the case of fighting aviator Captain Aero, you make him into an extraterrestrial fighter!

Art by Rudy Palais, writer unknown.

Captain Aero was one of numerous costumed aviators who fought the Axis in comic books during World War II.

His distinctive traits included a mustache that came and went depending on the artist and an aircraft that could use its' propeller like a buzz-saw.

In his early days he was assisted by the Sky Scouts, a gang of kids who wanted to be aviators, and who were popular enough to have their own backup strip.

By the time of this never-reprinted story's publication in Captain Aero Comics #25 in 1946, WW II was over, and sales on military-themed comics were dropping.

A number of them, like Blackhawk, shifted to battling criminals and/or Communist spies.

But not Captain Aero!
He was destined for bigger things...like interplanetary conflict!

The series' change of concept was taken even further in the next issue...as you'll see in a week or so.

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Design of the Week--Somali Pirates? Bring 'Em ON!

This week...Sailors on the high seas need not fear!
The US Navy will protect them from Somali pirates, even if they are Iranian nationals!
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Fantastic Femmes: Junie Hoang

She's talented!
She's cute!
She's controversial!
She's Junie Hoang, and she's complaining that her career was ruined by the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) because they revealed her real age!
She's 41, and doesn't look it!

She's 41? So what? She's HOT!

While she's never had a big break, Junie has been working pretty regularly since 1992, including a lot of animation voice work!
She even voiced Chun Li in Street Fighter 2: Victory!

We wish you the best, Junie, and hope to see (or hear) you on the screen soon!

Genre credits include:

Ginger DeadMan 3: Saturday Night Cleaver (Sandy) / GingerDeadMan 2: Passion of the Crust (Ensign Del Rio)

Note: Junie plays two different characters since #3 is a time-travel story transporting the villain back to the 1970s.

 1000 Ways to Die "Gratutity Violence"

Tropic Thunder (Day Player, scene deleted)

Back on Topps (Tough Asian)

Spirits Among Us (Jennifer)

Adventures of Zion Man & the Supreme Comander (Queen Lucealot)

Z: a Zombie Musical (Zombie Mailwoman)

 Macross:

Eve of Destruction / When Worlds Collide / Fallen Angels

(additional voices)

Voodoo Dolly (Stephanie Hung / Ms Fix-It / Tool Time Lad)

 All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku TV (additional voices)

Street Fighter II: Victory (Chun Li)

BubbleGum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (additional voices)

Martian Successor Nadesico (Eri / additional voices)

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The New Miss Moneypenny in Action!

Naomie Harris as "Eve" aka Miss Moneypenny in a scene with Daniel Craig as James Bond.

Whether "Eve" is a code name or Moneypenny's first name is unknown at this point.

None of the previous Bond novels or films give her a first name, though a spin-off novel series, The Moneypenny Diaries, does..."Jane".

Moneypenny didn't appear in either of the previous Craig James Bond 007 movies Casino Royale, which rebooted the series from the early days of Bond's spy career before he received his "00" designation and license to kill or Quantum of Solace.
(Note: Moneypenny did appear in both the novel and 1967 movie versions of Casino Royale.)

Flash Gordon #5 Cover Preview

Nifty cover for #5 of the new Flash Gordon comic from Dynamite by Francesco Francavilla featuring Nazi Zeppelins!
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