Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics Y: THE LAST MAN "UnManned" part 1

What if a lethal pandemic could be targeted...

...to one, specific, type of victim?

"What's there to be afraid of...?"

Well, this was 2002, not 2020...

Written by Brian K Vaughn, penciled by Pia Guerra, and inked by José Marzan, Jr., this intro from Vertigo's Y: the Last Man #1 (2002) tells the story. clearly and concisely, setting up multiple plotlines for the future.

There's lots of concepts jammed into the multi-award winning post-apocalyptic 60-issue series including political conspiracies, ethical dilemma of cloning, LGBT extremists, and interracial love, among others.

The conclusion of the premiere will be here next Monday!

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Y the Last Man

Book 1

(collecting issues 1-10)

Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY'S A HOLLY DAY "Thrilling Story Behind Old Glory: Flag Day"

In a patriotic fever while waiting for the 4th of July?
Learn About...

...and try to forget it's also (ironically) the 74th birthday of legendary Draft-dodger Don (the Con) Trump!

OOPS!
Note the Union soldiers in panel 5 are wearing Confederate gray!

Why is this 1955 comic entitled "Every Day's a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day's a Holiday"?

Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!

Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day" in 1962), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!
Note: We're still not back to our non-coronavirus comics schedule, but we're gearing up for our traditional multi-blog Summer Mini-Marathons which we'll announce over the 4th of July weekend and begin the week after, along with daily posts here!

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Cartoon History of the United States

Tomorrow is FLAG DAY...

...so celebrate by indulging in one of the few American-created art forms...

COMIC BOOKS!

Read free comics of fictional epidemics/pandemics destroying America (or Earth) in the past, present, and future...Mon-Fri here on this blog, and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...

...Medical Comics...

...plus...

...True Love Comics Tales

(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...

...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...

...Western Comics Adventures...

...the aptly-named

...Not Safe For Work Comics...

...Seduction of the Innocent...

...Hero Histories...

...Heroines!...

...Horror Comics of the 1950s...

...War: Past, Present and Future...

...Crime & Punishment!

Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
(BTW, the other truly American art forms are jazz and rock n' roll!)

Don't Miss Them!

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics CHILLING ADVENTURES IN SORCERY TOLD BY SABRINA "Ultimate Cure"

Archie Comics doing a horror comic isn't unusual...

....but AfterLife with Archie, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina or even Jughead: the Hunger this ain't!

Not exactly the usual wholesome Archie fare, eh?

Written by Frank Doyle, penciled by Stan Goldberg, and inked by Jon D'Agastino, this lead story from Archie's Chilling Adventures in Sorcery Told by Sabrina #2 (1972) was their contribution to the industry-wide "monsterization" bright on by the loosening of restraints by the Comics Code Authority in 1971.

Why it was deliberately-done in the Archie "house style" remains a mystery to this day!

(To be fair, when Archie jumped on the Batman/James Bond fad of the mid-1960s, their comics featuring the Riverdale crew as either super-heroes or spies were also illustrated in the humorous "house style"!)

After two issues, the book was reformatted as a realistically-illustrated traditional horror comic, running nine more issues.

Sabrina didn't appear in them...

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Chilling Adventures in Sorcery

(reprinting the two Archie-style issues as well as the best of the retooled 1970s series)

CoronaVirus Comics DEATH RATTLE "Masque of the Red Death"

We've run numerous adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story...

...but this is the actual bone-chilling tale, uncut!

Illustrated by Daryl Hutchinson. this never-reprinted story from Kitchen Sink's Death Rattle V2N13 (1987) is fascinating, combining the complete centuries-old text with art that deliberately tries to evoke the style of 1930s-40s pulp artists like Virgil Finley and Hannes Bok!

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben