It's been contained and almost eliminated, but we're not going to do the usual post today.
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Revenge of the Ants, Man!
It's been contained and almost eliminated, but we're not going to do the usual post today.
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Space Hero Saturdays SKYROCKET STEELE "...in the Year 'X' "
Though best-known as the creator of Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner....
...Bill Everett's first published strip featured this Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers clone...
...Bill Everett's first published strip featured this Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers clone...
In this premiere chapter, the series starts "mid-stream", indicating events crucial to the plot occurred before we join Skyrocket and his buddies.
The captions and dialogue balloons are heavier than normal as expositional dialogue is used to clue the readers in on the situations in the "world of the future".
You'll also note the use of upper and lower-case lettering, unique, even then.
Everett's unique inking style is already developing, though crude in comparison to his later work.
To his credit, Bill doesn't swipe layouts from Alex (Flash Gordon) Raymond, Hal (Tarzan/Prince Valiant) Foster, or any of the already-established masters of the graphic storytelling form as so many of his comic book contemporaries do!
He's not afraid to try his own "camera angles" to tell the story...not always succeeding, but experimenting and learning!
Trivia: Though the character debuted in this tale which appeared in Centaur's Amazing Mystery Funnies #2 (1938), he was the cover feature of issue #1...
....where no sign of him can be found inside of the book!
No one knows why!
Trivia: Pop culture historian and prolific genre author Ron (Star Hawks) Goulart utilized the name (but nothing else from Everett's strip) for a hysterically-funny novel about 1940s sci-fi movie serials...
(click for bigger image)...which, while available on Amazon (as seen below) can't be found as this 1980 first edition with a kool cover by noted artist Carl Lundgren!
Snarky Note: I bought it in 1980,when it came out!
That and Goulart's very HTF Tremendous Adventures of Bernie Wine...
...a PG-13/soft R mass-market novel about a young (and horny) comic book artist in NYC, are among my favorite Goulart books in my collection (and I have a lot of them, including ghost-written standalones and series)!
Trivia: Pop culture historian and prolific genre author Ron (Star Hawks) Goulart utilized the name (but nothing else from Everett's strip) for a hysterically-funny novel about 1940s sci-fi movie serials...
Snarky Note: I bought it in 1980,when it came out!
That and Goulart's very HTF Tremendous Adventures of Bernie Wine...
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Friday, May 5, 2023
Friday Fun YAK YAK "How to Identify Road Nuts!"
"Road rage" is not a new phenomenon...
...although, as shown on TV shows like Road Wars, it's gone to new extremes!
Though this feature (written and illustrated by the legendary Jack Davis) from Dell's Four Color Comics: Yak Yak #1348 (1962) is over sixty years old, it's as applicable today as it was then!
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
Kirby Reading Room SECRET CITY SAGA "In Battle Joined!" Conclusion
When Last We Left the Ninth Men...
...after being revived from suspended animation for 15,000 years, the good Ninth Men (Captain Glory, NightGlider, and Bombast) are battling the evil Ninth Men (all the other revived Garzans) to protect the Tenth Men (aka present-day humans) in Chicago (which was built above the underground "Secret City"
Complicating matters is the fact that no Tenth Men (aka us) speak the language of the Ninth Men, so the Chicago constabulary doesn't realize the good Ninth Men are here to protect humanity...
Complicating matters is the fact that no Tenth Men (aka us) speak the language of the Ninth Men, so the Chicago constabulary doesn't realize the good Ninth Men are here to protect humanity...
Don't forget in 1993, Bill Clinton was the PotUS (President of the United States), so...
To Be Continued...
Next Tuesday!
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A retelling of elements of the Secret City Saga which also combines other Kirby projects like Galaxy Green, Captain Victory and Silver Star!
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MONKEY PLANET Part 1
There have been numerous graphic adaptations of the Planet of the Apes movies...
...and even the short-lived tv series, as we've shown HERE, but there had never been a graphic novel version of the original novel, which is quite different from any of the live or animated adventures in English!
To Be Continued
...Next Wednesday!
...Next Wednesday!
Written and illustrated by Ernő Zórád, this 1981 Hungarian one-shot adaptation of the original French novel by Pierre Boule has never been officially-published in English.
But, thanks to the fine work of Kyriee (Scans), Swatura Od (translation) and Avoros (scripting), we're finally able to understand this tale in English.
Thanks, guys.
BTW, both the 1970s animated TV series and the 2001 remake utilized more elements from the book than the 1960s-70s films and TV series or the recent reboot movie series.
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The novel (Monkey Planet) that the movie (and the graphic novel) were based upon!
There was never a novelization of the movie itself!
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