Tuesday, August 12, 2025

STOP PROJECT 2025 "Immigration"

This extremely-well-done (but little-seen) graphic presentation of the basics of Project 2025...

...produced and presented before the 2024 election, covered all the major aspects of American life that the Reich-wing Heritage Foundation wanted to change for the worse...and are now proceeding to do so!


If more people had seen this easy-to-understand presentation before the election, it might have helped sway the result!
Chapters cover everything from Abortion to Immigration to War on the Working Class!
None of the individual chapters, like the one, above are signed.
The contributors were an assortment of graphic storytelling talents ranging from well-established creatives to bright and eager up-and-coming talent!
In alphabetical order: Karim Ahmad, Ho Che Anderson. Alejandro Arbona, Brandt&Stein, Zander Cannon, Comicraft, Valentine De Landro, Kieron Dwyer, Jerel Dye, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, Ben Fisher, Matt Fraction, Gene Ha, Cully Hamner, Mike Henderson, Jay Hosler, Shawn Lee, Steve Lieber, Laurenn McCubbin, Ibrahim Moustafa, Evan Narcisse, Jim Ottaviani, Greg Pak, Jeff Parker, Joe Phillips, Tobias Queck, Greg Rucka, Mark Russell, Chris Ryall, Sara Ryan, Jennifer Smith, Lilah Sturges, Zoe Tunnell, Jen Van Meter, Rick Veitch, Shannon Wheeler.
Plus: an interesting (if slightly scary) footnote...
Other contributors to this project have elected to not have their names listed here.
We respect and protect their privacy and thank them for their anonymous contributions.

Did some (understandably) fear retribution from their clients/employers and/or the then-future government?

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Monday, August 11, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness WORLDS UNKNOWN "Farewell to the Master" Conclusion

Cover art by Rich Buckler & Wayne Howard (with additional art by John Romita Sr)

Reporter Cliff Sutherland and photographer Ann O'Hara may be on to the scoop of the century.

An alien robot, which went inert after Klaatu (the alien humanoid it accompanied) was shot and killed (without provocation) when he tried to initiate contact with people of Earth isn't as unmoving as the US government believes!
The duo conceal themselves nearby, hoping to catch the automaton in motion...which they do!
They witness the robot enter the alien vessel...which sealed up and apparently deactivated after Klaatu was killed.
And now things get really weird...
Cue the Twilight Zone theme...
The original story by Harry Bates appeared in Street and Smith's Astounding Science Fiction V26N2 (1940) with the following illustrations by Frank Kramer...all of which feature Gnut!
"Farewell to the Master" has been reprinted numerous times, usually in anthologies about Astounding Science-Fiction magazine, or compilations of stories which were adapted into films or TV shows.
But the graphic adaptation from Marvel's Worlds Unknown #3 (1973) has never been reprinted, and no other comic book/comic strip version has ever been done!
However, there was another prose adaptation of the short story...

This book, written by Arthur Tofte, published by Scholastic Books in 1976, combined "Farewell to the Master" with the screenplay for the 1951 movie into a new novel which presents Klaatu and a rather verbose Gnut (not "Gort") as a pair of equal partners, representing their respective civilizations within a galactic organization calling themselves "The Watchers"!
Finally, Lux Radio Theatre produced a one-hour radio adaptation in 1954, narrated by Paul Frees and starring Michael Rennie as Klaatu!
Regrettably, it doesn't use Bernard Herrmann's magnificent soundtrack but it's still worth listening to.
You can link to it HERE!
KLATTU BARADA NIKTO!
Which translates to:

Shogun Warriors Return Next Monday!
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Sunday, August 10, 2025

It's a HOT Time at the RetroBlog Summer Blogathons!

A New Blogathon Begins Tomorrow...

...as Nazi-Punching gets a week-long workout with Doc Savage taking on his Nazi counterpart raised by scientists using the same techniques Dr Clark Savage Sr used for Clark Jr...at the 1936 Olympics in a never-reprinted, extra-long, almost half-century-old tale!
Guest-Starring: a host of historical figures including Jesse Owens and Adolf (you know who)!
Meanwhile...

Jet Dream & Her Stunt-Girl Counterspies continue daily on both Heroines! and Crime & Punishment (With a Stopover at True Love Comics Tales)!
If You've Missed Their Already-Posted, Never-Reprinted, Silver-Age Adventures, Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE!
And Now...

We've Completed the Massive Re-Presentation of the Time-Lost, Never-Reprinted, First Prose Novel Starring the #FantasticFour , Doomsday, written by Marv Wolfman!
And for Those Silly Enough to Have Missed Any of It...
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 & 16 17 & 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 & 27
RetroBlogs: We're Working Hard While You're on Vacation!

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Space Hero Saturdays ALIEN WORLDS "Few and the Far"

In space, things aren't always as they seem to appear...
...as this never-reprinted tale from Pacific's Alien Worlds #1 (1982) demonstrates not once, but twice...
Admit it.
Writer Bruce Jones and artist Al Williamson fooled you!
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Friday, August 8, 2025

Friday Fun KOOKIE "Playmate"

John Stanley & Bill Williams' Short-Lived Strip About 1960s Urban Eccentrics...

...featured not only the 18 to 25 "young adult" crowd, but older, equally-eccentric characters!




John Stanley (script/layouts) and Bill Williams (pencils/inks) did three humor series for Dell in the early 1960s, Kookie, Around the Block with Dunc & Loo (later shortened to just Dunc and Loo) and Thirteen Going on Eighteen.

While the first 9 issues of the last (29-issue) series have been reprinted in a superb collection (see below), neither Kookie (2 issues) nor AtBwD&L/DaL (8 issues) has ever been reprinted...which is a great loss to pop culture as far as I'm concerned!
Note: Though Stanley did the layouts on the stories, the painted covers to Kookie were entirely Bill Williams' work!

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