Manic Monday Bonus--Less Than Zero

Ooh, I loves me a good countdown:

Wait, what?!?! Don't stop there!!!

What the hell?? Now we'll never know what came next!!

Maybe Rocky Jones was referring to Zer, the recently uncovered city from Biblical times.

Or maybe he was talking about Zer, the 2017 Kurdish film by Kazim Ö?

Perhaps they were going to Zer, the first planet of the Gilese 581 start system, from the video game Osiris: New Dawn?

Or maybe, just maybe, Rocky was using the Basque pronoun for "what," or the Dalmatian verb "to go," or the archaic Romanian word for "whey," or...

Man, this is going to bug me forever....

From Space Adventures #18 (1955)

The Day The Music KILLED!!

What threat does Earth face today?

 No, it's not the lambada.

Rocket Kelly, gal pal Diana and mechanic/comedy relief Punchy witness a rocket crash on Earth!

But after the rescue:

He can't stop dancing!

The Minstrel Of Death?!?!

Well, it's time to go to Turo to check it out, which involves flying through some particularly hazardous space:

Folks, that's what we call foreshadowing!

And what do they find on Turo?

It's like they're refugees from Fantasia!

Now--everyone talk like William Shatner!

And here's the big bad!

GASP!

Rocket and Diana succumb...but what about Punchy?

But once the aliens leave for Earth...

Ahh, see, there is an advantage to being tone deaf!

Fancy flying means the entire enemy fleet crashes into a "magnetic mass":

But what of Earth?

The future--spontaneous dance contests on spaceport landing fields!!

Keep dancin', kids!!

From Rocket Kelly #4 (1946)

The Time We Evacuated The Western Hemisphere But Still Beat Both The Commies And The Aliens!!

Look, if you're going to draw interplanetary war in a comic book...

...this is how you do it!!

The art, by the way, is by Tony Mortellaro.

We're in the far-flung future of 1993, and the Clinton Administration has taken a very odd turn:

The world has divided into two camps, the free and democratic western hemisphere, and the evil, repressive eastern hemisphere.

Fearing an imminent attack from the east, the entire western hemisphere has been evacuated to the moon. No, really.

But meanwhile, in the east...

But we know it's not the west...they're all going to the moon!! So who's attacking?

Well, it turns out that nasty aliens have chosen just that moment to attack!! And so...

Pew!! Pew pew!! Pew!!

The east, being evil, doesn't stand a chance against the conquerors...

But the west has been watching, and they launch a surprise counter-attack!!

Woo-hoo!!

Quite comfortably, indeed!!

But as the five years ends, the aliens take a nasty revenge--

--blowing up the freakin' moon!!

But guess what? Smart humans knew that attack was coming, and actually went to hide elsewhere in the solar system!

But there is an unexpected benefit to blowing up the moon:

So, no more commies east bloc, and a shiny new city to live in. Well, for some of you to live in--I doubt you're getting more than a few million into Atlantis. And it's probably more moldy and slimy and wet than shiny and new.

Still...WE WIN!!! Sort of. By some ways of reckoning. USA!! WESTERN HEMISPHERE!!!

From Weird Tales Of The Future #4 (1952)