RUN, Ray Palmer--RUN!!! Run as fast as you can and never look back!! Run as if you life and future happiness depended on it. Run...
I guess some things just aren't meant to be...
From Atom #36 (1968)
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Ray Palmer's Second Chance!!
The Atom is fighting some crooks, when he's struck by some mysterious radiation, and...
Fortunately, the Earth-2 Atom has come to visit, and he's able to help Ray. Or is he?
Ray has been de-aged--mentally and physically--to an 18 year old college sophomore!!
But...
Ray hasn't had his first date with Jean yet...?
Ray...this is your chance...you don't know her; in fact, you're put off by her aggressiveness!! You aren't engaged yet!!
RUN, Ray Palmer--RUN!!! Run as fast as you can and never look back!! Run as if you life and future happiness depended on it. Run...
D'oh!! Damn you, Silver Age, for returning everything back to normal at the end of every story! Damn you!! Ray could have escaped, and lived a normal, happy life!!
I guess some things just aren't meant to be...
From Atom #36 (1968)
RUN, Ray Palmer--RUN!!! Run as fast as you can and never look back!! Run as if you life and future happiness depended on it. Run...
I guess some things just aren't meant to be...
From Atom #36 (1968)
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Bold Fashion Choices--What To Wear To Swanky Parties In The 616!!
You are cordially invited...
And oh, what a guest list!!
Click that to embiggen to full paparazzi size!
The Fantastic Four! George and Barbara Bush! Spider-Man chatting up the Princess Of Wales! The West Coast Avengers! Doctor Strange! Nick Fury! Other world leaders I should probably recognize!! Wolverine!!
Someone feels uncomfortable, though...
Fortunately, the Marvel Universe has fashion rules for such occasions:
Phew!! Good to know!!
From Avengers #332 (1991)
The Fantastic Four! George and Barbara Bush! Spider-Man chatting up the Princess Of Wales! The West Coast Avengers! Doctor Strange! Nick Fury! Other world leaders I should probably recognize!! Wolverine!!
Someone feels uncomfortable, though...
From Avengers #332 (1991)
Friday, June 3, 2016
Friday Night Fights--Gil Kane Atom Style!!
I'm pulling a little bait and switch for this week's Friday Night Fights.
Let's start as the Atom investigates some shenanigans at his university...
Ha!! Fooled you!! When this post's title said Gil Kane Atom, you thought I meant Ray Palmer, right?
Sorry, folks, we're on Earth-2. But Gil Kane can still draw the heck out of a fight scene, can't he?
POW!!
Spacebooger misses heroes who fight robbers and thieves...
The wrong Atom still kicks ass in The Atom #36 (1968), by Gardner Fox, Gil Kane and Sid Greene
Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? If I win this week, I'll show you the Al Pratt/Ray Palmer dust-up from later in this issue. So go and vote!!
Let's start as the Atom investigates some shenanigans at his university...
Sorry, folks, we're on Earth-2. But Gil Kane can still draw the heck out of a fight scene, can't he?
Spacebooger misses heroes who fight robbers and thieves...
The wrong Atom still kicks ass in The Atom #36 (1968), by Gardner Fox, Gil Kane and Sid Greene
Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? If I win this week, I'll show you the Al Pratt/Ray Palmer dust-up from later in this issue. So go and vote!!
Thursday, June 2, 2016
The Most Beautiful Man In The World...Has One Flaw!!
It's not easy being a newlywed in the romance comics universe:
And that cover is no exaggeration!!
Man, that's some resumé--billionaire, explorer AND hunter, Davis Cup tennis player, ranked golfer, and devilishly handsome.
Also, he can't keep his hands off his married employees. But that OK, it's 1969, and sexual harassment hasn't been invented yet!
But surprisingly, hitting on her right in front of her husband doesn't work!! So he has her come along on an "emergency business trip" to Europe. And he's hitting on her 24/7.
Will it work?
Will it work?
WILL IT WORK?!?!
Hahahahahaha!!
So, a conceited, self-satisfied billionaire with a terrible hair-piece who blames everyone else for his failures. Hmmm, who does this guy remind me of...?
From Just Married #66 (1969)
Also, he can't keep his hands off his married employees. But that OK, it's 1969, and sexual harassment hasn't been invented yet!
But surprisingly, hitting on her right in front of her husband doesn't work!! So he has her come along on an "emergency business trip" to Europe. And he's hitting on her 24/7.
Will it work?
From Just Married #66 (1969)
The Saddest Three Panels You Will Read Today!
As Squirrel Girl enters the dating grind:
Awwwwww.......
From Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #8 (2016)
From Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #8 (2016)
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Because Some Mornings, You Just Need To See Korak Destroy A Nazi Death Blimp!
Korak, son of Tarzan, has made a startling discovery deep in the jungle:
YOW!!
Oh the humanity!!
And so Korak saved the world from African-based Nazi death blimps.
From Korak, Son Of Tarzan #47 (1972)
And so Korak saved the world from African-based Nazi death blimps.
From Korak, Son Of Tarzan #47 (1972)
The First Last Starfighter, Or, There Are No Original Ideas!
Allow me to present this complete 5-page story from Weird War Tales #102 (1981):
Let me reemphasize: that was 1981. 3 years before The Last Starfighter.
Not that I'm saying TLS ripped off this dinky little comic book story--although if I were an unscrupulous Hollywood type looking to take advantage of the sci-fi/horror boomlet of the early 80s, diving into these anthology comics that no one would ever remember might be a good way to find "inspiration."
And of course, it's not to say that this tales idea was first spawned by Dan Mishkin and Gary Cohn and Trevor Von Eeden and Jerry Ordway--this tale may have published been before The Last Starfighter, but it was also 4 years after the original Ender's Game short story.
No, I'm not accusing anyone of ripping anything off. It's just that sometimes, there are ideas out the in the aether, percolating in the popular subconscious. Like Swamp Thing/Man-Thing, or Vision/Red Tornado, they bubble up into creators minds, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes years apart.
But I guess my real message here is, get better at your video games! Apparently, an awful lot of alien cultures are depending on Earth teens' X-Box prowess to save them!! Quit school, quit your job, and play more video games!!
Not that I'm saying TLS ripped off this dinky little comic book story--although if I were an unscrupulous Hollywood type looking to take advantage of the sci-fi/horror boomlet of the early 80s, diving into these anthology comics that no one would ever remember might be a good way to find "inspiration."
And of course, it's not to say that this tales idea was first spawned by Dan Mishkin and Gary Cohn and Trevor Von Eeden and Jerry Ordway--this tale may have published been before The Last Starfighter, but it was also 4 years after the original Ender's Game short story.
No, I'm not accusing anyone of ripping anything off. It's just that sometimes, there are ideas out the in the aether, percolating in the popular subconscious. Like Swamp Thing/Man-Thing, or Vision/Red Tornado, they bubble up into creators minds, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes years apart.
But I guess my real message here is, get better at your video games! Apparently, an awful lot of alien cultures are depending on Earth teens' X-Box prowess to save them!! Quit school, quit your job, and play more video games!!
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