Is That a Rabbit Hole?

Welcome to another edition of

Today, the second half of Wally Wood's classic Malice In Wonderland. (If you're late to the party, the first half is readable here) EDIT: That link is to the picture free version. The actual pages are in our back room, located here.


NOTE: The images from this post contain nudity, and thus have been moved to our back room for adult content. The text remains that you may make a fair guess as to whether or not you wish to look at the pics.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive of the original post to view the artwork.


For you younger readers, there's no way to convey to you just how very 70s this strip was.

Malice In Wonderland by Wally Wood for National Screw magazine (1977)

Sunday Morning Funnies - Len Wein Style

As you know, we lost Len Wein a week ago today.
I'll continue to offer up odd bits from his career in the days ahead as a reminder to folks of just how wide ranging his work was over the years.

So our Sunday Morning Funnies will be a bit of Odd from the man. From the short lived Spoof comic, Len's take on The Odd Squad:

Now enjoy your day with a smile courtesy of Len Wein.

The Clod Squad by Len Wein and Marie Severin from Spoof #1 (1970)

Saturday Solutions 009

Here's your solutions to yesterday's Friday Fun & Games puzzles:

Yes. I know that Texas is not a city. Don't tell the UK, they'll be so disappointed.

puzzles & solutions from UK Fantastic Four Annuals (1979, 1981)

Friday Fun & Games 009 - UK Fantastic Style

Well, as you likely saw in the subject line, since we don't do Friday Night Fights, it's time for

Today, let's go for a trio of odd puzzle pages from Fantastic Four UK Annuals, since we can't get any in the here & now from the losers running Marvel comics.

As usual, tune in tomorrow for these brain baffling solutions.

puzzle pages from .... find out tomorrow

Losing Len

While i was recovering here, little attention was paid to the outside world. When peeking out again, i find we lost another one of the Greats on Sunday.
I'm sure you all have already heard Len Wein has left us, and many others have spoken on his huge body of work and lasting creations, ranging from Swamp Thing to Wolverine. Here's J.M. DeMatteis's personal remembrance of the man. He'll tell you far more, and fare more eloquently, than i could.
So, i'm not gong to try to encompass his career, or tell you how reliably entertaining his work was. I'm just going to point out that you've probably only seen a fraction of it. Besides the huge number of books he worked on at the Big Two, he wrote plenty for other publishers, such as Warren and Skywald, where we'll be going today. Here's the introduction to The Bravados by Len Wein from Wild West Action #1:

Sure, he was famous for writing Horror and Superhero books. Did ya know he wrote Westerns, too? And more. There was just one boundary limiting him.
He wrote good stuff.

The Bravados by Len Wein, Syd Shores and Mike Esposito for Wild West Action #1 (1971)

Covering Marvel Annuals

Y'know - back in them old days, Marvel had some pretty cool annual covers.
For example, here's a personal favorite:

Nice, huh?
Here's a handful of other covers of a similar nature-

If you hadn't sorted it before now, that 'similar nature' is these are the covers to hardback annuals from the UK. They know how to do annuals so much better than US companies.

covers from UK Marvel Annuals (1960s, 1970s)

Whatcha Gonna Munch?

It's Public Service time once again. Today we'll be sharing one of our House Yummies - the Peanut Butter Pan Cookie. After a few rounds of testing, this rapidly became a fixture snack here in the Hermit Cave.
We assume that complex and involved recipes are not the plan for munchies, and this one is nice and simple.

Preheat your oven to 350 and have a standard 13"x9" cookie sheet standing by.

First - you'll need some peanut butter cookie dough, and mixes are fine here. I generally use Betty Crocker's  17.5 oz bag mix - $1.99 at Target. To compile the mix, you'll also need an egg, 3 tablespoons of cooking oil, and one tablespoon of water.
As Always - mix the egg and liquid ingredients first, then add the dry ingredients (the cookie mix, in this case). Mix until you've got a uniform consistency - watch for those little dry lumps hiding out in the dough.

Second - you'll need some chocolate. I prefer Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate bar - about 8 squares cut into quarters. Plain M&Ms are good for parties - cheaper & nice colours.

Now,  press the dough out into the cookie sheet. It might seem a little thin, but it'll rise. Scatter your chocolate bits of choice over the dough to get a good spread, then push them down into the dough.
Don't worry about chocolate poking up out of the dough. The chocolate will melt down and the dough will rise up and they'll all be happy together.

You might have noted that the package calls for 375 on the oven when making cookies. We've gone a little cooler at 350, and we're going to cook for a little longer - about 16 minutes. You might like a little longer, you'll have to experiment for your personal preference. I like 16 minutes on my oven.

Pull your pan from the oven and let cool for as long as you can stand. (15 minutes is plenty good)
Don't have a cooling rack? Counter stack some cheap chopsticks to create an airflow space beneath the pan.
You can cut it up into whatever size snacking hunks you like. It'll make a dozen 3"x3.25" cookie bars if you do a 3x4 grid.
Or one really big cookie with a jug of milk.

And, yes - there is half a pan sitting in the kitchen now. But i'm off to experiment for dinner - making some Broccoli Chicken with red pepper & sesame seeds.
So off to the cue with this batch of yummy goodness.

House Yummies recipe by -3- and Cartman

Blue Moons

It's time to shake off those not-another-week blues with

This week, let's visit with one of the classics when it comes to beautiful women and erotic fantasy art - Frank Frazetta. Like many others, i grew up with Frazetta posters on my wall (an upcoming post, almost certainly) and Frank taught me all about admiring the butt. (Hence today's title.) Frazetta isn't one of those artists with a secret erotic artist side - he was bold and brash, filling his work with scantily clad, if at all, sexy women - both as maidens to be rescued and warriors to be feared.
So, like Frank, let's go big today with a dozen and a half images from his amazing body of work:

NOTE: The collection of paintings and drawings from this post contain (excellent) nudity, and thus have been moved to our back room for adult content. The text remains that you may make a fair guess as to whether or not you wish to look at the pics. You probably do.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive of the original post to view the artwork.

all art by the late immortal Frank Frazetta

Sunday Super Funnies Timewarp

Wasn't i here before? I don't think you were with me last time. Now we're late with the Sunday Funnies!
Who can we turn to for help?
How about - a Sunday Superman Selection!

That comes from Wally Wood way back in the days when Mad was a color comic book, before relaunching as a black & white magazine to escape Comic Code tyranny. The cover, by Harvey Kurtzman, from that issue (#4):

Now let's shift to more modern comics, via the web.

Our first is modern in origin, but actually older in design aesthetic. It comes from Kerry Callen, and you can find more of his Super Antics on his blog.

Superman/Batman fun from the Brazilian Dragonarte site:

That last one looks like the URL ends in .bk - it's actually .br (Brazil)

And to make sure i'm not inundated by Batfanatics, here's a counterpoint from Nebezial:

comics from Mad #4 (1953) and attributed websites (see links)