Showing posts with label Doppelcomix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doppelcomix. Show all posts

28 June 2020

The Captain Was Heroic

As you may have noticed, i've been off in my own weird world for a bit. And not simply because this one is so overrun with fools and villains lately. I've been deep diving into The Third Colony and getting all sorts of scattered things done...  Added a lost cave network, expanding the cast (we've passed 100 characters in the world now), working on scene renders and scripts, creating a dynamic party system (no - not handling members of your party as you trek down into a dungeon - handling guests, clusters, and conversations at a social gathering).

Don't worry, i'm not doing another graphic dump from the game today. Much of the recent work either doesn't lend itself well to that sort of thing, or it needs to be in the back room. (Like the current scene in work with Pairadax and Pink Cherry 'pranking' Kelly during her initial physical examination for Registration.) I was just rambling on why i've been cut off from the outer time flow.

Today, let's wander on back to places we've been before - sorta. Call it an Old School Triple or something.

We haven't run any Flash Gordon parodies in a bit, and we're behind on our Fan Press coverage - so let's combine and visit a zine we haven't looked at previously: LOC - Fandom's Forum.

Actually, we're just going to look at a few comics from LOC today. We should definitely be back sometime soon to take a deeper gander at the text and the (Major!) players involved. But, for now, let's join Tom Linehan as he brings us Flush Going -


Hmm...
Fan Press. Flash Gordon Parody. That's two, but i said a Triple, so we need one more familiar bit. 

Okay, we'll stick with Tom and LOC and we'll add in more early fanzine work from Kurt Busiek as he and Tom team for Captain Heroic and Side-Kick -
 

...but it doesn't stop there!...
 

It promises to continue, but did it?
Frankly - I don't know. I'm missing the next issue (#7 if anyone's got it and wants to enlighten us, or, y'know -Kurt, if you wanna speak up...?) and it didn't appear after that point so far as i can determine.

However, if we jump back almost 40 years, we can find Captain Heroic on Boom Boom Brannigan's turf... 


Hey! There's an Old School Triple!
It all worked out, i guess.

page art by Tom Linehan and ??? from LOC #s 3, 4, & 6 and Prize Comics #46 (1944, 1981, 1982)

01 February 2020

SMF It Ain't

I'm in the mood for some Sunday Morning Funnies, but it's only Saturday afternoon. What to do...?

Well, if it's not quite Sunday, we'll do some funnies that are "not quite" to fit right in, starting with a bit of Howie Post's doppelcomix of Al Capp's classic...


...and some 'Chester Gould' from Bill Elder...


...and to complete our typical trio, here's Joe Maneely's riff on Hank Ketchum's strip...


Like Stan said - "We have to end this somewhere..."

page art from Riot #s 3 & 6 and Panic #5 (1954)

23 June 2018

Saturday Night Movie - Mutant Beach Party!

I hope you're familiar with late '80s Marvel Mutants, because that's where we're going with tonight's feature.
With The New Mutants movie coming (eventually) with heavy influence from Bill Sienkiewicz's visually ground-breaking period on the title, it seems like a good time to visit that period... sort of.

After all - one can frequently get  a better look at cultural artifacts by examining the reflections of the time. And for tonight's tale, we have perhaps the best possible combination of talent for that view. Kurt Busiek's reputation for his knowledge of comics, character & series history and the intricate delicacies of the medium are nigh legendary. I can think of no one better suited to take on Sienkiewicz's stylings than Kyle Baker, the only artist to touch his liberated inks back in the day. (Not to mention Kyle's own incredible sense of comic design and story telling)

So pop the corn, or the cap on the brew, or both, and kick back for our two part Mutant Beach Party! from 1988 -



Our apologies.
That was obviously the wrong reel, it being from tomorrow's matinee.
The projectionist has been sacked, and we now proceed with our Feature Presentation.
-The Mngmt



Tonight presentation has been brought to you buy...(sic)


page art from What The--?! #s 3 & 4 (1988)