Showing posts with label Joe Guy: America's Foremost Hero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Guy: America's Foremost Hero. Show all posts

16 July 2019

Death Ain't Supposed To Hurt!

Well, damn - this one's way behind. 

Between February and May of last year we ran four out of the five tales of Joe Guy - America's Foremost Hero! I kind of thought we'd run them all, but discovered that was pure delusion. So today, at long last, we have the final tale. If you don't want to go back and read those above links and don't know who Joe Guy is, here's the short version: He's the illegitimate son of Superboy and Amelia Earhardt, now marketing himself as America's Foremost Hero!™. Beyond that, just know that it's a weird world. I mean, different weird from how this one's gotten. And not a particularly enlightened one, though that may well be intentional. Partly, at least.

First up, here's the spread from the top of the first two pages, since you can't see the image when the pages are stacked vertically...


Now on with Jim Stenstrum & Abel Laxamana's twisted tale...
 

That whale splat rates somewhere between Oregon and Magrathea. But don't bet on this one making it to video.

page art by Abel Laxamana for The Rook #13 (1982)

29 May 2018

Joe Meets Dad!

Dug out of my hole while waiting for things to happen and got some prep work done.
What does that mean to the intrepid reader?

At Long Last! The pen-ultimate episode of Jim Stenstrum & Abel Laxamana's strip - Joe Guy: America's Foremost Hero!
If you haven't been reading along on Joe's previous three stories, Joe Guy was basically the illegitimate love-child of Superboy and Amelia Earhardt. Now, the time has come and Joe has finally received word from his long absent father...




Joe Guy by Jim Stenstrum and Abel Laxamana from The Rook #10 (1981)



14 April 2018

Saturday Matinee - Jet & Joe

This weekend we're doing our semi-regular matinee feature, but we're doing so with old friends - comics we've visited before (and often are likely to visit again). Just because Jet Dream's stories are conveniently short 4 pagers, she'll and her team will be bracketing our main features.

This time out, it's Joe Guy: America's Foremost Hero. We've seen his two previous adventures and are (ever so slowly) leading up to the big confrontation/meeting with his father in the fifth and final episode. In today's tale, he faces Cardinal Synn: Archfiend Of The Universe.

For Jet Dream and her Stunt-Girl Counterspies, it's animal action this time - Tigers and Spiders - Eek!




Next time, the team gets a new tiger.

It's Saturday! Sounds like a good night for a romance feature, eh?
See you then.

Jet Dream's Spider by Dick Wood, Mike Sekowski, & Mike Peppe for The Man From UNCLE #8, Jet Dream's Tiger by ?? & Joe Certa for The Man From UNCLE #9, Joe Guy by Jim Stenstrum & Abel Laxamana for The Rook # 9 (1967, 1981)

24 February 2018

Joe Guy: Matinee Hero

As you may have already noticed, we're overdue for our return to Jim Stenstrum and Abel Laxamana's  too-cool-to-be-forgotten strip, Joe Guy: America's Foremost Hero. So here's the second, and longest, of his five adventures for a Saturday Matinee.
If you missed his Introduction and First Adventure, click on those links to jump back to those posts.


Hey - Wait a minute!
I thought The Clown was Magno's bad guy...

pages by Jim Stenstrum and Abel Laxamana for The Rook #8 (1981)