Getting Spanky With Mark

Hey! We do get a post today. I was going to give up again, but on the final attempt for the day Blogger finally deigned to allow all the images to upload to the server.
Damn nice of them, huh?

A few weeks back we took a first peek at LOC - Fandom's Forum, and i promised we'd be back that way. So, let's turn around. Today we'll check out Mark Marderosian's parody hero - Spanky, Space Cadet. Spanky first appeared in LOC #4 and ran in every issue following except #9 for a total of six episodes. After an epic struggle with another system crippled by a pointless 'upgrade', we've got all 6 here today.

I'm not going to try to set this up or describe the strip. I'll just say it embraces the Odd.  Let's see what you think...

J.B. never woke up...

page art by Mark Marderosian from LOC #s 4-8 & 10 (1981, 1982)

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)