Close Enough To Friday

We haven't done one of my home-made quizzes in about two and a half possum's ages. I seem to be in the mood, so i guess it's time.

Here's a set of 21 questions - some quite simple, some ... not so  much.

01) This comic book had only three issues published. Name it.

02) Christine Baranski is often great, but her most legendary role went largely unseen. What was the title of this movie?

03) Place this Infinity War scene -

04) In what venue did this comedy team perform together?

05) Name this demon -

06) Before what movie did the Columbia Hold-The-Torch Lady break down and boogie?

Need another hint...?

07) Identify this comic book couple -

(Bonus points for identifying the source of this pic)

08) What needed to be explained?

09) Who had their first dinner together here?

10) Identify this comic book couple -

(Likewise)

11) In whose place did Bark Lee die?

12) This erg ape battled these energy dragons where?

13) What is this boy doing?

14) Whose hand is that?

15) Explain how this quote makes literal sense -

16) Name these celebrity heroes -

17) Who delivered this line where?

18) Identify this hero silhouette -

19) Yeah, okay. That one was too easy. So identify this hero silhouette -

20) Who discovered this effective anti-zombie weapon?

21) Identify this leading 'man' -

Y'know, i think of this guy every time i see JJ Abram's Bad Robot production company logo. (That's NOT a hint)

Answers to a few of these should be extra easy for folks who've been reading along for a while and have real good memories. As for the rest (both answers and folkses), the solutions will be along directly.

stills from the answers, so forget it!

Confusing Time Travel or Rex Havoc & The Missing Magic Trick

Today, let us travel back to 1984 in 1978. As confounded as that might sound, it's actually pretty simple - the year was 1978, the comics appeared in Warren's 1984 magazine.

When a series opens with "You will never see anything more horrible than a boy's dead dog return from the grave to bite its young master's face off" one might immediately suspect that things are going to get a bit strange. And then when you see who's doing it, fun strange can be expected.

The team of Jim Stenstrum and Abel Laxamana, who we've seen previously with their Joe Guy: America's Foremost Hero, bring us another odd hero - Rex Havoc. As you might suspect from the opening statement, our hero lives in a world of monsters and denizens of the unknown.

Let's take a look, shall we?

Unsurprisingly, Rex Havoc's adventures were gathered together into a reprint magazine -
 

But! They skipped the second tale since they only had 72 pages, and this one was another 14 pages long. However, in so doing, they jumped right past the great magic trick, in which Abel and Jim turn a carrot into a potato -

That blurb should read "NEXT: The Scroll Of RA-Sisboom-Bah" but i guess the old Egyptian censors didn't like the nudity.

page art by Abel Laxamana for 1984 #s 4 & 5 (1978, 1979)

Scatterday Morning Post

Apparently today is Scatterday. Every time i try to focus on something, thoughts skitter off in multiple directions. I've started three different posts this morning, and the ol' peripatetic brain wandered off in the middle of each.

So, let's go back and check in with some old faves.

What's Don Newton up to...?

Umm...

Maybe it's not a good time?

I'll try again later.

damnfoolery by Don Newton from Return Of The Skyman (1987)

Behind Alyce

As planned, i went back to review the first Alyce painting yesterday morning. I did indeed find fixes that needed doing, but i didn't do them. I will.

I'll get back to those corrections at the same time i'm making another pass on the second painting in the series...

Yeah, now things start to get a little odd...

art by -3- (2020)