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)

26 June 2020

Rosie? Is That You?

I bumped into an odd notation in the Grand Comics Database this morning. I was looking at an old issue of War Victory Adventures and noticed that the Rosie The Riveter strip indicated that this was her first and Only (discounting reprint) appearance...


...so, i ask you then, who is This...?
 

...or This...?
 

Obviously, though sharing the name of the iconic Rosie The Riveter, they're all different characters. And all three only appeared once, naturally during World War II in 1943 and 1944.

So, while i remembered other Rosie comics, the GCD entry was still correct while being incorrect.

Oh, BTW - the final segment of TIM ran yesterday in our back room for adult content, The Other Voice Of ODD!. I forgot to mention and link to it.

Sorry about that.

page art from War Victory Adventures #3, All-New Comics #10, and Green Hornet Comics #16 (1943, 1944)

25 June 2020

It's 2020 - Do You Know Where Your Superman Is?

Well, 2020 sure ain't 20/20, eh? If anything, the times are the complete opposite of clear sight. And, hells - no wonder i can't find Superman. We live in a world where the inspiration for Lex Luthor (modern post-Crisis version) is president of the United States, and the man who was making the Superman movies is someone who doesn't believe in even the concept of Aspirational Heroes and thinks that anyone who does is an idiot.

The Odd thing is, this isn't the first time we've been stuck searching for Superman in 2020 while racist assholes run amuck. We did that 40 years ago...



Let's hope we can stop the racist villains in our world, too.

Superman 2020 did return for four more tales over the next 13 issues. 

And later in 2020, Superman & Lois get their own tv show again. I don't know exactly how that relates, but i'm looking forward to it.

page art by Curt Swan and Joe Staton from Superman #s 354 & 355 (1980)


24 June 2020

TIM Continues

Just a quick "Heads Up!"



While we've got Mad Science with Dr. Nick! running up front, TIM, the first arc of experiMental Theatre, continues in our adult content back room with another 50 strips in this post.

stuff by -3- (2011)