Showing posts with label simplicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label simplicity. Show all posts

Friday, March 14, 2008

Friday Night Fights: Simplicity at Its Finest

Nothing complicated or clever for this week's contribution to Bahlactus's Battle That Rocks the Cosmic Block -- just a fist, a face, and a constellation of hurt:

(from Captain Marvel Adventures #115, December 1950; by Otto Binder and Pete Costanza)

It's simple yet elegant, which means I don't have to explain the anti-television pogroms, phallic skullcaps shielded against Luddite radiation, and hot pants-wearing conquistadores which lead up to the featured punch-in-the-face action.

Swell Maps - Blam!! (from A Trip to Marineville, 1979) - In which the pioneering (and sadly deceased) Epic Soundtracks and Nikki Sudden chart a DIY postpunk course into Nuggets territory.