...and then there was the time when Josie McCoy was captured by a mad scientist who wanted to hack open the Pussycat's skull and make a powerful narcotic out of her gray matter...
The thrills and chills continue as Mary Marvel brings a dynastic level of pain down upon the dessicated kisser of THE MAD MUMMY...
Once again the ill-omened stars have aligned, bringing together the action-packed excitement of Friday Night Fights and the spine-chilling horror of Armagideon Time's Halloween Countdown! Let the chills and thrills commence!
Elsa Haast is a groovy chick making the scene in the ruins of postwar Berlin. She's a waitress by profession, and her turn-ons include nighttime strolls, bladed objects, and unwitting victims.
When it comes to keeping Binky's affections from straying, Peggy uses a carrot and stick approach....only minus the "carrot" part:
Mr. Tawny never told me he had a sister....
There a right way and a wrong way to woo Jonni Thunder.
That would be the wrong way.
Ever wonder how Moonlighting would have turned out if Maddie had a pet rabbit and power to electrocute people with her touch? Well look no further than Jonni Thunder, a.k.a. Thunderbolt #4 (August 1985; by Roy & Dann Thomas and Dick Giordano). Stilted references to Raymond Chandler's works, the cutting edge of 1980's pantsuit technology, tenuous links to a Golden Age superhero, the ever unreliable flexographic printing process -- this underrated mini-series had it all.
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You (from Gorgeous George, 1994) - Retro-licious pop without peer, courtesy of the man who gave Orange Juice its distinctive tang. I don't care that it took the excremental Empire Records to bring this gem to the attention of the American listening public; it was a price well worth paying.
(All hail the MC Cosmic!)
It's friday night, cats and kittens, which means it's time for a little realpolitik action with Black Canary, Master of International Diplomacy!
Hold onto your golden tiaras, ladies and gents, because this installment of the Donnybrook Cosmic features a widescreen dust up between the Amazons of Paradise Island and Eviless and her Saturnic Girls. (Great garage band name, that.)
It happened in the pages of Wonder Woman #28 (March-April 1948), in an epic tale best described as a Bayeux Tapestry of B&D sequences. While William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator, was never one to pass up the opportunity to depict his kink of choice in scripting the adventures of Princess Diana and company, he well and truly pulled out the stops in this long-form exploration of the many ways one could be bound, gagged, or otherwise physically restrained.
Here's the (much abridged) highlight reel:
...and to think Joss Whedon claimed Wonder Woman lacked a decent rogues' gallery. Pshaw, I say.Abigail Mathilda "Ma" Hunkle -- mother, shopkeeper, and the original Red Tornado -- takes the good fight straight to the Reichsfurher's mustachioed kisser:
Some things -- like face-punching Hitler or vintage rock'n'roll classics -- never go out of style.It's pandemonium in the pool hall as Sun Girl (a late 1940's Timely comics heroine and occasional sidekick to the original Human Torch) picks her shots wisely and sinks a couple of hoods like a true shark.
Here's a little extra sand and surf greatness, as the reigning Queen of the Beach, Valerie Brown, schools some fools on the finer points of etiquette...
Neolithic warrior-turned-immortal monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone has a long way to go and a short time to get there, and of the many talents he has picked up over the course of 10,000 years...
It's a free-for-all on the ice in this week's installment of Friday Night Fights, as Tamsin Mary Cates, Canadian teenager and interdimensional traveller, schools a member of Chinese vampire hockey team about how the game is really played...
This week's fast and furious contribution to the Battle Cosmic features Misty Knight and Colleen Wing demonstrating the chop-socky bona fides that earned this pair of private investigators the title "Daughters of the Dragon":
From Frank Castle's Guide to Shared Intimacy (a.k.a. The Punisher's Love Journal):
1. Communication between partners is essential.
2. Try varying your foreplay routines to keep things exciting and unpredictable.
3. Always carry protection.
4. After the deed is done, indulge in some post-poital "cuddle time" with your partner.
Fighting and fucking, it's all the same in the Punisher's sad little world.
I used to to be a fan of Marvel's flagship sociopathic vigilante back in the late 1980's, but media oversaturation and the wisdom that comes with getting older killed my affection for Frank Castle and his one-man war on crime. Like butterfly knives and heavy metal music, the Punisher falls into the category of things that seemed really bitchin' to my teenaged self, but just feel embarrassing to me these days.
The above sequence of panels originally appeared in a story titled "Accounts Settled, Accounts Due!" which ran in Marvel Super Action #1 (January 1976), one of several attempts by Marvel to launch a more adult-oriented comics magazine. It was written by Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Tony DeZuniga and Rico Rival, and while I have an immense amount of respect for the late Mr. Goodwin's contributions to the comics industry, I have to wonder if he was freebasing Mickey Spillane manuscripts while he was scripting the story, which falls into the common comics trap of confusing "adult" with "lurid, titillating, and disturbingly violent."
The story does feature this panel though, so it's not all bad...
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