Here’s something to astound your senses: the first chapter in issue five of the Madballs comic book from Marvel’s 1987 Star Comics line-up. Please enjoy the companion blog entry that inspired this scanning and posting over at Wes Blacula’s New JAKQ City!
Holy crap, this is amazing. It’s basically eleven pages of bad puns.
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Page Two
Page Three
Page Four
Page Five
Page Six
Page Seven
Page Eight
Page Nine
Page Ten
Page Eleven
Why is the judge from Phoenix Wright such a clueless dingbat? I’m finally finishing this game since I picked up the second one. I do not want to know you if you choose to press the buttons in lieu of barking out objections!
I guess I’m going to have to order Hotel Dusk online, because most of the game stores here are sold out of the couple copies they got, and many don’t think they’ll be getting more. Oh, a rough life indeed.
Originally, I wanted to show each of you what I consider to be the boldest comic book cover of all time: a Star Wars comic that depicts Lando (a stunning likeness of Billy Dee Williams) getting double-fist punched right in the kisser by his own servant, Lobot; truly a thing of beauty.
I couldn’t find it, so you’ll have to live with the description for now. However, in my diggings I started thinking, as I’m wont to do when confronted with a stack of funny books, about what makes a comic cover so exciting. Most importantly, why are they not exciting anymore!? The answer is simple, so I won’t take up much of your time. First, bookmark this and then leave your job or whatever it is you do and take a stroll to the comic book shoppe.
For this next section I will assume you are browsing via a mobile device or, more likely, that you lied and did not leave at all.
Fig 1.1*
Now look at the covers on the “new issues” rack. No, you are not at a museum! Yet, despite your location, you find yourself surrounded by confusing pieces of paper. These are comic book covers, but they do not tell you what to expect inside the comic! Hey, look over at that one on the second shelf; it appears to be a Western adventure comic. But where are the cowboys and word bubbles exclaiming distress over an Indian threat? Instead, there is just a fancy painting of a cowboy hat!
You have been fooled.
It’s probably not about cowboys at all. Who knows? Below, I have scanned and posted two examples of comics that really let you know what to expect. The Star Wars cover is especially well done. I’ll close with these images, which you can click to enlarge, and announce that you may expect some similarly titillating Slamm Dunk covers soon!
* Fig 1.1 – What the heck is going on here?
I’m hesitant to visit Japan, because deep down inside I know that it might not be like this at all:
However, this is pretty much what it must look like when the O.T.A.C.K.E.R.S. invade the streets together.
Just got back from this one. It’s too bad Smokin’ Aces will never survive tired comparisons to flicks by Tarantino and Ritchie, because it was really fun and ridiculous.
Jason Bateman is definitely a stand-out, though he doesn’t get a lot of screen time. I hope he has the greatest career in the world, personally, after being one of the best straight guys in comedy history on Arrested Development. But hell, I thought Ryan Reynolds was pretty rad in this too, so what do I know?
It’s nice to see a new over-the-top R hitman flick, and regardless of whether or not you find the whole concept derivative as all hell, Joe Carnahan cracked out a movie that I’d love to sneak some tall boys into if I ever see it again.
Obligatory Statement: Alicia Keys is really hot.
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