Ladies and gents, here come Glennan, Saul, Benji and Hal...the TWISTS!
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I'm not sure why the Paul stand-in looks like more like Jason King dressed in Dr Strange's wardrobe though.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
THE CLUE IS ON THEIR ALBUM COVER!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
"new arrangements and stuff" lol
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 04:21 (two years ago) link
It's funny how late this was to capitalise on Sgt Pepper era Beatles as well, 1970?? I guess in the DC universe every fashion trend is about three or four years behind the real world, so at this point hip and trendy youngsters are still wearing beads and kaftans and confusing oldsters with beatnik lingo.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 12:40 (two years ago) link
Captain Britain commits regicide
https://i.imgur.com/2PYbY9f.png
https://i.imgur.com/Zr8cjve.png
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:47 (eight months ago) link
disappointing cop-out in this Superman comic (from Jan 1969, so they could have gone with LBJ or Nixon)
https://i.imgur.com/HYKcd2m.png
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:53 (eight months ago) link
Lol at that Ed. note
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:57 (eight months ago) link
bonus Queen vs Captain Britain content
https://i.imgur.com/mSm0BMx.png
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:02 (eight months ago) link
Richard Nixon as the head of the Secret Empire:
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/d2-DVITeUySU-XoBxlhLSpVQEJQ=/0x0:630x624/1320x0/filters:focal(0x0:630x624):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/8496509/SE02.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 6 October 2023 05:48 (eight months ago) link
PLOT by BOB BUDIANSKY * SCRIPT by JIM LAWRENCE * PENCILS AND INKS by SOMEONE WHO SAW A PHOTO OF THE QUEEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND HAS SINCE FORGOTTEN WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 6 October 2023 10:30 (eight months ago) link
iirc the Captain Britain artwork is by Ron Wilson and Pablo Marcos, neither of whom were Brits.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 6 October 2023 10:42 (eight months ago) link
Although looking again at those pages, the royal faces look like the work of another artist entirely (possibly an art droid in the Marvel UK offices)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 6 October 2023 10:45 (eight months ago) link
the first image is from issue 38 of Captain Britain, the second and third from issue 39 (the final issue before it was cancelled). Pencils for both are by Ron Wilson, the inking on #38 by Mike Esposito, inks on #39 by someone called Brian H. Moore who doesn't seem to have any other credits other than the final issue of the original run of Captain Britain ... unless he's the same person as this Brian H Moore, who drew cartoons for Sinn Fein's newspaper An Phoblacht under the name Cormac: https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/835
Maybe someone at Marvel UK knew him and as a laugh hired him to ink an issue of Captain Britain where the title character attempts to kill the queen? (Or an Irish-American working at Marvel US, maybe?)
― soref, Friday, 6 October 2023 11:23 (eight months ago) link
sorry, I've just double checked the issue, and the full credits are "ART BY RON WILSON AND PABLO MARCOS * ZIPS BY BRIAN H MOORE". idk what 'zips' means here ... but maybe it was an Irish Republican Marxist cartoonist who drew the faces of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh rather than a Marvel UK art droid?
― soref, Friday, 6 October 2023 11:36 (eight months ago) link
is zips short for zip-a-tone?
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 October 2023 19:33 (eight months ago) link
it is.
is the second Queen/CapB also Budiansky? FPing jimbeaux for putting those digital recolors into my corneas.
― vashti funyuns (sic), Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:05 (eight months ago) link
love it, but also why is Nixon shooting himself a KRAK rather than a BANG
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:13 (eight months ago) link
Looks like a Luger
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:16 (eight months ago) link
is the second Queen/CapB also Budiansky?
both issues credit Budiansky with plot and Jim Lawrence with script
― soref, Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:25 (eight months ago) link
Always fascinating / bemusing how Marvel had an actual office in the UK but would still employ US-based authors for piecework I see Jim Lawrence wrote some James Bond comics, so “blasted superhero’s done his nut, like I always said he would!” could have a genuine ring of authenticity about it
― vashti funyuns (sic), Saturday, 7 October 2023 21:38 (eight months ago) link
This is making the rounds online ("real bands being name-checked in comic books"):
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dz3e2cvgmhtrqqjiivbocjnd/bafkreig42fdxt5h3qfizxnunqqhyhowuvwptnflefjmwwqdb2nc2oxiteq@jpeg
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 22:21 (eight months ago) link
during the ridiculous part of the 90s, mutant military posse x-force were seen dancing to a porno for pyros song in a clubwhy this stuck with me idk!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:08 (eight months ago) link
i’m probably posting the wrong url, but here’s aerosmith in shadowman from the early 90s:https://valiant.fandom.com/wiki/Shadowman_Vol_1_19?file=Shadowman_Vol_1_19.jpg
― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:42 (eight months ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q00AAOSwulViY01T/s-l1600.jpg
― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:43 (eight months ago) link
Topical (this may be one of the dead links above; I see another Kissinger appearance w/Captain America):
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jxitdeqb6coq7beqtmpm6j4c/bafkreickcavapc5gfdguz27cx6ohfbrnyllkzmng4i23wcgannilcchdky@jpeg
― This field is required (morrisp), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:53 (six months ago) link
from BlueSky, a 1979 edition of the Spiderman newspaper strip where Flash Thompson and Harry Osbourne open a discotheque
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:k5vwobjngg43lj7zuw2gudib/bafkreifver4grajxq5ae4abz2s37it2zj7emtnb7u5kv7a2kurtxn2ia4u@jpeg
https://bsky.app/profile/comicsinthega.bsky.social/post/3kjj5ydogrc2l
― soref, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:41 (four months ago) link
Wow. I'm sure a bunch of those folks must turn up frequently, but I can't imagine there are too many Gene Shalit appearances out there. Oddly, he seems like he'd be the most at home if he had a page in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. I'd believe it if he turned out to be some worthless one-off villain from Marvel Team-Up, or the very tail end of Stan Lee's Spider-Man.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:25 (four months ago) link