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Saturday, August 01, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 213: Never feed chili to your bantha

And the man in black said everyone attack /And it turned into a bantha blitz

Panel from Star Wars (1998 Dark Horse series) #12 (November 1999), script by Timothy Truman, pencils by Al Rio, inks by Mark Heike and Mark Lipka, colors by Dave McCaig, letters by Steve Dutro

Today in Comics and Music History, August 1, 1981: Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock 'n' Roll

If you are of a certain age your heart will start to race just that li'l bit faster when you click to start the video just below:

MTV begins broadcasting, August 1, 1981, featuring VJ Alan Hunter

Flag on the moon! What does it mean?!?

from Hip-Hop Family Tree Two-in-One (FCBD 2014 one-shot) (Fantagraphics, May 2014); script, pencils, and inks by Ed Piskor

"Rapture" by Blondie (Chrysalis, 1981), written by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. The music video star Debbie Harry with dancer William Barnes in the white suit and top hat (he also chereographed the video), and featuring Fab Five Freddy and graffiti artists Lee Quiñones and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat was hired when Grandmaster Flash did not show for the shoot.

The 1987 2015 Marvel Age Calendar for Hot August Nights!

August 1987 calendar from the back cover of Marvel Age #56 (November 1987),
script by Mike Carlin, pencils and inks by Ron Zalme, colors by Paul Becton
(Click picture to Awesome-August-size!)

Friday, July 31, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 212: Seriously, what is it with Solos and parking their spaceships inside monsters?

Oh, he's just DYING to say that it's a trap.

'Okay, we're in the Slimy Green Alien Monster Lot -- everybody remember where we parked.

Panels from Star Wars: Legacy (2013 series) #3 (May 2013), script by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman; pencils and inks by Gabriel Hardman, colors by Rachelle Rosenberg, letters by Michael Heisler

Thursday, July 30, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 211: Jango Unchained

His Dalek action figure is all squished.

'No, no! It was actually PROGRESSIVE Insurance! I hired Flo!'

It's usually three or four times, to be precise.'

Panels from Star Wars: Jango Fett graphic novel (January 2002); script by Ron Marz; pencils, inks, and colors by Tom Fowler; letters by Dan Jackson

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 210: Well, that's just racist

'And I've got a date with her tonight, roger roger!'

Panel from Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct webcomic #1 (2009), script by by Pablo Hidalgo; art by Thomas Hodges, Grant Gould, Jeffery Carlisle, and/or Daniel Falconer; letters by Grant Gould

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Today in Comics History: Happy birthday, Rudy Vallée!

Also, he was the narrator of 'The Night They Raided Minsky's,' one of my favorite movies. Who knew?

Panel from "Were You Born in July" in Amazing Man Comics #14 (July 1940), pencils and inks by Joseph A. Kaliff

Screen Songs "The Stein Song" (Paramount/Fleischer Studios, 1930), with the voices by Rudy Vallée and Billy Murray, directed By Dave Fleischer and Shamus Culhane

Merrie Melodies "Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee" (Warner Bros., 1932), with the voices of The King's Men and Johnny Murray, directed by Rudolf Ising

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 209: Sure, this is sad and everything, Itchy, but we'll never forget those obscene noises you made at Dianne Carroll

'So it's a good thing we Wookiees just hang our dead up on trees to dry.'

Panels from Star Wars: Chewbacca #1 (January 2000), script by Darko Macan, pencils and inks by Igor Kordey, colors by Matthew Paine, letters by Vickie Williams

Monday, July 27, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 208: This scene does not take place in the movie

'Wow, Lord Vader, you were right...these 3-D TVs are AMAZING!'

cover of Star Wars Weekly (1978 Marvel UK series) #11 (April 19, 1978), artist unknown (Carmine Infantino?)

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Ten of a Kind: Love is a Battlefield

The 1982 War in Riverdale cost over 600,000 lives, becoming the erea’s bloodiest battle since the 1628 Greendale witch-burnings. (Archie #429)

Guys, guys: she’s just not that into you. Or single-celled organisms. (Wonder Woman #125)

If that were Guy Gardner, I’m pretty sure this comic would be called ‘Green Lantern Two-on-One.’ (Green Lantern #118)

Wait, where on Earth-1 is there a GREEN CAT?!? (Batman #197)

Thankfully, Archie was too slippery from all that Banana Boat tanning lotion for the girls to do any damage. (Archie’s Girls Betty and Veronica #332)

They keep forgetting to put Mort in issues of Marvel Zombies. (Mort the Dead Teenager #4)

Imagine Bob’s surprise when he eventually wound up married to Crosby. (The Adventures of Bob Hope #49)

That smirk of Superman’s is like he’s saying ‘Now, now, girls, there’s plenty of Kryptonian beefcake to go around.’ (Action Comics #597)

Nowadays the kids can’t even be bothered to go outside and rip Archie in half, they just do it on their smartphones. (Archie’s Pals & Gals Double Digest #51)

’Guys! Guys! I’m an arachnid! I’m pretty sure if you rip me in half you get two Spider-Mans!’ (Secret Wars: Civil War #1)

(More Ten of a Kind here.)

Psylocke Psunday: Let the Munn Shine In

Before this here blog o' mine slippedy-slipped into real-life-overload low-content Star Wars/Today in Comics History day-and-night mode, I promised you more about The X-Tinction Agenda featuring Psylocke. And, um, sorry! I don't have it written yet. I kinda think you won't mind, though, because here's some pshotographs of our psurple psychic from the psages of Entertainment Weekly which I'm sure won't mind me reposting them seeing as they didn't extend my subscription the way they were supposed to and instead they just mailing me two copies of each issue. So take it away, Olivia Munn co-starring in X-Men: Apocalypse, coming to a theater near you on May 27, 2016!

WHERE'S GAMBIT?!?

'Aren't you a little short for an Sabah Nur?'

Images from Entertainment Weekly (July 24, 2015); image credits: Michael Muller (top); Alan Markfield (bottom)
Also: Mohawk Storm! I'm camping out for tickets already.

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 207: In the Steppes of Central Bespin

Then, Vader gut-shot Luke through the chest and left him to bleed out red on the streets of Sin City.

Pin-up from Star Wars (1977 Marvel series) #43 (January 1981), pencils and inks by Frank Miller