Well,
this one spiraled a bit out of control. I was originally going to just post the panels immediately below and comment "Hey, it's Icelandic pop pixie (and perennial favorite in the Bull household)
Björk!" and call it a day.
Panels from Hawkeye (2012 series) #18 (May 2014), script by Matt Fraction, pencils and inks by Annie Wu, colors by Matt Hollingsworth, letters by Chris Eliopoulos
Of course I've spent some time looking for more appearances of Björk in comics, but except for a couple album cover depictions in
MAD magazine, she hasn't. (And for the purposes of
365 Days of Celebrities in Comics,
MAD doesn't count.) But didja know that in addition to providing the song "Army of Me" to the soundtrack of the well-I-liked-it 1995 movie
Tank Girl,
Björk was also considered to play the part of Jet Girl in the film? She turned it down, so our loss is the Naomi Watts's gain. Here, from the original T.G. comic, are (L-R) Jet Girl, Sub Girl, and Tank Girl.
Oh man that coulda been Björk!
Panels from "The Australian Job, Part One", originally published in Deadline circa 1989 (could be in issue 7, 8, or 9), script by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, pencils and inks by Jamie Hewlett, letters by Alan Martin. Reprinted in Tank Girl (1991 series) #2 (Dark Horse, June 1991). Color edition published in Tank Girl Graphic Novel (Penguin Books, 1991), new color by Chris Chalenor.
By the way, I suppose you're wondering who's narrating that flashback in the
Hawkeye panels above, or to put it more directly, which Marvel character was lucky enough to meet Björk? Why, that's one of my favorite Earth-616 long-time supporting characters,
Harold H. Harold.
Matt Fraction didn't invent Harold, though — he was created by
Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan back in the funky-bad seventies in everyone's favorite blood-sucker of a comic classic,
Tomb of Dracula!
Panels from Tomb of Dracula #37 (October 1975), script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Gene Colan, inks and colors by Tom Palmer, letters by Joe Rosen
Harold's a hack hwriter (okay, I'm gonna nip that joke in the bud before it gets any further) tapping out supernatural stories for a pulp press editor, to whom he promises an (ahem)
Interview with a Vampire!
And yes, this comic was published
nearly a year before
Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice's first Lestat novel. Once again:
Comics Did It First!
Hey, that
is a good question, HHH. Where
do you get a
green suit vampire to interview?
Well, you're not just gonna
run across one...oh, wait, yes you are. Then he can shove the Prince of Vampires into his car and take him home, just like a Little Caesar's Pan Pizza with free Crazy Bread! (Free Crazy Bread may not be available at all locations.)
Do you want Draculas, Harold? Because
that's how you get Draculas.
Later, Harold H. Harold becomes a
hvampire, but I think you coulda seen that one coming up the winding, cobbled ancient street of downtown Transylvania City.
In conclusion:
Björk was once in one comic book! And if you've haven't figgered out what the meaning of the post title is yet...read more Silver Age Batman!
Cover of The Brave and the Bold (1955 series) #81 (December 1968-January 1969), pencils and inks by Neal Adams, letters by Gaspar Saladino (?)
Björk, won't you?
Because it's the first of the month, it's time once again for calendars from comic books that you can use in April 2022! How 'bout that? Isn't that convenient! That's why Bully Gives you More in '22! (My new slogan I've thought up three months too late to do anything with. Also, it would work better in '24.)
Welcome to October, which means a new monthly feature as well as this here blog's traditional Octember Countdown to Halloween! Each and every day, at least one Halloween-flavored (mmmm!) post spotlighting comics most scary and spooky denizens (and I'm not just talkin' about Wonder Woman on a bad hair day!) There will be periodic pumpkin-scented editions of our regular features like Ten of a Kind, Today in Comics History and 365 Days of DC House Ads, as well as the Octabulous daily feature at the precise stroke of midnight, Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, casting a bloodshot eye on the monster, horror, and Halloweeny covers of the world's greatest comic book company based in Poughkeepsie, New York! What better way to kick off our Countdown to Halloween than with the Monster with the Mostest, the Terror with the Teeth, that Vampire You Desire...Dracula!
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