Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Best of Bully: Swinging on a Star


Would you like to swing on a star


Carry moonbeams home in a jar


And be better off than you are


Or would you rather be a mule?


A mule is an animal with long funny ears


He kicks up at anything he hears


His back is brawny and his brain is weak


He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak


And by the way if you hate to go to school


You may grow up to be a mule


Oh, would you like to swing on a star


Carry moonbeams home in a jar


And be better off than you are


Or would you rather be a pig?


A pig is an animal with dirt on his face


His shoes are a terrible disgrace


He has no manners when he eats his food


He's fat and lazy and extremely rude


But if you don't care a feather or a fig


You may grow up to be a pig


Oh, would you like to swing on a star


Carry moonbeams home in a jar


And be better off than you are


Or would you rather be a fish?


A fish won't do anything but swim in a brook


He can't write his name or read a book


To fool the people is his only thought


And though he's slippery he still gets caught


But if then that sort of life is what you wish


You may grow up to be a fish


And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo, everyday you meet quite a few


So you see it's all up to you


You can be better than you are


You could be swinging on a star!



Now, fire this up and sing along:


Originally presented August 22, 2007


365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 229

SSS #57
Panel from Spidey Super Stories #57 (March 1982), script by Steven Grant, pencils by Win Mortimer, inks by Mike Esposito



Monday, August 16, 2010

The Best of Bully: Let's Do Math! (with The Mighty Avengers!)

I'm away from beautiful Park Slope, Brooklyn, and the comfy Casa del Bull all this week, but that's no reason to leave you behind with nothing but the beastly mercies of Mister Hank McCoy! All these week I'll be presenting you with...summer reruns! Yes, just like Johnny Carson re-runs in the seventies, I'm repurposing old classic material you may or may not have seen before and calling it

The Best of Bully!

First up: can you; do math? Well, how about a little help from your friends...The Avengers!!!




Thor > Hulk.



Nick Fury ≠ Marcus Welby, M.D.



Having Captain America and Rick Jones ≠ Keeping Captain America and Rick Jones.



Thor < Hulk.



No one > Hulk.



(Yellowjacket x 2) = Captain America.



Thor > mortal man.



(Thor - Mjolnir) + 60 seconds = Don Blake.



Hulk > everyone.



Captain America ≠ Captain Midnight.



Hawkeye - (bow + arrow) > Rick Jones.



Thor > Hulk.



Tsetse fly:elephant :: Captain America:Man-Ape



Solve for y: If a is b, where a = Captain Mar-Vell and b = spy, then x is y, where x = Rick Jones.

(Answer: y = Joe Cocker.)



Hulk = Thor!



Avengers = jerks.


Originally presented July 18, 2007


365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 228

AA #15
Panel from Amazing Adventures #63 (November 1972), script by Steve Englehart, pencils by Tom Sutton, inks by Frank Giacoia and John Tartaglione, letters by Jean Izzo



Sunday, August 15, 2010

Ten of a Kind: I'm covered in bees!

























(More Ten of a Kind here.)


365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 227

Avengers #163
Panel from Avengers #163 (September 1977), script by Jim Shooter, pencils by George Tuska, inks by Pablo Marcos, colors by Phil Rachelson, letters by Denise Wohl



Sunday Morning Silents: Le voyage dans la lune


Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), directed by Georges Méliès

I'm pretty sure this version is scored with the music of Erik Korngold. While not intended for this film, it's a nice fit!