Friday, January 02, 2015

Flashback Friday: Olive, You're a Fine Girl

Filling up Fridays: Fine Flashback Fosts Posts, re-presenting some of my favorite Comics Oughta Be Fun! entries that you might not have seen, or would enjoy seeing again, or maybe you're just going to go out to the pub tonight so you won't have to worry about it, see if I care...anyway, re-presenting a Bully classic originally published on March 17, 2008! (I was six then.)


There's a port on a western bay
Popeye by E. C. Segar

And it serves a hundred ships a day
Popeye by E. C. Segar

Lonely sailors pass the time away
Popeye by E. C. Segar

And talk about their homes
Popeye by E. C. Segar

And there's a girl in this harbor town
Popeye by E. C. Segar

And she works layin' whiskey down
Popeye by E. C. Segar

They say "Brandy, fetch another round"
Popeye by E. C. Segar

She serves them whiskey and wine
Popeye by E. C. Segar

The sailors say "Brandy, you're a fine girl," (You're a fine girl)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

"What a good wife you would be," (Such a fine girl)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

"Yeah, your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea."
Popeye by E. C. Segar

(Dooda-dit-dooda, dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

Brandy wears a braided chain
Popeye by E. C. Segar

Made of finest silver from the North of Spain
Popeye by E. C. Segar

A locket that bears the name
Popeye by E. C. Segar

Of the man that Brandy loves
Popeye by E. C. Segar

He came on a summer's day
Popeye by E. C. Segar

Bringin' gifts from far away
Popeye by E. C. Segar

But he made it clear he couldn't stay
Popeye by E. C. Segar

No harbor was his home
Popeye by E. C. Segar

The sailor said " Brandy, you're a fine girl," (You're a fine girl)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

"What a good wife you would be," (Such a fine girl)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea."
Popeye by E. C. Segar

(Dooda-dit-dooda, dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

Yeah, Brandy used to watch his eyes
Popeye by E. C. Segar

When he told his sailor stories
Popeye by E. C. Segar

She could feel the ocean fall an' rise
Popeye by E. C. Segar

She saw its ragin' glory
Popeye by E. C. Segar

But he had always told the truth, lord, he was an honest man
Popeye by E. C. Segar

And Brandy does her best to understand
Popeye by E. C. Segar

(Dooda-dit-dooda, dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

At night when the bars close down
Popeye by E. C. Segar

Brandy walks through a silent town
Popeye by E. C. Segar


And loves a man who's not around
Popeye by E. C. Segar

She still can hear him say
Popeye by E. C. Segar

She hears him say "Brandy, you're a fine girl," (You're a fine girl)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

"What a good wife you would be," (Such a fine girl)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea."
Popeye by E. C. Segar

(Dooda-dit-dooda, dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

"Brandy, you're a fine girl," (You're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be," (Such a fine girl)
Popeye by E. C. Segar

"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea."
(Dooda-dit-dooda, dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)

Popeye by E. C. Segar

Now, crank it up and read it again!:



Popeye by E. C. Segar

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 2: Fear of a Black Robot


Panel from Droids #1 (Marvel/Star, April 1986), script by Dave Manak, pencils by John Romita, Sr., inks by Carlos Garzon, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Grace Kremer

Thursday, January 01, 2015

Today in Comics History Future: We got ninety-nine problems one problem but crime, inflation, unemployment, sexual and racial discrimination, deterioration of moral values, junk food, bad TV and so on ain't one.


House ad for The Survivors! (aka Jeremiah) from The Comics Journal #76 (October 1982), art by Hermann Huppen

Comics News for January 1, 2015


Top: from Captain America #105 (Marvel, September 1968), script by Stan Lee,
pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dan Adkins, letters by Sam Rosen
Middle: from "Rosie and Red Russia!" in Adventures into the Unknown (ACG, November 1956), pencils and inks by Ogden Whitney
Bottom: from "The Case of the Crazy Crimes" in Batman #136 (DC, December 1960), script by Bill Finger, pencils by Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Charles Paris, letters by Stan Starkman


Today in Comics History: Please make it a New Year's Resolution to not ignore your rocket science


"Countdown on Excellence" PSA printed in The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #76 (May-June 1963), script by Jack Schiff, pencils and inks by Sheldon Moldoff, letters by Ira Schnapp

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 1: He Got that Hat at The Gap

Well, hey, how about last year's 365 Days of KirbyTech feature that I never quite finished, huh? (shuffles hoof nervously, clears throat)

Hey (he said, frantically gesturing in the other direction), look over here...something new for 2015! This year, all year, every day, it's 365 Days of Star Wars Comics! Starting with January 1 and running right up to and through the at-your-local-cinema release of Star Wars Episode VII: There Better be Wookiees In This One.

Let's kick things off with a scene cut and never seen in the original movie, from the very first Star Wars comic book! Then we only got approximately seventy-three thousand left to go through.


Panels from Star Wars #1 (Marvel, July 1977), script by Roy Thomas, pencils and inks by Howard Chaykin, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Jim Novak

So check in daily, and May the Thingee Be With You!

Today in Comics History: Comic books tell us that people in the olden days were gullible


Panel from Sensation Comics #108 (March-April 1952); script, art, and letters by Mort Drucker

Today in Comics History: Once again ducks start out the New Year by forgetting to wear pants


Panel from Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures #27 (Gladstone, July 1994); script, pencils, and inks by Don Rosa, colors by Scott Rockwell, letters by Mike Taylor

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Today in Comics History, December 27: Apparently this is the day Wolverine dies


from Incredible Hercules #128 (Marvel, June 2009), script by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, pencils by Dietrich O. Smith, inks by Terry Pallot, colors by Raúl Treviño, letters by Joe Caramagna

Today in Comics History, December 27: It has taken Barbara Gordon only four weeks to morph into Mary Jane Watson


from "Tall, Dark, Handsome — and Missing!" in Detective Comics #384 (DC, February 1969), script by Mike Friedrich, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Murphy Anderson

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Alfred Pennyworth and Bruce Wayne Wish You a Merry Christmas


Panel from Detective Comics (2011 series) #37 (February 2015), script by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato, pencils and inks by Francis Manapul, colors by Brian Buccellato, letters by Jared K. Fletcher

Black Widow Wishes You a Merry Christmas


Panels from "...And To All a Good Night" in Amazing Adventures #5 (March 1971), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Bill Everett, letters by Artie Simek

Judge Dredd Wishes You a Very Merry Christmas


Panels from the Judge Dredd story "I Hate Christmas" in 2000 AD Prog 867 (25 December 1993), script by Mark Millar, art by Carlos Ezquerra, letters by Tom Frame

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Today in Comics History, December 24: Live from 200 Miles Northeast of Edmonton, it's the Wolverine Christmas Spectacular!


from Grindhouse: Drive In, Bleed Out #1 (Dark Horse, November 2014), script and letters by Alex De Campi, pencils and inks by R. M. Guéra, colors by Giulia Brusco

Today in Comics History, December 24: An extra is imported from the set of Mary Poppins


from "The Egg!" in Strange Tales #2 (Marvel/Atlas, August 1951), pencils by Morris Marcus (?), inks by Frank Sieminsky, letters by Artie Simek

Today in Comics History, December 24, 1776: George Washington invents the triple-decker cheeseburger


from "Unstuck in Time!" in Archie Giant Series Magazine #602 [The World of Jughead] (Archie, October 1989), script by Rich Margopoulos, pencils by Doug Crane, inks by Tom Moore, colors by Barry Grossman, letters by Bill Yoshida

Today in Comics History, December 24: The Avengers would like to remind you that this is the last happy moment in their comic books through at least next year


from Avengers Annual (2014 series) #1 (Marvel, February 2014), script by Kathryn Immonen, pencils and inks by David Lafuente, colors by Rain Beredo and Lee Loughridge, letters by Cory Petit

Today in Comics History, December 24: Dorothy Gale files a restraining order on Santa Claus


from The Road to Oz #6 (Marvel, May 2013), script by Eric Shanower based on the novel by L. Frank Baum, pencils and inks by Skottie Young, colors by Jean-Francois Beaulieu, letters by Jeff Eckleberry

Monday, December 22, 2014

Today in Comics History, December 22, 199?: Batman is so angry about not knowing Fidel Finnegan III's exact year of birth that his nose disappears


from Detective Comics #636 (DC, Late September 1991), script by Louise Simonson, pencils by Jim Fern, inks by Steve Mitchell, colors by Adrienne Roy, letters by John Costanza