So I’ll occasionally search on the eBay for any Swamp Thing items that may have turned up and that I don’t already own. Not that I have the money to blow on eBay at the moment, but I get a kick out of seeing what’s out there.
Like, for example, this Belgian one-sheet for the first Swamp Thing movie:
Boy, the Swamp Thing on that poster sure raised some expectations that the Swamp Thing in the film couldn’t meet.
Here’s an Australian reprint of some issues from the first Swamp Thing series:
I had no idea what this was, though I recognized the scene on the cover from one of the Nestor Redondo issues of the series. Searching the intrawebs, I found
one site with some details on the issue’s contents, plus a better picture than the one above I ganked from the auction.
And then there’s this:
Unlike the other two items mentioned above, I
do own a copy of one of these posters. Just never got around to taking a picture of it to post here on the site, though I really should do it to get a better, larger scan of Heather Locklear’s face — she’s mugging
hard for the camera.
And by golly, those blurbs promise “vicious mutants,” “raw terror,” and “sheer nightgowns,” and the movie delivered. Well, if by “vicious” you mean “kind of goofy,” and by “raw” you mean “way undercooked,” and by “sheer nightgowns,” you mean…well, okay, the movie had sheer nightgowns, I have to give it that. But, seriously, those nightgowns did nothing to flatter Swamp Thing’s figure.
§ February 2nd, 2009 § Filed under Uncategorized Comments Off on Dr. K wants to know what Superman was singing at the end of Final Crisis…
…and I think it was some Dead Kennedys:
Let Dr. K know
what song you think it was.
§ February 2nd, 2009 § Filed under Uncategorized Comments Off on The comic book store, idle hands, and Super Bowl Sunday.
Kitty Pryde is bitten by a time-werewolf, causing her to switch ages from a 14 year old girl to a 21+ old woman as the sun sets (and back again when the sun rises). Altering her superhero career to match this curious circumstance, she fights crime as a schoolgirl ninja during the day, and as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D./bartender at night.
Coming this spring in The X-Men Present Kitty Pryde: Something for Everyone.
…
This is what Employee Tim and I came up with as we were waiting for customers to arrive at the shop on Sunday. Thankfully, after a slow start things picked up a bit and we were distracted by actual work, instead of spending our time coming up with things like “time-werewolves.” I have no idea what a time-werewolf is, but it sounds cool. Kinda. Maybe. …Perhaps you had to be there.
Also, since yet another Wolverine ongoing series (Wolverine: Weapon X) is on its way, I thought maybe Marvel should just go ahead and start doing as many ongoing Wolvie comics as possible. Like Wolverine: Patch, covering all those missing adventures in Madripoor they never got around to covering in the early issues of the ’80s Wolverine regular series. Or Wolverine: Albert, the adventures of Wolvie’s robot double.
I mean, why the hell not, right?
In other news:
§ February 1st, 2009 § Filed under Uncategorized Comments Off on Any excuse to post panels from Obnoxio the Clown.
from Obnoxio the Clown Vs. The X-Men #1 (April 1983)
by Alan Kupperberg
I eluded the grasp of jury duty this past week…but whenever I’m reminded of jury duty, I remember the above comic book which I’d read as an impressionable 14-year-old. My civic responsibility (er, whether or not I actually had to perform it) is forever linked in my mind with Obnoxio the Clown.
Comic books are bad for you, kids.
