April 10, 2005
Because my friends can never have too much shameless promotion
I don't usually do link posts. But hey, it's the weekend, and I have a place to sleep that isn't someone's living room, bathtub, or minivan. So I will live a little.
John Krewson, formerly of Verona, Wisconsin, has a KAMANDI story in the latest Bizarro World comics collection (and Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer were somehow involved too). For those not in the know, KAMANDI is the Last Boy on Earth, as imagined by Jack Kirby, who apparently saw The Planet of the Apes under the influence of a psychedelic egg cream. In the future, the animal people have taken over! And only KAMANDI can save them! But KAMANDI is tired of his role:
Yesterday the greedy Snake Men of Las Vegas! Last week the Blind Mole Men of the Midwest! Last month the Brightly Tie-Dyed Ferrets of Boulder! I have problems of my own, y'know!!!
Joe Garden, formerly of Richland Center, Wisconsin, is campaigning to fill Conan O'Brien's late night talk show host position in 2009. Vote Joe!
Tim Harrod, who used to live in Madison, Wisconsin, is now writing for Conan himself. Mighty thews indeed.
I'd be remiss in not mentioning Johnny Pez's Wojtyla fanfic at this time. Never fear, it's not slash.
And finally, Bad Mama's Peanut, currently of Madison, Wisconsin, has her casts off, yay! And now she wants to eat your brains, I guess because they're good for growing bodies. I trust Bad Mama will substitute some other high phosphorus food, like fish sticks, in place of brains. Mmm, fish sticks.
Classic Pez.
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero at April 11, 2005 03:06 AMI'm old enough to remember the original KAMANDI. ("The Last Boy On Earth!") Might even have a couple of them at the bottom of a storage box.
Good Kirby was /so/ good. Bad Kirby was /so/ bad.
Doug M.
Oh, I remember him too, through the miracle of Marcos-era Silver Age reprints. The local bazaar had all sorts of late Kirby, I think because they made no sense to the local comics buying public.
(Or to me in my single digits. You want to confuse an avid very young comics reader? Throw Mister Miracle at him.)
Posted by: Carlos at April 11, 2005 02:38 PM>I'd be remiss in not mentioning Johnny Pez's Wojtyla fanfic at this time.
the images they burn they burn
>Never fear, it's not slash.
Pheww OK then. Please Do NOT frighten me like that again.
Oh and I guess a belated Happy Birthday
You know, he was a very handsome man when younger (and alive).
I suppose even hypothesizing about Wojtyla-Edith Stein slash is enough to send me to four different parts of Hell concurrently. Ah well.
And where is the Heidegger-Arendt slash out there? I even know what to call it: "Once, a Philosopher; Twice, a Pervert". And then there is the fragment I never posted to soc.history.what-if, about Hitler and Unity Mitford. Probably for the best.
Posted by: Carlos at April 18, 2005 03:05 PM