We are not reading many new comics these days (and not finding many that much exciting stuff in them, anyway), so this is another look to the past. From the realm of forgotten comics comes this page from Jack Kirby’s Spirit World:
Published in 1971, this magazine, edited by the king himself, shows us a man focused on what he knew what to do best, destroying cities. Enjoy!!!
Another week, another Jurgens song that can be uncovered. This time we take a look at another track from The Minstrel Show … This time, the song is called Dyin’ Ain’t All:
As a bonus, we include the dub version of the same song taken from the 1999 Jurgens dub tribute album: The Minstrel Dub – A Tribute to the Minstrel Show:
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Nothing like a good Jurgens track against the horror that is the Monday!!! We usually try to be very careful with what we publish on the website to make sure that it is as real as it can be. Due to the obscurity of the material, it is sometimes not very easy.
I am afraid that this is once of those instances where we cannot be too sure. The following track comes from a vynil 45RPM single, which is recorded only on one side. The cover is the one you can find in this article, it says: dr3i, 2wei, e1ns … das ende with no mention of the band, but then the label on the vynil says Propaganoia, so we are assuming that’s the real title of the track.
As to its origins, it certainly does seem to have some resemblance to some of Jurgens’s body of work, so if it is not him/them, then it is a good tribute (cannot find anything about a band from the late 70’s or early 80’s called das ende, but I will keep on looking), and we are all about tributes to Jurgens.
Enjoy the track, let us know if you recognise it from some other band or if any of you has any information regarding Jurgens that might not be in our hands!!!
So, after publishing yesterday’s entry I decided to take a look at what newswoman Lucretia Jones (and her director Ashley Sanders) were up to these days… If you have recently become a hardcore Lucretia Jones fan after reading her uncanny highway adventures, I have bad news for you.
It seems that Daredevil #108 is her last appearance. “Surely she sacrificed her life to save the world”, I hear you say. Actually, it turns out that in Marvel there is a fate worse than death, and that’s what happened to our sassy heroine … Words fail me, so you be the judges:
Just a panel to say goodbye to newswoman Lucretia Jones forever? Where is Sandy? Oh, wait … She is white now? Who colored this shit, Matt Murdock? Thanks for destroying our hearts again, Marvel!!!!!
(Of course, if anyone has more info about other appearances, please let us know!!! Maybe this was just the beginning of a story arc that was never completed?)
As promised, let’s take a look at one of those ignored classics: Daredevil #105 (a forgotten episode of the Thanos War saga!!!). The cover speaks for itself, and if you are not already dying to read it after seeing it, you might want to skip the rest of the article.
The whole thing starts innocently enough:
Kraven stoically throws DD to his sure death:
Then, after Kraven has a fight with the Black Widow, we switch to the following scene:
Yes, the first two panels seem to have switched places, but it is more fun this way. And, before you ask, no, I don’t understand why I am not talking about a Lucretia Jones (and her director Ashley Sanders) mini-series, ongoing or movie. Anyway, the couple does not appear again in the issue, because as you will see soon enough, there is no page space left for anything which is not exclusively epic!
It turns out Daredevil has been transported to Madame McEvil’s lair! For people who are not Moondragon completists, Madame McEvil is the name Moondragon used for her first 2 appearances in the Iron Man series, as she explains herself.
All of this is information is unnecessarily offered while they fight. The reason for the fight? That one of them looks like a demon and the other is called Madame McEvil.
As we all know, there is no better way to catch a breather in a fight than telling your origin, so we are then treated to the origin of Moondragon drawn by none other than Jim Starlin himself, in what I am pretty sure is the first appearance of baby Thanos.
We all know that they are going to end up getting along by the end of the issue, but before that, Moondragon launches her plan:
And yes, this is the moment where this issue shines even brighter. The last few pages are nothing but the introduction of one one-hit-wonder villain after another. It is brilliantly done, with virtuoso tempo and not a chance to even gasp with all the evilness going around!!!
It starts with the Dark Messiah … (wasn’t there a crossover with that title? No? Then there should be!)
A pillar of fire! Atoms… or molecules… or… whatever! I get it Chuck, if I was hanging out with with the wrong crowd and a construction worker was holding a red crow bar next to my face, I, too, would drop a laconic comment mixing modern science and biblical imagery while making sure my cigarette doesn’t leave my lower lip.
Then, it’s Ramrod‘s turn …
Sleeping in a red-sheeted bed in a hospital while wearing a rather interesting headset and a huge belt? Check! Helping people somersault backwards with a powerful triceps flex? Check! Breaking through the wall of a gaudy coloured super tall building overlooking the whole city (bridge and bay included) and falling into the void while screaming incongruities and talking about yourself in the third person while addressing a crumb? Check! Henry Rollins, we know where you learned your routine!
And, finally, in case you thought Steve Gerber would not give it his all (even if it was work-for-hire… ouch!), we go from American Hardcore to Berkeley Coffeehouses, where they weren’t able to flush down all the LSD lingering on the air. Meet Angar the Screamer, who before becoming a Marvel Comics Presents joke, was able to out-Starlin future Starlin himself. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Jim Morrison of z-supervillains!
And you ask me what poetry is? Poetry is… Angar! Try this pickup line next Friday at the pub: “I am…, Am I sane? I MUST!! Cos I am!” Introduce yourself as a Destroyer of Men’s mind, and suggestively offer to show them your Demonsong that will burst reality apart, flying that way and that way in jagged shards! Guaranteed to work with members of Manson’s Family. If DC had the ’60s hipster scene down, the seedy ’70s grime has been Marvel’s pasture… for the last 40 years, at least!
Right after unleashing her creations, Moondragon realises that Daredevil is a good guy, so just when you are thinking they are going to team up next issue to defeat all those bastards, Kerwin J. Broderick appears …
And as the epic coda to this epic third act, we get a glimpse of Terrex!!!
Logical explanation? Who needs one!? Why even pretend there is one? I am now dying to read the next issue, although I hope that none of these characters show up again, and that it was all a dream caused by Daredevil’s fall (even the Lucretia-Ashley thing, of course)!! In any case, you can be sure that a guy who has problems with ninjas and Bullseye couldn’t do shit about this, uncle Frank!!!
P.S.: If you are going to try some of these lines while picking up lunchmeat at a pub this week-end, please ABSOLUTELY DO NOT scream: “The RAMROD IS BUSTIN’ LOOSE!!” to another human being. I think that they arrest people for less than that in Alabama!