Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Street Tough Tuesday with Chuck Dixon

We have another comicbook related birthday with writer Chuck Dixon who turns 66. He is best known for bringing a healthy dose of realism to street level superheroes both at Marvel Comics´ PUNISHER and DC´s Bat titles.


I could have sworn I mentioned Chuck Dixon before but I couldn´t find anything. Anyway, though he has written his share of titles at Marvel Comics from CONAN to DOOM, HAWKEYE, WHAT IF ? and WHAT THE ? he is best known for books that didn´t focus as much on super powers like CODE OF HONOR, HAWKEYE, MARC SPECTOR : MOON KNIGHT, MARVEL KNIGHTS, THE NAM, WAR MAN and most prolific the PUNISHER books.


Coming of the PUNISHER : KINGDOM COME graphic novel ( which was a real graphic novel not like nowadays where every comicbook series that is adapted as a tv series or movie is called a graphic novel ) he started working on PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL and later on THE PUNISHER and PUNISHER WAR ZONE which he wrote simultaneously from 1992 to 1995.


This PUNISHER hattrick brought him to the attention of then DC Dennis O´Neil who tasked him with writing the first series of the Tim Drake Robin. The series was such a success that he did two sequels : ROBIN - THE JOKER´S WILD and ROBIN - CRY OF THE HUNTRESS. While he has worked on such titles like ACTION COMICS, BOOSTER GOLD, CLAW THE UNCONQUERED, GUY GARDNER, JUSTICE RIDERS, RUSH CITY or SUPERMAN : THE ODYSSEY for DC Comics the majority of his work was on BATMAN and DETECTIVE COMICS as well as Batman universe titles like BATGIRL, BATGIRL : YEAR ONE, BATMAN & THE OUTSIDERS, BATMAN : BANE OF THE DEMON, BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE, THE BATMAN CHRONICLES, BATMAN : GCDP, BATMAN : GORDON`S LAW, BATMAN : GOTHAM ADVENTURES, BATMAN : LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT, BATMAN : THE ANKH, BATMAN : WILDCAT, CATWOMAN, CATWOMAN : WILDCAT, CONNOR HAWKE : DRAGON`S BLOOD, GREEN ARROW, HUNTRESS, THE JOKER : LAST LAUGH or MAN - BAT.


He had exceptionally long stints on BIRDS OF PREY ( which he co - created ) with 46 issues, NIGHTWING with 70 issues and ROBIN with over 100 issues.


Between 1993 and 1998 he regularly wrote seven titles each month and he co - created Bane, the Lester Buchinsky Electrocutioner in Detective Comics 644 ( the first Electrocutioner was created by Marv Wolfman , Michael Fleischer and Irv Novick and the second one was created by Marv Wolfman and Jim Aparo ) and Stephanie Brown in Detective Comics 647.

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Last but not least I have to mention Chuck Dixon´s work at CROSSGEN Comics where he took over SIGIL and CRUX from Mark Waid and launched WAY OF THE RAT, BRATH, SILKEN GHOST and - one of my personal favorites - the sadly short lived pirate comic EL CAZADOR with artist Steve Epting .


Longtime readers know that I was a huge supporter of the CROSSGEN line even if I was not a fan from the first hour. I remember that when they started out with their guarantee to give you back your money if you put all of their first four titles on your pull list and didn´t like it I thought this was just another fly - by - night publisher with a quick money grab scam.


So I just read two of the books but I really liked them and the books they introduced in their " second wave " were even better. And the books they released in their third phase topped even those expectations. Before I knew it CROSSGEN had become the majority of my reading material and they brought a sorely missed variety to comicbook stores covering genres that had been criminally underrepresented from sword and sorcery to horror to science fiction to crime stories etc. Also they had diversity and strong female characters as protagonists long before SJWs and without being preachy or blaming white, straight caucasian males for everything.


Anyway, CROSSGEN was a fantastic company until they hit a financial roadblock and their boss decided to keep this information from his customers and stop paying his employees. It is missed every day.


Before we come to the post addendum with the usual mix of celebrity birthdays, pop culture related videos and personal favorites I want to include Gail Siomne who took up the baton of Birds Of Prey after Chuck.



Since I finally managed to finish the celebrity birthdays for April the 12th in my last post we continue on April the 13th with Lou Bega who turned 45. He is of course best known for his smash hit Mambo No. 5 and I think we all could use a little bit of Monica, a little bit of Erica, a little bit of Rita in our lives right now. He is always portrayed as a one hit wonder here in Germany but then most people never bothered to check out his other albums or have completely forgotten about all of his other hit singles.



Our second anniversary for April the 13th is another throwback as Saundra Santiago celebrated her 63rd birthday who is best known - at least to people from my generation - as Detective Gina Calabrese on Miami Vice.


The show is still on reruns from time to time but it´s on ZDF where they cut out all of the good parts. It´s funny how a lot of people claim that the show may have been edgy and risquee back in its time and that it´s rather harmless compared to what is on tv Today but then they have to censor it.



It´s back to comics as we start off Today´s celebrity birthdays with Daniel Clowes who turns 59. I have to confess that I never paid much attention to it but I was aware of his work that appeared in random issues of various independent comic magazines but especially Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron which seemed to run forever during the 80s. The first time I really began to appreciate his work was with what I think was called Art School Confidential ( I read this in an issue of El Vibora so I am not sure about that ) and which only somebody who has been to art school get as he described every kind of art student to a t from the emo goth guy to the militant, lesbian, men hating feminist who thinks the biggest contribution to the art world is the obligatory used Tampax in a tea cup installation.


One of Daniel Clowes better known works is Ghost World ( I am hesitant to label it as a graphic novel since most of his comics first were serialized in the anthology series Eightball and was later published as a collected edition while the term graphic novel implies that the work hasn´t been published in another form before ) since it has been adapted into a movie and I have to confess that I still have not read the comic it is based on.



Another movie that is based his on Clowes´ work is Wilson and I haven´t seen it because I can´t find it anywhere not even on amazon. And they have freaking I Ran My Raging Woody All Over Natural Born Striptease Goddess Demi Moore´s Pornstar Body In Indecent Proposal Harrelson in it.


We come from the big screen to the small screen with Peter Capaldi who celebrates his 62nd birthday. He is of course best known as the twelfth doctor on Doctor Who and his tenure on the show was a bit troubled.


While he is a brilliant actor he couldn´t always show what he is capable of thanks to some very weird scripts. He did however have great chemistry with his companions and he was much more appreciated by Doctor Who fans once Jodie Whittacker took over. Coming back to Peter Capaldi, he acts, he sings, he plays the guitar - as we have seen in some episodes of Doctor Who and now he can draw too. Is there no end to his talents ? Just when you think he couldn´t become any cooler. By the way, just Yesterday I saw a reaction video to The Omen movie from 1976 and I had completely forgotten that the second doctor, Patrick Troughton plays the priest who tries to convince Gregory Peck that his son Damian is the son of the devil.



We are staying in the science fiction genre with Katsuhiro Otomo who turns 66 and he is best known for his groundbreaking manga series Akira which was adapted by Otomo himself into an even more influential full length animated feature film. More intelligent and more knowledgeable people than me have already analyzed Katsuhiro Otomo´s work more profound than I ever could so I won´t go into any long explanations but newer visitors of the blog may want to check out this cosplay girls post from last December since it features an Akira hattrick : videos about the manga series as well as the anime and a cool fan made live action trailer.



Keeping the theme of mutants and science gone wrong going we have John Shea who celebrates his 71st birthday and I am ambivalent when it comes to him. Because on one side he appeared in the godawful Mutant X ( which showed us all how horribly wrong a tv show about super heroes can go if it´s not based on an actual comic series ) but he also played one of the most charismatic super villains on tv : none other than Lex Luthor in Lois & Clark : The New Adventures Of Superman alongside Teri Hatcher.


Teri played the BEST Lois Lane on tv so far and was the first actress who made it believable that Superman would choose her over the ultimate sex bombs in the Justice League of America like Big Barda or Wonder Woman.


While there were a lot of hot women on the show Teri clearly was the main attraction showing off her bouncing boobies in a lot of sexy outfits.


Teri also was on Desperate Housewives where she showed she still looked rack - tastic and who can forget the famous " I´m not a stripper ! " scene ?


Check out my last post on cult siren Teri Hatcher to read more about her comic book connections like her appearance in Tales From The Crypt or Tango & Cash where she showed her incredible body and dancing skills.


Since a big chunk of this post is about Chuck Dixon´s The Punisher here are the top 10 differences between the comics he wrote and the tv show.



It has been a long time since I mentioned blonde XXL Busenwunder Oana Andoni from romanian tv station Pro Tv - for those who want to know how I became aware of Oana Andoni I explained it at length in this post .


There is not much information about Über busty Oana Andoni on the internet especially in regards to her actual breast size. This must be a thing with hot news casters since she is not the only one where finding some information about their huge breast features is almost impossible.

 
Man, I´d love to see her and Daniela Elger compete for the title of the biggest boobs on teleshopping in a bikini contest. Or better, a global wet t - shirt competiton with Emanuela Botto from Italy, Daniela Elger from Germany, Eva Chaloupkova from the Czech Republic, Oana Andoni from Poland, Lianna Grethel from Colombia, Carolina Alcazar from Spain, Giselle Gomez Rollon from Argentinia ( at least we know she´s a 34D ) and Enki Bracaj from Albania ( and she´s an all natural 34DD ). How is it possible that none of these blow up sex dolls with giant breasts are pornstars ?


Ever since I first wrote about albanian boobcaster Enki Bracaj I have been getting request for more videos with her since those are not that easy to find on YouTube but it seems I never get to do it. As for news about everyone´s favorite news girl aside from an interview where she went on record that her breast size is 34DD and all natural ( sadly I can´t link to the interview because the website is NSFW ) there is nothing new to report.


 
Coming back to Oana Andoni, in previous posts I wrote that 42 is probably her cup size, 42DD or 42E in the least, but the way her boobs have been growing in the last weeks it must be at least a 43 or 44EE, an F or even a G. In her case the term melons is right on spot. OMG ! I don´t think she got some porn implants like Yaya Han so either she is pregnant again or she is auditioning for a Russ Meyer kind of movie role. Just check out the first animated GIF I made of Aona Andoni where her boobs are already huge.


And this is Oana Andoni now. I swear, I have not altered these pictures.


You can find a biography here but for some reason my google translate doesn´t work so if anybody wants to lend a helping hand and translate it it would be much appreciated. When I didn´t need it google translate was constantly going off but now that I really could use it it doesn´t work anymore. What you can peruse without any translations is this link to a gallery with some pictures of Oana Andoni and at least she is on facebook.


What I still remember from when google translate worked is that there was a big scandal in 2016 because Oana wore a very transparent shirt during a live newscast - or what ever you call the piece of clothing that tries in vain to cover up Oana´s gigantic double airbags - and so the audience could see more than usual ( sorry, I haven´t found that clip yet ) which surely made for excellent ratings. I don´t know what they are complaining about since this is exactly what every male viewer was praying for years.




Now I don´t know if thes two videos of Oana Andoni above are from the show in question but in any case she DOES wear a very transparent top that let´s you see a lot more skin than normally. Speaking of wardrobe malfunction prone big breasted blow up sex dolls on tv, I also want to include a few new videos with italian real life Power Girl Emanuela Botto ( even though they constantly get deleted so that I have to keep replacing them ) for whom I have gotten uncounted requests. I still haven´t found any information on her so I can´t tell you what her age or cupsize are but apparently she worked at teleshopping channel 84 which sells women´s jewellery - she may now work directly on the internet - and judging by the many close ups on her chest she could have easily starred as the lead  in a Russ Meyer movie. I don´t know what the sales numbers on this are but her ratings must be through the roof among male audience members.



Her perfect soft lips were just made to give hard schlongs oral pleasure.



And her impressive melons are also predestined to massage boners and make them squirt until they are completely drained. With her huge rack she must make little boys reach puberty prematurely on a daily basis.



For obvious reasons the videos where she presents necklaces are the best and I can only repeat Emanuela´s own words : Que maravilla ! Guardate que espectacolo ! And is it just me or is she talking of her sex adventures with the camera guy in some of theses shows ? What a nympho MILF !




Now I could end the post right here but because of the lockdown and I don´t know when I can write the next post ( after finally finishing all the new posts I started I now have to post the links on facebook and I will have to substitute a few of the videos that have been deleted in the meantime ) I want to add a few rare YouTube finds. The first one is an episode of Funny Or Die hosted by Elvira herself and it´s not that often that you find a video with the Mistress Of The Dark in such high quality. 



To enhance the Elvira experience even further here is one of those horrible schlock monster movies she would have showcased in her show.



Staying in the horror genre here is here is a story from the legendary cult anthology horror series Gespenster Geschichten which ran for 30 years. 



Closing out things we have another cartoon series from my youth, Once Upon Time ... Man and since it has been cut from the episode I had to include the german intro by Schlager star Udo Jürgens who also did the intro for Tom & Jerry. Back then we had a lot of Schlagerstars doing the intros for cartoon shows like Karel Gott on Die Biene Maja or Gitti & Erika on Heidi. With Once Upon Time ... Man the intro song was very important because it got you all worked up to watch the show. Yes, bitches, history !



As usual I couldn´t find the first episode but here is the second one.



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2 comments:

Terry Hooper-Scharf said...

I've a good few CrossGen books -sad that like a lot of comic bosses the guy running iot was..."questionable" in what he did. My favourite was Archer.

SUBZERO said...

Was that the spin - off series to RUSE ? Man, there were so many good books right before they folded. ELCAZADOR had just started and NEGATION WAR was bringing the entire CrossGen universe together. CrossGen Comics started out great but Mark Alessi did some weird things once they got into financial trouble and instead of finding new investors or informing the fans that he needed help he decided not to pay the creators. Then the whole company crashed and the big companies snatched up all the good writers and artists. Sad.