Keeping in mind that the last three posts have been about Jackson Guice one might think that I would start INDEPENDENT COMICS MONTH with his brilliant CrossGen series RUSE but that's exactly why I decided against it.
I mean, naturally I thought about it or doing another general CrossGen Comics tribute post but as longtime followers of the blog know I like to switch things up whenever I can in order to keep things interesting for my readers but more importantly myself. Because let's face it, the posts are way better when I am invested in the topic that I am writing about.
So instead of that I am doing a post which frequent blog visitors might remember that I promised to do when I was writing the in - between posts for SWAMP THING MONTH . With that said I don't know that much about Howard Chaykin's groundbreaking AMERICAN FLAGG because - like the majority of comicbook readers from my generation - it is a book that has always intrigued me but I never got around to delve into until now.
I don't know why that is, maybe because of the political topics that I was not that interested at the time it was published or maybe because of the sexual content in the book ( which should have been a reason for me to read it and which was way tamer than I thought when I finally checked it out much like in his famous - or infamous as your mileage may vary - BLACK KISS especially when compared to what you can find in european comics ) but AMERICAN FLAGG was always on the backburner. It also may have something to do with the fact that the original series was published by an independent comicbook company like First Comics and as far as I know only two albums have been published in Germany by Feest Comics.
Whatever may be the reason I am not the only one who has overlooked AMERICAN FLAGG which was so innovative that it influenced revered works of comicbook art like Frank Miller's re - imagination of the Batman mythos THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons WATCHMEN yet is always ignored when people speak about comicbook series that shaped the comicbook landscape we are living in right now.
What may be one reason why this seminal work is virtually unknown to Today's generation of consumers ( which is always a big incentive to showcase series on this blog ) is that it is very layered and the story underneath the surface takes a lot of work to decipher. As for the story when it came out it was a vision of the future but Today an America rules by a ruling class made up of egoistical despots where every town is just one big mall and the general populace is kept docile by a steady diet of porn, drugs, consumerism and reality tv is the reality of people's lives.
Speaking of porn, like I mentioned the sex contained in this series was way tamer then I expected and in most cases it is in service of the story or the characters. One thing that may also be off putting to Today's comicbook reading generation is that it is always consensual and both parts enjoy the act. I mean, in the comicbooks that come out Today the women have to be at least bi - sexual if not outright lesbians ( although the argument could be made that most women are practically lesbians because while they are labelled as bi - sexual you never see them having sex with men ) while men ( who are always at least gay or bi - sexual which also is played as gay since you almost never see them having sex with women ) are just to be used if they are used at all and are always to blame for everything that is wrong. Also Howard Chaykin's women are emancipated women in positions of power instead of just pretending to be like Today's mindless interchangeable avatars for political agendas.
Coming to Howard Chaykin's art that is hit or miss - like a lot of his series - but he is consistent. So far I have not written much about him and he mostly popped up in the birthday section - back when I had time to go over all of the celebrity birthdays - but I'm sure that I wrote about some of the more mainstream series he worked on like THE SHADOW, BLADE or WOLVERINE or his POWER & GLORY series for Malibu Comics ( yes, the guys who did the original MEN IN BLACK comicbook on which the movies and the cartoon show are based on ) Bravura imprint that also featured such creators like Kevin Maguire ( STRIKEBACK ), Dan Jurgens ( DEUCE ), Walt Simonson ( STAR SLAMMERS ), Jim Starlin ( BREED, BREED II and DREADSTAR ), Norm Breyfogle ( METAPHYSIQUE ) and Gil Kane ( EDGE ).
Man, before Marvel Comics bought Malibu Comics because they needed their colouring department to compete with the guys from iMAGE Comics who blew every other publisher away with their computer colouring they published some great books like DINOSAURS FOR HIRE, EX - MUTANTS by Paul Pelletier , ULTRAFORCE with artwork by George Perez , PRIME with art by Norm Breyfogle , RUNE with art by Barry - Windsor Smith and last but not least NIGHT MAN ( who even got his own short lived tv show ).
One of these days I have to make a post about that. And the last thing I am going to mention about Howard Chaykin in this part of the post - because there is definitely going to be a second part - is that he also worked for television and wrote episodes for the 1990s THE FLASH tv show and VIPER, the last one will definitely pop up in the pop culture trivia / cult siren section. For now here's some more AMERICAN FLAGG.
back then a vision of the future now everyday life
american stuff
american links
american videos
howard chaykin
american flagg
howard chaykins scorpion for seaboard atlas comics
rock n roll high school ramones
icarly and victorious crossover
I don't follow a lot of tv shows but one I am still watching whenever I can is iCarly as I am hoping against hope to catch episode with the famous nipple slip wardrobe malfunction of Jennette McCurdy. If there is a country where viewers may be able to see the uncut version it is Spain.
There has been a lot of controversy about this particular nipple slip with the two most prolific theories being that either there has been no nipple slip and that the animated GIFs that can be found of it online ( of which there are very few of good quality ) are completely fake and the other one that there was a nipple slip and that Nickelodeon erased it digitally like Disney shrank luscious Lindsay Lohan´s booming teenage boobies in Herbie - Fully Loaded or Lindsay - Fully Stacked like male fans call it.
At least they digitally shrank her out of control boobs down in the close ups which makes for a weird watching experience because her breasts are smaller the closer she gets. In the scenes where she is farther away or wearing a baggy shirt her melons are huge. Like in the scene below.
I remember the height of her rack - tastic boob development when every man, teenager, prepubescent boy or horny shut - in used her underage rack as jerk - off material / viagra substitute dreaming about putting her booming teenage body to the test. Lindsay was every male´s wet fantasy and there was a website with a countdown to her 18th birthday when it'd be finally legal to have marathon slam - fuck orgies with Lindsay Lohan.
I always thought Disney threw away a huge opportunity when they didn´t cast Lindsay Lohan as the lead in a life action movie with Kim Possible.
Think about it : Lindsay and Kim Possible were at the height of their popularity around the same time. It´s mindboggling that nobody made the connection between those two up and coming teenage girl idols.
A Kim Possible movie with Lindsay Lohan ( with big boobs ) would have totally rocked especially with some lesbian scenes with Shego thrown in.
I bet she helped a lot of young kids hit puberty a few years early through her films and she really would have sold the fact that pervy Golden Age Hillbilly Superman wanted to use Supergirl as his blow up sex doll in the worst way since Lindsay's own Daddy lusted after her. Which came out when he was thrown out of the Scores strip club in Manhattan because all the strippers he tried to order looked like Lindsay Lohan. To which I say : Why does this particular strip club has so many strippers who look exactly like Lindsay Lohan, is there really such a high demand for seeing such a stripper take off her clothes or give you a lapdance and what are the prices ? I guess Lindsay would have liked to hide from the paparazzi on the secluded farm of Ma and Pa Kent like the post Crisis Supergirl did.
It is an open secret that Lindsay Lohan´s Dad has an unnatural obsession with dicktaming his daughter and that he insists on rehearsing all of her nude scenes before she is allowed to perform them in front of a camera.
Which is just a cheap excuse to rub his giant rockhard boner all over her incredible porn star body. She even has to rehearse some explicit sex scenes with her Dad all night long that are only in his copy of the script.
Then there´s the fact that her Dad´s new girlfriend looks like an older version of Lindsay Lohan. According to insiders she had to dress up in Lindsay´s more sexy clothes and extremely slutty underwear since that would make him extra hard and she had to call him Daddy and say that she had been a bad girl and she deserved to be punished. On her back.
It will probably cost Lindsay various years to deal with the fact that she spent countless nights awake because her Dad was visciously slamfucking his new girlfriend - who looks like her a few years down the line - who was screaming " Fuck me harder, Daddy ! Don´t stop ! Punish your little girl ! " at the top of her lungs - while he kept on screaming her name.
Coming back to Jennette McCurdy and her nipple slip on iCarly, the most plausible theory is one I read online that she really had a nipple slip on set of iCarly but they caught it and re - shot the scene with a red bra.
The scene of the nipple slip ended up on the cutting floor and thanks to a lax security found its way to the internet. At this point they probably erased all the copies that may have contained the original footage with the nipple slip but we are still hoping against hope to see it somewhere.
I don´t know if there was a latent psychic power at work, some kind of hot babe premonition sense or what but I always found her character more interesting than the main one. She always seemed to be the girl with whom hanging out would be more fun which might have something to do with the fact that the writers could be more imaginative and crazy with a supporting character than the main lead. Whatever the reason in all the episodes I watched of iCarly I was more interested in Sam and for some reason she turned out to be much hotter than Mirande Cosgrove.
By the way, Jennette´s stunning look and booming bod is in great part owed to mixed irish, english, french, italian, dutch and swedish roots.
Daimn, how I would love to tame this filly as my personal breed mare.
You know with a few years down the line Jennette McCurdy might be one of the biggest heartbreakers - and probably dickbreakers - in showbiz.
nightman and mutant x
viper
more briana smith part two
full show
ultraforce cartoon
somebody out there really must hate me because I just spent the last two hours going through my cartoon videos and all episodes of ultraforce have been deleted from all cartoon channels as soon as I mentioned it on the blog thankfully I had these videos bookmarked even if it is not the best quality
history of the beach boys
american banner
american quote of the day
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