Ross Andru´s Spider - Man Sunday - Part 2

Even with five ( !!! ) spin - off posts the main Ross Andru SPIDER - MAN tribute post is still too long so I have decided to split it into two posts.

The upside to that is that I get to post more incredible art by Ross Andru that I could not fit into the first post. And don´t worry, I still have enough material for at least two more Ross Andru AMAZING SPIDER - MAN posts.

As promised here is the second part of the birthdays I missed since my last post and you can find part one through the links at the top of this post.

We´re taking a page out of Kylie Minogue´s songbook and step back in time to May the 26th, the 70th birthday of exploitation legend Pam Grier.

Which I put into another spin - off post together with Latoya Jackson - whose birthday was on May the 29th ( and her sister Janet Jackson ). The post also features forgotten black super heroine Monica Rambeau a.k.a. the REAL female Captain Marvel and forgotten black super hero SPAWN.

I´m skipping May the 30th - for real this time - since I apparently have not written a post on that date yet and I do not want to go back and check which anniversaries fall on that day since this post is long enough as it is and I want to finish it some day. This brings us right to the birthdays from May the 31st which include underground comix creator Gilbert Shelton, Brooke Shields and Lea Thompson whom you can find in this new spin - off post as well as cult siren Phoebe Cates, romanian Busenwunder Oana Andoni and forgotten comic movies Brenda Starr and Howard the Duck.

Since I have already covered the celebrity birthdays from June the 1st in this post and from June the 2nd and 3rd in this post and there is nothing new to add we fast forward to June the 4th and another milestone of independent comics as Wendy Pini celebrated her 68th anniversary.

Today we are really going through my old list of reading material - Harlan Ellison who wrote some of the best issues of Avengers and Hulk as well as Vic & Blood with Richard Corben, Gilbert Shelton whose Wonder Warthog and Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers was in U - Comix and now Elfquest ( or Adventures in the Elf World as they called it here in Germany ) - although I am currently reading Elfquest - The Final Quest. I thought about closing the gaps in my Elquest collection but they released the avalanche of mini series and one shots that followed the original series in such a confusing way here that I am not sure which issues I do have and which I don´t.

I have to make a list some day but for that I would have to go through all of my comic collection. Just last month I moved my original issues by Bastei Verlag ( which was the first publisher who did a german version ) and the later albums by Carlsen and they are a bit weathered but I can´t bring myself to replace them with the new collections since those are only in black and white. Which may be nearer to the original but I am just too accustomed to the color versions so it would be a step back. Maybe some day it will be collected again but for the moment I am spending my comic book dime elsewhere. Anyway, I have written in various posts about how I first discovered Elfquest but for those who need their fix just click here .



Once again we skip the anniversaries for June the 5th while we already covered some of the celebrity birthdays for June the 6th in this post .

We are still stuck in the 80s as we continue to June the 7th when Larry Hama turned 70 who wrote many comics but is best known for basically building the comic world of G. I. Joe from the ground up. And while I was an avid follower of Elfquest I have to confess that I never got much into G. I. Joe - the toys or the cartoon show - and the only reason I did a post on the comics at all is that Mike Zeck did some covers who has been one of my favorite artists ever since I got my grubby paws on a spanish issue of The Hands of Shang - Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Sacrilege, blasphemy, I know.

Another throwback to gun toting comics from the 80s on the 7th of June was Karl Urban´s 47th birthday since he played the main lead in Dredd which is probably the best Judge Dredd movie out there. Not only does it capture the spirit and feel of the Judge Dredd comics co star Olivia Thirlby does a terrific job portraying everybody´s favorite leather clad blonde DD bombshell with legs up to her chin, the seductive Psi Judge Anderson.

The only negative thing I can say about the movie is that Olivia´s nude sex scene was way too short and filmed too much out of focus. What good are all the high definition cameras, blue rays and giant plasma screens with perfect picture resolution if the picture is all blurry ? This is the worst misuse of digital technology since Disney shrank Lindsay Lohan´s booming teenage boobs in Herbie Fully Loaded. What a waste of time, money and resources not to mention an incredibly horny sexbomb like Olivia Thirlby.

 

I don´t understand why they didn´t show the scene right and why it was not longer because in my opinion the movie could have only benefit from it. I mean we already got the adult rating and it´s not like we would have done anything different with blow up sex doll Judge Anderson in that situation than what the perverted perp really wanted to do with her.

We are coming to more classic comics with the anniversary of C. C. Beck, the creator of the original Captain Marvel from Fawcett Comics. I already did a tribute post for him but due to the recent SHAZAM ! movie I made a new spin - off post where I not only get to wax a bit more philosophical about it we also cover the birthdays for the 9th of June which include George Perez - who drew another DC character with ties to the gods, WONDER WOMAN - Jurij Brezan, the sorbian author of KRABAT and hasian megasexbomb Akira Lane ( plus hasian sexbombs Jeannie Mai, Yaya Han, more stuff about my new comic book VERSAUTE BETTGESCHICHTEN which includes new sample pages and the classic anime Lupin The Third ) in it.



Again, I have nothing to add to the birthdays for June the 10th in this post but speaking of spin - off posts about DC Comics characters since June the 11th is not only the birthday of Brian Michael Bendis who has taken over ACTION COMICS and SUPERMAN but also of cinema cult siren Adrienne Barbeau who was in the first SWAMP THING movie I did another separate post for them . Which also includes Len Wein - who wrote the original SWAMP THING series and whose anniversary was on June the 12th - überbusty cult sirens Kat Dennings, Jodie Sweetin, Debbe Dunning as well as the usual assortment of hot BAYWATCH babes and bikini contests. 

Hang in there, we have only two more days to go. First up we have comic master Jordi Bernet who turned 75 on June the 14th. I have written about the series he worked on like JONAH HEX or TORPEDO in various posts and last year I wrote two posts : part one which contains the riskier artwork and part two which has all the stuff I would label under boys adventure.

As I have mentioned I am working on the third issue of my new comic book and while I am not saying that I am anywhere near the skill level of Jordi Bernet he is one of the artists I go to when I´m stuck on a panel.



Continuing with the comic related birthdays on June 15th Brent Anderson turned 64 best known for his work on Marvel´s Strikeforce : Morituri and the original graphic novel X - Men : God Loves, Man Kills ( which was the template for the second X - Men movie ), Eclipse Comics Somerset Holmes and the long running Astro City. The last series being the only one where I did a special post for Brent Anderson but you can find more about Kurt Busiek´s brilliant series under the Astro City tag. Until last year I hadn´t read any issues of Strikeforce : Morituri but now that I not only have read the first three trades - the first containing all issues by Brent Anderson while the rest of the series was drawn by none other than Mark Bagley - but also have enough material for a good post I don´t have the time to write it. I also still hope to cover X - Men : God Loves, Man Kills one of these days and hopefully I will have enough decent material for a proper post then. Anyway, is it just me or did Marvel put out the best graphic novels at that time ? It could be that it was because they did stories they did nowhere else and they also put their top creators on top projects.

Comicbook legend Neal Adams celebrated his 78th birthday and so far I did two posts on him : one about his work at DC Comics and one about his work at Marvel Comics which I managed to resurrect after it was deleted.

I am a bit behind on his work because he put out a limited series about Superman - or rather Supermen since there seem to be more than one going around - which I still haven´t read and now that I have started to read Brian Michael Bendis new SUPERMAN series I am curious how Neal Adams´ take on the Man of Steel holds up against that. By the way, I have already read the first two german issues ( which contain the first four US issues ) and I don´t think I will continue reading the german translations.

It might be nitpicking but as anybody who has followed this blog for any length of time knows I am very peculiar when it comes to the translation and while the one in the PANINI issues is serviceable they DO stray from the original enough to convey a certain mood that is different than the one in the original US version. In some cases the german version is even outright different making a statement contrary to the original text. In any case, whether I condemn or praise Brian Michael Bendis new SUPERMAN it will be solely on the merit of the original words and not some translation.

Apropos making a mockery of the Man of Steel, Herbert Feuerstein turned 82 who was - amongst other things - chief editor of the german version of MAD which is where I got the plot for the classic Superman movies from.

As I did with most movies. Back then I could not always afford to see a movie in the theater and because this was long before the invention of video cassettes a cheap alternative was buying an issue of MAD. So in a lot of cases I read the MAD parody of a movie before I saw the actual film and to this day there are some films where I get both versions mixed up.

Anyway, in honor of the outstanding achievements of Herbert Feuerstein in german culture I wrote a special MAD spotlight post in 2016 . Speaking about german comics Bernd Frenz on EUROPECOMICS has just published The History Of German Comics in two parts for those interested readers.

Ever since I first wrote about Enki Bracaj I have been getting requests for more videos with her since those are not that easy to find on YouTube and I have run out of new ones to post. For lack of new videos I have included the links for the last ones I posted in all the posts where I mentioned her.

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. Here are the videos with Enki in all her glory :

7:47 min of Enki letting it all hang out / 7:14 min of Enki´s overdeveloped boobs trying to bust free / 6:19 of Enki´s huge rack almost exposing her nipple / 6:05 min of Enki fronting / 6:00 min of Enki letting it swing / 5:56 min of Enki letting it all hang loose / 5:40 of Enki and her heavenly hangers almost lying on the table / 5:13 min of Enki´s massive milkshakes looking hot / 5:03 min of Enki´s right nipple peeking out now and then / 4:55 min of blow up sex doll Enki pushing her big boobs together / 4:53 min of Enki teasing a nippleslip with her twin torpedoes / 4:47 min of Enki trying to keep the twins down / 4:18 min of Enki trying to cover up her big melons / 4:12 min of Enki delivering the goods / 3:38 of Enki rocking the cleavage ( slight nippleslip ) / 3:46 min of Busenwunder Enki getting jiggly with it

Well, as it so happens I have found some new videos - at least I hope they are new ones but even if I have posted them before it´s better to post some of Enki´s videos twice than to miss some - and since they disappear very quickly from YouTube I am going to post them in batches of five. Now I know that not a lot of readers will go to the trouble of checking out all my old posts to see the other Enki Bracaj videos they have missed so I am going to include the videos from this post in the links above the next time I post some videos of her so that in the end we will have a lot of her videos. Here is Today´s selection of the world´s best braless newscaster : 







Speaking of women with enormous talents, usually when I post a cosplay video it´s about Yaya Han so I thought to switch it up a little. Here is the mega stacked Angie Griffin one of the few who can go up against Yaya´s 40D oppai which she trumps ( no pun intended ) with her 41E melons.



In the first part of this we already have a cartoon video with Spider - Man so not to repeat myself here is a sexy and very funny animated 3D short.



What always baffles me is how many readers are completely oblivious to the horror elements in such super hero universes like Batman or Spider - Man. Although it might have something to do with the fact that someone who has read horror comics for decades sees the connections right away.



As usual I was wrecking my brains for hours about which music video I should include when the answer should have been a no - brainer. Duh.



Since I don´t think I have mentioned Yvonne Craig´s anniversary on May the 16th here is Mars Needs Women which I think more people have heard of than actually seen. And don´t worry, the preview picture is raunchier than the movie. Sadly Yvonne Craig doesn´t wear anything as sexy as her Batgirl costume but there is a striptease by a talent girl. I think her name is Bubbles Cash which is a real stripper name if I have ever heard one.



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Way back Wednesday : ZACK ! to the future

Originally I wanted to do the birthday posts for Bart Sears and Mark Texeira on Monday but as usual Avira Antivirus slowed things down so much that I have to do it on different days now. And since I don´t like to have two similar posts back to back I wanted to do a different one in - between.

It´s not that often that I get to do posts about german comics so when I came across all the covers from the ZACK COMIC BOX specials during the research for one of my last posts I thought to myself it would be a real shame to put them in a folder and not to share these with my readers.

I have written about ZACK ! a few times in the past but for those who never heard of it it was a german comic magazine that translated mostly franco belgian bande dessinee - which is the french word for comic books - and included several different series. Nowadays there are not many of these anthology type series that have short chapters of longer comics.

While you had to wait for the next issue to read another chapter of your favorite series the upside of this format that you would get several genres in an issue : western, adventure, pirates, humor, race cars or jet planes. 

So while I did read and love super hero comics from DC and Marvel I also read a lot of french / european comics growing up which may have been one of the reasons why I never stuck to one particular comic book genre.

For people from my generation it was just normal to read comics more based on quality than on genre or format. And when I say format I mean size. I know that there are people who just read comic books that fall into a certain format but when I was reading ZACK ! there were not that many issues coming out so you grabbed every magazine, album or pocket book. 

Now the covers in this post are all from ZACK COMIC BOX which reprinted all the chapters that made up one album that were previously published in ZACK magazine. Like I said it covered a lot of different genres and one of the biggest was western comics. One series I still remember is UMPAH - PAH because it was so popular that the first album was reprinted twice ( issue 2 and 41 ) and the second one three times ( issue 10, 33 and 42 ).

ZACK ! magazine returned to the stands in 1999 but I´m not sure if a series like UMPAH - PAH would still fly in Today´s political correct SJW / diversity over everything all times without turning the main character into a woman. Anyway, here´s some comic nostalgia for my german readers.

This post is what I thought Yesterday´s post would be : a rather quick done in one art - centric post, mainly because I don´t have access to my usual internet sources for the popular birthday / pop culture tidbits section. There are however those I covered in previous years but again I have not written that many posts on this date or the days preceding it.

So we have to deal with a rather short list which still includes a trio of the hottest cult sirens to ever grace this blog. We are off to a good start with somebody I have not mentioned in a while, mega MILF Christina Aguilera a.k.a. XXXtina Aguilera whose 38th birthday was on December the 18th.

Aside from having a great voice Christina also has a booming body which was always popping out of her clothes exposing some great cleavage long before she cranked it up to the max when her twin torpedoes exploded due to her pregnancy. At that time the press changed her nickname from XXXtina Aguilera to XXLtina Aguilera thanks her giant 36E ( !!! ) double airbags which were in everybody´s mouths ( of course only figuratively ).

The whole world was flooded with a veritable plethora of hot pictures of the blonde Busenwunder and I had to do two posts on my old boobblog to fit them all in. It´s a real shame the überinflated cult siren did not use the opportunity to shoot mega hot music videos with her giant - sized melons.



She could have believable played Power Girl and she would not have had a problem filling out the magical boob window with her huge milkshakes.

Christina Aguilera is one of my all time sex phantasies so it may strike some readers as strange that I haven´t done an entry for her in the cult siren hall of fame since she has earned that in spades - not only because of her boner inducing pregnancy boobs - but all of her sexy pictures, music videos and live appearances before this and since. But you have to keep in mind that with a birthday that close to the holiday season - which for me is always extra busy - it may take a while before I can cum to that.

I have to admit I am not up to date with Christina Aguilera. Like so many other it is difficult to keep up now that cult sirens are not such a high priority on the blog. I mean they still appear from time to time in this section but the number of posts where they are the main topic has gone down drastically. That was one bonus when I still had my boobblog : doing the re - posts was a chance for me to look up their most recent talk show appearances. Now with Christina the last thing I became aware of is that she was one of the judges on The Voice ( where she displayed her still awesome 34E boobs in a lot of generous cleavages ) but since this bit is about her I didn´t want to post a video about that or Teens React ( where they never can guess her. It´s weird how they know of her yet don´t recognize her songs ). Instead here is her breast appearance on Ellen. 



On the same days as Christina Aguilera we have fitness model, Sexbombe and WWF ( for me it will be always the real WWF and not this new WWE crap ) Diva Trish " The Dish " Stratus who celebrated her 43rd birthday.

While Trish Stratus never won any fitness competitions, long before she stepped into the squared circle, a lot of us saw her in MUSCLE & FITNESS.

Trish Stratus ( born Patricia Anne Stratigias on December the 18th 1975 in Richmond Hill, Ontario ) is a former canadian fitness model and semi - retired professional wrestler ( on September 17th, 2006 after winning her 7th Women's Championship ). She´s the first in WWF history to have held the Women's Championship seven times, three more than the four reigns of Lita and the four recognized title reigns of The Fabulous Moolah. She is also one of only four women to have held the Hardcore Championship.

As a fitness model, Stratus has been on the cover of major health and fitness magazines such as MUSCLEMAG, FLARE, and TOTAL WOMEN´S FITNESS. She also released a calendar series called " Dream Team " with fellow model, Stacey Lynn. As a sports entertainer, she was proclaimed the " Diva of the Decade " on the WWF RAW X Anniversary Show . She was voted " WWE Babe of the Year " three times between 2001 and 2003.

Since I have blanked on her birthday for three years in a row now I want to include a few of her best animated GIFs until I can do a proper post.

For more about Trish Stratus check out The Best Of  Trish Stratus ( with more pictures ) on DIVALICIOUS and if that´s still not enough the only place left is ADAM´S WRESTLING BLOG . As for me I´m going to watch some of my favorite Trish Stratus videos to get some Stratusfaction.

Speaking of favorite Trish Stratus videos here is her part from Desert Heat . I have written at length about how almost all of the Diva videos are more Making Ofs then really showing the hot wrestling sexbombs ( with the exception of Divas Undressed since the main part of that was a lingerie competition so they could not f - word that up ) so I won´t bore you with that again but in my opinion the best Trish Stratus videos should not be in the bonus section. At least as long as the WWF expects us to pay for it.



I also had to include a match with Trish Stratus and I picked one where she tag teams with Gail Kim. At least I managed to write two posts about Gail.



Today´s awesome anniversaries start with a cult siren about whom - unlike Christina and Trish - I have done a few posts on and which I often mention in this section. It´s a big one as the " enchanting " Alyssa Milano turns 46.

Sexbomb Alyssa Milano ( who got two entries on this blog, the main post and the bonus round with her best episodes on Charmed ) is of course best known as the most charming, sexiest and all around greatest of all the Halliwell witches, Phoebe Halliwell on the cult tv show Charmed.

According to some interviews she gave later she wasn´t so keen on some of the sexy outfits but Alyssa was the main reason why guys watched the show, it was all to see her shaking her hips as a sultry belly dancer with her tits hanging out or an almost naked mermaid. Also Alyssa was busy taming male co - stars Julian McMahon and Brian Krause as her personal sex slaves.

Before she starred in Charmed Alyssa appeared in an episode of Outer Limits where she didn´t leave much to the imagination thanks to the lower restrictions of the Sci Fi channel. She was well on her way to become a sexsymbol but of course we wanted to see more of her. And male viewers got their wish when Alyssa got her freak on in Embrace of the Vampire where she did her breast performance going full frontal.

I did a re - post of Alyssa Milano´s cult siren entry on her birthday in 2016.

Thankfully some comic creators also have movie or tv credits otherwise I would not have known that Peter B. Gillis celebrates his 65th birthday.

He has written Warp for First Comics which some of my contemporaries still know because it was on of the first titles that heralded the big boom of independent comics in the 80s. He also worked at Marvel Comics where he wrote Eternals ( which will pop up in our next post IF I manage to do the Mark Texeira post next ), Defenders, Doctor Strange, Strange Tales, What If ? and Micronauts : The New Voyages. He is however best known as the writer and co - creator of Strikeforce : Morituri together with Brent Anderson, the artist on the classic graphic novel Uncanny X - Men : God Loves Man Kills and the acclaimed Astro City series writer by Kurt Busiek. 

I have to confess that Strikeforce : Morituri has always been the white whale of my comic book collection because I have never found any back issues at comic conventions or in comic shops. I am not sure if there even are back issues which was extremely frustrating since the series also had never been reprinted. So while I haven´t been able to read a single issue yet I know the general premise which is so good that it almost baffles me that it took so long before being adapted for the broader tv audience.

Which apparently is in the works right now or otherwise Peter B. Gillis´ name would not have popped up on the imdb website. In any case, for those who have never heard of the series this video explains what it was all about and why it was so far ahead of its time. Something that also was the case with our Power Freaks but that is the topic for another post.



A lot of people may not be familiar with Karel Svoboda´s work but for me it was always synonymous with good entertainment as he provided the music for such great cartoon series like Maya The Bee, The Wonderful Journey Of Nils Holgerson With The Wild Geese, The Adventures of Pinocchio and Vicky The Viking ( or Wickie And The Strongmen how it was called in Germany ). There were some stinkers as he did the music for the godawful John Sinclair but the less said about that the better. One of the movies he did write music for is Three Wishes For Cinderella which always airs on tv around Christmas and together with Little Lord Fauntleroy it is one of the movies I can´t get enough of. I watch it every year and one of the reasons why it is so unforgettable and widely beloved in Germany is the hauntingly beautiful music by Karel Svoboda. The story also featured a very emancipated female lead character way before it became trendy.



Speaking of good tv entertainment from my youth, another birthday shoutout to the great beyond goes to Rudi Carrell whose Am Laufenden Band was THE biggest Saturday night tv show in Germany during the 70s.



As the holidays are rapidly approaching I am starting to churn out the Christmas videos and here is one for my readers outside of Germany.



Comic book movies and tv series are becoming more and more popular and I guess there will be a lot of of them under the Christmas tree this year. I mean in some cases like Riverdale or Preacher most people are not even aware that they are watching comic book adaptions. In any case, with the way the last Marvel films turned out ( let´s hope New Mutants doesn´t share this fate ) I wish this would be in movie theaters right now. It´s all we need instead of the Spiderverse train wreck ( I´m only guessing but from what I have seen so far they omitted Spider - Girl of all things which would have been the only character able to redeem the whole thing ).



Coming back to good animation here is another shoutout to Karel Svoboda. Like in a lot of stories for children from that time the main character Nils Holgersson starts out as a very unlikable chap and evolves into a person with more empathy and compassion as he goes along.



Our final music video is a Christmas Special with Johnny Cash from 1977 that also features Carl Perkins, Roy Clark, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison.



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Ave, Cesar, morituri the salutant.