Time for another break with Battle Chasers

With this amount of naked flesh it is time for another break before the next assault of horny Hollywood stars, starlets, awesome Andy Sidaris babes and playmates. Thankfully there are more than enough posts I had to postpone over the years and this one even harkens back to 2017.

Since our last break post was all about DC Comics this should be a Marvel Comics post but as usual something more pressing has come up so this is an independent comics post although it does have something to do with Marvel Comics. So way back in 2017 was probably the last time I wrote about Joe Madureiras and my initial plan was to do a series on his very underrated run on UNCANNY X - MEN together with writer Scott Lobdell.

As longtime readers I am an advocate of the 90s and another pet peeve - especially with Today´s new comic readers who do not know anything about the history of comic books - is giving props to underrated comic creators who never appear in any best of lists. One of these writers is Scott Lobdell, who wrote a humongous chunk of X - MEN books in a time that was plagued by a lot of crossovers and managed to spin gold out of it.

What´s more a lot of these issues are done in one issues which I wanted to spotlight because it has become a dying art with modern comic writers who target their whole career for the trade market. So the next post was supposed to spotlight my favorite UNCANNY X - MEN stories from the 90s by Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureiras - as soon as I figured out my top ten.

Because the difficult thing was not to pin down my favorite stories - that was done in one minute or less - but rather rating them. It took me a while but I finally managed to do that and the plan was to write at least ten posts for each of my top ten UNCANNY X - MEN stories and two or three bonus posts with honorable mentions and runners up. And of course at least one introduction post with a lot of original BATTLE CHASERS art.

To back this up a little, Joe Madureiras was a real juggernaut in the 90s.

He was a monster. When all the big artists left Marvel to form iMAGE Joe Madureiras was one of the artists who took up the slack - together with the Kubert brothers and a few select others - and he became a big super star on UNCANNY X - MEN. He then left to do BATTLE CHASERS which became a sales phenomenon that injected new live into the swords and sorcery genre but he pretty much crashed and burnt his career because he preferred to play video games instead of drawing a monthly series and earning obscene amounts of money. He once said that if his wife knew how much money he basically threw away to play games she´d kill him.

Anyway, he has since then returned to comics but he has lost most of his fans and now he´s just one artist among others. His art still looks unique but most of the times his intricate pencils get butchered by the inkers and I think he was at his peak when he was doing BATTLE CHASERS.

So while I had most of the material all laid out I kept postponing this and just the other day while doing the research for something completely different I found a few more pages of original art by Joe Madureiras and I have decided to finally post some BATTLE CHASERS pages. I thought about waiting with this until his next birthday but that will be in December and I don´t want to wait that long. Who knows if I or my faithful followers are still around then and in any case I have enough material for another post.

One last thing about BATTLE CHASERS before we come to the rest of the original art, while looking for the color art to go with the black and white pages I stumbled upon the BATTLE CHASERS ANTHOLOGY - which I didn´t even know existed. So far I only had the collected prestige formats and the trade A GATHERING OF HEROES. Apparently the anthology collects all the BATTLE CHASERS stories ever published and since I don´t have that it´s a nice addition to my collection. Sadly I could only find the softcover but according to the description it´s an oversized book. But now, to quote a wise man, let me take you back to the days of high adventure.

Now I couldn´t find a video about an UNCANNY X - MEN issue by Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureiras but here is one that gives props to Scott Lobdell´s issue 309. Which was drawn by the great John Romita Jr. This was John Romita Jr.´s second stint on the book and they actually had some impressive talent working on the x - books around that time.



With the corona lockdown we all spend more time watching movies so I want to pimp one of my personal favorites that is somewhat underrated.



Apropos, I am trying to be as self sufficient as possible and only leave the house when absolutely necessary. One thing that has been nagging at me is what happens when the stove breaks down. Well, as it turns out there are more things that you can do with your waffle iron than just waffles.



Our music video is a rather peculiar one since I am not sure if it falls into the Who´s That Girl ? or the Unknown Power Girl´s Found section. That is something you have to decide for yourself. It all started with the german cult tv show Musikladen which I have featured a few times on the blog. 



Now a big part of Musikladen´s appeal aside from the music - especially for us horny teenagers going through puberty back then - were of course the go go dancers whose wardrobe went from see through shirts to bikinis.



Sometimes they even went topless which was the reason why the show started at 23.00 hours so they could do their breast work after midnight.

Among all these flexible and freeminded funbag frolicking foxes there was one particular blonde blow up sex doll who stood one cut above the rest and with her long legs up to her chin, an ass that won´t quit and perfectly shaped breasts it was a sure thing that she was only on the show while waiting for a higher calling as a porn star. I don´t know if I was already in my Power Girl induced obsessed - with - blonde - sexbombs - with - giant - sized - tits phase but if not she definitely turned me down that road.

Luckily I managed to tape two of her after midnight appearances since my parents still had the control of the tv and taping shows after midnight was extremely difficult especially since I should have been sleeping for hours.



Longtime readers know that one of my pet pevees on this blog is celebrating all the brave actresses who turn insufferable dreck into bearable entertainment by taking their clothes off or at least show what their Mama gave them and who don´t get enough recognition for that .

So naturally I wanted to share this hot woman and her sexy antics with the world but since I never found out her name ( this is where the Who´s That Girl ? part comes in ) it was impossible to find out more about her.

Slowly clips and full episodes of Musikladen started appearing on YouTube but no matter how hard I looked I couldn´t find her. As it turns out I was looking at the wrong place all these decades because there was a show called Eurotops which was a spin - off from Musikladen that also featured go go dancers and this must have been where I saw my busty sex dream.




Besides shaking everything her mother gave her as a go go dancer on Eurotops this unknown real life Power Girl also worked as a nude model but sadly not for the more expensive adult publications like PLAYBOY, PENTHOUSE or LUI. Or the lower bar boobie and tits magazines like SCORE, JUGGS, MAYFAIR, STACKED, D - CUP, TEASE, GENT, FLING or BAZOOMS.

Much rather you could see her in what I would classify as working class wank material or trucker magazines with such exotic names like Praline, Sexy. Schlüsselloch, Wochenende, Neue Revue and St. Pauli Magazin.

To make up for this crime against humanity she also could be seen baring it all in various sex catalogues for adults like Beate Uhse, Orion or Pabo ( sadly I couldn´t find a catalogue cover or inside page with her ) where she tried her darnest to convince horny shut ins to order the skimpy lingerie she was presenting for his wife / nympho girlfriend / stacked secretary / tittilating sex ed teacher / squirt addicted student / schlong swallowing stepmother / manmeat massaging MILF mother / cum crazy cousin / sex machine stepsister / spreading her legs like a fillipino whore sister / sperm slurping stepdaughter / dicktaming daughter for an all night sex marathon.

Yep, this was where we used to get porn before there was an internet.

Now you may ask where the Unknown Power Girls Found part comes in if I still haven´t found out her name, measurements or any nudie mag covers with her. As it just so happens armed with the knowledge that this bra - busting blonde bomber had been on Eurotops and not on the regular Musikladen I actually found a clip with her on YouTube which in turn made it possible for me to make the GIF below so people know how she looked.

I don´t know how long this video will stay on YouTube but you better enjoy it as long as it lasts. I know the quality is not the best but we are lucky to have even that. Beyond the video any information about her as well as websites where I can find out more about her are most welcome.



As longtime readers know asian girls are my kryptonite so I am including the choreography of Stretch You Out because it has an asian sex goddess coming in at 7:54 minutes. The best part with this blow up sex doll is at 8:47 minutes where she not only shows that she can spread her legs better than Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers but we get an incredible close up of her crotch area. Which is also a good reference for all struggling artists who have problems with that part of the female anatomy. And if that filly doesn´t make you immediately cream your jeans I don´t know what will.



We have another callback to my misspent youth with The Saint starring the late Roger Moore as Simon Templar. I never liked his interpretation of super spy 007 which he delivered with the charme of an Edeka branch manager and much prefered him in series like this or The Persuaders.



Since Battle Chasers was heavily influenced by the aesthetics of japanese anime we are closing things out with the first episode of Spirit Warrior.



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It´s Sword and Sorcery Saturday with Conan

I hadn´t planned to do another post so quick after the last one but while putting the finishing touches - and probably one too many links - on this year´s Jim Aparo birthday post I came upon the original art pages for an entire CONAN issue by Barry Windsor Smith. And since I didn´t get to do a post for his birthday this year and because usually I follow up a DC post - like say Jim Aparo on THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD - with a Marvel post - like Barry Windsor Smith on CONAN - and because you can´t put these things on the blog quick enough here´s some cimmerian coolness for your eyes.

Now so far there have been a few posts about Marvel´s excellent CONAN, THE BARBARIAN series on TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN but not about Barry Windsor Smith. Longtime readers know what a huge fan I am of John Buscema´s rendition of the character and while his version became the definite one for me ( I know, blasphemy ) I read my share of Barry Windsor Smith´s Conan - probably in the form of those Condor pocket books who fell apart after the first few readings. At least in the beginnings. So while Barry Windsor Smith did not draw my favorite Conan I can appreciate his work and there are a few issues that are still my favorites, among them the issue where Conan meets Michael J. Moorcock´s Elric from Melnibone. Another of my favorite fantasy characters. Some years ago - before Dark Horse started with reprinting the recolored issues of CONAN - and back issues were hard to come by in good quality if you didn´t have a gazillion bucks to spend I bought some of the spanish reprint issues and all of them were by John Buscema EXCEPT the two issues with the Elric crossover.

With all the mind blowing work Barry Windsor Smith did in his later career someone often forgets how brilliant his early work already was so let´s take a sip of sweet wine with Conan in one of the many seedy bars in shadizar but beware, they do not call the town " the wicked " for nothing.

As a bonus here is the letters page from CONAN 6 and an article about Roy The Boy Thomas from the pages of DIE RUHMREICHEN RÄCHER 34, the german edition of THE MIGHTY AVENGERS from the Williams Verlag.

Whenever I have to look for color pages of comics I come across THE PENCIL INK BLOG who specializes in classic comic artists so it´s no surprise that I found posts about Conan issue 3 , issue 5 , issue 6 , issue 8 , issue 14 , issue 15 , issue 16 , issue 19 , issue 23 and issue 24 there which all have art by Barry Windsor Smith. I am sure they cover all of his issues but I am only posting those I came across while doing the research for this post.

Speaking of which, THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES has a post on Barry Windsor Smith´s Ka - Zar issues with some rare original art pages to boot.

As we have already had a few posts on this day I have covered some of Today´s celebrity birthdays before so I am only including some where I have something new to add or which I haven´t covered before. I want to start with Tim Burton´s 60th anniversary and Batman Returns, the Batman movie that was criminally underrated. In my opinion it is the better movie out of Tim Burton´s Batman films : Danny De Vito plays the most horrific Penguin of all time, no actress has surpassed Michelle Pfeiffer´s Catwoman ( although I liked Halle Berry´s costume ) and Christopher Walken is in it.



When Bob Kane created Batman one of his inspirations was The Shadow so it is kind of fitting that Mike Kaluta turns 71 on this day since he has done iconic work not only on the famous pulp caracter but also on the Batman.

So far I have only done a short art showcase post in 2016 but I hope I can write something more extensive once I have the proper material.

Tom Skerritt celebrates his 85th birthday and you may have seen him in one of his guest appearances on dozens of tv shows including Kolchak, The Night Stalker or the many movies he starred in like Alien, The Dead Zone, Top Gun, Poltergeist III or The Rookie. He also played the main character Sheriff Jim Brock in Picket Fences which is still very expensive mainly because of the episode in which Lauren Holly sports a black bikini.

And while Lauren has had other iconic roles in NCIS, Dumb & Dumber or Down Periscope when you are looking for animated GIFs of her the bikini ones from Picket Fences are predominant since her body was at its prime.

The kid in episode 14 of season 1 called Bad Moon Rising is experiencing his first wet sex dreams and his chosen subject is sheriff depute Officer Maxine Stewart who appears in lingerie, said black bikini and hockey gear.

 Now on one side you wonder why he picked the town´s sheriff depute as the object of his sex dreams ( which oddly doesn´t involve handcuffs, ah, he´s probably still too young for the kinky stuff ) since that may lead to trouble once she finds out ( she does use a gun in her job ). On the other side there seems to be an episode where she posed nude for a magazine ( I don´t think they show the actual shooting )  which isn´t too far fetched keeping in mind that Lauren Holly had an incredible hardbody back then.

Most of the males in town were probably fantasizing about giving her a full cavity search and the number of juvenile delinquents shot up since all horny teenagers hoped to get strip searched by Maxine. With that in mind her three ( !!! ) sex dream sequences make more sense and surely Lauren Holly made entire generations of teenagers reach puberty ahead of time.

Now with these cult sirens I like to include animated GIFs as well as videos because the videos tend to vanish after a while. But this time I didn´t even find the full bikini scene on YouTube and had to go elsewhere. So you can at least watch this scene but there are two more hot scenes with Lauren Holly in that episode which I haven´t been able to find anywhere.

If somebody out there has seen them on YouTube or the likes please let me know and the only alternative is to cough up 23 bucks for season one.

But don´t despair, for all the poor wretches like me there is still the 2010 drama The Final Storm where Holly shows she still has a banging body.

After this long tangent you probably expected a video with Lauren Holly but at the moment I haven´t any with her ( and I don´t have the time to look since this post should already be finished and I should be working on my comic ) plus I can´t pass up an opportunity to post another episode from Kolchak or Der Nachtjäger how it apparently was called in Germany. I didn´t know they showed the series here. There are quite a few german episodes on YouTube but of course I picked the one with Tom Skerritt.



This was actually the first video that I knew was going to be in this post. If you haven´t gotten the trade yet - and it should not be that expensive in good comic shops - get the True Believers issue. It only costs 1 Dollar.



With the obligatory music video I didn´t have to think twice about which to include since I literally came across this video while writing the post.



Finding the appropriate cartoon video for the posts can be a challenge - especially since I have already posted all the videos I could find from the Conan cartoon shows - since I try not to have too many videos of just people talking which can become pretty old pretty fast. To keep the balance I like to include longer ones so here is one that I think not too many people are familiar with, the russian version of The Jungle Book.



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