Spider - Man Month ends with the Black Cat

Since we still have one more day to do a quick post to wrap up SPIDER - MAN MONTH I thought I could do the spotlight on everyone's favourite cat burglar ( at least in the Marvel Comics universe ) Felicia Hardy a.k.a. the Black Cat that I wanted to do for Valentine's Day and then decided to postpone in favour of two posts about the much underrated Silver Sable.

Although to tell the truth SPIDER - MAN MONTH has been going on for more than a month because even if you do not count the second part of my latest tribute to Sal Buscema's 8 year run on SPECTACULAR SPIDER - MAN from the 27th of January ( and you totally could because there IS all new original art in that post and only the bonus section is old - well, with a few new additions ) there still is my first post about Erik Larsen's run on AMAZING SPIDER - MAN and SPIDER - MAN, specifically the RETURN OF THE SINISTER SIX and REVENGE OF THE SINISTER SIX stories from the 30th of January - even if it got an age restriction by blogger for the time being ( a situation which I hope I can remedy before finishing the post ).

So you could say that SPIDER - MAN MONTH started early. On the other hand as longtime followers of the blog know I don't get to post every day - and even less frequent since coming to Spain - so with nine posts ( and a possible second part to this very post coming up ) ten posts don't seem too many for an entire special month. By the way, since this month has all been about Marvel Comics next month DC Comics will get their turn.

I already have prepared all the material for a JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA / INTERNATIONAL BY KEVIN MAGUIRE post but I don't know if I have enough material for a full blown JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA MONTH or if I will just throw in some posts about various members of the Justice League of America or if I will just do a Best Of Justice League Of America month.

We will see.

Coming back to the Black Cat, only blog readers of the first hour may remember this but back in 2007 - which is already 18 years ago my how time flies when you are exiled and have dozens of posts to finish - Felicia Hardy was the winner of my COMICBABE ENTRIES for Sultry Spiderbabes with Mary Jane in the second position while Silver Sable made 3rd place.

As I have mentioned in various posts if I would do a newer Spiderbabe countdown these positions might change with Silver Sable possibly taking the number one spot. But despite that I think this is still my trifecta of ultimate Spider - Man sexbombs : Silver Sable, Mary Jane and Black Cat.

Speaking about the latter, this being a spotlight post for her one might get the impression that I would go over her long and illustrious career as a villain / reluctant crime fighter but as blog regulars know I don't like to repeat myself and I already took an extensive look at Felicia in the final Spiderbabe post where I even covered ( only figuratively because who in his right mind would want to cover up her banging pornstar body ? ) the post IDENTITY CRISIS shift in THE EVIL THAT MEN DO miniseries written by Kevin Smith with art by Terry Dodson when sexually assaulting women became the vogue backstory in comicbooks or her awful pirate costume.

So I think I already covered everything I have to say about the Black Cat.

As for the current version of her I don't even know if she is still written as being a lesbian ( I know that " officially " her sexual orientation was changed to bi - sexual but we all know that's just to appease the masses since Disney execs really wants to make all the female characters in the Marvel universe lesbian, I mean have you seen any of Marvel's female characters who have " come out " as being bi - sexual have any sexual encounters with men afterwards ? ) if she still is part of Peter Parker's extended supporting cast, still a good girl or a villain, heck I don't even know if she is still alive. Because for the most part I do not care about Disney's current propaganda comics and I think my life is better for it.

From time to time I find myself wondering about certain characters but then I find a video about what's going on in comics with the characters I used to know and it just reinforces my resolution to stay the hell away from current Marvel Comics. Instead I go back to the old school comics where you can still recognize characters since they are written how they ought to be since there is still enough material to keep me interested.

Anyway, coming back to the Black Cat, while compiling the material for this post I thought about including some original art from the comics but with Mark Bagley for instance there are enough pages for a THE BLACK CAT BY MARK BAGLEY spotlight and the other pages are not so important that it would make sense to post them outside of an artist spotlight. So instead I have selected MY favourite 23 Black Cat art pieces - at least at this moment - and I hope I can get them through blogger's NSFW control.

cat got your

cat stuff

cat links

cat videos

wolfman

manga

nora black leather

bad kitties

uncanny

robots

essential

almost although keeping in mind how boring anne hathaway was as catwoman

way better

another japanese version of spiderman

seventies

larry hagman

blake

animated

ultimate

wolverine

spinne

trabi again

part two

uhr

kater mikesch

nacht

paulchen

sternstunde

toy

soldiers

noor ben yessef finally some info born in Sevilla on the 6th of December 1995 of north african and moroccan descent measurements 38E ( !!! ) - 24 - 37

noor im schlafzimmer

noor top ten outfits

pussycat

nicole scherzinger doing the splits

pussycat dolls

sarah hyland pussycat doll in training

super pussycat dolls live

full concert

rescue

rangers

cat banner

cat quote of the day 

It is Black Power Thursday with Gil Kane

I thought about honoring Christopher Priest´s 55th birthday by doing another post about his BLACK PANTHER run but since the time I did my last post in 2012 most comic readers have realized the greatness of it.

Also I would have to re - read the whole series - again - to write the post. So instead of repeating what everybody will probably write about Today I bring you another selection of Gil Kane covers with black characters.

Yep, that´s the pre NEW 52 politically incorrect overweight Amanda Waller who now looks like a centerfold although I have mixed feelings about this change. On one side it was nice to see a completely average person be such a badass but a fitter Amanda does have possibilities. Although I doubt we have scenes like this in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie.

Since there is only one other important birthday Today - and because I didn´t post Yesterday ( it may surprise my readers but even I have to sleep sometimes ) - I want to start the entertainment block with a few birthdays from Yesterday. In my last post we had a Doctor Who related anniversary and on June the 29th we even had two as Katherine Jenkins celebrated her 36th birthday - she was in my second favorite Doctor Who Christmas Special A Christmas Carol - and Maureen O´Brien turned 73 best known as Vicki companion to the first  Doctor, William Hartnell.

As fate - or the luck of the timelords - would have it I just found one of the DVD extra contents with Maureen O´Brien in it a few days ago.



Nicole Scherzinger celebrated her 38th birthday Yesterday and she started out as the frontgirl of the Pussycat Dolls. Is the group still around ? Since she was never the best dancer in the group I think they could continue.

To pay tribute airGbuzz ! has 17 more GIFS of Nicole Scherzinger stripping and here is a video from her appearance on Conan where he is distracted by her chest. Which I naturally missed as happens with most good things.



Our next candidate is Maria Conchita Alonso who is now 49 years old. She made appearances in Knight Rider, Predator 2, Chasing Papi, CSI Miami and Desperate Housewives although she´s best known for Running Man.

Another cast member of Predator 2 is Gary Busey who turned 72. Among his movie credits are Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Lethal Weapon, Eye Of The Tiger, Surviving The Game and two movies alongside sexbomb Erika Eleniak : Chasers and Under Siege where she does her famous striptease.

Speaking about Eye Of The Tiger, I went to the cinema to see two other movies with those words in the title : Rocky III - which was called Rocky III Das Auge des Tigers in Germany - and Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger. The special effects in the last one were done by Ray Harryhausen and Yesterday was his anniversary. Besides cult classics like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C. with pop culture icon / sex symbol Raquel Welch Ray worked on two more Sinbad movies The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad and The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad with Hammer film´s Caroline Munro.

It´s one of her best know movies as the producers were business savy enough to put Caroline into various bright colored and tight fitting outfits that left little to the imagination and showcased her breast features.

I could not find that movie on YouTube but here is the adaption of Jason And The Argonauts from 1963 which has a few famous special effect sequences by Ray Harryhausen in it like the swordfighting skeletons.



Speaking about adaptions : Yesterdays last anniversary was french writer Antoine de Saint - Exupery and his book The Little Prince has been transformed into any kind of media from comics and audio dramas to musicals, movies and cartoons. Originally I wanted to post a trailer but since that was only a fanmade trailer and not the trailer to an actual movie here is an episode from The Adventures Of The Litle Prince.



The only noteworthy birthday Today is Schlager icon Peter Alexander who worked with all the greats like Wencke Myhre. Boy, did I have the hots for Wencke in the worst way since she was not only funny, she had a tireless body in her prime and her wardrobe could even rival Caroline Munro´s Sinbad outfit or the uniforms of the female members of the Legion of Super Heroes. Fashion went horribly wrong somewhere from being only one small step above lingerie in the 80s to what women wear now.

Naturally I picked a video with Wencke and Peter and the preview picture alone is worth the price of admission. I have no idea how she pulled it off but despite her stunning physique and always wearing mini skirts and plunging cleavages she never was typecast as a sex symbol in Germany.



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