Showing posts with label Undergroundcomix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Undergroundcomix. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

A cult siren spin off : the Landers sisters !

Once again a part of the post has become longer and longer so I have decided to give these two Hollywood hotties their own little post.


It also is a chance for me to post the clips of Audrey and Judy Landers which I have included in previous posts in the form of links. Although it is more a chance for my readers since I am pretty sure most of them don´t bother checking out the links so these videos will be brand new for them.



One of the problems of writing for such a long time on these posts is that things can change while you are trying to finish them. Sometimes you can go back and fix them but sometimes you can´t so we have a little callback in this post. You may remember that in my last post I mentioned Audrey Landers who was a cast member of Dallas and who together with her sister Judy Landers was one of the hottest commodities of that time.


Before the Hilton sisters, Mother Nature blessed us with the stunning Landers sisters, and if you were a teen in the 1980s, the only crack you were on was the roughly twelve inches of cleavage shared between Judy Landers and her sister Audrey. They helped keep the boob in " boob tube " for over a decade, with appearances on nearly every hit tv show requiring a dyed in the scalp blonde with the breast busting bikini body to match.



The 80s gave us a lot of the Landers sisters, mostly on the small screen, where they were often fashioned in as little clothing as possible and even less dialogue. It's hard to imagine though, or it's hard when you imagine, just how famous older sister Audrey Landers became playing the perennial bubbly blonde for our perpetually perky peckers. The sexbombs dazzled us with their own brand of twin magic long before the Bellas arrived on the scene and I must confess I prefer their version of it since here we got two sexbombs for the price of one while Bree is just a poor version of Nikki since she got her boobs inflated to pornstarsize. But back to the Landers.



With their perfectly shaped breasts, butts that won´t quit, legs almost up to their chins plus their lean and fit tireless bodies these blow up sex doll were just born for porn and back in the 80s they were the hottest blonde double d combo everybody fantasized about as two thirds of a sandwich.


Which makes it even more astounding that they never did porn or even explicit sex scenes. To top it all off there are no juicy behind the scenes rumors of the sisters where you might expect some wild foursomes going on at the set of Dallas with Audrey Landers, Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Victoria Principal ( or any of the hot sexbombs like Stacy Sanchez, Michelle Johnson, Priscilla Presley, Charlene Tilton, Deborah Shelton, Coleen Camp, Morgan Fairchild, Barbara Carrera, Tracy Scoggins, Claudia Christian, Lesley Anne - Down or Janine Turner who appeared there ).







Or at least some stories about crazy marathon sex orgies after shooting Madame´s Place or whatever show Judy Landers was shooting since she was clearly the one with the ultimate porn star body. Don´t get me wrong, Audrey´s body was nothing to scoff at and she has the prettier face. But while Audrey has " bedroom eyes " her sister Judy has " sex eyes " - she knows that you want to have sex with her and it´s only a matter of  time.


Plus, she has those pronounced cheeks you only get from years of oral sex.


So it´s no wonder that the more sophisticated looking Audrey landed on Dallas and Galactica while Judy mostly got the parts of the dumb blonde.


In real life neither of them were but they clearly were unaware of the general public´s perception of them as the ultimate sex symbols. Proof of that is the fact that they did a very tasteful but non - nude ( and non - paying, so thanks for that ) PLAYBOY pictorial for publicity reasons only.







They thought it would help the direction of their career and that the roles they would be offered would change from cheerleaders to more mature roles. Of course the incredibly sexy pictures had just the opposite effect since a lot of people had not actually seen the pictorial and just assumed they had done nudity and so all of the roles they were offered had nudity.


Like I said, for two such incredible sexbombs it´s astounding that they managed to life a life without sex scandals and they are both married and have two kids, Audrey has twin sons and Judy has two daughters. There have been a few attempts to do a reality show with the sisters but their everyday life turned out to be too boring for the networks and since they refused to spice it up to get more viewers nothing ever came out of it.



I have a few more clips to add and I want to start with the comedy Stewardess School, one of Judy Landers best known movies. She later appeared in Dr. Alien a.k.a. I Was A Teenage Sex Maniac which got some kind of a fan following but I could not find a good clip from that movie.



Since the videos above are much more in favor of Judy I wanted to add another one with Audrey from Dallas. I still haven´t finished to watch the series because I made the mistake of taking a break. This is a show that was made to binge watch because it pulls you in completely and once you are out it is extremely difficult to get back into it. I think when I start again I have to go back to the famous episode in which Bobby Ewing comes out of the shower alive and well again. I don´t know how many episodes I saw beyond that but I have a feeling that this is the best point of re - entry. And it shows you how iconic this show is that even if you have never seen an episode of Dallas you know exactly what I´m talking about with the scene where Bobby Ewing steps out of the shower.



While I made a reference to twin magic Audrey and Judy Landers are not actual twins, in fact Judy was born two full years after Audrey. They still managed to play twins in some movies. Not in Ghost Writer though where Audrey again played the classy one and Judy took on the role of sexbomb.



Now I thought about going through all my bookmarked music videos to find one that does not feature Audrey Landers and still somehow fits the feel of this post but that could have taken a few days. I wanted to add one with Audery but at the same time I didn´t want to post one of her cheesy Schlager songs from german tv. Luckily I found this clip from an episode of MacGyver no less where she apparently plays a rock star doing an anti drug video. I might be going out on a limb but does Rock Against Drugs really work ? Isn´t the motto Sex & Drugs & Rock´n Roll ? I mean Audrey Landers definitely has the first and the last one covered here.



Coming to Sex & Drugs & Comic Books, while the underground comix movement started in the USA in the 1960s it wasn´t until 1980 that the Volksverlag was founded and classic artists like Gilbert Shelton, Bill Griffith or Robert Crumb reached a wider audience in Germany through their cult publication U - Comix. So for germans who grew up in the 80s watching Dallas and reading underground comix goes hand in hand. Or joint in hand.



One of the reasons why I back dated this post to the same day when I started the Bob Layton Iron Man post ( when actually I am writing this three days later ) is that instead of having to deal with more birthdays I have missed I get to cherry pick the videos. Granted, it can be difficult to choose the right videos but on the other hand I can select some unique findings or videos that always fall to the wayside. So for this post I have selected one from Phantom 2040 which I always skip in favor of another video about Lee Falk´s famous creation ( which was one of Bob Kane´s inspirations for Batman ) because I already posted one or two episodes somewhere. But with all the posts I made I don´t have the time to go back and find them and they may already been erased. With that in mind I am putting up the first five episodes for those readers that might have missed it and even if the other videos are still on the blog the show is that good that it warrants repeating it. Unlike the godawful tv version. 



Speaking of unique findings, for this post I want to take a break from the horror anthology movies so I am closing things for Today with the first episode of Nowhere Man, a show I have never heard of and naturally found while looking for something completely different. Maybe some of my readers can help me out with this since I have no idea if it was good.



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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Instead of D - Gruppe part 2 : a rant about tv series and more german superheroes

Today, before we start where we left off Yesterday I wanted to mention three female celebrity birthdays. For once because it´s not that often that you have three in a row and especially three that are connected with pop culture. The first one is Michelle Trachtenberg


who turns 26 and is of course best known for playing the sister of BUFFY which had various comic adaptions and even continued the last seasons in comicform.


A few of them were even written by the series mastermind Joss Whedon who also did a definite X - Men run with John Cassaday starting off ASTONISHING X - MEN.


In fact the series hasn´t reached a comparable level of quality ever since. Besides that I always have to laugh when her name is shown in the credits because it just sounds funny to me ( trachten = german traditional clothes, berg = mountain ) . What can I say ? I´m a weird person and I get my perks whereever I can. I also laugh when a name like David Krumholtz or Josh Eisendraht appears on screen.

Anyway, I was a big fan of the series and I had to tape all of the episodes. Because back then me and my two brothers all had jobs so somebody had to record the episodes so that we could see them when we had time for it. And of course the best way to record them with the vcr was to do it while watching it because that way you could stop it when the commercial break began and continue once it was over. That way you could skip the commercials and you could get an additional episode on the tape. I have all the episodes but of course now all the tapes I recorded for my brothers and me are labeled as " mine " because someone has to get rid of them.

Despite being a BUFFY fan I never read any of the comics not even the ones by Tim Sale. I was really curious about the " exclusive to comic " seasons but it never ended up on my reading pile. Maybe now with less DC books on my pull list - since most of what I read has been canceled or rebooted - I can finally track them down.

Today is also the 35th anniversary of Emily Deschanel, best known for playing bestselling Smithsonian squint Temperance Brennan on BONES


where she co - stars with David Boreanaz who played Angel, first on BUFFY and then in the spin - off series ANGEL. One of the best things about ANGEL - besides featuring the hot Carisma Carpenter - was the title song by Darling Violetta which was one of the things I missed most between seasons ( open in new window ). Like BUFFY I taped all episodes and now have to get rid of them somehow.


ANGEL of course also had various adaptions and continued the adventures in comic form and likewise I never read any of them. There´s even one by John Byrne that´s on my Christmas list.

And Today´s third celebrity birthday is Claudia Black ( 39 )


who was on the tv series BEASTMASTER, HERCULES, XENA, FARSCAPE, STARGATE, had a cameo on DRESDEN FILES and starred in the RIDDICK. She´s also a voice actress in the video games LORDS OF EVERQUEST, GOD OF WAR, PROJECT SYLPHEED, UNCHARTED 2 and 3, MASS EFFECT 2 and 3 and on the upcoming JUSTICE LEAGUE - DOOM animated feature ( as Cheetah ).


I have to say while I started watching all new episodes of STARGATE I lost track of it somewhere along the way and never quite caught up. There were some episodes of STARGATE ATLANTIS I watched while in Spain but since I was coming in near the finale it just felt kind of meh. FARSCAPE on the other hand is one sci fi series where I was really excited and I watched the first few episodes and it all went down the toilet very fast. To my recollection almost nothing that happened made any sense, the characters were two - dimensional ( in the best cases ) and you never understood their motivations.

Right now FARSCAPE is shown on ANIXE and STARGATE is in constant reruns on TELE 5 at least three times a day so - who knows ? I might finally catch up on the episodes.

DRESDEN FILES on the other hand is one of THE best tv series ever and if you have the possibility you must watch it. The series was broadcasted in Spain and my brother bought the first season ( and only season you bastards ! ) on DVD so that I could watch all the episodes I missed and there´s only one word to describe it : pure genius. This is as good as you are going to get in front of a tv set with your clothes on.


If you don´t know the series, it´s produced by Nicolas Cage and based on the Harry Dresden novels by Jim Butcher ( just the right name for this gory line of work ) of which a few have been adapted to the comicbook format. So far I have seen one in the german version but because the art was not really good I didn´t buy it. If you are interested you can find more info about the tv series here ( german info ).



Man, first BUFFY then ANGEL and now DRESDEN FILES, this post is really all about supernatural tv series. Which is kind of fitting since October is the month of werewolfes, ghouls and vampires, you know - Halloween.


BUT WAIT ! DER IS MORE !

In my last post I talked about german superheroes and there are two I didn´t mention : one I forgot and one I didn´t even know about. The latter being DER ENGEL ( THE ANGEL ) by Tomppa a.k.a. Thomas Leopold the winner of the Stan Lee Foundation and Todd McFarlane creative invite on talenthouse.com published by THENEXTART.


Lately I haven´t been to many german comic conventions and I don´t think I´ve seen it at the Stuttgarter Comicbörse, which is one of the few comic get - togethers in the nearer area I can attend. Like I said in my last post, I´m not a german comic historian and as I didn´t claim that the list I presented was complete in any way it might be excused that I was without a clue in that regard.

The first issue came out in 2009 and the second issue was released in June 2010 with three issues pending to complete the first five issue storyarc. According to the webpage the story takes place in

Berlin in the year 2029. The townscape has changed completely. Violence in the streets is the order of business. In this melting pot THE ANGEL embarks on his own crusade for revenge but he´s still unaware of the conspiracy, it´s extent and that he will soon be entangled by it.....

There are previews for issue 1 and issue 2 on my comics.de and as far as I could see the art is pretty solid. They also have an interview with Thomas Leopold which sadly is only available in german, sorry. Here is a video where you can see him doing a complete page for the comic :



The german superhero comic I DID read was DER UNHEIMLICHE KAKERLAK ( The uncanny Cockroach ) and I think one of the reasons why it wasn´t on my original list is that it is also part superhero spoof.


Not that it doesn´t do that in a trashy and entertaining kind of way but whenever I´m confronted with such an example of real talent meeting an interesting new premise I wonder how the comic would have turned out if they had taken the matter more serious. I know that not every writer can be the next Grant Morrison but I think that shouldn´t be for lack of trying.

Despite this shortcoming the comic by Undergroundcomix ( which is a hint why they may have felt the need to add a subversive note to the comic ) is quite entertaining in a trashy kind of way and the pocketbook that presents all the stories that have come out so far in black and white isn´t too expensive with 124 pages for 10 bucks. It has a lot of stuff I like to see in comics like sewers, superheroes in sewers, alligators in sewers and superheroes fighting alligators in sewers.


The book has various artists but the pages by Steff Murschetz stand out.


Steff was introduced to a brighter german audience when he did ROCKN ROLL PATROL, an Adults Only funny book about a female rock band that always ends up in some kind of sexual hijinks.


The stories that are collected in DER UNHEIMLICHE KAKERLAK pocketbook have been released online before and evolve around hobo Gordon Sander whose schizophrenic other personality is Der Kakerlak, a superhero whose headquarters is in the sewers. The character of the Kakerlak shows clear influences of other weird superheroes like The Tick or Badger while being his own twisted creature. Various villains try to take him out but he manages to foil their attempts.


What may be a bit confusing for readers is that while Der unheimliche Kakerlak previews for issue 1 , issue 2 and issue 3 are in color the printed version is in black and white. For interested parties there is an Der unheimliche Kakerlak review on Splashcomics ( german ) as well as an interview with Steff Murschetz ( german ) about Undergroundcomix and a drawing tutorial with Steff Murschetz .


So it´s once again time to wrap things up because I can barely keep my eyes open and I´m making more typos by the minute and I didn´t even get to continue on the subject of D - GRUPPE. But the post is already pretty long and I think it may get even longer once I get to re - read the Kakerlak comic.

As I have already embedded the videos of the things I talked about in the post Todays video at the end of the post is FACK SE ENERGIESPARLAMPE ( Fuck the energy - saving bulb ) by austrian rap duo Zwa Voitrottln ( two imbeciles ). Watch it, get addicted to it, spread it !



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