But right now I have another breather as there is nothing else to do but wait - or write another post for one of the birthdays I missed this year.
Now Richard Corben celebrated his birthday at the first of this month but the way this post turned out I think it might be for the best because it ties really nicely into the upcoming All Hallow´s Eve celebration. And I´m saying " the way this post turned out " because as so often this post has gone through a few revisions and retcons. Just call me Marvel Comics.
Which will be popping up a lot in this post - if you can´t already tell from the first picture. Anyway, regular readers might remember that when I last wrote about Richard Corben at the beginning of this month I mentioned that I haven´t bought his latest series and at that time I wasn´t sure why.
But after I did a bit of online research the reason became clear. As my older brother put it so fittingly : it seems that Richard Corben is not interested in drawing beautiful things anymore and just draws ugly stuff.
Which he still can pull off masterfully, don´t get me wrong. Nobody draws grotesque, disgusting and plain weird stuff like him. But I miss the days when his comic books were filled with beautiful, mostly naked babes with big breasts instead of old hags with their breasts hanging at floor level.
And before you get upset at the use of the word hag, that´s not me, it is Richard Corben himself who has the character of Meg, the Hag in most of his new comics. So while he prefers to draw stuff that I am not interested in I don´t have a hurry to buy his latest output unless I find it somewhere at a bargain price. Now that gave me the first idea for the post which was going to be filled with wall to wall scantily clad buxom babes. That idea died quickly because half of the material that went in that direction was too risky for my tastes ( I know, it sounds unbelievable to hear an old perv like me write this but what I read privately and what I am comfortable with putting on the blog are two different things ) or of too low quality.
So my second idea was to do another best of the best posts but it quickly became apparent that there was too much material to include all of it. Thankfully this is most often taken care of in stage two of the process, namely when I start looking for the color pieces. Most of the art from DC Comics was really not that exciting or very tiny so I decided to take it all out. Which wasn´t that hard because our last post was a DC Comics post.
Now I had some good Marvel art by Richard Corben but I also wanted to integrate Hellboy - because of Halloween - and some pages from Aliens : Alchemy since it is one of his lesser know series and it plays into the whole horror theme. So while looking for the color pages I came across more original art which made me change the theme of the post once again. I took out the pages from Startling Stories : Banner because they don´t really play well with the horror topic. And I did keep some of the pages from Cage because a lot of people don´t know that this book by Brian Azzarello was basically the premise for the Netflix Cage series.
There are still pages from Aliens : Alchemy in the post even though I could not find any color pages which was a bit surprising but undermines my point, I threw out a lot of the Hellboy pages so that instead of being all over the place they are now from one specific story The Crooked Man ( which helps giving it more of a cohesive feeling ) and all the Ghost Rider pages are not only from the same issue but present a complete sequence.
And I added a page from New Tales of the Arabian Nights. Because boobs.
So without any further ado here are my pics for this year and let´s hope that next year will bring more of the old Richard Corben boobies back.
Since I am still hoping to do another post before or around Halloween I am only going to do a short pop culture fun section. There are a few german cabaret artists / comedians who celebrate a birthday Today but since I don´t have any videos bookmarked for them I´m going to skip them in favor of nubian sex goddess and former cheerleader Gabrielle Union who turns 46. I don´t know what it is about Gabrielle butt it seems whenever I mention her in my posts I get more readers. I haven´t done a full cult siren post about her butt I always go over the wikipedia entry and the imdb page to find any trivia facts worth mentioning. What I found out is that Gabrielle starred in a series called Night Stalker which is not the classic one of which I have posted a few episodes. The show with Gabrielle Union was not even on my radar so one of these days I will have to find out more about it. All I know so far is that the series has a character named Kolchak.
One reason why I have to include Gabrielle Union - apart from the most ASSential one - is so I can finally post this video I found a long time ago. Regular visitors may have noticed that I post a lot of videos from Family Feud which could lead to the assumption I am doing this for the benefit of my readers but it´s completely self serving since I like to post stuff which I haven´t seen myself and Family Feud definitely falls into that category.
Sadly the first video is a bit of the short variety so here is another one with Gabrielle Union´s sexy strip dance form the film Cradle 2 the Grave .
With the comic book related video I didn´t want to go with the obvious choice so instead here is a video from Comic Tropes about italian fumetti Dylan Dog which influenced Mike Mignola a lot when he created Hellboy.
I have pimped the comic a few times even though I have not read that many issues. Which might have to do with the fact that the publisher in Germany decided to start with the number one and continue numerically.
Which sometimes makes sense but in the case of Dylan Dog there are different artists illustrating the series ( the reason for that is explained in the video below ) and some issues are illustrated by Claudio Castellini, I think around the one hundreds. Which is a long time. Especially keeping in mind that usually german comic companies cherry pick the stories they publish like with the Legion of Super - Heroes. So it is weird that they did not do that in this case. And I mean, I can understand it if they didn´t want to do it as part of the regular series since it confuses the continuity.
But they could have published them as a special. Readers don´t like to wait for the good stuff. That´s one of the things that always bugged me about Peter David. He always had this big ideas what the books he was working on would turn to five years down the line. But in most cases he never got around to do it because the series were canceled before that.
Because like I said, readers don´t like to wait. And if you tell them that a series will be great in five years they are not going to invest five years of their time and money ( because newsflash, people who have to buy comic books and don´t get them as comp copies from the publishers work for their money so they tend to be a little bit picky about what they spend it on ) they are just going to come back in five years to read the good stuff.
IF your comic book is still around at that point. Aside from pimping Dylan Dog I have also written a post about the brilliant Dellamorte Dellamore movie that is mentioned in the video below in this post ( strangely enough also in a post titled Midnight Madness ) and the movie has my utmost recommendation ( comic fans in Germany have to be careful not to buy the censored version ). The part of italian - finnish model / actress Anna Falchi alone is more than worth the price of admission in this case.
Aside from being a stunning, sexy beauty with big pouty lips, and a curvaceous, 36D - 25 - 36 hour - glass figure, Anna Falchi plays three different roles and even gets to be one of the undead. It’s easy to see why Rupert Everett’s character falls so hard for her and repeatedly.
Especially in the scene where she plays a prostitute ( a role Anna Falchi was born to portray with her porn star body ) who can´t keep up with Francesco Dellamorte´s sexual stamina. Understandably the horny guy can´t stop banging her brains out relentlessly drilling her into submission.
Which by the way leads to one of the best dialogues of the whole movie.
Unnamed prostitute played by sexbomb Anna Falchi ( who is breathing heavily while gasping for air with her whole body being covered in sweat ) : " Come on, rest a bit. You´ve come three times already. "
Franchesco Dellamorte : " Twice. The last one was faked. "
I don´t know if Comicbookgirl19 has seen Dellamorte Dellamore but I am already hyped what she is going to cook up for Halloween and for all who have missed it here´s last years spooky yet educational Halloween special.
We are taking a short break from romanian Busenwunder Oana Andoni for this post although I hope you have already watched all her new videos before they disappear. But there is also somebody else whom I have to feature before her videos pile up - again. So here are part 5 to 7 of Doja Cat´s interview. I don´t know if it is really necessary to split it up into so many parts but as long as they put it out in highest quality I don´t care.
From cats with big talents we come to dogs with big stomachs. Again I was racking my brain to come up with a unique yet classic cartoon that goes into the spooky / scary territory ( I could´ve gone with The Ketchup Vampires or Count Duckula but I already posted some videos from those series and I didn´t want to repeat myself ) that I realized I had forgotten the obvious choice. And lo and behold I even found a video which crosses over with my favorite super hero team up cartoon The Brave And The Bold. You know, it says a lot about DC Comics current creative level that the best DC team up book on the stands right now is Scooby Doo Team Up. Coming back to the cartoon video, here you get the best of both worlds and at first I thought it was from an episode I missed but the video is almost as long as an episode. It seems they made a movie out of this.
Speaking about unbeatable combos, there is some Hellboy art in this post and one of the best Hellboy comics is Hellboy In Mexico. I wrote about the big part wrestling - or better lucha libre - plays in mexican culture in this post and since I mentioned El Santo for the first time I want to close with Santo Contra Los Zombie. The title tells you all you need to know and whoever had the idea to combine wrestling with horror was a genius.
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And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren´t for you meddling kids.
