Showing posts with label making comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label making comics. Show all posts

Sunday, June 09, 2019

Of goddesses, thieves and mighty mortals

Because of current SHAZAM ! and CAPTAIN MARVEL movies I thought it pertinent to give Captain Marvel creator C. C. Beck´s anniversary on June the 8th a post of its own so I could elaborate a bit more on the subject.


I have to confess that I don´t know that much about the original source material. Because I have not read many original Captain Marvel comics by Fawcett Comics and so my first encounters were with Marvel´s Kree warrior Mar - Vell and DC´s knockoff Captain Thunder but you can read all about that in this post I wrote in 2016 . So far I have not found enough material by C. C. Beck himself to do a full post and I am more familiar with later incarnations anyway. Like The Power Of Shazam ! ( I think at that time there were once again restrictions by Marvel that prevented DC of using the name Captain Marvel on the cover which may also be one of the reasons the new movie is called Shazam ! ) which I am constantly pimping and you can find some of Jerry Ordway´s wonderful covers right here .


I also did a special post for the series interior artist Peter Krause ( Jerry Ordway did a terrific graphic novel that is a must read for all comic fans ). Peter Krause delivered solid art but I have no idea what he´s doing now.


I don´t know if I have mentioned it before but while I can see why DC´s Captain Marvel movie is better received than Marvel´s Miss Marvel movie ( I´m sorry, but I just can´t call Carol Manvers Captain Marvel. For me she has not done anything to deserve the title ) but it is just awful and I am going to tell you how I come to that conclusion. The guys who made the movie just didn´t get what the important message BEHIND Captain Marvel is all about and that has a lot to do with the character of Billy Batson.

Now I do know that from the moment when a movie is conceived to the moment when it is finally in theaters a lot of time passes. Years in fact. So keeping that in mind when they started with the first draft of SHAZAM ! the NEW 52 was still in full effect at DC Comics. Right now the guys at DC have finally realized how horrible the idea was ( which I have been saying since day 1 ) and are trying to rectify it with the whole REBIRTH thing.

Looking at the movie from that perspective they did stay very faithful to the NEW 52 version of Captain Marvel and Billy Batson. So they tried to do the comic book justice. Somewhat. Because while they read SOME comic books with Captain Marvel they did not go to the trouble of seeking out the original source material to find out what the comic book is all about. And if you only read the NEW 52 version of the comic book you think that it´s a comic book about a kid - or in this case a teenager for whatever reason - transforming into an adult with powers by saying a magic word.


And to some extent that is a big part of the appeal that made CAPTAIN MARVEL outsell SUPERMAN - it´s the ultimate wish fulfillment. I mean, how big are the chances that a kid was sent to earth as an infant from the doomed planet Krypton and gains super powers under Earth´s yellow sun and lower gravity ? But meeting a wizard in an abandoned subway tunnel and getting super powers by saying a magic word ? That´s totally doable.


So on a surface level the comic is all about a kid becoming an adult and an adult super hero at that. Which might lead people to the conclusion that the comic is about Captain Marvel and his adventures when in reality it is about Billy Batson. Because the message revolves about him. In the movie they dropped the ball on this and it is not surprising since Hollywood has totally given up on making movies that have important messages to tell. Nowadays they are too busy with selling equality disguised as diversity and their gender agenda to teach kids the important messages in life.

With that much of an introduction let´s take a look at the Billy Batson in the original comic. He is on his own, but not because his father is in jail and his mother just split. His parents were murdered and the uncle who was supposed to raise him instead just keeps his inheritance to himself and tosses Billy Batson out on the streets. But instead of becoming a bitter and sarcastic person who thinks it´s okay to lie and cheat and steal police cars like the Billy Batson in the movie he stays a decent person.


I don´t know why Hollywood always nurtures the cliche that people who are poor are less educated or have to become criminal to survive but that´s okay because they are stupid or poor or homeless. The are a lot of people who don´t have enough income to support themselves or who live on the streets and I´m sure that the majority of them are honest people who are not criminal. Your guess is as good as mine where this idea of the " good criminal " for the right reasons comes from or why movies and tv shows seem so enamored with it but as somebody who comes from a poor background I feel personally offended by this narrow minded propaganda.

Billy Batson in the comic books had it really bad but he still managed to live in a apartment instead of living on the streets through his job as a reporter at a local radio station. If he needs something like food or clothing and he doesn´t have the money to pay for it he doesn´t just steal it but offers to work for it or compensate the owner in another way. If he has to go somewhere he either takes public transportation or if he doesn´t have the money for the fare he tries to hitchhike or he just walks. He doesn´t hijack a police car. And he always tells the truth.

Which is why he was chosen by the wizard to receive the power of Shazam. Because only the purest of hearts can resist the temptation of the seven deadly sins which is the main duty of Captain Marvel on earth. To stop the seven deadly sins from corrupting mankind. Which he can´t do if there is even a hint that he might give in an inch to even one of them. 


So the Billy Batson in the movie normally would not have a chance going up against any of the seven deadly sins since he not only gives in to one of them but all seven : he´s proud, he´s envious, he´s greedy, he´s hateful, he´s selfish, he´s lazy and he´s unjust. Which makes him not the wrong person to receive the power of Shazam but the worst person ever.

You may think that is a minor point and argue that you can´t find such a person nowadays which is also the point of the SHAZAM ! movie. That Billy Batson is not perfect but he is striving to be a better person and that is all we can do. Which is totally wrong. The wizard cannot give his powers to anybody who is tempted by the seven deadly sins in the slightest way because otherwise they will rule the earth. That´s not something where you can take chances and say : " Ah, let´s try out this guy, maybe he will work out. " We are talking about the fate of humanity. That is why the wizard chose a kid to become Captain Marvel in the first place. Because he hadn´t been corrupted. Only a pure heart can wield such great power.


The reason why Billy Batson received the power of Shazam and why he is worthy above anybody else is the message behind the comic. It tells kids that if they stay honest and decent and real no matter what life throws at them that they will be rewarded. And the most important part of it is that Billy Batson is not rewarded right away. In Today´s society full with instant gratification seeking millenials that may be a foreign concept but it takes years before the wizard seeks out Billy. But in the end Billy is rewarded.

So while the SHAZAM ! movie is funny ( after the success of DEADPOOL prompted DC to abandon their whole grim and gritty approach to movies and go with the nonsensical humor instead no matter if it fits the hero ) and more entertaining than the CAPTAIN MARVEL movie it doesn´t deliver a very important message which for me is the worst of all the numerous details where the movie fails ( which I may address in future posts ).


That said, I am including a cosplay video with what the main audiences now sadly think is a valid representation of Captain Marvel. One reason is that it is funny and the other is that cosplay queen Yaya Han appears in it ( to whom we will return later on ) who makes every video worthwhile.



Since I have already chewed up your ear enough as it is and I am a little bit exhausted at this point here is a video with more info about the original CAPTAIN MARVEL comics and how they managed to outsell the Superman.



Among all the birthdays I missed my faithful followers were probably the most surprised that I did not do a post on June the 9th since we had three birthdays concerning my favorite subjects on the blog. The first and most important one of course being George Perez´65th birthday. As any body knows who has read this blog for some time I am a huge fan of him and though I am a bit bummed out that he has now officially retired from comic books I am still continuing with my posts on him and the series he worked on. If anybody has deserved a rest it´s George. Now usually I just put up a link to previous posts but in the case of George Perez there are just too many posts to list them all. So instead I am putting up the links for one of the posts ( either the latest one if the series is still going or the first one if I have concluded the series ) on THE NEW TEEN TITANS , THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD , FINAL CRISIS : LEGION OF THREE WORLDS , THE AVENGERS or LOGAN`S RUN and you can follow the links to the other posts. As far as George Perez comics I am currently reading, after finally watching the Wonder Woman movie I read the first omnibus of George´s post Crisis revamp of the title and it was an excellent read. I am however undecided if I should get volume 2 since that will have less George Perez.


The second anniversary on June the 9th is sorbian Jurij Brezan who wrote the original version of Krabat. Here in Germany the version by Ottfried Preußler is the best known as it is a book you read in schools. Now the only reason why I even am familiar with Jurij Brezan´s work is that I made a mistake. During Realschule ( which is like german middle school ) I was at the library and without looking at the author I borrowed this book called Krabat because I had seen the animation film by Karel Zeman ( I learned his name many years later ). Anyway, when I read the book it was nothing like the movie I remembered and the story was more epic rivaling J. R. R. Tolkien´s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Still I did not think much of it but when I wanted to read it again I could not find it. For months or better years I kept looking for this book in vain until I was convinced that I had just imagined reading it. Well, I was a kid with a very vivid imagination and could not always trust my memory. Fast Forward a few years with me now writing for a blog when I decided to write a post about one of my favorite books growing up and lo and behold while doing the research I found out that I had not imagined it but rather that I did chance on one of the three Krabat books Jurij Brezan wrote. Which are apparently very rare so it was a stroke of luck that I got my hands on a copy. Now if you want to read more about Krabat - or have no idea what Krabat is - you can check out my Krabat Reloaded post from 2016 or my original Krabat post which I wrote way back in 2008 since I have nothing new or important to add.



The third anniversary from the 9th of June is the one my readers were probably most expecting - at least a quick repost - since it was the 38th birthday of hasian megasexbomb Akira Lane and as obsessed with asian women as I am it is hard to wrap your head around the fact that I let a chance pass by to put more unadulterated asian persuasion content on the blog. In the case of Akira Lane it is not the end of the world since she not only got her own cult siren entry but also keeps popping up in any comic book casting posts involving asian characters not to mention the posts about Yaya Han or the ones where Yaya Han is only mentioned.


One reason why Akira Lane kept popping up in the posts about Yaya Han is that I needed a body double for Yaya´s more explicit scenes I had in mind.


Which is not ideal since Yaya Han has a 40D bust and Akira Lane is nowhere near in that league. Thankfully it looks like hasian talk show host Jeannie Mai is auditioning for the part and while she also is a bit smaller than Yaya in the chest area she does have an impressive skill set. I am convinced.


This hot sexbomb is of vietnamese descend and even though she is " only " a 37C and not a 40D like Yaya I think she could be a body double for her.

At least it would be fun to put her body to the test for the sex scenes.


Now I have gotten some comments that I should ease down with over - sexualizing Jeannie Mai but that´s not easy when you keep in mind my obsession about asian women and the fact that Jeannie has never made a secret about what a sex freak she is and how much she enjoys having sex.


I mean, literally the very first thing I found with her was the video with her boob exercises in which she admitted to doing them not only to make her breasts look better because she enjoys men drooling all over them but with the specific intent of getting guys harder than unto a thing of iron !


The topic of sex has come up quite frequently on THE REAL TALK ( I´m just glad that I have not found a source for it because I would watch it 24 / 7 just to get some glimpses of Jeannie ) so we know that Jeannie just loves to dress up be it for Halloween or in the privacy of her bedroom.


On top of that she has the perfect bubblebutt - like most asian women so it´s no wonder her ex hubby always tried to persuade her to wear a thong ( remember the thong incident ? ), she admitted to frequently using all kind of toys to spice up her sex life and she has gone on record that her favorite location to let her inner nymphomanic really loose is a hotel room because : " There are certain things I just can´t do at home. I eat at that table. " So you tell me, am I really exaggerating here or am I falling short ?



My brother always tells me that I need to write more about my new comic book series and get the word out that it exists so I am doing just that since Akira Lane was supposed to grace the cover of the first issue of VERSAUTE BETTGESCHICHTEN ( which could be translated as RAUNCHY or PERVY BEDTIME STORIES ). At least in a way. Longtime readers know that there is an outfit of sexbomb Akira Lane that I think is perfect for Yaya Han but I don´t think we will ever see her wear something as riskee.


So the idea I had was to get the next best thing which would be a drawing of Yaya in the outfit worn by Akira Lane that I liked so much. Since you put a lot of your own money into self publishing your own comic and you never know if you are ever going to sell anything you tend to try to please yourself as an audience first and foremost under the pretense that if it is not going to appeal to you it will not appeal anybody else. A lot of comic book pros agree that when you draw what you like people will respond better to that which will result in more sales. And you will have more fun drawing it which will have a positive affect on your artistic output.


That´s why I tried to make this pictures happen but while I had a few good attempts it fell short of how I wanted it to look like. While I was wallowing in self pity I remembered that once upon a time I had gotten a sketch from a german comic artist who did one of the best - if not THE best - german erotic comic book. At the convention where he did the drawing for me he also had some other original art to sell but I didn´t buy anything ( I can´t for the life of me remember why ) much to my regret.


Usually I don´t contact professional comic artists to work on my comic projects but you have to keep in mind that at this point I just wanted a drawing for myself. And maybe ask him how much he charged for a cover.

I mean, if you are already taking that leap of first contact you might as well ask some questions which might help your upcoming comic. Add to that the fact that I not only loved his style but he also had already done a splendid drawing of Yaya Han before so I knew he could do it. One thing led to another and what started as a simple request for a drawing turned into a possible splash page, a possible variant cover or even the regular cover. And soon I had not only sent him all the necessary pictures of Akira Lane and Yaya Han along the first drawings of my lead character but also a complete synopsis of issue one and the outline of the comic book idea.


Without putting the comic artist in question on the spot the drawing never came about for various reasons that are neither his nor mine fault and also include bad timing which seems to be a personal curse of mine.


In the end I did a drawing that depicted one of my phantasies involving Yaya Han that ended up in the sketch book section of issue two. Of course it doesn´t look anything like the real thing which might be for the better.


The only consolation I have is that my artistic ability might improve to the point where I can do that cover and do it justice. And while I haven´t accomplished my main goal yet I have the comic artist - who is a not so subtle stand in for myself - in a sexmarathon with Elisa Bett´s horny, nymphomaniac big breasted asian cosplaying roommate - who is an even less subtle stand in - wearing a Power Broad costume in the second issue.


Anyway, I hope you liked this glance at the behind the scenes of my little comic book project and for all out there who want to check it out or even purchase an issue they are available through this website ( don´t worry, we are still working on it ) as well as the first issue of the new comic by my brother PETRA DIE HEXE ( Petra the Witch ) or you can contact me through the e - mail address in the about me part of this very blog. I guess that I don´t have to add that all the issues - apart from the legendary first issue of POWER FREAKS which is also still available - are for adults only.


Speaking of big breasted hasian cosplayers and DC´s Maid of Mammaries, in 2016 I finally managed to do another post about Darick Robertson in which I mentioned the BREAKDOWNS storyline that introduced Power Girl´s famous coconut bra costume. And I just want to say that I still have not given up on a Yaya Han Power Girl coconut bra cosplay ( with the tiniest coconut shells you can find although compared to her huge 40D oppai all coconut shells probably look small no matter how big they are ) as she has already shown that she does a terrific Power Girl cosplay and she certainly has no problem filling out the magical cleavage window.


So far I had written six posts on Yaya - two of them are pretty safe but the other four are absolutely not safe for work - and I keep mentioning her on various JLA casting posts and any other posts involving asian sexbombs like Kiana Tom, Ava Cadell, Akira Lane, Miko Lee, Gail Kim or Minka and I swear the completely NSFW BIG YAYA HAN POST is still in the pipeline. In the meantime I have made two new posts about Yaya which showcase a part of her incredible anatomy that I have ignored too often - her legs.


With Yaya Han being such a big anime fan I wonder if I could con her into doing a remake of Ogenki Clinic. I would volunteer to play Dick Horsecock, the well hung patient who suffers from a severe case of hyperspermia and Yaya would of course play nymphomanic dicktamer Ruko Tatase, who has fallen on hard times and has to milk his schlong dry of all excess semen every night to pay the rent for her tiny flat so the horny landlord doesn´t sexually assault her again. Man, brabuster Yaya was born to play this role.


I mean she already did a sexy doctor / nurse cosplay with her Super Sonico costume. Daim, that girl knows how to fill out that uniform and she´s just begging for some asian dick lubrication. Those sweet lips are perfect for giving oral pleasure and we all know that when it comes to deepthroating rockhard boners nobody can hold a candle to asian girls. And those soft, giant boobs were just made to be wrapped around a throbbing erection.


And don´t get me started on those long, perfect legs. I bet they taste as good as they look and Yaya surely can spread them like a real pro as only the best asian strippers and pornstars can. She probably is a real sex freak in the bedroom who can polish your meatpole until you squirt like crazy.


Not only does Yaya Han look like she could star in a Russ Meyer movie Super Sonico sounds like a name from a Russ Meyer movie, especially SuperVixens where every woman had the word super in her name.


Although it would probably be something a bit more erotic like Super Spermico. Speaking of sperm, as my personal nurse and blow up sex doll Yaya would have to give me at least three daily spongebaths although instead of a sponge Yaya can use her big 40D oppai to massage my boner until I am ready for her patented extreme asian ejaculation escalation.


That´s what I need some sexual healing from a naughty night nurse like Stacy Valentine where no matter how much she knows about medicine you feel already better if you see her. And just wait until she starts with the deepthroat erection inspection to suck out the daily sperm sample.


If I won the lottery big style I would definitely hold auditions for my nurse and I would buy uniforms that are at least two sizes too small so their tits are hanging out all the time. Of course my dream nurse would not only have the body of a Playmate of the Year and incredible stripper skills.

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She also should be well versed in the Kamasutra, tantra sex, nuru massages and all the sex techniques. The best candidate would be a big breasted nymphomanic sexbomb with legs up to her chin who is addicted to oral sex and was fired from her last job at a sperm bank because she was always massaging the client´s hard schlongs with her giant boobs and then deepthroating them without mercy which caused them to squirt all their juices in her throat instead of the special container. Maybe it´s time for some asian salivation and Yaya Han wants to audition with her oriental oral skills. Like the saying goes : life sucks but asian girls deepthroat you dry !!!


Initially I wanted to skip the part with Yaya Han but then I found a new video that I have not posted yet and DAIMN ! she should have a permit for her cleavage as her weapons of mass seduction can cause a lot of trouble.



After my long rant about how it is not okay to turn Billy Batson into a criminal and thief it may appear strange that Today´s cartoon video is about a character who is both. Longtime readers know that I don´t share the romanticized idealisation of thieves as lovable rogues and it is one reason why I never liked Gambit. Anybody who had ever something irreplaceable stolen knows that there is nothing grandiose about it. Still there are some stories / comics / movies with thieves that I do enjoy mainly when the thief steals from people who can afford it or the theft in itself is their goal and the stolen goods are returned or put to good use.

Examples for that would be Bandette, the great Arsene Lupin or his heir Lupin the Third. For some reason the animated version of this manga gets overlooked by most of the general public so I wanted to promote it a bit. 



There even is a live action Lupin The Third movie - which I still haven´t managed to watch. I found a version which I thought was the english language version but after the first fifteen minutes everybody started talking japanese. Apparently because there is an english character in the movie everybody talks english at first but as soon as that character exits the movie that stops. Which is kind of weird even if they talk english just for dramatic effect because you ask yourself how many of the japanese movie goers are fluent enough in english to follow the plot without any problems. What I can say is that the casting was spot on and it looked really good. Maybe I can find it someday in a version I can understand.



With so many movies coming out each year it is easy to miss some so here is the Top Ten list of anime live action movie adaptions you may not know.



Since our first Lupin The Third video is just a general overview I wanted to include a longer one. I watched the anime when it was on Mtv ( when they tried to recapture the audience they lost by showing more reality shows instead of music videos by adding anime classics like Cowboy Bebop to their schedule ) but since I couldn´t find any of the episodes - or the excellent Castle of Cagliostro which was the movie that allowed Hayao Miazaki to found his Ghibli Studio - here is Farewell to Nostradamus.



Any post that includes such hasian sexbombs like Akira Lane, Jeannie Mai and Yaya Han follows the simple structure of asian persuasion babe video, anime video and k - pop video so I don´t want to disappoint my readers.

Instead of the usual suspects here is Jessi with Down and the reason for this selection is that on top of not having to put another animated GIF in this post ( since I have none of her ) is that I like everything about this video. The song, the visuals and you can never go wrong with a hot babe in a skimpy bikini. It are the simple things that make life worth living.



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Just when my night was getting interesting . . . what is it with this CONSTANT BAD TIMING !?!?

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Adventures in comic book making - part 1

This post is actually a little late even if technically it did appear on the blog as it was supposed to be. But because it´s much easier to finish a post when there is no other on top of it - because then you always click the wrong one by mistake - the post got back into the draft folder until the post of which this was initially a part would be completely finished.

Which took a lot longer than expected because right after I threw all the stuff at it that I could ( which is step one of my usual modus operandi, step two is seeing how much of it is necessary and how much I can cut ) the stuff happened that I will tell you about in a moment and then we had to prepare to go to the Comic Con in Dortmund and then we were at the con and I just finished the post before this one Yesterday or the day before. It´s difficult to know since my sense of time is a little off now with all the nightly eight hour bus rides until four o´clock in the morning.


Anyway, here is finally the part I cut from the original post and it´s a good thing I did it. Not only because I felt that this is something that should not get buried in - between a post as it might be of interest for a lot of my readers. Also to make the post shorter. And if you have read the last post you know that despite this measure it still ended up being incredibly long. In any case I don´t want to drag this out any longer as you´re dying to know why I should have written the post about Joe Staton´s GREEN LANTERN Yesterday and how that would have saved me a lot of grief.

ADVENTURES IN COMIC BOOK MAKING : BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL

I´m glad you asked. As more frequent visitors of this humble blog know I was very busy the last few weeks getting the second issue of VERSAUTE BETTGESCHICHTEN finished so that it would be in time for our visit of the GERMAN COMIC CON 2018 in Dortmund. That´s right. Since we booked all the Comic Con attendances in advance we have another taxing trip before us after the fiasko that was Berlin. For budget reasons we have to once again rely on Flix Bus to take us there ( which is something I am absolutely not looking forward to ) and I´m not sure I have a Hotel room booked.


Anyway, my plan was to finish the new issue last Friday as far as I have managed to do things and then send it to the printer so I get it in time.

But my brother convinced me that it would look much better if I would color the whole thing over the weekend. Which I did not think was possible but I was willing to give it a try. I have to say beforehand that I scanned all the pages in the wrong resolution and in the wrong format which cost me at least one full day. If that hadn´t happened maybe I could have colored the comic in one weekend or three days to be more precise.


As it is Clip Studio does a lot of neat things but getting the art in the right size - which is absolutely necessary if you send your files to a printer - is not among those things which is why most people use other programs to do that. With all the problems I had I think I will just draw the next issue in the right size from the beginning instead of drawing it at twice the size and then scaling it down. It might not look as polished that way but I am avoiding a lot of trouble and problems and if I want to be professional about making comic books to earn a living that is what I have to do.


Be that as it may, I scanned the art in a second time and worked through the whole weekend to get most of the pages finished. My brother thinks I could have gotten some coffee at the end and finished one or two pages more but the truth is my brain just stopped working properly and the last two pages I colored turned out a bit wonky. Also there was no time left because I still had to make the pdf file to send to the printer. I had already made a backup pdf file as a backup if I could not get the new comic book colored in time but now I had to make two new versions. Why two new versions ? Well, originally the second issue was going to be 48 pages but then I found out that there is a price difference between 48 and 44 pages but not between 44 and 40 pages. The next price bump would have been between 40 and 36 pages but I could just not bring it down to 36 pages.


WHEN IS A DELIVERY NOT A DELIVERY BUT PART OF A PACKAGE DEAL ?

So I had the pdf file ready, my brain was starting to give out on me ( I was fighting bouts of narcolepsy while coloring ) and I had to make the order for the comic. My brother had promised that we would do that together so I ordered the right paper but he was sleeping and the deadline was approaching so I had to do it all myself. Now everything worked out fine but the thing that threw in the monkey wrench was the 24h express delivery. Which I added because otherwise it would not arrive on time.


It meant the costs for printing my new comic would be higher than usual but the best comic is useless if it arrives late. And I could not go to the Comic Con Dortmund without a new comic. So I had been working on the comic book through the entire weekend until Monday morning so my order would be the first thing the printing company would get without getting much sleep. Which means that I was passed out most of Monday.

Which brings us to Yesterday. I was going into and out of sleep cycles very randomly but I was awake until 8´o clock. I thought about writing a new post - which would have been this one - until my package arrived but instead I decided to lie down a while and wait for my package to arrive.


Now mind you - just lie down. Not sleep. Because of my condition my body needs at least eight hours of rest every day if I want to do anything.


So I try to make sure that I get eight hours of rest even if I don´t get much sleep. Ever since my knee surgery I have not slept very much and the only time I know that I was indeed asleep is when I wake up late.


With that said it can sometimes get very boring if you have to lie still for two or three more hours when you want to do something. Thankfully I have been able to think about my comic the last few weeks when I have to do that - plotting it out in my head. Now the thing is that I was waiting for the mailman or in this case the ups man to arrive but he never came.


THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. THE UPS MAN ? NOT SO MUCH.

What I got instead of my package was a notification in the mailbox that he had tried to deliver my package but that nobody was home or at least did reply when he rang the doorbell. Which I am not convinced he really did.


Because me, my brother and my mother were all at home and I cannot believe that none of us heard the doorbell. One person ? Maybe. Two persons ? Maybe. But three persons ? That is highly unlikely. Plus, I don´t think I didn´t hear the doorbell. I am convinced I was awake the whole time. Be that as it may I spent the rest of the day finding out what had happened to my package, where I could pick it up and how to get there.


HEY, LET´S SEND SUBZERO TO THE MIDDLE OF FREAKING NOWHERE

I even tried to get a new identity card because my current one is expired but I didn´t have the right biometric photograph for a new one. So I went to the ups station to pick up my package ( which was in the middle of f - wording nowhere ) and while I really didn´t need a new identity card I was glad that I only ordered 50 copies of my new comic book because it would have been impossible for me to schlepp the 100 copies all the way home.


Thankfully the bus was going the normal route again ( for the last few weeks it has been taking a detour around Neckarweihingen which meant that it did not go to certain bus stops which made buying things very difficult for me ) so I stopped at the diner on the way back to eat a pizza - otherwise I would have probably passed out from exhaustion - and get some ice cream at the ice cream parlor ( which was closed the last few weeks which cut down on 70 percent of my activities ). For the rest of the day I was too kaput to do anything so I did a few things on the internet.


STAND AND DELIVER ? THIS UPS MAN SURE NEVER HEARD OF ADAM ANT

So I at least got my comic book in time for the Comic Con in Dortmund but while I certainly paid for a 24h delivery I did not get it. In fact I didn´t get my package delivered at all. I had to go and get it myself which cost me some money, more time and a lot of pain and in the end I probably can´t even get a refund. Because the printing company will claim that it is not at fault because it sent the package away on time and if anyone is to blame it is ups. And ups will say that they delivered on time but nobody answered the door and it´s not their fault that I had to go and get it.


I still don´t understand why they could not give it to a neighbor. I mean, we are constantly accepting packages for our neighbors when they are not at home and vice versa and you mean to tell me that on the one day when I get a really important package NONE of my neighbors is there to take it in my stead ? That´s very hard to believe. So I´m not sure if the ups guy really rang the doorbell and tried to deliver the package but in any case he didn´t try very hard. Come on, he could have left it with some neighbor.


As it is I paid for the 24h delivery but I didn´t get neither the 24 hours nor the delivery. And like I said I don´t think I can get any kind of refund.

And then my brother wants me to sell the new issue for a very low price.

ADVENTURES IN COMIC BOOK MAKING TWO : WHICH PRICE IS RIGHT ?

Which I don´t want to do for three reasons. First up, you have to keep in mind the overall prices of the small publishers and I have seen some of the other artists sell a 16 page comic with color pages for way more than 7 EUROS. Secondly the printing costs alone - with the 24h delivery mind you - are higher than the first issue of my comic and you also have to factor in the costs for the material you used. Plus your own work. So if I went with the price my brother wanted me to I would probably sell it for below the production costs. The third factor is that it is extremely difficult to sell a 16 page comic when you also sell a 32 page comic and now a 44 page comic for the same price. Especially if the 44 page comic is almost entirely in color. Which also should bump up the price. As does the adult content.


I tried to go for a more general audience but again things did not turn out as planned and in the end I have another porn comic book on my hands.

So there are various reasons why my new issue should be priced higher than my first issue. It has almost 50 percent more pages, most of the pages are in color and if I don´t increase the price I won´t be able to sell the first issue or the comic my brother made. Because I still have the customer mentality and if I had the choice between a 16 page comic in black and white, a 32 page comic in black and white and a 44 page comic with color pages - all for the same price - I know which one I would pick.

Anyway, that explains my cryptic introduction in my previous post. Since this is a spin - off post I don´t have any links and as this will be on the blog only one day later we don´t have as many celebrity birthdays as usual. Also I already covered some of the birthdays of Today before so I am only including new ones or the ones where I have something new to add.

We are starting with a brand new one, actress Jodie Resther who played Kiki on the cult kids tv scare show Are You Afraid Of The Dark ? and who turns 40. I would like to tell you that it was one of the shows I enjoyed as a kid but I only found out about it through writing this blog. I have since then though watched all the episodes so I picked a good one with Jodie for you. It is called The Tale Of The Dangerous Soup and it stars a young Neve Campbell who later starred in another scary cult movie franchise.



Continuing with the anniversaries Judd Nelson celebrates his 59th birthday who is most famous for The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo´s Fire opposite a then young Demi Moore who turned 54 on the 11th this month and filled out quite nicely since then. She is the number one in my Top Movie Stripteases thanks to her spectacular performance in Striptease .


Speaking of spectacular strips, the reason why I am mentioning Demi Moore - besides the opportunity to feature her - is I wrote a new version of her cult siren entry ( part 1 / part 2 ) with more GIFs of Demi girating her booty than you can .... okay, I´m not going to finish the sentence.


Coming back to Judd Nelson, another thing he has in common with Demi Moore is mad dance skills which brought him a nomination in this top ten.



We also have a comic book birthday as Jerry Ordway turns 61 and he is the reason why I covered a lot of Today´s birthdays. Jerry made a name for himself with the super hero teams from the WW II era and the resulting legacy characters. He´s best known as one of the foundations of John Byrne´s 80s Superman reboot and the short lived The Power Of Shazam.


Even if you have only a remote interest in the big red cheese this series that was cut down before its time is a must read even if Jerry Ordway only did the interior art for the last six issues ( he did all the covers ). He was born to write the character and penciler Mike Krause is no slouch either.


Inker Mike Manley also does a few issues but the icing on the cake is The Power Of Shazam 14 with art by none other than the late great Gil Kane.


And Jerry Ordway did do all the art on the graphic novel of the same title that was the lead in for the ongoing series that won the Comics Buyer´s Guide Fan Award for Favorite Original Graphic Album. This book also came out during the much maligned decade of the 90s. I had it on my pull list and it was something I was looking forward to every month. I was so sad when it was cancelled and I weep for all the readers out there who only know the NEW 52 re - imagining and think they know the character.


For some reason comic companies are hesitant to hire Jerry Ordway and you really have to search for his work like his recent five issue stint on Spongebob Squarepants of all things. To honor one of my favorite artists I did a post about the Justice Society of America Annual 1 which was part of the Thy Kingdom Come saga and featured Power Girl´s return to Earth 2. Man, do you remember when Geoff Johns was still writing good comics ?


Today the best version of the Justice Society characters is on Legends of Tomorrow what in itself is sad proof of the miserable state of DC Comics.

Now since my first tribute post for Jerry Ordway I have written a few more, in fact my very first post this year was about all the DC books - well most of them - Jerry Ordway did. He is not as well known for his work at Marvel although it has not been less prolific. Frequent visitors of the blog won´t be surprised that I took the opportunity to kill three birds with one stone by posting his inks on John Byrne´s Fantastic Four and so far I have done two posts, one special Valentine´s Day post about one of the worst break ups in Marvel history that mainly contained pages from Fantastic Four 277 but also some from Fantastic Four 278 and Fantastic Four 279 and a special BDSM post about Susan Richards transformation into Malice.


Since the Captain Marvel movie - which will be called SHAZAM to avoid any confusion with Disney´s Captain Marvel movie which is really a Miss Marvel movie - will be in cinemas next year I wanted to post a video that explains his proper origin and I think it´s telling that the only idea the writers of the NEW 52 had was introducing a larger and racial diverse foster family for Billy Batson. Who will all get super powers at one point or another in the comics ( and at least one of them will get super powers at the climax of the movie ) showing that they do not understand the character of Billy Batson or Captain Marvel. All they achieve with this is diluting the original concept which is why I predict the Captain Marvel movie to be a financial success ( come on, everybody is gushing about how funny this movie is. Grim and gritty super hero movies are out and so is having a message for kids. But stealing is okay. At least if you are poor. ) but a creative fiasko.



Ed Harris celebrates his 68th birthday and among his credits - which are too numerous to list them all - is playing General Starkey in Stephen King´s The Stand which also starred Molly Ringwald from The Breakfast Club ( and many other John Hughes flicks from the 80s ) AND Busenwunder Laura San Giacomo who celebrated her 56th birthday on the 14th of this month.


The underrated living blow up sex doll template with the overdeveloped breasts never did porn although Laura clearly has the necessary superior physical attributes. Her mammoth 39E melons put other actresses busts to shame and even got top porn stars envious since Laura´s magnificent mammaries are all natural. Laura would have been one of the greats if she hadn´t dressed like a nun. She still couldn´t hide her XXL double airbags.



How apt that Today is also the birthday of Anna Nicole Smith and not only because she almost was my first candidate in my The Search For Power Girl series on the old boob blog. But as if that wasn´t enough Joe Dante directed two episodes of Police Squad and two songs of Randy Newman were used on The Naked Gun : From The Files Of Police Squad both with Leslie Nielsen who was Anna Nicole Smith´s co star in The Naked Gun 33 1/3 - The Final Insult. Daimn, she would have been a heck of a Power Girl !


Which must have been what 89 year old billionaire J. Howard Marshall was thinking when he married the then 26 year old Playmate Of The Month of May 1992 and Playmate Of The Year 1993 in 1994. His family was probably not very thrilled about this since they assumed she only married him for his money which she planned to inherit as soon as possible by having lots of freaky sex with the old guy in as many positions as you can think of. Of which horny J. Howard Marshall probably was aware from the get - go.


This must be the absolutely best way to go : after getting filthy rich you marry a young and flexible blonde Playmate Of The Month with giant 41DD boobs whose only goal in life is to kill you with sex. Who knows to which endurance testing hardcore sex orgies the overinflated living blow up love doll submitted the lucky guy - we only know that it took her thirteen long months to succeed. Man, that was probably the best year of his life !


Anna Nicole Smith didn´t last much longer either with her untimely death in 2007 but instead of engaging in all the negative gossip and rumors about the steady decline of her film career I want to remember her at her best :



Apropos the Maid of Mammaries, I could not include Yaya Han in my last post although I should have since Joe Staton drew some of her very first JSA appearances. In 2016 I managed to do another post about Darick Robertson in which I mentioned the BREAKDOWNS storyline that introduced Power Girl´s famous coconut bra costume. And I just got to say that I still have not given up on a Yaya Han Power Girl coconut bra cosplay ( with the tiniest coconut shells you can find although compared to her huge 40D oppai all coconut shells look small no matter how big they are ) as she has already shown that she does a terrific Power Girl cosplay and she has no problem filling out the magical cleavage window.


So far I had written five posts on Yaya - two of them are pretty safe but the other three are absolutely not safe for work - and I keep mentioning her on various JLA casting posts and any other posts involving exotic sexbombs like Kiana Tom, Ava Cadell, Akira Lane, Miko Lee, Gail Kim or Minka and I swear the completely NSFW BIG YAYA HAN POST is still in the pipeline. In the meantime I have made two new posts about Yaya which showcases a part of her anatomy that I have ignored too often - her legs.


A lot of people claim that Yaya Han´s boobs are not as big as they look online and that she is faking a lot of her overdeveloped 40D ( !!! ) oppai´s voluptuousness with special push ups, wonder bras and her costumes.


But first of all there has to be something to be pushed up or squeezed tightly into a wonder bra and Yaya Han has proven she got plenty of that.


So I chose a video in which she is not wearing a special costume and her titanic torpedoes still look terrific. What a pair of mouthwatering melons !


That shirt is obviously straining to contain Yaya´s XXL - sized asian airbags and her milkshakes really bring all the boys to the yard. Her giant breasts are perfect to be wrapped around my rock hard yule log and if Yaya Han´s juicy jingle bells don´t get you into the Christmas spirit nothing will.



One reason why Miko Lee kept popping up in the posts about Yaya Han is that I needed a body double for Yaya´s more explicit scenes I had in mind.


Which is not ideal since Yaya Han has a 40D bust and Miko Lee is nowhere near in that league. Thankfully it looks like hasian talk show host Jeannie Mai is auditioning for the part and while she also is a bit smaller than Yaya in the chest area she does have an impressive skill set. I am convinced.


This hot sexbomb is of vietnamese descend and even though she is " only " a 37C and not a 40D like Yaya Han I think she could be a body double for explicit scenes. At least it would be fun to put her body to the test.


Mai oh Mai, she could keep me awake for more than one thousand and one nights but she would not be telling any stories since Jeannie would be too busy giving my magic lamp ( which not only grants more than three wishes but also grows to enormous size if you rub it the right way ) a spit shine with her asian lubrication before applying the wax with her huge massage balls. For the finish she insists on french polishing it as she is a pro in the use of asian lapping materials. Plus Jeannie is too classy to talk with a full mouth and it would be difficult to tell a story while getting her brains f - worded out and screaming with pleasure at the top of her lungs.



Although the top ten video of Today could qualify as a music video I wanted to include this one that was brought to my attention by my brother. There is some irony in that but it´s too complicated to explain now. This is the second best harmonica jamming - after Darth Vader .



Speaking of coming in second place, I didn´t go into this with the mindset that I would hate it but after binge watching the first season of She - Ra and the Princesses of Power I have to say that it was hampered by the usual SJW tropes that are plaguing all the new cartoon shows. Which was pretty much what I expected. The show in itself is not uninteresting and the story is engaging but after a while the constant bombardment with tropes is getting on your nerves because with just a little more effort ( or a little less effort making every character such an unoriginal mixture of old cliches ) it could have been a worthy version of She - Ra for a new generation. Instead you get the usual tv cartoon show that gives the viewers what the producers of the show think their audience wants.

Or at least the smallest common denominator. As apparent from the title they HAD to do the same thing as with the SHAZAM movie where instead of one interesting and original character you have a whole selection of racially diverse people who are all different in any way that doesn´t make a difference. Because deep down they are basically the same. The story has an interesting starting point that at least tries to connect this with the original She - Ra series and they even have a character named Bow in it but then the usual tropes start. First off our heroine - or heroines - have to be younger than the original version. Now I don´t know if that is because the tv execs only think that Today´s younger females can´t relate to older females or if that is actually true. I would say the first but after seeing a few Teens React videos I´m not so sure anymore. I mean, there are some that seem to prove that Today´s girls can not relate to another female character properly if said character doesn´t have the same cultural, racial, political background or age as them. Which may be the reason why characters in comic books and the movies are constantly getting younger.


When I was reading comic books as a kid that was not the case. There were younger characters like Robin or Rick Jones but we didn´t identify with them. I identified with Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, Thor who were clearly older than me, a different ethnicity ( I don´t know if we even had spanish or hispanic super heroes before Hector Ayala ) and a different nationality. But I still identified with them and not somebody like Robin.


Not because I could tell myself that one far away day I would be as capable as " the " Batman if I just trained enough while Robin was already better at everything than me that it was impossible to have him as a role model.

No, the reason was quite simple that Batman is the one who is calling the shots while Robin just comes up with another " Holy this and that, Batman ! " before following his orders. And I wanted to be number one, a leader not a follower. So it was logical that I identified with the main character and not the kid sidekick as Robin only transformed into an interesting character for me when he became the leader of Perez´ New Teen Titans.


Anyway, back to She - Ra, there are just too many tropes to really enjoy the show : the heroine who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks who then finds out that everything she thought was true about life has been a lie and there is a great destiny waiting for her and she will be the best there ever was and greatness is just around the corner. They stress the point so much that they had to include it in the intro. Which I don´t get.

It´s like they are trying to empower girls ( because let´s be real, that is the demographic they are going for with the whole princess schtick ) but not too much so that they get to a point where they can´t be controlled.

" Greatness is waiting for you but you are not there yet so don´t get cocky and listen to your SJW instructors. " As it couldn´t be any other way the main character has a best friend who is rebellious, undisciplined, an outsider who has a problem with authority and who ultimately becomes her biggest enemy once our heroine sides with the good guys.There are more tropes but they are just too many to list here and I also don´t want to encourage anybody from checking out this show. Also some people may enjoy the show BECAUSE of all the tropes or may not be aware of them.



I just had to include the OG She - Ran and for me this show has the better look. Again, one of the tropes of new cartoon shows is that they all look like independent comics ( and when I say independent comics I don´t mean such great series like Strangers In Paradise, Bone or Usagi Yojimbo but series like Lumberjanes ) because either it´s the only comic books the producers know or they think that is how a cartoon must look in order to be successful. It´s like when everybody was mimicking the look of Batman - The Animated Series without understanding why it worked so good with that show but isn´t the right look for every cartoon. Also, am I the only one who misses the times when cartoons taught kids important lessons ?

Nowaday all you get from cartoons are pseudo lessons like " We should try to understand everybody´s viewpoint. " or " It´s okay to be different - as long as your different follows certain socially accepted norms because we don´t want any people whose being different makes us uncomfortable. " 



To close things out here is sci fi classic This Island, Earth from 1955.



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