Ross Andru´s Spider - Man Sunday - Part 2

Even with five ( !!! ) spin - off posts the main Ross Andru SPIDER - MAN tribute post is still too long so I have decided to split it into two posts.

The upside to that is that I get to post more incredible art by Ross Andru that I could not fit into the first post. And don´t worry, I still have enough material for at least two more Ross Andru AMAZING SPIDER - MAN posts.

As promised here is the second part of the birthdays I missed since my last post and you can find part one through the links at the top of this post.

We´re taking a page out of Kylie Minogue´s songbook and step back in time to May the 26th, the 70th birthday of exploitation legend Pam Grier.

Which I put into another spin - off post together with Latoya Jackson - whose birthday was on May the 29th ( and her sister Janet Jackson ). The post also features forgotten black super heroine Monica Rambeau a.k.a. the REAL female Captain Marvel and forgotten black super hero SPAWN.

I´m skipping May the 30th - for real this time - since I apparently have not written a post on that date yet and I do not want to go back and check which anniversaries fall on that day since this post is long enough as it is and I want to finish it some day. This brings us right to the birthdays from May the 31st which include underground comix creator Gilbert Shelton, Brooke Shields and Lea Thompson whom you can find in this new spin - off post as well as cult siren Phoebe Cates, romanian Busenwunder Oana Andoni and forgotten comic movies Brenda Starr and Howard the Duck.

Since I have already covered the celebrity birthdays from June the 1st in this post and from June the 2nd and 3rd in this post and there is nothing new to add we fast forward to June the 4th and another milestone of independent comics as Wendy Pini celebrated her 68th anniversary.

Today we are really going through my old list of reading material - Harlan Ellison who wrote some of the best issues of Avengers and Hulk as well as Vic & Blood with Richard Corben, Gilbert Shelton whose Wonder Warthog and Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers was in U - Comix and now Elfquest ( or Adventures in the Elf World as they called it here in Germany ) - although I am currently reading Elfquest - The Final Quest. I thought about closing the gaps in my Elquest collection but they released the avalanche of mini series and one shots that followed the original series in such a confusing way here that I am not sure which issues I do have and which I don´t.

I have to make a list some day but for that I would have to go through all of my comic collection. Just last month I moved my original issues by Bastei Verlag ( which was the first publisher who did a german version ) and the later albums by Carlsen and they are a bit weathered but I can´t bring myself to replace them with the new collections since those are only in black and white. Which may be nearer to the original but I am just too accustomed to the color versions so it would be a step back. Maybe some day it will be collected again but for the moment I am spending my comic book dime elsewhere. Anyway, I have written in various posts about how I first discovered Elfquest but for those who need their fix just click here .



Once again we skip the anniversaries for June the 5th while we already covered some of the celebrity birthdays for June the 6th in this post .

We are still stuck in the 80s as we continue to June the 7th when Larry Hama turned 70 who wrote many comics but is best known for basically building the comic world of G. I. Joe from the ground up. And while I was an avid follower of Elfquest I have to confess that I never got much into G. I. Joe - the toys or the cartoon show - and the only reason I did a post on the comics at all is that Mike Zeck did some covers who has been one of my favorite artists ever since I got my grubby paws on a spanish issue of The Hands of Shang - Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Sacrilege, blasphemy, I know.

Another throwback to gun toting comics from the 80s on the 7th of June was Karl Urban´s 47th birthday since he played the main lead in Dredd which is probably the best Judge Dredd movie out there. Not only does it capture the spirit and feel of the Judge Dredd comics co star Olivia Thirlby does a terrific job portraying everybody´s favorite leather clad blonde DD bombshell with legs up to her chin, the seductive Psi Judge Anderson.

The only negative thing I can say about the movie is that Olivia´s nude sex scene was way too short and filmed too much out of focus. What good are all the high definition cameras, blue rays and giant plasma screens with perfect picture resolution if the picture is all blurry ? This is the worst misuse of digital technology since Disney shrank Lindsay Lohan´s booming teenage boobs in Herbie Fully Loaded. What a waste of time, money and resources not to mention an incredibly horny sexbomb like Olivia Thirlby.

 

I don´t understand why they didn´t show the scene right and why it was not longer because in my opinion the movie could have only benefit from it. I mean we already got the adult rating and it´s not like we would have done anything different with blow up sex doll Judge Anderson in that situation than what the perverted perp really wanted to do with her.

We are coming to more classic comics with the anniversary of C. C. Beck, the creator of the original Captain Marvel from Fawcett Comics. I already did a tribute post for him but due to the recent SHAZAM ! movie I made a new spin - off post where I not only get to wax a bit more philosophical about it we also cover the birthdays for the 9th of June which include George Perez - who drew another DC character with ties to the gods, WONDER WOMAN - Jurij Brezan, the sorbian author of KRABAT and hasian megasexbomb Akira Lane ( plus hasian sexbombs Jeannie Mai, Yaya Han, more stuff about my new comic book VERSAUTE BETTGESCHICHTEN which includes new sample pages and the classic anime Lupin The Third ) in it.



Again, I have nothing to add to the birthdays for June the 10th in this post but speaking of spin - off posts about DC Comics characters since June the 11th is not only the birthday of Brian Michael Bendis who has taken over ACTION COMICS and SUPERMAN but also of cinema cult siren Adrienne Barbeau who was in the first SWAMP THING movie I did another separate post for them . Which also includes Len Wein - who wrote the original SWAMP THING series and whose anniversary was on June the 12th - überbusty cult sirens Kat Dennings, Jodie Sweetin, Debbe Dunning as well as the usual assortment of hot BAYWATCH babes and bikini contests. 

Hang in there, we have only two more days to go. First up we have comic master Jordi Bernet who turned 75 on June the 14th. I have written about the series he worked on like JONAH HEX or TORPEDO in various posts and last year I wrote two posts : part one which contains the riskier artwork and part two which has all the stuff I would label under boys adventure.

As I have mentioned I am working on the third issue of my new comic book and while I am not saying that I am anywhere near the skill level of Jordi Bernet he is one of the artists I go to when I´m stuck on a panel.



Continuing with the comic related birthdays on June 15th Brent Anderson turned 64 best known for his work on Marvel´s Strikeforce : Morituri and the original graphic novel X - Men : God Loves, Man Kills ( which was the template for the second X - Men movie ), Eclipse Comics Somerset Holmes and the long running Astro City. The last series being the only one where I did a special post for Brent Anderson but you can find more about Kurt Busiek´s brilliant series under the Astro City tag. Until last year I hadn´t read any issues of Strikeforce : Morituri but now that I not only have read the first three trades - the first containing all issues by Brent Anderson while the rest of the series was drawn by none other than Mark Bagley - but also have enough material for a good post I don´t have the time to write it. I also still hope to cover X - Men : God Loves, Man Kills one of these days and hopefully I will have enough decent material for a proper post then. Anyway, is it just me or did Marvel put out the best graphic novels at that time ? It could be that it was because they did stories they did nowhere else and they also put their top creators on top projects.

Comicbook legend Neal Adams celebrated his 78th birthday and so far I did two posts on him : one about his work at DC Comics and one about his work at Marvel Comics which I managed to resurrect after it was deleted.

I am a bit behind on his work because he put out a limited series about Superman - or rather Supermen since there seem to be more than one going around - which I still haven´t read and now that I have started to read Brian Michael Bendis new SUPERMAN series I am curious how Neal Adams´ take on the Man of Steel holds up against that. By the way, I have already read the first two german issues ( which contain the first four US issues ) and I don´t think I will continue reading the german translations.

It might be nitpicking but as anybody who has followed this blog for any length of time knows I am very peculiar when it comes to the translation and while the one in the PANINI issues is serviceable they DO stray from the original enough to convey a certain mood that is different than the one in the original US version. In some cases the german version is even outright different making a statement contrary to the original text. In any case, whether I condemn or praise Brian Michael Bendis new SUPERMAN it will be solely on the merit of the original words and not some translation.

Apropos making a mockery of the Man of Steel, Herbert Feuerstein turned 82 who was - amongst other things - chief editor of the german version of MAD which is where I got the plot for the classic Superman movies from.

As I did with most movies. Back then I could not always afford to see a movie in the theater and because this was long before the invention of video cassettes a cheap alternative was buying an issue of MAD. So in a lot of cases I read the MAD parody of a movie before I saw the actual film and to this day there are some films where I get both versions mixed up.

Anyway, in honor of the outstanding achievements of Herbert Feuerstein in german culture I wrote a special MAD spotlight post in 2016 . Speaking about german comics Bernd Frenz on EUROPECOMICS has just published The History Of German Comics in two parts for those interested readers.

Ever since I first wrote about Enki Bracaj I have been getting requests for more videos with her since those are not that easy to find on YouTube and I have run out of new ones to post. For lack of new videos I have included the links for the last ones I posted in all the posts where I mentioned her.

As for news about everyone´s favorite news girl aside from an interview where she went on record that her breast size is 34DD and all natural ( sadly I can´t link to the interview because the website is NSFW ) there is nothing new to report. Here are the videos with Enki in all her glory :

7:47 min of Enki letting it all hang out / 7:14 min of Enki´s overdeveloped boobs trying to bust free / 6:19 of Enki´s huge rack almost exposing her nipple / 6:05 min of Enki fronting / 6:00 min of Enki letting it swing / 5:56 min of Enki letting it all hang loose / 5:40 of Enki and her heavenly hangers almost lying on the table / 5:13 min of Enki´s massive milkshakes looking hot / 5:03 min of Enki´s right nipple peeking out now and then / 4:55 min of blow up sex doll Enki pushing her big boobs together / 4:53 min of Enki teasing a nippleslip with her twin torpedoes / 4:47 min of Enki trying to keep the twins down / 4:18 min of Enki trying to cover up her big melons / 4:12 min of Enki delivering the goods / 3:38 of Enki rocking the cleavage ( slight nippleslip ) / 3:46 min of Busenwunder Enki getting jiggly with it

Well, as it so happens I have found some new videos - at least I hope they are new ones but even if I have posted them before it´s better to post some of Enki´s videos twice than to miss some - and since they disappear very quickly from YouTube I am going to post them in batches of five. Now I know that not a lot of readers will go to the trouble of checking out all my old posts to see the other Enki Bracaj videos they have missed so I am going to include the videos from this post in the links above the next time I post some videos of her so that in the end we will have a lot of her videos. Here is Today´s selection of the world´s best braless newscaster : 







Speaking of women with enormous talents, usually when I post a cosplay video it´s about Yaya Han so I thought to switch it up a little. Here is the mega stacked Angie Griffin one of the few who can go up against Yaya´s 40D oppai which she trumps ( no pun intended ) with her 41E melons.



In the first part of this we already have a cartoon video with Spider - Man so not to repeat myself here is a sexy and very funny animated 3D short.



What always baffles me is how many readers are completely oblivious to the horror elements in such super hero universes like Batman or Spider - Man. Although it might have something to do with the fact that someone who has read horror comics for decades sees the connections right away.



As usual I was wrecking my brains for hours about which music video I should include when the answer should have been a no - brainer. Duh.



Since I don´t think I have mentioned Yvonne Craig´s anniversary on May the 16th here is Mars Needs Women which I think more people have heard of than actually seen. And don´t worry, the preview picture is raunchier than the movie. Sadly Yvonne Craig doesn´t wear anything as sexy as her Batgirl costume but there is a striptease by a talent girl. I think her name is Bubbles Cash which is a real stripper name if I have ever heard one.



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my new old comic reads

Last week I was going for a new record with three posts already in the can and a fourth one planned for Sunday. But as usual, I didn´t do the Sunday post and this week I didn´t get to post.


On Monday my brother´s room was getting new windows. And because my room is next to his, and the house is built so cheap that when you take off a part of his wall you also take off a part of my wall I had people going in and out of my room the whole day. On Tuesday my brothers decided to swap room so they had to get all of their stuff out. Which meant that my room also was full of their stuff and I spent most of the day taking my clothes out of the cupboard and into the cupboard again. Which made my carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand come back.

On Wednesday my brothers were still busy with putting their stuff in order and because some of my stuff was in what used to be the work office I had to go to the cellar a few times. I think the main reason why my brother agreed to swap rooms was because he couldn´t get me to take my stuff out of his room. I swear, he´s like Caligula, Garfield and Dr. Doom rolled into one - on acid. He always tries to get what he wants, like it says in THE PRISONER : by hook or by crook.


In any case I don´t want to bitch about my brother, that would take at least a whole series of posts. So on Wednesday I finally got my room back. On Thursday I would have had time to post but I have a business appointment. It seems I´m starting a new company. Yes, I was also surprised. I mean it´s not like I have anything to do like translating comics or writing a blog or all this other stuff. No, that doesn´t take any work. It´s done in 5 minutes. And it´s not important what I want to do anyway.

That´s all a waste of time. So we´ll see how this new company will go.

But let´s talk about comics, which is the focus of this blog now that I finally have time to write.

Lately I have been re - reading a lot of my old comics. Just the other day I read FINAL CRISIS - LEGION OF THREE WORLDS ( must have been the dozenth time ) when I came to that passage where Brainiac 5 mentions the first LEGION OF THREE WORLDS mission. Now I did a bit of research but I´m not sure if that is a part of the existing continuity. The war of Zoom against the Allen family has been documented and XS´ history coincides with the story. But I think the really original LEGION OF THREE WORLDS story hasn´t been told yet.


Someone mentioned that this story was probably what Geoff Johns originally wanted to tell but that he had to change his plans because of FINAL CRISIS. But who knows ? I also read something from a guy who was like analyzing how parallel universes really work ( in comparison to how it works in the story because we all took that course in school ) and explainig why the story doesn´t work.

And all I wanted to do was to say : hey, dude, chill out. It´s only a made up story. It´s not real. It doesn´t matter if the chances are a billion to one or that that´s not supported by scientific facts. There also are no scientific facts that say that it has to be bad weather whenever I leave the house. It just happens. Swear to god, I never understand why some people think too much.

In any case, I hope we get to read the first LEGION OF THREE WORLDS adventure eventually. Right now I´m not reading a lot of Legion stuff. Because of the 3.99 $ price on a lot of comics I missed the first issues of the new LEGION OF SUPER - HEROES book and now I have to wait for the trade.


And of course my brother is reading the Superman series that doesn´t have to Legion co - feature so I´ll also have to wait for that trade.

I think they will come out in April or June next year. So maybe I´ll find some back issues at this month´s Stuttgarter Comicbörse. But I don´t have much faith because the number of dealers who have US comics is growing smaller and smaller each time.

Another comic I re - read was ELQUEST by Wendy and Richard Pini. The thing is that I was cleaning my shelf porn ( there was a lot of dust on the books ) and started to thumb through all my old issues of ELFQUEST. At the same time there was an episode with Wendy and Richard Pini on Fanboy Radio that I listened to and I got the old comicbug again.


Now the comics were not as good as when I read them the first time. But not because the story doesn´t hold up qualitywise - it´s still above a lot of the stuff that´s published Today in that regard - but because I already knew most of the plot twists and surprise. ELFQUEST is still one of the best comics out there.

The funny thing is that I often hear comicfans complain about the fact that comics are translated into other media. Well, I have to say in my case I would never have started reading the comic if I hadn´t read the book adaption first.

Back then my main source for comic books and paperbacks was a small newsstand near the city hall in Ludwigsburg. It wasn´t a big newsstand but I had a good selection of paperbacks, pulps and comics. I bought my first issues of SCHWERMETALL


( HEAVY METAL ) and U - COMIX


( kind of a funny mag with american and franco - belgian underground material ) there and because it was near my busstation I was there at least once a day.

I bought an issue of JOHN SINCLAIR,


PROFESSOR ZAMORRA


or DIE SPINNE


every other day. So one day I saw an issue of ABENTEUER IN DER ELFENWELT but they were already at the third or fourth issue. So I wasn´t sure if it was worth it to try it. From Today´s point of view 4 Deutschmarks is nothing ( right now that´s like 2 EUROS ) but back at that time I had a pretty small budget. But there was also a book adaption published from Goldmann Verlag ( I think ) that was translated by Wolgang Hohlbein ( sorry, I couldn´t find a better picture ).


At that time he wasn´t the famous fantasy writer of CHRONICLES OF THE IMMORTALS and mostly known for writing DAMONA KING,


PROFESSOR ZAMORRA and other pulps.

I bought the adaption, I read it and I really liked it. The only problem was that at that time there were no professional comicshops and since the only issues the newsstand had were issues 3 and 5.


So I went to all newsstands, papershops or stationary shops in Ludwigsburg, Eglosheim, Neckarweihigen...wherever till I got the missing back issues. Back then being a comicfan meant a lot of legwork.

So I started reading Elquest which was published by BASTEI till issue 37.


Issue 38 was announced but they never published it. Later on CARLSEN republished some of the issues but at a much higher price. They also published some of the following stories but not all of them were drawn by Wendy Pini. It was also difficult to read them because they were rather expensive and there was a lot of short series instead one long one. The price for the BASTEI issues had gone up from 3.80 Marks to 6.80 Marks and I think the CARLSEN issues were even more expensive. I never quite got the hang of the reading order so I passed on them.

There was a series later on in the pamphlet format but I have no idea where they ended up. I don´t know if they stopped publishing them or if I just stopped buying them but I don´t think I finished them.

I used to go to the HEINZELMÄNNCHEN comicshop in Stuttgart and I always looked through the new publications there and whenever they had a new Elfquest issue out I got that. But since the shop closed I mostly just go to my comicshop in Esslingen and mostly just for picking up the stuff that´s on my pull list. Sometimes I´ll go to the Fantasy Stronghold in Ludwigsburg but that´s mostly just a lot of cardgames, Yu - Gi - Oh and Naruto. It may be that I stopped reading Elfquest when the shop in Stuttgart closed. Weird, how important a good comicshop is for your reading habits. Back when I had more comicshops to go to I read more comics outside of superheroes.


Anyway, one of these days those old issues of Elfquest will pop up and maybe I can complete my collection. I have been doing a bit of research about ELFQUEST because I thought it would be about time to start WORLD´S GREATES COMIC BOOKS. The thing that I found really unbelievable was how many people dissed the series because of some of the adult content in the stories. It´s not like it´s outright porn but obviously showing adults having sex is too much for some people. I mean, what do those people think where all the little elfes come from ?

I have to say that was one of the things I liked about the series. Since it was an independent comic Wendy and Richard Pini didn´t bother with the restrictions mainstream books have. Which wouldn´t have made any sense.


Maybe I´ll find some issues at the Stuttgarter Comicbörse but who knows ? In any case ELFQUEST is one of the comic classics that has my absolute recommendation. If you haven´t read it yet you should definitely give it a try. It´s totally Airwolf !

Speaking of who ( what an elegant segueway ) the post I wanted to do on Sunday was about DR. WHO. While being on the website of Los Comic Geekos I found a link to the 3D animated series DREAMLAND with spanish subtitles on YouTube. The animation is not half - bad and the story is really interesting.


article about DR. WHO - DREAMLAND

review of DR. WHO - DREAMLAND ( with spoilers )



Here you can watch the normal version :



There is also another animated series called The Infinity Quest which looks a bit like fanmade animation. But it´s funny to hear the actors with their original voices and it helps the wait till the next season of Dr. Who airs in Germany. Which will beprobably in 2014 if I know my german tv stations.



And with that our time for Today is once again up. I just hope all this stuff about old german comics wasn´t too boring for my german readers.

As I already have three videos from YouTube on this post I won´t add a third one so there will be no Green Lantern related clip Today. Sorry.

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