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And Now For Something Completely Different.

24 Sep

September 25, 2022

It’s-

GENE GENE THE DANCING MACHINE!

Yes my friends, it is the return of Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, who has graced this blog four times over the years whenever I had no idea what else to post. But give ol’ Mr. Blog a break- this is the first time since 2017 I’ve posted this, so a whole generation of readers, maybe as many as six of you, are seeing this for the first time. Anyone who saw this before unsubscribed years ago, so odds are, it is new to you! (And yes, Aunt Edwina, despite your court orders, you are still subscribed. I will take you off this mailing list when you send me more heat down in the basement.)

But fear not, Loyal Reader, I have not forgotten you. How can I? My one and only Loyal Reader, inmate #47605, sends me the most delightfully threatening letters. Hoo boy, I hope the parole board keeps you locked up for life. But for the sake of the random off-chance that someone stumbles across this blog and has seen this clip before, I present to you something new!

A framed picture of Sorrell Booke from the Swan Song episode of Columbo.

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Great Moments In Comic Book History: Darkhawk #27 (Marvel, May 1993)

16 Aug

August 16, 2021

With Marvel relaunching 90’s hero Darkhawk, I thought it was a good opportunity to revisit an issue of his first series, from 1993.

Darkhawk issue 27 is a team-up with the New Warriors, themselves a team created in the boom-era 1990’s. This is the second part of a storyline called Shattered Fates, in which Zarrko, a bald, paunchy time-traveling villain who is inexplicably dressed in the same green jumpsuit Dr. Octopus wears, has offered the heroes to go back in time and fix some wrong of their choosing in exchange for helping him in some vague plan of his to save the future.

Zarrko is a time traveler, much like Kang the Conqueror (who also wears green. Hmmm…) He is attended by his fearsome thug, Servitor. How fearsome is he? Check this out.

That slice of pizza never stood a chance.

What better way to show your power, your awesome might, to intimidate your opponents and forestall all defiance than to vaporize a slice of cold pizza that has displeased your master?

This is why Kang is the baddie of the next wave of the MCU and not Zarrko.

Darkhawk 27 was written by Danny Fingeroth, penciled by Tod Smith, inked by Chris Ivy, colored by Troy Sayers, and lettered by Bill Oakley. Pizza by Original Rays Pizza.

And as a side note, look how awed the heroes are in the last panel. I bet The Avengers would not have been one bit impressed.

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