Well I mentioned last time that, “Our next installment would be a Bummer”… I just hope that it’s not too much of a bummer, when I tell you all that I need to change the regularity of posting. The thing is, I’ve just been running through my built up backlog of pages too quickly while creating new ones far too slowly to keep up! So for the time being, we’ll try posting a new story page on Mondays and a new Pin-Up or other pix on Thursdays and see how that works…
For our first Pin-up, we share a pose of Bunz, having some “Me Time” while brushing up on her tactics of Galactic Conquest… Let’s hope her study time does some good, as the strip has been a little lean on Rock’em Sock’em Action so far… Perhaps she should instead be reading some old Jack Kirby type comics to learn how invading aliens are expected to behave…
Gee, who’d a’ thunk that a ruthless, bloodthirsty, planet-smashing li’l alien invader would paint her toenails pink? Me childish illusions are crushed… (Along with the rest of me, I suppose, if I were to comment on it within her hearing)…
A bus tour of NORAD might be interesting. Then again Jack Web had an entertaining movie about a certain Air Force base in California, that was a critical part of our defenses back in the days. And she might have the means to get into Area 51, and check out the space gear that we don’t admit to having, or mach 7 jet planes that are only dreamed about. That sort of thing. And as I recall, in another life, the Silver Surfer was a sort of philosopher/poet — she might take that as a challenge to live up to.
Y’know… we’re more likely to see Bunz dressed as Long John Silver with a Parrot on her shoulder, than we are for her to pull on chrome long johns with a Harvey Lembeck model Boogie Board, to go shill for some overfed alien creep who wants to nosh on New York! I mean, what were Lee and Kirby thinking? They must’ve been badly hung over from a long weekend of hittin’ the cough sirup, when they came up with that one!
Lee and Kerby were thinking about a super being that had the power of an empire in his own hands — much like the nega-fleet. How many whales think much about the fate of minnows in their path? If the nega-fleet repairs itself eventually, but Bunz and Katz make friends on this lowly planet in the mean time, they too would be tempted to argue the case of the minnows. Argue the case at considerable risk I might add. Which was Lee and Kerby’s point.
Not to disparage Lee & Kirby – I have a tremendous amount of respect for them – Especially Jack Kirby! Still, when one is knockin’ out an awful lot of work, not all of it is necessarily “Great”… To myself, a character like the Surfer was silly and pretentiously self important… I just have a hard time taking this character seriously! Perhaps if he hadn’t been a goofy chrome guy on a surfboard, it might’ve helped…
In any case, B&K aren’t about to do a reprise of any of that! In no way are they going to become “Defenders of Earth” – That just wouldn’t be any fun!!
As far as we have seen, the nega-fleet, seems mainly to be composed of machines following really old programs, and perhaps a few humanoids like Bunz. Presumably the empire that sent them has plenty of humanoids as well — but does anyone listen to them?
Considering the Iapetus battle station is just a decayed relic of a war that took place millions of years ago, it’s not too likely the empire that built it even exists anymore… so the Nega-Fleet might be (ahem) “indefinitely delayed for necessary maintenance” (with all necessary parts on back-order)…
Well… Can’t really say all that much about the Nega Fleet or Iapetus without giving away future plots… I can say that the Aliens had valid reasons (though not necessarily ones that we’d agree with) for doing what they’ve done in the past… While at present, due to massive unprepared battle damage, things have gotten a little skewed…
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Well I mentioned last time that, “Our next installment would be a Bummer”… I just hope that it’s not too much of a bummer, when I tell you all that I need to change the regularity of posting. The thing is, I’ve just been running through my built up backlog of pages too quickly while creating new ones far too slowly to keep up! So for the time being, we’ll try posting a new story page on Mondays and a new Pin-Up or other pix on Thursdays and see how that works…
For our first Pin-up, we share a pose of Bunz, having some “Me Time” while brushing up on her tactics of Galactic Conquest… Let’s hope her study time does some good, as the strip has been a little lean on Rock’em Sock’em Action so far… Perhaps she should instead be reading some old Jack Kirby type comics to learn how invading aliens are expected to behave…
Gee, who’d a’ thunk that a ruthless, bloodthirsty, planet-smashing li’l alien invader would paint her toenails pink? Me childish illusions are crushed… (Along with the rest of me, I suppose, if I were to comment on it within her hearing)…
I don’t know about “bummer”, but at least we get a nice view of her BUM!
A bus tour of NORAD might be interesting. Then again Jack Web had an entertaining movie about a certain Air Force base in California, that was a critical part of our defenses back in the days. And she might have the means to get into Area 51, and check out the space gear that we don’t admit to having, or mach 7 jet planes that are only dreamed about. That sort of thing. And as I recall, in another life, the Silver Surfer was a sort of philosopher/poet — she might take that as a challenge to live up to.
Y’know… we’re more likely to see Bunz dressed as Long John Silver with a Parrot on her shoulder, than we are for her to pull on chrome long johns with a Harvey Lembeck model Boogie Board, to go shill for some overfed alien creep who wants to nosh on New York! I mean, what were Lee and Kirby thinking? They must’ve been badly hung over from a long weekend of hittin’ the cough sirup, when they came up with that one!
Lee and Kerby were thinking about a super being that had the power of an empire in his own hands — much like the nega-fleet. How many whales think much about the fate of minnows in their path? If the nega-fleet repairs itself eventually, but Bunz and Katz make friends on this lowly planet in the mean time, they too would be tempted to argue the case of the minnows. Argue the case at considerable risk I might add. Which was Lee and Kerby’s point.
Not to disparage Lee & Kirby – I have a tremendous amount of respect for them – Especially Jack Kirby! Still, when one is knockin’ out an awful lot of work, not all of it is necessarily “Great”… To myself, a character like the Surfer was silly and pretentiously self important… I just have a hard time taking this character seriously! Perhaps if he hadn’t been a goofy chrome guy on a surfboard, it might’ve helped…
In any case, B&K aren’t about to do a reprise of any of that! In no way are they going to become “Defenders of Earth” – That just wouldn’t be any fun!!
As far as we have seen, the nega-fleet, seems mainly to be composed of machines following really old programs, and perhaps a few humanoids like Bunz. Presumably the empire that sent them has plenty of humanoids as well — but does anyone listen to them?
Considering the Iapetus battle station is just a decayed relic of a war that took place millions of years ago, it’s not too likely the empire that built it even exists anymore… so the Nega-Fleet might be (ahem) “indefinitely delayed for necessary maintenance” (with all necessary parts on back-order)…
Well… Can’t really say all that much about the Nega Fleet or Iapetus without giving away future plots… I can say that the Aliens had valid reasons (though not necessarily ones that we’d agree with) for doing what they’ve done in the past… While at present, due to massive unprepared battle damage, things have gotten a little skewed…