A Humpday Present For My Loyal Readers

It's Wednesday, it's already been a freakin' long week, everyone is yearning for the long holiday weekend...so, I figured...

...that everyone needed to see Janet Van Dyne attacked by a giant red-and-black-striped bull, as drawn by Amanda Conner. (click on the pic to embiggen to full Connerrificness)

Oh, yeah, the bull is really a giant Inhuman with a magic shape-shifting jewel that lets him turn into a giant red-and-black-striped version of any old animal. And he's attacking Wasp at a fashion show for petite women because he thinks that tiny humans have stolen the world away from giants.

Really. Hey, cut me a break, I didn't say it was a brilliantly written story...

Anyway, the Wasp and Dakota North (!) whoop him and turn him over to Reed Richards, so the world is safe for "the tyranny of the tiny."

Really.

Man, Friday can't come fast enough...

From Marvel Super-Heroes #3 (1990)

Tales From The Quarter Bin--Wanna See Kelley Jones Draw An Archie Cover?

OK, OK, it's not a cover of Archie per se, but from the "Archie Adventure Series."

The Adventures Of Bayou Billy was an adaptation of a Konami video game, and this issue was the last of the run. Billy was a kick-ass Cajun(?) bounty hunter with a mysterious past and a hot girlfriend, and he spent his time mostly fighting evil New Orleans crime boss Godfather Gordon (who bore an unmistakable resemblance to Boss Hawg).

That dude in the ninja suit is Black Gator, evil former student of Billy's mentor, Papa Jambo, and the story plays very much like this week's episode of Human Target, except there's also this Bayou Billy impersonator running around, and...oh, it's all pretty silly. But the interior artwork is by Amanda Conner!!

And allow me to repeat--Kelley Jones cover on an Archie book:

Thank you, Quarter Bin!!

Bayou Billy faces Batman Black Gator in The Adventures Of Bayou Billy #5 (1990).