Who ya gonna call?
From Marvel Treasury Edition #12 (1976)
Showing posts with label Howard The Duck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard The Duck. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
This Had Better Be The Plot To Doctor Strange 2!!
So, Doc Strange has been knocked out.
Who ya gonna call?
Howard The Duck!!
Howard does well enough with Strange's astral/telepathic guidance...
But when Doc's help is cut off, and he comes up against a "real" sorcerer?
Fists work just as well!!
From Marvel Treasury Edition #12 (1976)
Who ya gonna call?
From Marvel Treasury Edition #12 (1976)
Friday, October 14, 2016
Friday Night Fights--Master of Quack Fu Style!!
During this bout of Friday Night Fights, we're required to have a fight wherein characters are kicking each other during the fight.
So, I've been sitting on this one for awhile, but it feels like the right time to break it out:
Yeah, I'm going Howard The Duck on y'all.
A renegade student of kung fu teacher Master C'haaj has been terrorizing Cleveland, so Howard gets lessons from the guru...
And so...
Well, it's time for the confrontation with Count Macho and his kung fu thugs:
Woo hoo!!
Ouch, babe!!
Spacebooger wonders when Steve Gerber will his his posthumous Nobel Prize for Literature for Howard The Duck...
Maximum martial arts from Howard The Duck #3 (1976), by Steve Gerber, John Buscema and Steve Leialoha (the cover of the issue is by Rich Buckler and Leialoha)
Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Quack Fu, dammit--quack fu. Now go and vote!!
So, I've been sitting on this one for awhile, but it feels like the right time to break it out:
A renegade student of kung fu teacher Master C'haaj has been terrorizing Cleveland, so Howard gets lessons from the guru...
Spacebooger wonders when Steve Gerber will his his posthumous Nobel Prize for Literature for Howard The Duck...
Maximum martial arts from Howard The Duck #3 (1976), by Steve Gerber, John Buscema and Steve Leialoha (the cover of the issue is by Rich Buckler and Leialoha)
Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Quack Fu, dammit--quack fu. Now go and vote!!
Thursday, October 1, 2015
The List--It Is Not So Short...
Howard is confused by some transdimensional shenanigans, especially when he keeps finding dead versions of himself...
...sigh...
From S.H.I.E.L.D. #10 (2015)
From S.H.I.E.L.D. #10 (2015)
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Howard The Duck (Magazine) #5 (1980)
Since it was on Howard's black & white magazine, it's probably true that most people haven't since this...
Cover collage by Larry Fredericks
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Bold Fashion Choices--Ghost Rider Struts His Stuff!!
Oh, the 1990s at Marvel under Bob Harras. Will you never stop hating us?
Apparently, the Marvel brain trust decided that their desperate Image aping hadn't gone quite far enough.
And Ghost Rider's boring black leathers? Too tame, not extreeeeeeme enough.
And so, in Ghost Rider #79 (1996):
Maybe, just maybe, Jim Lee gets too much blame for the nu52 costume redesigns, given Harras' presence...
By the way, this was just a couple of issues before Ghost Rider teamed up with Howard The Duck to fight Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy.
No, I'm not making that up.
See?
Oh, 90s, is there no limit to your crimes?
Apparently, the Marvel brain trust decided that their desperate Image aping hadn't gone quite far enough.
And Ghost Rider's boring black leathers? Too tame, not extreeeeeeme enough.
And so, in Ghost Rider #79 (1996):
AAAAIEEEE!! MY EYES!!!!
Maybe, just maybe, Jim Lee gets too much blame for the nu52 costume redesigns, given Harras' presence...
By the way, this was just a couple of issues before Ghost Rider teamed up with Howard The Duck to fight Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy.
No, I'm not making that up.
Oh, 90s, is there no limit to your crimes?
Friday, March 16, 2012
Friday Night Fights--Dreaded Deadline Doom Style!!
Well, this Friday Night Fight is going to take some explainin'.
You see, back in 1977, Steve Gerber found himself running way behind on a lot of things. So far behind, that he didn't get the synopsis for Howard The Duck #16 (1977) to Gene Colan in time for the issue to finished by deadline.
And back then, Marvel did NOT miss ship dates. EVER. If the creators didn't have the book done in time, there was no delay, no slippage on the dates--they just put in a reprint and sent that puppy to the printers.
So, it looked as if Howard #16 was going to be a rerun. Until, at the eleventh hour, Gerber had the "inspiration." Instead of a lousy stinking rerun, he would craft a book length essay--yes, an essay. As Gerber described it, "all about the relationship between a boy and his Duck. And comics in general. And living at the precipice, playing the Balance Game over the cosmic chasm filled with lime jello."
Yeah, it sounds crazy, but in his defense, he had just finished having KISS fight Doctor Doom, so a lot of odd things make sense once you've done that.
Somehow, Marvel went along with this, and Gerber managed to get a bunch of Bullpenners to produce, with zero time to spare, a series of double-page spreads, over which appeared Gerber's typewritten--typewritten!!--essay/conversation with his character/stream of consciousness/critique of the medium/public display of a mental breakdown. He included, at the end, a faux letter to the editor from himself, criticizing the issue.
It was, unquestionably, the oddest comic book ever published by the Big Two up to that point, and pretty darned controversial. And little 13 year old snell had his mind completely blown. Which explains an awful lot about me today.
But back to our Friday Night raison d'etre. Chock in the middle of this, this, this thing that was Howard The Duck #16, was this:
Yes, really.
And how did this fight end up?
And there's your fight!
FYI, here's what the entire page looked like:
Poor Spacebooger is pulling his hair out trying to figure out how to describe this fight on the ballot this week...
Steve Gerber and Tom Palmer presented this CLASH OF THE TITANS, this BRAIN-BLASTING BATTLE SCENE of an ostrich and a Las Vegas Chorus girl against a killer lampshade. In case you were wondering who was responsible for my turning out the way I am.
So, now has come the time for you to go and vote for this fight. Why mine? Well, I can fairly safely assert that no one else has a fight quite like this one this week (or any week, for that matter). So vote.
You see, back in 1977, Steve Gerber found himself running way behind on a lot of things. So far behind, that he didn't get the synopsis for Howard The Duck #16 (1977) to Gene Colan in time for the issue to finished by deadline.
And back then, Marvel did NOT miss ship dates. EVER. If the creators didn't have the book done in time, there was no delay, no slippage on the dates--they just put in a reprint and sent that puppy to the printers.
So, it looked as if Howard #16 was going to be a rerun. Until, at the eleventh hour, Gerber had the "inspiration." Instead of a lousy stinking rerun, he would craft a book length essay--yes, an essay. As Gerber described it, "all about the relationship between a boy and his Duck. And comics in general. And living at the precipice, playing the Balance Game over the cosmic chasm filled with lime jello."
Yeah, it sounds crazy, but in his defense, he had just finished having KISS fight Doctor Doom, so a lot of odd things make sense once you've done that.
Somehow, Marvel went along with this, and Gerber managed to get a bunch of Bullpenners to produce, with zero time to spare, a series of double-page spreads, over which appeared Gerber's typewritten--typewritten!!--essay/conversation with his character/stream of consciousness/critique of the medium/public display of a mental breakdown. He included, at the end, a faux letter to the editor from himself, criticizing the issue.
It was, unquestionably, the oddest comic book ever published by the Big Two up to that point, and pretty darned controversial. And little 13 year old snell had his mind completely blown. Which explains an awful lot about me today.
But back to our Friday Night raison d'etre. Chock in the middle of this, this, this thing that was Howard The Duck #16, was this:
And how did this fight end up?
FYI, here's what the entire page looked like:
Steve Gerber and Tom Palmer presented this CLASH OF THE TITANS, this BRAIN-BLASTING BATTLE SCENE of an ostrich and a Las Vegas Chorus girl against a killer lampshade. In case you were wondering who was responsible for my turning out the way I am.
So, now has come the time for you to go and vote for this fight. Why mine? Well, I can fairly safely assert that no one else has a fight quite like this one this week (or any week, for that matter). So vote.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Manic Monday--This Really Happened Pt 3!!
THIS REALLY HAPPENED:
From Marvel Treasury Edition #12 (1976)
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