Heroines

Star Wars Episode 8 The Last Jedi / Episode 7 The Force Awakens / Forces of Destiny / Star Tours: the Adventure Continues as Maz Kanata
The Jungle Book (2016) as Raksha

Danai Jekesai Gurira
Okoye

Avengers: Infinity War as Okoye
The Walking Dead / Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special as Michonne
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast as Fury

Letitia Michelle Wright
Shuri

Ready Player One as Reb
Avengers: Infinity War as Shuri
Black Mirror "Black Museum" as Nish
Doctor Who "Face the Raven" as Anahson
Humans as Renie
My Brother, the Devil as Aisha

Friday, February 2, 2018

TRAGG AND THE SKY GODS "Race Against Death"

Remember Lorn, the heroine of our previous Tragg and the Sky Gods post?

Here's a tale spotlighting her created before that one, but published long after it!

Though this tale was packed into the back of the otherwise-reprint final issue of Gold Key's Tragg and the Sky Gods (#9 in 1982)...it was probably meant for a back-up tale in #1 or #2 back in 1976.

...it was probably meant for a back-up tale in #1 (or #2) back in 1976.

You'll note the cover for #9 (above), which re-does the art for #1, makes no mention of the new back-up story!

The story is by the original artist/co-creator, Jesse Santos, who left the book (except for covers) as of #3 due to scheduling problems.

In addition, both Tragg and Lorn are dressed in garb they only wore in the Santos-illustrated #1!

Why had it not been used up to this point?

I suspect the editors felt Lorn was too aggressive, even during the heydey of Womens' Lib, but since #9 was the last issue, and the Gold Key line was shutting down, it would be the last chance to recover the money already paid for the story!

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Saturday, January 6, 2018

TRAGG AND THE SKY GODS "Death-Duel" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...in our distant past, aliens from Yargon manipulated the DNA of two cavewomen!

Their children, Tragg and Lorn, were the first homo sapiens.

After observing the successful results of their experiments, the Yargonians left.

Two decades later after a bloody revolution on their world, other Yargonians, far less benevolent, landed on Earth.

The now-grown Tragg and Lorn seek to organize resistance to the aliens, whom the cave dwellers consider "gods" due to their technology and appearance!

But one of the aliens, Keera, lusts after Tragg and seeks to slay his beloved Lorn...

Up to this never-reprinted story by writer Don Glut and illustrator Dan Spiegle from Gold Key's Tragg and the Sky Gods #6 (1976), Lorn had been a fairly-passive character, following Tragg around and occasionally acting as a decoy or distraction when he battled aliens, dinosaurs, and other, less evolved cavemen.

This issue presents her in a far more aggressive light as she battles for her life in hand-to-hand combat against the alien who also desires her man!

In what can best be described as an "interstellar soap opera", the ongoing Keera/Tragg/Lorn triangle continued for the remainder of the series' run, adding a human interest side to this variation of the then-phenomenally popular Chariots of the Gods concept!

As to how this series features dinosaurs hanging around with the cavemen (and aliens), this one-pager explains the matter...

If you'd like to see earlier adventures of Lorn and Tragg...click HERE!

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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

IT RHYMES WITH LUST! "Chapter 5: CounterPlot!" Part 2

Sometimes it's the woman behind the man...

...who's the real heroine of the story!
Rust Masson secretly runs Copper City's government and it's underworld!
Her ex-lover, newspaperman Hal Webber, runs the Express, also secretly-owned by Rust and used as a propaganda tool.
But Hal has fallen for Rust's step-daughter Audrey, who's convinced Hal to expose her step-mother (though Audrey doesn't know it yet)!

Now the excrement has hit the rotating blades!

Will Hal, with Audrey at his side, stop Rust's plans?

To be continued in...

NOT SAFE FOR WORK COMICS!

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Friday, June 2, 2017

WONDER WOMAN "Fight to the Death!"

When Last We Left Our Heroines...

Art by Carmine Infantino, Irv Novick, and Mike Esposito

The cover pretty much says it all.
Prepare for a classic Silver Age catfight!

Grok has never appeared again, not even in the many reboots that have occurred since Crisis on Infinite Earths...
Written by Bill Finger, penciled by Win Mortimer, and inked by Jack Abel, this tale has never been reprinted in color since it's first appearance in DC's Wonder Woman #177 (1969).
You may wonder about the tag line..."Turn the page for the real END!"
This is the page...

Art by Mike Sekowsky and Dick Giordano

...and the series was about to do the wildest reboot any comic had ever done up to that point!
My buddy, Rip Jagger, can fill you in on that fascinating story, starting HERE!

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Thursday, June 1, 2017

WONDER WOMAN "Captive Queens"

We Have Already Seen...

Interplanetary conqueror Klamos wants a super-powered bride!

His troops have been sent to every corner of the universe to round up worthy candidates!

Having captured a de-powered Supergirl by temporarily making Earth's sun red instead of yellow, they now make their move on Wonder Woman...

"...such loyal friends?"

Except for a previous Brave & Bold tale (where they were hardly the best of friends), the two of them never met!
Either way, the mayhem concludes tomorrow!
Don't miss it!
This Bill Finger-scripted, Win Mortimer-penciled, and Jack Abel-inked tale, was totally-different from any of the previously-published Wonder Woman stories!
Not surprising, since none of the creatives had worked on her tales before!
Ironically, this story apparently served as a try-out for Mortimer and Abel, who became regular artists (along with already-established illustrator Kurt Schaffenberger) on Supergirl's two tales per issue in Adventure Comics in 1969!

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(which concludes with the story we're re-presenting...but in black and white!)