And while I'm on the subject
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dreamer_easyI tracked down two more comix from my adolescence: Kamandi 57 and Ghost Rider 74.
Kamandi: The Last Boy On Earth! issue 57 was originally published in June 1978. When the Orman family paid a visit to France in 1982, we picked up a copy of the translation. My French was barely adequate for ordering breakfast, let alone making sense of the complex post-apocalyptic goings-on. Reading it in English, I have to admit, has left me little the wiser. Here's a sample:
Ghost Rider 74 (November 1982) features a ripping story about a haunted house and a guy inexplicably called Centurious (could be worse, could be "Crabby"), who has no soul, so pinches other peoples'. It has the most awesome dialogue, much of which I could still remember. Ace reporter Cynthia Randolph: "It's as if some incredible shock has driven him deep down into himself -- and he's never coming out!" (The explanation? "the Ghost Rider went and French-fried his soul!")
The Ghost Rider chases Centurious around the haunted house on his bike, but the baddie grabs Johnny Blaze's pal "Red" Fowler, and threatens to pull off his arms and legs (for starters). This leads to the single greatest piece of comic book dialogue ever:
I mean, how cool is that?! "In the bowels of Hades, or on this peccant world of man -- the Ghost Rider's only friend is -- VENGEANCE!"
Kamandi: The Last Boy On Earth! issue 57 was originally published in June 1978. When the Orman family paid a visit to France in 1982, we picked up a copy of the translation. My French was barely adequate for ordering breakfast, let alone making sense of the complex post-apocalyptic goings-on. Reading it in English, I have to admit, has left me little the wiser. Here's a sample:
Ghost Rider 74 (November 1982) features a ripping story about a haunted house and a guy inexplicably called Centurious (could be worse, could be "Crabby"), who has no soul, so pinches other peoples'. It has the most awesome dialogue, much of which I could still remember. Ace reporter Cynthia Randolph: "It's as if some incredible shock has driven him deep down into himself -- and he's never coming out!" (The explanation? "the Ghost Rider went and French-fried his soul!")
The Ghost Rider chases Centurious around the haunted house on his bike, but the baddie grabs Johnny Blaze's pal "Red" Fowler, and threatens to pull off his arms and legs (for starters). This leads to the single greatest piece of comic book dialogue ever:
I mean, how cool is that?! "In the bowels of Hades, or on this peccant world of man -- the Ghost Rider's only friend is -- VENGEANCE!"
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Date: 2008-05-02 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-02 05:13 pm (UTC)I never read Kamandi. Looks like that was a good call.
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Date: 2008-05-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(Erm... I left a reply in your 'can be arsed' post from a few days back. I was going to post it in my own LJ but I realised that you were the person whose thoughts I wanted on it, if you don't mind? Plzkthnx.)
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Date: 2008-05-02 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-02 11:55 pm (UTC)He needs to put some clothes on, though. People will talk.
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Date: 2008-05-03 12:04 am (UTC)Didn't Jack Kirby do the art for that series? There's a book coming out about him.
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Date: 2008-05-03 01:35 am (UTC)The issue I have ends with Kamandi being trapped in a black and white movie. (At least he has some clothes on.) The hell?