Last Sunday, True Blood closed out another bug-fuck crazy season. Fans are forced to wait until next year to find out what's next for Sookie, Bill, Eric and company.
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Any comic that bills itself as featuring the “nuttiest prisoner of war camp ever” is a must-have book in anyone's collection.
Add the unsavory details surrounding the life and death of star Bob Crane, and Hogan's Heroes gets creepier and creepier in hindsight.
Legend has it that Shaolin monks meditate on this concept to clear their minds.
Raise your hand if you've heard of this 1960s TV show starring Anne Francis.
Put your hand down if you heard about it because it was referenced in a throwaway line in Reservoir Dogs.
Now raise your hand if you know why comic book publisher Moonstone is putting out a Honey West series in 2010.
Secret childhood confession: I would try to copy Patrick Duffy's weird dolphin swim in the bathtub when I was a kid.
It wasn't pretty.
The pop culture gods have a perverse sense of justice sometimes.
First, they allow a quirky show like Sledge Hammer! to air for two seasons. But they don't stop there.
Then they have Marvel create a series based on the show. And to top it off, they have Spider-Man guest star in an issue. All that work almost makes up for that Hogan's Heroes bullshit. Almost.
Honestly, there's nothing that unusual about comic book adaptations of popular TV Westerns.
And The Rifleman, one of the most popular in its day, wasn't very controversial. So why is it on the list? Because it gives me the chance to run one of comic-dom's most inappropriate covers of all time.
Enjoy!
- Love and Rockets: New Stories vol. 3 Do you really need a reason to pick up new work by Jaime and Beto Hernandez? If you do, you have no soul.
- Prison Pit Book 2 Johnny Ryan might not have invented the term “ultraviolence,” but he certainly has made it his own. His comics are rude, over-the-top, hilarious and thoroughly entertaining.
