“Jenny, I’ve got to tell you… I’m an android!”
—”So what! Nobody cares about that sort of things these days!”
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I think these should be part of the daily programme (in addition to the regular out of context comics), so I’ll feature them at a new slot until the double-entendres become too far-fetched even for me.
Old ARCHIE comics are always so funny to leaf through. You’re zapped right back in time. Ads for the Farrah Fawcett Fan Club. The stars are Starsky and Hutch, Lynda Carter, Rocky. Long-forgotten candy bars. The lingo and the fashion, the music. But also the innocence, or rather the sincerity—irony can be pretty tiresome in a time where even the phrase ‘jumped the shark’ has jumped the shark.
Some comic panels by the King of Span, Roy Crane (1901-1977). Crane was the artist behind the popular comics, Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer.
“FOOD! I must have FOOD!”
“…He could rend the fabric of existence! All humanity could perish in a final spasm of hideous insanity!”
“My POWER can do anything…
…except find me a FRIEND!”
“Ha! It’s three o’clock – and, according to the curse, I’m to be killed by a gun! Ridiculous!”
“The Mars you are seeing now is the REAL Mars! The dead, barren planet we permit the rest of the universe to see is – a FALSE FACE! 1000 years ago, an invading fleet from outer space attacked the planet…”
“Is he dead?”
—“Smell him!”
“Will you do me a favor?”
—“I doubt it.”