Monster of the Day

No surprise here, as it has been mentioned a couple of times this week. The secret to good spoofing is be precise. Really know your subject, and get the little details right. And don't exaggerate TOO much. This just about perfect, although I'm sure the uninitiated would consider this way too silly. But really,…

Just as goofy as Blaisdell's, but it lacks his magic. The man was just an artist.

Oh, Paul Blaisdell, how I love thee.

Neat.

Hmm, I've got to wrap up my long unfinished (or un-finn-ished...see what I did there?) review of this someday.

  Tales to Astonish continued doing monster stories for a while, until it went superhero and became the home of Ant-Man's adventures. There's some great Kirby monsters there, but sadly they started forgoing the purple dialogue balloons we've been so entertained by this week. Then I remembered this obscure comic.

"Mr. Lee, Toho Studios on line one..."

Water monsters, I just love 'em.

  I saw Guardians of the Galaxy--which is a fantastic, joyful film--over the weekend. While I long ago featured Groot's first comic book appearance as a beastie in one of Jack Kirby's monster books from the '60s, I'll  stick with that theme. After all, any one of these guys could be international movie stars…

Then there was the time this happened....