Monster of the Day

Man, if the movie had been half as good as the monster suit...

Well, this was kind of obvious.

More, please.

OK, intellectually, this is terrifying. Think how bad a regular-sized pissed off house cat is. It's not a bear or anything, but you wouldn't chose to tangle with it. More to the point, think of the cat in Incredible Shrinking Man. This would be bad news. Still...even if this isn't inherently farcical, like giant…

Seriously, that's just gorgeous. And I'm actually saving my favorite covers for the next time I do a Kona week. Notice again the huddlers up on the ledge. Screw those guys. Still, there's no doubt Kona is a badass. I mean, damn.

Ah, that's the stuff. This is the preferred format for the covers, as far as I can tell; modern folks huddling in the background whilst the neanderthal Kona deals with things. "Don't worry," we imagine him shouting in resigned exasperation. "I got this! You guys just cool your heels over there, maybe have a…

It's not even just Dell covers. I could do about two straight weeks of Kona covers alone. This is one of the less awesome ones, and it features the book's cast being hauled off by La Carcagne.

Dell Comics back in the '60s had an interesting strategy. They turned out not very good comics, but hired really good artists to paint their covers, guys like George Wilson and Morris Gollub. The interior art, meanwhile, generally was bad to decent at best, but by the time you saw that you'd already been…

700! Who knew?

You know, some day I've got to watch some of these shows.