And Now On With the Show…

After I posted yesterday’s gag about a strip club with parody lyrics (“There’s No Business Like Bare-ly Show Business”), I received an e-mail from my pal cartoonist Kevin Boze who came up with some great lyrics of his own. With his permission, here they are:

MEN’S CHORUS:
The bouncers, the colored lights, the panties, the tops
The audience that stares at you and sighs

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops (NOTE:  This was just too good a line to change)
The feeling when you make their winkies rise

MEN’S CHORUS:
Excitement when the tipping comes apace

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The downer when your stripper shoes unlace

ALLS:
There’s no business like ho business
Like no business I know

MEN’S CHORUS:
Every man looks on that stage adoring

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
Sweating but you’re trying to stay cool

MEN’S CHORUS:
No where could you dance and keep on whoring

ALL:
While you’re ignoring that four-foot rule
They’re hip people, those strip people
They’re swinging on the pole

MEN’S CHORUS:
Yesterday you barely could fill out some B’s

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
That night you really wanted to tease

MEN’S CHORUS:
Next day you are showing off your double-D’s

ALL:
Let’s go on with the show
Let’s go on with the show

A “new” story by Carl Barks & John Lustig!


(Click above to enlarge. Rough, preview lettering. Art by Daan Jippes. ©Walt Disney Company)

In February, Boom! Studios is publishing a totally new version of a Carl Barks’ plotted story. The story has a new title “Somewhere BEYOND Nowhere”; a new script (by me); and art by the great Daan Jippes. It’s 12 pages long.

Why did I want to do a new version–especially since I scripted the original 2000 version? Well, that’s a bit of a story in itself…
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