by John | May 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
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“I met Dick [Giordano] for the first time when I was 15. I was convinced I was ready to work for him at Charlton. Needless to say, he threw me out of his office — not unkindly, but firmly — leaving me with a single remark. To paraphrase, ‘Your work is too timid — be brave.’
“Dick has no memory of this meeting, and hey, why should he? But a day doesn’t go by that, as I sit at my drawing table, I don’t recall that remark and try a little harder to be a little braver.
“Like an awful lot of my peers, I owe Dick Giordano a huge debt — both for the professional advice and direction he gave freely and with love — but more importantly, for the example he set…The guy’s a prince for God’s sake.”
–Howard Chaykin, January 2003
from Michael Eury’s Dick Giordano: Changing Comics, One Day at a Time
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↓ TranscriptPANEL 1, SCENE: Mitzi Muffet is standing next to the hospital bed of her now-dead husband. She's deliriously happy and is putting on a Mickey Mouse hat as the priest/minister stands with his back to us as the foot of the bed.
PRIEST/MINISTER: Then I pronounce you corpse and wife!
MUFFET: Fantasy land here I come!
PANEL 2, SCENE: Cut to a scene of Mitzi waking up from her dream--looking at her nearby laptop as she gets out of bed.
CAPTION: "It was a wonderful dream! And, when I checked my computer the next morning, I knew it was coming true!"
MUFFET: Oooh! I've got a date tonight! Gosh, only 12 hours to get ready! I hope I'm not going to be...
by John | May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
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I’m busy packing for this weekend’s Spokane Comicon so I’ll go light on the text and give you a visual treat instead. Dick’s superhero work is well known to fans, but here’s something you don’t see every day. These scans are from some romance covers that Dick loaned to me years ago. Click on the covers to see larger versions.
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↓ TranscriptPANEL 1 - SCENE: Mitzi Muffet is dressed as a bride and is leaning close to an old man in a hospital bed.
OLD MAN: I...Gasp! Urk!
MUFFET: Come on, Honey! Don't Mumble! Say it!
PANEL 2 - SCENE: Old man gasps out his last breath. Muffet is overjoyed.
MAN: I...Doooo! Glugg!
MUFFET: Yippidee doo-dah! Weddd bliss at last!
LIFE SUPPORT MONITOR: SKE-E-E-E SKE-E-E-E
by John | Apr 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But when I do, I don’t follow through
Cause my heart belongs to Daddy
–Cole Porter, from “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A man and a woman look out at a beautiful lake. There are mountains in the distance.
MAN: Someday I'll inherit Dad's Fortune! Marry me and all this will be yours!
WOMAN: Gosh! Couldn't I just marry your dad and have it now?
by John | Oct 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m not a big fan of bigamy, but I am a huge fan of HBO’s Big Love. The show’s about Bill Henrickson and his wife Barbara…and his wife Nicolette…and his wife Margene…and their assorted kids. They’re the nice polygamists.
Most of their relatives are the trashy, evil, crazy cult-member polygamists. The kind that’ll throw a snake in your bed if you disagree with them. The kind that claim everything they do–no matter how horrible–is divinely inspired. The kind that are so bad that they’d get booted off reality TV.
Throw in a few power struggles, death threats and lots of Viagra and you’ve got must-watch TV–at least in my household.
I started watching Big Love during the first season and Shelagh would drift by, watch a couple of minutes and then leave the room, muttering “It’s so complicated!” Then she’d drift back in later, mutter and leave again.
By the third episode she was watching more and muttering less. By the fourth she was totally hooked. So, yeah, lots of love for Big Love in our house.
↓ TranscriptWOMAN (thinking with eyes shut): I'm not asking for perfection! Please...just let him be single...or at least a bigamist!
by John | Jul 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Man and woman in car. The man looks incredulous as the woman says...
WOMAN: So I forgot to get divorced between a few of my marriages! Can’t we talk about it later…after our honeymoon?
