What is that...stuff all over "Crank?"
BeaucoupKevin | Email | Homepage | 12.12.05 - 11:23 am | #

Is that Power Pachyderms? Or, as I remember it was originally solicited in a Marvel Age Annual, Grown-Up Thermonuclear Samurai Elephants?

Wow, do I wish I didn't remember that.
Bill Doughty | Email | Homepage | 12.12.05 - 1:20 pm | #

Mike - somehow, I can see anyone putting their "grubby paws" anywhere near you...but that may be just me.
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 12.12.05 - 4:06 pm | #

Actually, that should be "I can't see anyone"....I need to work on my proofreading skills, don't I?
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 12.12.05 - 4:07 pm | #

Didn't some comics magazine once compile a list of TMNT rip-offs, knock-offs, clones, wannabes and "homages" and "parodies" during the height of the silliness and managed to fill a whole page with two or three columns of titles?

Chickens? Why not, they'd did Dinosaurs (for Hire), Black Belt Hamsters and Kung Fu Kangaroos and whatnot back then.

The sad thing being, the dozens of lame TMNT wannabes were just the tip of the iceberg of garbage that flooded the market during the B&W-boom and bust.

I was a bit young at the time to appreciate what was going on. I can still see, however, the foul fruits of that "LET'S PUBLISH A CHEAP B&W COMIC WITH A WACKY TITLE AND GET RICH QUICK!" period lingering about on dusty backshelves, or lurking at the bottom of neglected quarter bins along with all the Marvel miniseries no one read and the small-press Liefeld ripoff comics of the early-mid 90s.
Thorpe | 12.12.05 - 6:41 pm | #

I think it's Power Pachyderms too. Trying to remember if I actually bought that or not.
Jason | Email | Homepage | 12.12.05 - 8:35 pm | #

That Power Pachyderms art is almost literally the ugliest, most frightening 2D shite I've ever seen.
David Cutler | Email | 12.13.05 - 1:43 am | #

Angel Love was a really good series -- it would probably do well as a digest for DC too. by the time of the one-shot special, whatever sparked the original series was gone, and nothing Barbara Slate did after was as interesting, but that initial run of Angel Love is in my permanent keep file.
Jim Kosmicki | Email | 12.13.05 - 12:08 pm | #