Now here is something to be thankful for. My colleagues over at The Bees Are Dead have graciously published my poem, “school shooter.” (This poem last appeared in the Peeking Cat Anthology 2018.) You can find it at the link below.
Thanks, B.A.D. people. 😉
“school shooter” at The Bees Are Dead
Oh, god. Oh, god. This … this is evidently what passed for the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe in 1989. (This is the company’s float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.)
Can I be blamed for not getting into superhero comics until college? When portrayals like this represented the genre to the general public?
Dear God, what have they done to Dr. Doom?? And is that misshapen, dirty aluminum golem supposed to be the Silver Surfer?! And they’re all in a … multi-level mausoleum? A crumbling clock-tower? A haunted castle that inexplicably has a manhole right outside its entrance? Huh? Wha?
Hey, this was nearly two full decades before the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Indeed, it was the very same year as Tim Burton’s “Batman” — and that is actually the first bona fide modern superhero movie that I can think of without googling it. The genre had a long way to go.
Hey … the Spider-man balloon was pretty cool.
I hope that you and all you love enjoy a safe and happy holiday.
There is some terrific new poetry over at The Bees Are Dead. Stop over to your favorite dystopian online lit mag for outstanding work by Jake Tringali, Howie Good, Jon Bennett and Neil Creighton.
It’s damn good stuff.
Photo credit: Kamahele [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)%5D, from Wikimedia Commons
Europe. Oil on oak panel.
“I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many. No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth.The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.”
— Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Judge John Tyler Washington, June 28, 1804
Image Comics.
1) James Woods.
2) Guy Smiley
3) Rog from “What’s Happening”
4) Chuck Palahniuk
5) 70’s-era Roy Scheider (TM) (shark sold separately)
6) Pete the dog
7) Mr. Bentley from “The Jeffersons”
8) The ghost of 20th President Andrew Garfield
9) Dennis Villelmi
10) Conan O’Brien
11) D.J. Qualls
THOSE TRUMP SUPPORTERS WILL NEVER SEE THROUGH MY SUBTERFUGE!!! HAHAHHAAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH
DC Comics.
… disguised as the Punisher.
LOOK AT THOSE ABS. (Actually, don’t. I look terrible. I’m shaped like a Dunkin’ Donuts “Munchkin.” But I’m equally as sweet! And it’s lines like that that get me all the girls! Actually, no. They don’t.)
Pal of mine right here in Roanoke saw this on Facebook and commented, “body designed by White Castle, not Frank Castle.” That pithy sonovabitch. Southerners!
Anyway, if those of us undermining America’s greatness want to illegally vote multiple times, we must fool this plucky president and his astute followers. Let’s hope the disguise holds up.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 