Friday, March 15, 2024

CoronaVirus Comics SURGEON X "Path of Most Resistance" Chapter 3: Surgeon's Graveyard Conclusion

Surgeon X Has Been Kidnapped...

...by Black Market Drug Suppliers!
No, it's not so she'll pay more money for the drugs she uses in her battle to provide medical aid to those who have neither money nor power!
It's so she'll treat their grandfather, who's dying of tuberculosis and can't get treatment legally...because he's a wanted criminal!
Told that if grandpop dies, she'll be killed, Dr Rosa Scott has no choice but to cooperate...
Was this story from Image's Surgeon X #3 (2016) a prediction of rogue AI?

More Questions and Some Answers...
Next Month!

In the meantime, go...HERE
(And yes, I'm as surprised as you are that the site is still up almost a decade later!)

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Friday, March 8, 2024

CoronaVirus Comics SURGEON X "Path of Most Resistance" Chapter 3: Surgeon's Graveyard Part 1

When Last We Left Our Moral Medical Practitioner...

...besides getting great reviews, Dr Rosa Scott (aka Surgeon X) continues to wage her rebellious campaign to provide medical care to those she deems worthy despite their lack of financial or political resources!
But those technically-illegal actions carry risks, whether it's from the authorities or black market suppliers...
Can things get any worse for Dr Scott?
Do you really have to ask?
Find Out Next Friday!

In the meantime, go...HERE
(And yes, I'm as surprised as you are that the site is still up almost a decade later!)

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Friday, March 1, 2024

TOPS "Anthony Comstock: Fanatical Reformer"

Is it any wonder Republicans are using the work of a puritanical, conservative con-man from the 19th Century...

...to promote and serve their anti-choice agenda in the 21st Century?







Both Federal and local Republican politicians are currently attempting to use the ancient Comstock Act's19th Century definitions of "obscene material" (which includes birth control printed information and contraceptive drugs) to prevent them from being provided to pregnant women in 2024!

Written by George Hansen and illustrated by Lee Ames, this feature from Lev Gleason's TOPS #2 (1949) presents itself as a "review" of a biography of Comstock, Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord (1927)..which praised the man!
However, where the book put Comstock on a pedestal, the comic strip savaged him, taking the material from the tome and presenting it in a historical context.
BTW, you'll note the art here is larger than we usually present.
That's because the periodical it was presented in was tabloid-sized, like Marvel and DC Treasury Editions of the 1970s and 80s and the lettering would be unreadable in our usual 525-pixel wide format.
Editor Charles Biro conceived and produced the mag as an attempt to do an "adult oriented" magazine using the comic book format.
Sadly, it only lasted two issues and either issue is incredibly hard to find!
Happily, Fantagraphics worked with noted writer/artist/historian Michael T Gilbert to produce a superb book reprinting those two issues with an astounding amount of historical material about the periodical...

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Friday, February 23, 2024

CoronaVirus Comics MAD "Look at Modern-Day Bacteria"

Think our concerns about diseases and a possible plague are something new?
This never-reprinted feature from MAD Magazine #153 (1972) combines humor with medicine and then-current politics!
Among those whom writers Max Brandel & Frank Jacobs and artist Bob Clarke skewer are President Richard Nixon (R), Vice-President Spiro Agnew (R), conservative Presidential candidate George Wallace (I), and the radical liberal Students for a Democratic Society!
(Google them if you're too young to remember!)

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Valentine's Day in the Emergency Room SOUL LOVE "Dedicated Nurse"

This story is unique because it is presented from scans of the hand-drawn art...
...from Jack (King) Kirby's proposed 1970s b/w magazine Soul Love!
We would have presented pages from the printed comic/magazine the way we usually do...except it wasn't published...until very recently!
(We'll explain below!)
NSFW / NSFS note...it is somewhat "politically incorrect"...but not for the reason you might think!
(Hey, look! A "Kirby Quote"!)
You'll note pages 5 and 6 aren't as "clean" as the other pages, which are scanned from the actual original art!
They're scanned from photocopies, which are the only versions I could acquire, but they're legible enough to "fill out" the tale!
(Oh, man! More "Kirby Quotes"!)
Written/penciled/edited by Jack Kirby and inked by Vince Colletta, the story takes the typical attitude of the period about overweight women, though Aleda's not actually obese.
(In fact, I was involved with a woman who had a similar body type, which I found extremely-appealing!)

You can read about the Soul Love magazine project by clicking HERE.
The Soul Love tales were finally published as a full-color comic book-style insert in 2020's Dingbat Love hardcover book, which we conveniently linked-to below!
Thanks to Kracalactaka for the scans.
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CoronaVirus Comics SURGEON X "Path of Most Resistance" Chapter 3: Surgeon's Graveyard Conclusion

Surgeon X Has Been Kidnapped... ...by Black Market Drug Suppliers! No, it's not so she'll pay more money for the drugs she uses in h...