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Marvel Fanfare #38
Apparently, Moon Knight has won the Egyptian Heavyweight Championship. That will put him in line for a match against NWA World Heavyweight Champion "Nature Boy" Ric Flair!
It's Ladies' Night, this issue as we have a story by Mary Jo Duffy and art by Judith Hunt, plus a dazzler and Rogue back-up story by Duffy and Colleen Doran, who rocks the 80s club fashions, within the story. Doran also provides a portfolio, with a dreamy Balder, bad boy Longshot, romantic Black Bolt & Medusa, and badass Illyana Rasputin.
Whatever Happened to Podunk Slam?
Creative Team: Mary Jo Duffy-writer, not related to Patrick, Judith Hunt--pencils, was married to Chuck Dixon, Bill Sienkiewicz-inker and in need of an easier-to-spell name (let alone pronounce; the proper pronunciation is "Bill"), Jim Novak-letters, Eric Lee-colors, Al Milgrom-edits. Tom DeFalco-EIC.
Jim Shooter got the chop during the Charles Vess Warriors 3 sequence. Defalco is there to oversee the mess, as the company prepares to be milked dry of every penny and driven into the ground like a lawn dart. but, that's in the future...
Synopsis: At the Danielle Clarke Home for Lost and Friendless Girls (best orphanage name, ever!), an old women is terrorizing the girls. Eeeek!
She, like, showed up in Angela's bed, looking all old and groady, to the max! Fer sure! We cut to Marc Spector's Gallery, where he is getting a glance at his latest acquisition, the Butt-Ugly Idol of the McGuffin People, which is, of course, cursed. Probably has a monkey's paw hidden inside, for good measure! Marc can't stay and oggle it, as he has to go to the Daniell Clarke Home for Lost and Friendless Girls, to take them to see a boy band....
No, Podunk Slam! They.....are......so....DREAMY!!!!!!!!!! They are totally singing and dancing, you know, and like, mr Spector is all old and uncool, 'cause he just doesn't understand them, like we do, though Frenchie seems pretty cool about them.
Marc is nursing a headache and Frenchy tells him to get over himself, when the priest of Khonshu send him a vision, which involves people suddenly getting old, an increase in homeless derelicts and Podunk Slam posing with the idol that Marc acquired...
He puts on his silver duds and heads out into the night, where he spies Podunk Slam's manager, reminding them that their contract makes them slaves to the management company. He says something about others paying the price and an archeologist selling them out, when he spots Moon Knight. One gun-toting thug later and MK is gone and ends up at the DCHFLAFG, where we find Angela, having turned, like rrilly old! You know? Cop says it is happening all over town: old women in little girl nighties, clutching posters of Podunk Slam.
Mk goes to find the band, later and brings the idol, to tell them how they got famous. The manager finds him, sends in the goons, who get their butts kicked and he goes out and creates a mob of pre-teen riot girls, who storm the dressing room area to protect the dreamy ones....
Moon Knight opens up a can of Strawberry Smackcake and whoops a pack of little girls!
Actually, he's getting kicked to death by Mary Janes and Ricky, leader of the band, whose a total dreamboat, smashes the idol and ends the spell. The guys are revealed as old men who have stolen youth and the girls are released from their spell. They totally don't want to here some icky old dudes sing and leave the joint. Across town, old women turn back into Ricky Schroeder lovers and Tiger Beat continues, unaffected.
Duet
Creative Team: Jo Duffy-writer, Colleen Doran-pencils, Terry Austin-inks, Jim Novak-letters, Petra Scotese-colors, Al Milgrom-edits
Synopsis: Alison Blair sings, while Rogue rocks some shoulder pads, short boots and big earrings.
Some Rock god shows up and the crowd wants to hear from him. he has a Japanese pop star with him and they convince Dazzler and Rogue to jam with them. After playing a set, some goons with guns (great band name) stop things and threaten people if said rock god doesn't come with them, to be ransomed back to his record company. Rogue plants one on him before he leaves the stage, goes all Lisa Coleman (keyboardist for Prince & the Revolution) on stage, feeding sound to Dazzler, who blinds the goons.
The ladies then party with the guys. Cocaine may or may not have been involved.
Thoughts: The first story is a pretty damn fun savaging of the whole boy band phenomenon, which came out at the height of the whole New Kids on the Block festival of horror. They were formed after the success of New Edition; but, would look like the Beatles compared to what was to follow, with Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Makes my ears close up just thinking about it! This sort of thing was nothing new, as teen heartthrobs were all the rage, even back in the crooner era. Rock gave us the Monkees, Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, half-brother Shaun, and the more ethnic Menudo. Jo Duffy takes shots at the pre-teen girl worship, the general lack of any real talent in vocals, dance or pathetic attempts at acting that many tried (though Donnie Wahlberg was good, in band of Brothers). Moon Knight is pretty ineffective. i blame it on the bracelets and anklets. Who goes into battle wearing weights? The belt doesn't help either. I suspect he will lose to Flair, when they meat at the Norfolk Scope, on the 29th (Be there!).
The Rogue and Dazzler story is more serious, but a bit slighter. It hints that PJ James, the rock god, might be a mutant, given his musical skills on any instrument; which means Barbara Mandrell better watch out for Sentinels!
Rogue's age has always been kind of fluid. She looked like a rather mature adult, when she debuted, but then looked a bit more like an adolescent, when she hooked up with the X-Men, then somewhere in between, until Anna Paquin was cast as the character, in the early X-Men films. She would have to be at least 21 to be in a NYC club, in this era.
Judith Hunt's art is a bit more sketchy, with Sienkiewicz inks and her own, more illustrator style. Doran was still relatively young (she started as a teen) and had been doing A Distant Soil at WaRP (which didn't end well) and Donning/Starblaze (which went bankrupt). This is just before she would self publish it, under her own Aria Press, as well as before she worked on Sandman, with Neil Gaiman, which massively raised her profile. She would go on to illustrate Stan Lee's memoir of his comic career. Austin gives her an edgier line, making it look a bit closer to JRJR, on the XMen book. Doran's line was usually a bit softer. You can spot her work though, in the hair and clothes. She always paid attention to the details and she makes great use of 80s fashions, as Rogue sports a minidress, with what appears to be a lace neck line, gloves and boots, with green tights and a bolero jacket (which was in style, at the time) She has the requisite big earrings and plenty of mousse. Dazzler is also sporting a ton of hair products, a red mini-skirt and matching top, with matching high heels. The guys are in tight pants, colorful shirts, vests, leather boots and have just as much hair product and teeth that would make a dentist cry with joy and shame an Osmond.
Jo Duffy was an assistant editor, who also dabbled in writing, here and there, including runs on Power Man & Iron Fist and Star Wars (in the final years of Marvel's run). Her biggest gig there, aside from Star Wars, was translating Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, for Epic. uffy moved on to DC, Dark Horse and Image/Maximum Press, before eventually leaving comics. Judith Hunt, whose best known, relatively speaking, work is Evangeline, a series she did with husband Chuck Dixon. They split and she moved on to book illustration.
All-in-all, a really fun issue of Fanfare. The quality of things has improved a bit, in this stretch.
Apparently, Moon Knight has won the Egyptian Heavyweight Championship. That will put him in line for a match against NWA World Heavyweight Champion "Nature Boy" Ric Flair!
It's Ladies' Night, this issue as we have a story by Mary Jo Duffy and art by Judith Hunt, plus a dazzler and Rogue back-up story by Duffy and Colleen Doran, who rocks the 80s club fashions, within the story. Doran also provides a portfolio, with a dreamy Balder, bad boy Longshot, romantic Black Bolt & Medusa, and badass Illyana Rasputin.
Whatever Happened to Podunk Slam?
Creative Team: Mary Jo Duffy-writer, not related to Patrick, Judith Hunt--pencils, was married to Chuck Dixon, Bill Sienkiewicz-inker and in need of an easier-to-spell name (let alone pronounce; the proper pronunciation is "Bill"), Jim Novak-letters, Eric Lee-colors, Al Milgrom-edits. Tom DeFalco-EIC.
Jim Shooter got the chop during the Charles Vess Warriors 3 sequence. Defalco is there to oversee the mess, as the company prepares to be milked dry of every penny and driven into the ground like a lawn dart. but, that's in the future...
Synopsis: At the Danielle Clarke Home for Lost and Friendless Girls (best orphanage name, ever!), an old women is terrorizing the girls. Eeeek!
She, like, showed up in Angela's bed, looking all old and groady, to the max! Fer sure! We cut to Marc Spector's Gallery, where he is getting a glance at his latest acquisition, the Butt-Ugly Idol of the McGuffin People, which is, of course, cursed. Probably has a monkey's paw hidden inside, for good measure! Marc can't stay and oggle it, as he has to go to the Daniell Clarke Home for Lost and Friendless Girls, to take them to see a boy band....
No, Podunk Slam! They.....are......so....DREAMY!!!!!!!!!! They are totally singing and dancing, you know, and like, mr Spector is all old and uncool, 'cause he just doesn't understand them, like we do, though Frenchie seems pretty cool about them.
Marc is nursing a headache and Frenchy tells him to get over himself, when the priest of Khonshu send him a vision, which involves people suddenly getting old, an increase in homeless derelicts and Podunk Slam posing with the idol that Marc acquired...
He puts on his silver duds and heads out into the night, where he spies Podunk Slam's manager, reminding them that their contract makes them slaves to the management company. He says something about others paying the price and an archeologist selling them out, when he spots Moon Knight. One gun-toting thug later and MK is gone and ends up at the DCHFLAFG, where we find Angela, having turned, like rrilly old! You know? Cop says it is happening all over town: old women in little girl nighties, clutching posters of Podunk Slam.
Mk goes to find the band, later and brings the idol, to tell them how they got famous. The manager finds him, sends in the goons, who get their butts kicked and he goes out and creates a mob of pre-teen riot girls, who storm the dressing room area to protect the dreamy ones....
Moon Knight opens up a can of Strawberry Smackcake and whoops a pack of little girls!
Actually, he's getting kicked to death by Mary Janes and Ricky, leader of the band, whose a total dreamboat, smashes the idol and ends the spell. The guys are revealed as old men who have stolen youth and the girls are released from their spell. They totally don't want to here some icky old dudes sing and leave the joint. Across town, old women turn back into Ricky Schroeder lovers and Tiger Beat continues, unaffected.
Duet
Creative Team: Jo Duffy-writer, Colleen Doran-pencils, Terry Austin-inks, Jim Novak-letters, Petra Scotese-colors, Al Milgrom-edits
Synopsis: Alison Blair sings, while Rogue rocks some shoulder pads, short boots and big earrings.
Some Rock god shows up and the crowd wants to hear from him. he has a Japanese pop star with him and they convince Dazzler and Rogue to jam with them. After playing a set, some goons with guns (great band name) stop things and threaten people if said rock god doesn't come with them, to be ransomed back to his record company. Rogue plants one on him before he leaves the stage, goes all Lisa Coleman (keyboardist for Prince & the Revolution) on stage, feeding sound to Dazzler, who blinds the goons.
The ladies then party with the guys. Cocaine may or may not have been involved.
Thoughts: The first story is a pretty damn fun savaging of the whole boy band phenomenon, which came out at the height of the whole New Kids on the Block festival of horror. They were formed after the success of New Edition; but, would look like the Beatles compared to what was to follow, with Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Makes my ears close up just thinking about it! This sort of thing was nothing new, as teen heartthrobs were all the rage, even back in the crooner era. Rock gave us the Monkees, Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, half-brother Shaun, and the more ethnic Menudo. Jo Duffy takes shots at the pre-teen girl worship, the general lack of any real talent in vocals, dance or pathetic attempts at acting that many tried (though Donnie Wahlberg was good, in band of Brothers). Moon Knight is pretty ineffective. i blame it on the bracelets and anklets. Who goes into battle wearing weights? The belt doesn't help either. I suspect he will lose to Flair, when they meat at the Norfolk Scope, on the 29th (Be there!).
The Rogue and Dazzler story is more serious, but a bit slighter. It hints that PJ James, the rock god, might be a mutant, given his musical skills on any instrument; which means Barbara Mandrell better watch out for Sentinels!
Rogue's age has always been kind of fluid. She looked like a rather mature adult, when she debuted, but then looked a bit more like an adolescent, when she hooked up with the X-Men, then somewhere in between, until Anna Paquin was cast as the character, in the early X-Men films. She would have to be at least 21 to be in a NYC club, in this era.
Judith Hunt's art is a bit more sketchy, with Sienkiewicz inks and her own, more illustrator style. Doran was still relatively young (she started as a teen) and had been doing A Distant Soil at WaRP (which didn't end well) and Donning/Starblaze (which went bankrupt). This is just before she would self publish it, under her own Aria Press, as well as before she worked on Sandman, with Neil Gaiman, which massively raised her profile. She would go on to illustrate Stan Lee's memoir of his comic career. Austin gives her an edgier line, making it look a bit closer to JRJR, on the XMen book. Doran's line was usually a bit softer. You can spot her work though, in the hair and clothes. She always paid attention to the details and she makes great use of 80s fashions, as Rogue sports a minidress, with what appears to be a lace neck line, gloves and boots, with green tights and a bolero jacket (which was in style, at the time) She has the requisite big earrings and plenty of mousse. Dazzler is also sporting a ton of hair products, a red mini-skirt and matching top, with matching high heels. The guys are in tight pants, colorful shirts, vests, leather boots and have just as much hair product and teeth that would make a dentist cry with joy and shame an Osmond.
Jo Duffy was an assistant editor, who also dabbled in writing, here and there, including runs on Power Man & Iron Fist and Star Wars (in the final years of Marvel's run). Her biggest gig there, aside from Star Wars, was translating Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, for Epic. uffy moved on to DC, Dark Horse and Image/Maximum Press, before eventually leaving comics. Judith Hunt, whose best known, relatively speaking, work is Evangeline, a series she did with husband Chuck Dixon. They split and she moved on to book illustration.
All-in-all, a really fun issue of Fanfare. The quality of things has improved a bit, in this stretch.
