Mar 30
Emster comments: Jack-Jill did not take well to being called a liar…
Published 1991
(Average: 6.11 out of 10)
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Emster comments: Jack-Jill did not take well to being called a liar…
Published 1991
(Average: 6.11 out of 10)Loading...
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March 30th, 2023 at 9:07 am
@Emster: well, they are sort of two-faced…
March 30th, 2023 at 10:45 am
“Warri-ors! Come out and pla-ay…!”
March 30th, 2023 at 12:47 pm
Being miserable and treating everybody like dirt is every New Yorkers God-given right.
March 30th, 2023 at 1:03 pm
OK, with that club, the artist is just seeing what he can get away with.
March 30th, 2023 at 2:13 pm
@Bruce: yep!
@Tor: Ha! Conservatively phrased…
March 30th, 2023 at 3:39 pm
Legolas/Bakshi Aragorn out for a stroll.
At least today’s title has a playing card connection, unlike yesterday’s.
March 30th, 2023 at 5:17 pm
Plissken? I heard you were dead.
March 30th, 2023 at 5:58 pm
The unfortunate results of crossing Planet of the Apes with West Side Story:-
‘You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you all to — argh!’
‘Here come the Jets / Like a bat out of hell. / Someone gets in our way, / Someone don’t feel so well!’
March 30th, 2023 at 6:44 pm
Clearly Jack/Jill isn’t letting anybody look at their one eyed Jack without a fight…
March 30th, 2023 at 7:38 pm
In New York, a mutant is mugged every 11 seconds.
March 30th, 2023 at 8:41 pm
@Emster: Thanks. At least I didn’t want to seem like a dick.
March 30th, 2023 at 8:42 pm
“Give me your weapon wielders, your jeans wearers / Your huddled masses yearning to be thrown into New York harbor”
March 30th, 2023 at 9:16 pm
Jack and Jill left the Catskills,
To take in New York Harbor.
Thugs came ’round to take them down,
But got treated to a slaughter.
March 30th, 2023 at 9:19 pm
Glasses guy obviously didn’t get the memo about not bringing a phallic symbol to a knife fight.
March 30th, 2023 at 9:54 pm
Lucky it was New York – in San Francisco that hankie in that back pocket would have meant something else entirely.
The artwork makes me think Judge Dredd wll be along soon. Or Frobisher the Penguin…
March 31st, 2023 at 4:32 am
The ultra violence is completely acceptable, and will serve as a distraction for the Statue of Liberty, who is clearly a man, possibly Abraham Lincoln. The cover is a way to sneak a forbidden cross-dresser (who also believes in CRT) into a Florida classroom.
March 31st, 2023 at 2:58 pm
@Tat Wood
Funny you should mention that: the ’80s UK editions of the original six or seven Wildcards books (not sure how many as I didn’t get the full set) had Brian Bolland artwork:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/fa/c2/a7fac20ad0b9a9ff9323c887f7dae191.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/28/6e/20286ec3d7517f1ab585c35e39e51962.jpg
March 31st, 2023 at 7:04 pm
@Max: Bolland’s UK covers are real beauties (no sarcasm in my typing as per usual…). Bolland’s work is an important part of a complete artsy nerdy childhood.
March 31st, 2023 at 7:25 pm
I think I know what’s going on with this cover. All the ultra violence is completely acceptable, and serves as a distraction from the fact that the Statue of Liberty is actually a man, possibly Abraham Lincoln, in drag. So the cover is a way to smuggle a cross dresser (who believes in CRT no less) into a Florida school library.
April 1st, 2023 at 12:30 pm
@Emster
That they are, and you’re not wrong about Bolland’s art either. I think they’ve recycled his covers for the current US editions of the early books.
April 4th, 2023 at 6:25 am
@NomadUK: That’s a Robot Chicken episode waiting to happen.
@Max: There’s always the club.
@Tat: Oh, they understood that in NYC as well… and Europe and Australia.
@BC: Lady Liberty’s always been a bit butch, but here particularly… so you may be right about the man in a dress thing.