Monday, September 10, 2007

L'il Gerry Conway and the Eastside Boyz

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Why yes, it is "KRUNK", isn't it?

Slasher really isn't into the whole "banter" thing. Mainly because it takes time away from his soliloquizing. (This just in: sources report that Slasher was wedded to the sound of his own voice this past weekend, in a grim Socialist ceremony in the crater of a smoking volcano.) Check it: in the second panel, Iron Man turns Slasher's attempted filibustering into a charming bit of overlapping dialog that wouldn't sound out-of-place in "The Philadelphia Story." Take that, "Fingers"!

6 comments:

Jon the Intergalactic Gladiator said...

Ooops, I think that top balloon wasn't supposed to be coming from Iron Man, unless he's adding his own sound effects, which I do sometimes. Makes walking to the kitchen for a piece of toast that much more exciting.

Anonymous said...

Only Tony Stark could dish off a Spiro Agnew dig as a side dish to a Krunk shot. Iron Man was the Dennis Miller of his day--a kick-ass Dennis Miller!

Dave said...

"ONE PUNCH!"

Oh well, enough quoting from better comics. Jon already picked up on the technical fuck-up in the second panel, and yes, indeedy, it appears "joycore" meant half-assed imitations of Spider-Man back in the musty mists of Marvel history.

This story is making the saga of Gravity Girl look like fine art.

For some reason, I think this tale of Darkhawk is a useful reminder that Marvel kept beating this color dead horse into paste well into the 90's.

Jeremy Rizza said...

Jon: Yeah, it's all screwed up, but I almost can't blame the letterer. He has to paste all of Conway's dialog into Tuska's action-filled, perspective-deficient panels. If Iron Man hadn't knocked Slasher down like that, there wouldn't be any room at all!

Justin Garrett Blum: Heh. I just saw the Iron Man trailer, and somehow wisecracking Tony Stark works much better there, maybe because he's not pretending he's not a jackass.

Dave; Yikes. That Darkhawk story was... bleak. Just boring, ugly crap. (Sorry, Darkhawk fans... this is just one man's opinion.) As for Conway, I found a few choice words for him from a Jerry-Siegel-written character that I'll post at the conclusion of this story, and I think it jibes pretty well with what you're saying.

Anonymous said...

I hope Slasher survives the fracas to start a greeting card company. Day of Borning cards are hard to find, especially those that are so brilliantly composed as:

The relationship ends
On its Day of Borning.
(open card)
Who relates...to a dead man?

Good thing Fingers (heh) isn't nearly as long-winded and content-free as Iron Man or Demetrius, right?

The krunkin' is looking pretty good, too.

Jeremy Rizza said...

Sweet idea! I hope the card has one of those little sound chips in it, too! (For the ear-splitting wail.)