Now we continue with Death in the Ape-pit! As ever the original Killraven is on the left and the "degraded" Apeslayer is on the right:-
NEXT WEEK: Battle of The Apes!
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Death in the Ape-Pit!
Before we continue from last week, here is the cover of the UK POTA 26 (which featured the Apeslayer comic reproduced below):-
Now we continue with Death in the Ape-pit! As ever the original Killraven is on the left and the "degraded" Apeslayer is on the right:-
NEXT WEEK: Battle of The Apes!
Now we continue with Death in the Ape-pit! As ever the original Killraven is on the left and the "degraded" Apeslayer is on the right:-
NEXT WEEK: Battle of The Apes!
Thursday, 20 February 2014
The Sirens of Seventh Avenue
Continued from Last Week - it's Killraven Versus Apeslayer
As ever The original Killraven appears on the left and the "degraded" Apeslayer appears on the right!
NEXT WEEK: Death in the Ape PIT!
As ever The original Killraven appears on the left and the "degraded" Apeslayer appears on the right!
NEXT WEEK: Death in the Ape PIT!
Thursday, 13 February 2014
The Birth of Apeslayer
Continuing from last week...
First here is the cover and a "The Story So Far" page for Apeslayer from POTA 24:-
And now on with the story, the original Killraven appears on the Left and the "degraded" Apesalyer appears on the right...
NEXT WEEK: The Sirens of 7th Avenue!
Saturday, 8 February 2014
Killraven vs Apeslayer!
Welcome to Images Degrading Forever
This week I start on a brand new project and a different approach to previous.
This time instead of taking one piece of art and reinterpreting it myself, I am going to share a “legitimately” published revision of another comic, with the original and revised pages next to each other to compare and contrast.
The original comic by itself was a rather wild mash up, containing a core idea, what if at the end of “The War of The Worlds” (By HG Wells) the Martians returned, but this time they WON, with a fairly obvious Conan proxy as the lead character all pasted into as much outrageous action and adventure you could get in a 70s comic
Yes the concept was Roy Thomas’s, but he did not even write the final published comic and the artist for issue 1 one Neal Adams leaves before the issue is done to be replaced at the last minute for the last few pages by Howard Chaykin
The character is of course Killraven and to find that the comic (initially called Amazing Adventures fettering War of The Worlds) actually lasted more than just a few issues given such a messed up beginning is another story entirely
If this was not enough, this mashed up original was repurposed again, but only over here in the UK for the Planet of The Apes Weekly. This comic was launched on the back of the success of the TV show (the movies had all mostly come and gone before any Apes comic ever existed) and was very popular, so poplar it had a problem.
It had already reprinted every single Ape comic made by Marvel USA and had nothing, literally nothing to print for issue 23
The solution to this problem, was to take the Marvel USA Killraven strip, redraw all the protagonists as apes, and change the dialogue and the character names to suit, this strip was christened APESLAYER!
To this day this remains a semi mythical 70s pop culture event that few people remember, but it was real and you can see it unfold right here over the next 7 weeks
On the left we have Killraven - the original strip and on the right we have Apeslayer
And I will just present the pages without any further commentary, they are wild enough as they are!
This week I start on a brand new project and a different approach to previous.
This time instead of taking one piece of art and reinterpreting it myself, I am going to share a “legitimately” published revision of another comic, with the original and revised pages next to each other to compare and contrast.
The original comic by itself was a rather wild mash up, containing a core idea, what if at the end of “The War of The Worlds” (By HG Wells) the Martians returned, but this time they WON, with a fairly obvious Conan proxy as the lead character all pasted into as much outrageous action and adventure you could get in a 70s comic
Yes the concept was Roy Thomas’s, but he did not even write the final published comic and the artist for issue 1 one Neal Adams leaves before the issue is done to be replaced at the last minute for the last few pages by Howard Chaykin
The character is of course Killraven and to find that the comic (initially called Amazing Adventures fettering War of The Worlds) actually lasted more than just a few issues given such a messed up beginning is another story entirely
If this was not enough, this mashed up original was repurposed again, but only over here in the UK for the Planet of The Apes Weekly. This comic was launched on the back of the success of the TV show (the movies had all mostly come and gone before any Apes comic ever existed) and was very popular, so poplar it had a problem.
It had already reprinted every single Ape comic made by Marvel USA and had nothing, literally nothing to print for issue 23
The solution to this problem, was to take the Marvel USA Killraven strip, redraw all the protagonists as apes, and change the dialogue and the character names to suit, this strip was christened APESLAYER!
To this day this remains a semi mythical 70s pop culture event that few people remember, but it was real and you can see it unfold right here over the next 7 weeks
On the left we have Killraven - the original strip and on the right we have Apeslayer
And I will just present the pages without any further commentary, they are wild enough as they are!
Next Week:- The Birth of APESLAYER
Thursday, 30 January 2014
STAR JAWS: “He means business”
Welcome to the concluding part of STAR JAWS
The story so far, is way too unbelievable to even attempt to summarise, just go back a few blog posts and you will see what I mean…
DR DOOM has got himself a Laser Sword and is trying to amputate one of Spider mans limbs (well if DOOM is following the plot of any of those Lucasfilm movies, he would be), but what is this we see on the wall?
Yes it’s another sword, which also happens to be laser powered (or something) and lo thus does the clash of titans start, and lasts all of two panels, no striking down and making anyone more powerful than you can possibly imagine here, nope just a hit to Dooms tin noggin is enough to make him drop his laser sword and Spidey is running away quicker than you can turn the page over…
Spidey just appears at the hatch of Marvel Boys still thankfully unnamed space ship and they all escape the Star Jaws, Doom doesn’t really care thinking they will be mincemeat once the Star Jaws eats the earth anyway, but Spidey has a plan…. or he says he does….
Which seems to start with buzzing over the top of the pentagon without somehow being shot down or starting a major military incident…
And then all of our heroes causally enter The Pentagon, the fact they are not members of the military, have no means of identification and are costumed and some of them are wearing masks notwithstanding - they just walk into the major situation room, you know the one with the map of the world and where they chose the defcon and all that stuff and Marvel boy just outright asks for one million tons of TNT
To spare us any undue anxiety the general immediately agrees in the same panel, no questions asked, no what are you going to use it for, no well we don’t even have that much TNT, no it's physically impossible to store that much TNT, no there isn’t that much TNT in the whole world, I could go on for ages with all the nos there should have been here
Mind being suitably boggled Marvel boys space ship takes off with a huge package of TNT in tow which it drops in space, now Moondragon needs to think hard
Can anyone guess what spideys plan is?
Moondragon somehow makes a full size illusionary earth in space around the TNT and despite this being illusion completely immaterial, and therefore would not show up on any kind of detection or radar device still DOOM choses the phoney earth and not the real one right next door to be swallowed by the Star Jaws…
At which point of course, we get a massive explosion, ironically enough actually bigger than the one used in the original movie (before it got upgraded several times in subsequent “Special Editions”) which somehow leaves the real earth completely unharmed…
And Doom and his Doombots are left floating in space holding onto a bit of metal, I guess running out of oxygen can’t be a problem because their must be air for them to be able to talk to one another…
Marvel boy drops off spidey at the Daily Bugle and he changes into Peter Parker to be met by a still angry MJ, who accuses him of “Playing on the beach”
I don’t know what MJ is referring to here, last we saw MJ she was in the woods at moonlight looking for a bit of romance, no beach there, no sir, maybe we missed a story here, the one where Peter Parker stars in a homage to the infamous Charles Atlas ad? But that is just pure speculation (…or is it?)
And MJ waves a copy of the daily bugle that proclaims that the earth has been saved, as MJ puts it by some “Real Heroes” implying that peter is not one for bravely sending her away while he remained to face the danger of that UFO crash… which was not on beach and mercifully the story comes to THE END!
Next Week: KILLRAVEN VS APESLAYER!
Next Week: KILLRAVEN VS APESLAYER!
Thursday, 23 January 2014
STAR JAWS: “Attack of The Lawyers”
Welcome to Part Four of STAR JAWS
“The Story” so far…
Is not only too complicated to explain but also totally unbelievable, it is probably better if you go back a couple of blog postings and start from the beginning…
To just quickly recap, Marvel Boy (The Atlas comics 1950s version), Spidey, Paul the Gorilla (from The Electric Company) and Sam the Sesame Street Robot have just taken off in Marvel Boys space craft escaping from (presumably) Hollywood, following behind in hot pursuit are a whole bunch of Dr Dooms Doombots…
Well strike me down with a lucasfilm law suit if all of these space ships now look very very familiar indeed, in the middle we have Marvel Boys Space ship… (maybe we can call it “The Antediluvian Peregrine”?) being chased by 3 flying wedges of cheese (or maybe pie) you tell me, I didn’t say anything about either stars or destroyers, no sir not me
And don’t ask what Frank Sinatra thinks of using the tile of one his more famous songs to title this chapter either!
While we are in the middle of this exciting chase, Paul the gorilla and Sam the Sesame Street Robot find the time to play a game of tic-tac-toe, presumably as a nod to the 3-d chess game featuring Chewbecca versus R2-D2 in some movie or another, I guess that mean that Sam should let the gorilla win
Just as it looks like Marvel boys space ship might get blasted to pieces, he cranks up the speed - all the way to fastest…and they woosh away
I don’t know about you but that reminds of the “ludicrous speed” bit of Space Balls…
Next we have Dr Doom, who appears to be citing the name of a movie featuring Sidney Poitier…
Meanwhile the “ludicrous speed” scene continues as Marvel Boy is unable to slow down before they get swallowed up by the Star Jaw
presumably this was what Dr Doom meant, that they are now literally dinner…
Now we are in the landing bay sequence of that very familiar lucasfilm movie, with Doombots searching Marvel boys space ship
Wherin not only does everyone hide in plain sight in the cockpit, but also Paul and Sam have found time to have another game of tic-tac-toe, I mean really?
But Paul must have lost as he grabs out to the Doombots as Marvel boy and Spidey hit them from behind, nice way of evening the odds there
Next thing we know 2 Doombots are hold Paul and Sam captive and Dr Doom orders them to be locked up
Of course Spidey and Marvel Boy have assumed the identities of the Doombots, don’t even ask how that works, it would have taken ages to take out of that circuitry and even then would the Doombot armour have fit Spidey and Marvel Boy anyway?
Paul “breaks free” and attacks some Doombots just after the arrive in the prison cell area…
But instead of a blast out its a free for all punch out, Spidey gets the keys…
A Doombot bursts into Moondragon’s cell, but it’s Marvel boy, who I guess was not too short to be a Doombot after all, and they all escape (having ditched the Doombot armour off panel) from (finally) some laser firing Doombots
Spidey decides to be all heroic and hold off the Doombots using his web, luckily enough the Doombots are even worse shots than a Stormtrooper
While Spidey fights for his life, Sam, Paul, moon dragon and Marvel boy, stand on a slow moving travelator that leads them into Marvel Boys space ship, at least that is what it looks like
Having webbed up all the Doombots, Spidey makes a run for Marvel Boys Spaceship only to be met by DR DOOM, holding a LASER SWORD - or something along those lines….
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK: - As we find out that DOOM Mean Business…
“The Story” so far…
Is not only too complicated to explain but also totally unbelievable, it is probably better if you go back a couple of blog postings and start from the beginning…
To just quickly recap, Marvel Boy (The Atlas comics 1950s version), Spidey, Paul the Gorilla (from The Electric Company) and Sam the Sesame Street Robot have just taken off in Marvel Boys space craft escaping from (presumably) Hollywood, following behind in hot pursuit are a whole bunch of Dr Dooms Doombots…
Well strike me down with a lucasfilm law suit if all of these space ships now look very very familiar indeed, in the middle we have Marvel Boys Space ship… (maybe we can call it “The Antediluvian Peregrine”?) being chased by 3 flying wedges of cheese (or maybe pie) you tell me, I didn’t say anything about either stars or destroyers, no sir not me
And don’t ask what Frank Sinatra thinks of using the tile of one his more famous songs to title this chapter either!
While we are in the middle of this exciting chase, Paul the gorilla and Sam the Sesame Street Robot find the time to play a game of tic-tac-toe, presumably as a nod to the 3-d chess game featuring Chewbecca versus R2-D2 in some movie or another, I guess that mean that Sam should let the gorilla win
Just as it looks like Marvel boys space ship might get blasted to pieces, he cranks up the speed - all the way to fastest…and they woosh away
I don’t know about you but that reminds of the “ludicrous speed” bit of Space Balls…
Next we have Dr Doom, who appears to be citing the name of a movie featuring Sidney Poitier…
Meanwhile the “ludicrous speed” scene continues as Marvel Boy is unable to slow down before they get swallowed up by the Star Jaw
presumably this was what Dr Doom meant, that they are now literally dinner…
Now we are in the landing bay sequence of that very familiar lucasfilm movie, with Doombots searching Marvel boys space ship
Wherin not only does everyone hide in plain sight in the cockpit, but also Paul and Sam have found time to have another game of tic-tac-toe, I mean really?
But Paul must have lost as he grabs out to the Doombots as Marvel boy and Spidey hit them from behind, nice way of evening the odds there
Next thing we know 2 Doombots are hold Paul and Sam captive and Dr Doom orders them to be locked up
Of course Spidey and Marvel Boy have assumed the identities of the Doombots, don’t even ask how that works, it would have taken ages to take out of that circuitry and even then would the Doombot armour have fit Spidey and Marvel Boy anyway?
Paul “breaks free” and attacks some Doombots just after the arrive in the prison cell area…
But instead of a blast out its a free for all punch out, Spidey gets the keys…
A Doombot bursts into Moondragon’s cell, but it’s Marvel boy, who I guess was not too short to be a Doombot after all, and they all escape (having ditched the Doombot armour off panel) from (finally) some laser firing Doombots
Spidey decides to be all heroic and hold off the Doombots using his web, luckily enough the Doombots are even worse shots than a Stormtrooper
While Spidey fights for his life, Sam, Paul, moon dragon and Marvel boy, stand on a slow moving travelator that leads them into Marvel Boys space ship, at least that is what it looks like
Having webbed up all the Doombots, Spidey makes a run for Marvel Boys Spaceship only to be met by DR DOOM, holding a LASER SWORD - or something along those lines….
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK: - As we find out that DOOM Mean Business…
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