Article #35
Wacky
Wooden Indians Whack Wood!
(Or, the what to
read when high entry)
To my
one fan out there, sorry about the delay between updates. To the rest of you (yeah, I’m an optimist),
here’s the latest update. Warning, this entry
is wrought full of disturbing imagery and awkward situations that those of you
who are squeamish or faint of heart should leave now. For the rest of you, scroll down, but don’t
say I didn’t warn you!
The
Golden Age of comics was wrought with many experimental endeavors, and our
newest entry is one of those. At first
it may seem like an interesting idea.
Children enjoy watching puppets.
Children also enjoy reading comic books.
So why not combine the two? Heck,
Howdy Doody could do it. They had Raggedy
Ann in a long running comic series too.
Surely a book devoted solely to puppets could do no wrong?
And so
we introduce the fruits of these labors, Puppet Comics #1 from 1946…
If you
were a young kid, wouldn’t this cover just scream to be picked up? And isn’t it refreshing to see a boy puppet
show his true feelings towards the monkey puppet? Sadly these are all marionettes, no hand
puppets can be seen.
In
terms of disturbing imagery this cover has nothing on one particular story on
the inside. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s
time we introduce our monkey loving pal, Redwood Rodney…
That’s
right, the tree is talking through the large gash it just received from the
axe. Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em people,
because things just get weirder from here on out…
Call me
a racist if you will, but I could never condone a mop-bucket marriage. Sure, they seem made for each other, but you
just know the mop’s going to leave the bucket once in a while for a wild ride
in the hands of some stranger, and the bucket just deserves better. Especially in this case when the mop has
OBVIOUSLY been playing around. I mean,
what the heck is Cousin Scrub Oak doing to her in panel 4? Scrubbing the deck indeed!
Is it
just me or do these wooden logs remind you of some other logs folks have been
known to make…
And how
the heck are giant trees growing out of the boat in panel 3? And come to think of it, isn’t the boat made
of wood too? How come it doesn’t have a happy,
smiling face on it like everything else (except the old chief)? Is it dead?
Did the good, old pioneers cannibalize their own to build the crummy
ship? Okay, I know, you’re dying to find
out what happens to Sir Chip. Scroll
down, but it’s not for the squeamish…
Told you.
I’m a
little disturbed at how quickly the old man asked the young (puppet) boy to go
home with him. And the puppet doesn’t
seem to mind that the old man has a giant axe.
Makes you wonder what goes down, doesn’t it? Well, while there was a Puppet Comics #2,
sadly that was the final issue of this series, and Rodney and his puppet pals
went back to the puppet hell they were spawned from.
Image within the Image Moment Presents:
The Nonconventional Perils of Being a
Superhero Part 2
Yes,
image within the image is back with a new ongoing subseries detailing some of
the problems superheroes can have. This
first case in point points out a hereto unknown risk when having a double
identity. Taken from Action Comics #413,
it gives a glimpse of the problems many female superheroes have when faced with
an immediate crisis, in this case Supergirl must stop a rampaging robot, and so
we enter the story…
Oddly
enough the next panel Supergirl says that she felt bad about what she just
did. M’kay.