We officially closed (and sealed for safety reasons) the tomb on our March of the Mummies Madness Fest over at THOIA, but we have one more encounter left here to unleash at AEET! So let's see what happens when ding dong duo, Clancy and Looney are assigned to guard a mummy, from the Winter 1942 issue of Jackpot Comics #8. And after that, you can also catch a gruesome glipse of what happens when even Labubu herself gets all wrapped up in macabre mummy madness too! This is another great figure collectible via Pop Mart's "The Monster's Carnival" blind box series from a few years back... --see ya's all in April for lots more!
If 40s and 50s comics and movies taught us anything, no matter how clever a crook you are, you are no match for simpletons!
ReplyDeleteI love page 2, panel 6, the walk of the professor. You see that kind of comedy walk in any numbers of these things and it always cheers me up when comics play on their biggest strength, which is the kind of mix of realistic and exaggeration.
I wonder how far back the big guy / skinny guy comedy duo idea goes?
And, of course, ends with a flash of good girl art. Comics!
Following on what Brian mentioned, I wonder how often someone disguised themselves as a mummy in comics.
ReplyDeletePage two middle right panel, Clancy has the head like an owl, turning 180 degrees like that. He would undoubtedly stop the bad guys just by turning his face away from them and give them the shock of their lives!
Also on page two, center panel where he says "Some crust." I had to look that one up, in this case it means 'some nerve.' The only time I recall hearing someone mentioning crust as a slang term was from the 3 stooges short "They Stooge To Conga."
It suddenly dawned on me that the Labubu has a smile similar to the smile found in the book "Where the Wild Things Are."
I will admit it, I am sometimes the last one to find out many things in life, including Labubus.
The Monsters / Labubu creator, Kasing Lung has already responded to that, JMR —8 years ago, in fact! :)
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This was absolutely hilarious. Until the last panel though I assumed that Clancy and Looney were as close to a gay couple as you could get away with depicting back in the day.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the naughty professor, hanging around in strip joints! Is that where his electricity money goes?
That peeling potatoes bit is reminiscent of Captain Alberto Bertorelli explaining hos medals in "Allo Allo":
ReplyDelete"Thees one ees for service-a in Eethiopia. Thees one ees for service-a in Libya."
Colonel von Ströhm: "And what about that one?"
Bertorelli: "That one ees for servicing Fiats."
There's a particular kind of breezy tone to well done forties comics that I'm really beginning to dig. The look here is definitely derived from the many popular comedy duos that were still contemporary at the time, and yet the dialog isn't working to emulate that kind of comedy at all. I love conversation here. All the talk about basic training and whatever just feels comfortable and lively, and ends up having little do do with the plot. That makes the characters feel way more real than the simple pop culture knockoffs I was expecting.
ReplyDeleteI love the paint job on that Labubu. More like a model than a toy. It's hard to believe that's mass produced.