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Jon d’Agostino thus gets his first $5 check for doing a comic cover all by himself.
Jon got $5, but how is Freddy gonna take out Blondie on a date after he spends his whole 50 cents on a shave? Maybe they’ll spoon in the park while “Bread-Head Cross-Hatch Man” watches…
Perhaps “BHCH Man” is Freddy’s pop, and will kick for the shave- He’s probably wondering if he’ll get his money’s worth since he needs a magnifier to see anything?
By the looks of the whiskers, I’d say this is a lighthearted teen version of “The Fly.” How fitting then that there is a wasp-waisted girl.
Mr. Lileks poses some compelling questions, but since this comic was “Approved by the Comics Code Authority”, I would hope they asked the same questions and received satisfactory answers.
I have never heard of this comic character. I am also confused about the cover. Why isn’t the girl in green staring at him rather than looking at us?
Too many questions.
50 cents for a shave?! No, no, no. I have it on good authority that a shave with a haircut is half that price!
D∈T
Charleton comics sucked, and sucked hard. I’m not surprised their Archie-lite character crashed on takeoff.
Interestingly, Sputnik-head kid still wears that hat. I saw him on TV explaining how fire doesn’t melt steel and why there’s no film of the Pentagon plane crash.
Do you think it is wrong to show interest in the chin-stubble of a young man or do you agree that it is okay?
I think we know what Nice Pete would say. . . .
@MikeH: I had the same question, until I realized that wasp-waist girl can see me through the computer screen.
And she’s absolutely right. I am quite the guy, if I say so myself.
I wonder about Ms. Orange Hair, the sheepdog. How does she see thru that hair covering her eyes?
Well, it’s obvious what’s going on here: What we’re seeing is Archie: The Next Generation. BHCM is actually Archie (he had the same crosshatches in his hair when he was 16). The blonde woman is Betty, whom Archie married (she still looks that young because of a lot of Botox)–notice she’s staring at Archie, not at Freddy. Freddy, of course, is their son. Or is he? I notice a certain strong resemblance to a certain other Archie character–and apparently so does Archie. He’s examining Freddie with a magnifying glass not to look at his whiskers, but to bolster his claim that Betty actually took up with Reggie many years ago and Freddy was the result. Betty is so happy to see him finally showing some cojones about the whole thing, that she can’t help but exclaim in glee.
The shaggy person in the background, of course, is the result of a desperate drunken union between Big Ethel and Hot Dog (Jughead’s shaggy sheepdog) and is best not spoken of again.
Sputnik-child is Archie and Betty’s real son. The hat is designed to keep the top of his head in place after an unfortunate encounter with a tribe of zombies. Note the blank expression.
Winterhawk, you’re scary.
What James has a habit of doing is taking an obviously ridiculous and somewhat indefensible comic book cover and extrapolate it into a condemnation of EVERYTHING that Charlton publishes.
Conspicuous absence of zits on chin.
Also, don’t rule out Orange-Hair is a male.
Ooh what a funky lady
She like it, like it, like it, like that,
Ooh he was a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady. . .
bgbear is scarier than winterhawk when rappin’
What James has a habit of doing is taking an obviously ridiculous and somewhat indefensible comic book cover and extrapolate it into a condemnation of EVERYTHING that Charlton publishes.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
One thing about this cover that bugs me (yeah – only the one?)… why does the magnifying glass also magnify the line that defines Freddy’s chin? You ‘d think it would just look like the rest of the inking, but that thing’s a half-inch thick. It’s like the artist used a real magnifying glass on his original and traced what he saw onto the cover. And yet, the lines of the barber pole remain normally-inked.
And yet NO ONE has asked the true key question:
What happened to “Lymphatic Fluid Superman”??
@Benzin Bruder: lymphatic fluid superman?
“gone to blisters, every drop.
when will they ever learn…
when will they ev-err learn.”
Last Tuesday when James wrote “Comic sins up later today” he indicated the sinful subject was: “Lymphatic Fluid Superman”.