Distress too strong a word? Absolute fear not an apt enough description? Permanent disfigurement from perspex splinters not worrying enough? Just missing out on being ripped apart by cannon shells not thrilling enough? Well if it's action you want, it's action you got. Some men look for action. These men are just silly.
The scruffy have always despised the neat.Is this a historical truth or anomaly? The scruffy would say it would be the other way around, that the neat have never liked them.
No doubt, neatness stands for order and discipline. Qualities that need exercise in order to be retained. Scruffiness rejects those constructs. Neat terrorists create an image that is difficult to reconcile and usually end as objects of ridicule as the people they are trying to replace are usually already neat. Scruffy terrorists trying to replace the scruffy in power, only perpetuate that the scruffy are unable to exercise discipline or order. Ideals always need to manifest themselves in outward appearances, otherwise, how would they be known?
One issue, two women! Not in the same frame mind you. This woman is also being ignored and cast in a non-participatory role, yet the woman has a right to be in this picture, she is a nurse after all, but she still isn't doing anything. The distant women are in Air Ace Picture Library, 329, Contact! If there is an issue where women speak or are active it will be noted with a considerable degree of jubilation.
There are women in pocket war comics, even though they rarely make an appearance, they are really only there to be ignored. They don't speak. They don't participate. They are not acknowledged. They never fight. They never speak. They are never victims or heroes. It really is quite odd. Surely there were women around when these comics were drawn. Weren't there?
It is a well known fact that the Spitfire was not very good at staying above water. Yet this fact and many others have been kept from us. It was a hopeless subaqueous deathtrap that made it more dangerous to the men who were forced to fly it than to the enemy. The Germans had a popular and taunting nickname for the Spitfire and regularly called them Das Flugzeug, das nicht schwimmen kann. Soggy Spitfire pilots who were rescued by the enemy from their sinking planes were often taunted by their captors with these cruel words. Yet this is not taught in history books. Don't let the lies continue. The truth is out there if you are brave enough to look for it.
Captain Obvious and Mr Know it All make a fine pair. Imagine being stranded at sea in a very small life raft with them. Somebody would be over the side and be finding the water real soon. It's surprising that between the two of them that they're not already quoting model numbers, serial numbers, the pilot's name, his tailor's name, the squadron's home airfield, the Pantone colour of the Condor, how many kilometres that particular plane has flown, how many miles it has already made, the next date for the engines' grease and oil change, and so on and so on. We all know men like this, and we may indeed be these men.
Junkanoo Float
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In the James Bond movie, Thunderball, he attends a Junkanoo festival with
floats. I am doing James Bond as one of my project and I am basing him on
the ...
F is for ____
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*Fail Safe (Jan, 2013)* *Faith of My Fathers (Sept, 2017)*
*Farewell to Arms, A (1932) (July, 2024)*
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It's KO-FI Time! Check out my new online shop
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This is a one-off post just to give my new website a plug. I've now joined
Ko-Fi and will be selling my comics there from now on instead of eBay.
I'l...
A Fond Adieu...
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On February 11, 2005, I began working on the blog that became Random Acts
of Geekery, and for nearly 12 1/2 years, with a few exceptions, there've
been pos...
A Zombie Apocalypse? Not again!
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Apocalyptic, Dystopian, Pre and Post-Apocalyptic, Pre Dystopian, etc etc..
If you believe what you see on the TV screen, a zombie apocalypse is coming
an...
Berni Wrightson's Classic SWAMP THING!
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*CLASSIC.*
clas·sic - \ˈkla-sik\
adjective
*1.* a *:* serving as a standard of excellence *:* of recognized value [
*classic* literary works]
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Not your average hostage situation
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I'm at Bruce Willis fan. There. I said it.
But my most favourite of his films from recent years is, not surprisingly,
not the latest die hard movies (in sp...
Hiroshi Sato - Super Market (1976)
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Some readers may know the late Japanese pianist Hiroshi Sato from his
excellent *Awakening* record with Wendy Matthews, or his work with ...
Wallace Wood and the Art of Self Promotion
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I can vividly recall the first time I encountered the work of the late,
great Wallace Wood at his full-on, no holds barred, sci-fi driven best. It
was wit...
Flying to…
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Jane-Emily
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Jane-Emily
by Patricia Clapp
published by Dell Books
Copyright 1969
Cover Illustation: Robert McGinnis
"She's dead, I tell you!
Emily's dead!"
Louisa wan...
Metal Men
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hoEkOPf0mJk
Thanks to my buddy Michael Anthony Carroll for the heads up! DC Nation will
be debuting a new Metal Men cartoon on ...
Out to Sea
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Apologies for the long radio silence here at *The Danger Digest*. Rest
assured the doors aren't permanently shuttered. I've just been recharging
my crea...
New Website
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For those of you who don't know, we have a new site devoted to the Flying
Fortress comic book. It's at FlyingFortressComic.com. . So please, check
out th...
You've really piqued my interest
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As I am sure you are all aware, there's been a bit of a fuss in recent
times pertaining to women of Islamic faith being allowed to wear their
Hijab, or he...
Take any War Picture Library, Battle Picture Library or Commando comic and you will always find those famous last words “arrgghhhhh” or even “donner und blitzen”.
Cowards try to prove themselves or officers interfere by trying to run battles “by the book”. The enemy is treacherous. Mysterious locations hold significant secrets. Sometimes a simple gun is the focal point of a unique karmic destiny.
There are those who are lost or left behind enemy lines where they invariably make a discovery – a hidden base, a wonder weapon or a traitor. The host of intangible struggles are often more significant such as the dark secret, the family shame, the family curse or the stigma of not being like the other chaps.
Strangely enough for stories about war and battle the killed the dead and the dying are usually absent.
There's a lot to like (and make fun of) among the dramatic titles, fantastic artwork, impossible stories, daring heroes, nasty bad guys, body building and not quite diamond rings advertisements.