Comments on: B-But I’m N-Not Bonnie!

By: niall

niall — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:19:12 +0000

Well, they did dare to be different, betting perhaps that the intersection in the old Venn diagram of Donovan fans and Wehrmacht cheerleaders would prove sufficient to pay the bills. Those Donovan fans are an elusive bunch, though.

By: fústar

fústar — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:50:15 +0000

A basic rule of successful comics is that the protagonist is always the guy/gal you feel moved to root for. The creators of Enemy Ace were (I'm sure) fully aware of this and had to turn a blind eye to the young fellas baying for allied blood. By way of contrast look at Blitzkrieg. It began and ended in the blink of a monocled eye - probably as a result of putting unsympathetic baddies front and centre.

By: niall

niall — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:32:07 +0000

In a fair and just reality, Enemy Ace would have been popular enough to star in adverts. Enemy Ace: Mein Gott! Captain Britain is headed right for me! These Hostess Fruit Pies should slow him down! Captain Britain: Enemy Ace! You've shot down your last noble son of Blighty, you - Hostess Fruit Pies!... Well, you know how it goes.

By: copernicus

copernicus — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:55:04 +0000

The hysterical address to the readers of Enemy Ace is genius.

READERS! Why do you insist the human killing machine kill again?!

Readers?! Readers….?

Yes. The blood lust was upon the clamouring ten year olds and they would not listen to reason even if it meant death to the allied fliers!

By: niall

niall — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:07:42 +0000

Also, you can trace Enemy Ace’s fall from grace as his title runs out of gas. When the costumed monomaniacs start rolling in, the best part of the show’s typically over. I don’t think it can get much worse than a cover with Hammer shooting at Batman as the Detective leaps from a Sopwith Camel.

By: niall

niall — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:39:48 +0000

Fústar, perhaps we, the consumers, are evil, and yer man’s going to kill us. O dear.

By: fústar

fústar — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:06:20 +0000

devo, RE: The album covers, these are two of my favourites.

What's Next? What indeed. A descent into obscurity? Being trampled to death?

Is that guy a goodie and is this his triumph over evil? Or is he the last man standing of the evil brigade whom we are about to slay? And who burned the city in the background? Questions, questions...

By: fústar

fústar — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:53:01 +0000

devo,

I personally think he looks better “shaven” (which seems to me a rather odd-sounding adjective/past participle). He’s joining the ranks of other cool comic slapheads like Professor X and Lex Luthor. It’s not a leading man look ’tis true, but he’ll make a killing as a devious and urbane European baddie.

Niall,

“Enemy Ace” looks a work of genius. I can’t believe (yet again) that I’ve never read it. That DC reprint has gone right to the top of my wants list.

By: niall

niall — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:19:52 +0000

Hm. Hugo was no Enemy Ace, I’ll tell ya.

I can sympathise with Barry, though. I’ve shaved my head a few times because I hated my hair. I get the impression that it’s a little more personal and less “I’ve been drinking, where are the clippers!!!”, though.

By: devo

devo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:11:15 +0000

oh, and the worst album covers section at coverbrowser.com are a treat, though they don’t yet include the new Ted Nugent album ‘love grenade’ a.k.a smell the glove.

By: devo

devo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:06:27 +0000

‘The Man who hated his hair’ looks like a cautionary tale about vanity and the perils of spending to much time ‘waxing the barnet’ in front of the mirror. No doubt the ‘hair of Hades’ took on a life of its own and destroyed everyone he ever loved (probably involving strangulation).
Though it does seem Barry was allowed to keep his fashionable soul patch which does throw the whole thing into question.