Running a gag written by my pal Mike Pascale is a great way to start off the year! Thanks, Mike! And Happy New Year to all of us–no matter what happens in politics!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “Dear Jilted” in Brides in Love #8, June 1958. Charlton. The story begins on Page 3.
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↓ Transcript
SCENE: A man has his arm around a woman and is holding her hand with his other hand. There are fireworks in the sky behind them.
WOMAN: It's a new Year! With new hopes and dreams...
MAN: AND A NEW ELECTION!
WOMAN: WELL, THERE GO THE HOPES AND DREAMS!
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Humor, Fireworks & Pizzaz: Mike Pascale
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WOMAN: It's a new Year! With new hopes and dreams...
MAN: AND A NEW ELECTION!
WOMAN: WELL, THERE GO THE HOPES AND DREAMS!
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Humor, Fireworks & Pizzaz: Mike Pascale
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“I meant it darling! I felt the same way before this–I was fighting the feeling, that’s all!..
…And I promise you Jilted…I’ll make your husband the happiest man in the world! Why, you should hear how happy he is when we make love!”
…So next time, maybe go a little easy on the raw onions next time you make potato salad, ‘kay?”
…But that feeling has a mean left hook. And that’s why the lower half of my face looks a little sunken in.”
…And that’s why the stain isn’t going to come out of those pants.”
…So now I can tell you: yes. That skirt makes your ass look HUUUUUUUUGGGEE!”
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“I meant it darling! I felt the same way before this–I was fighting the feeling, that’s all!”
“So you can’t fight this feeling anymore?”
“I’ve forgotten what I started fighting for!”
“Can we bring this ship into the shore?”
“We’ll throw away the oars….forever!”
“I don’t care if our love is like a terrible song by an otherwise good band! Kiss me and then we’ll stain those pants so bad we’ll have to burn them after!”
Hope everyone gets some stains in their pants this 2024.
Thanks for all the great quips in 2023, Jams. Here’s to many more (and many more stains) in 2024!
As comedian James P. Connoly taught us:
Does that dress make your butt look big? No, but that is one big fat dress!!
Happy New Year, Rex!
HNY back atcha, big fella!!
Gotta keep fighting that feeling. To give in to it, well, that way lies madness. Madness! The need to return to the old ways of strange desires.
Give in to the feeling and soon you’ll be writing checks your body can’t cash. You’ll have to change your name and move to another state again.
Basically, pick a different part of your body to use as the navigation system for your life.
Happy New Year, Dave!
And to you as well! Looking forward to fun times here at Last Kiss in 2024.
Just took my great niece and her (sort of) cousins on their first visit to a comic book store last Friday. 5th, 8th, and 10th graders respectively.
Quite an eye opener for them. My great niece bought two volumes of “Squirrel Girl”. The 10th grade girl bought some pretty bloody stuff. The 8th grade boy stuck with Spidey, and Batman.
I was, of course, the money.
The store reminds me of the Comic Book Center of Pasadena in Big Bang Theory. Every time I’ve been there I see the same regulars searching through the thousands of books.
You are a good–nay, great uncle!