I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited to post a new Last Kiss comic. I’ve been looking forward to this day since early April when Tony Isabella bowled me over with an audacious idea.
Tony suggested doing an ongoing storyline featuring the love-struck Abby Amour. To make it even better, all the art is from a public domain romance story by the great Frank Frazetta.
Every Friday we’ll be posting new Abby Amour episodes. For how long? I’m not sure. But right now we have enough done for almost two more months. And Tony is still writing more—winging it until he comes up with the perfect conclusion to the storyline.
I’m looking forward to each new Friday. I hope you are too!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Transcript:
SCENE: Uniformed Joe Cupid (as Love Cop) talks to Lt. Abby Amour.
CAPTION: From the casebook of Joe Cupid
LOGO: LOVE COP
JOE: Dump him, Abby. Only a jerk doesn’t love a woman in a uniform!
ABBY: I could love a man in a uniform, Joe!
ABBY: A man like you!
JOE: You’re pretty easy on the eyes, dollface…
JOE: …but these streets are my girlfriend!
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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CAPTION: From the casebook of Joe Cupid
LOGO: LOVE COP
JOE: Dump him, Abby. Only a jerk doesn’t love a woman in a uniform!
ABBY: I could love a man in a uniform, Joe!
ABBY: A man like you!
JOE: You’re pretty easy on the eyes, dollface...
JOE: ...but these streets are my girlfriend!
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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Sexual harassment in 1953. This was still happening when I joined in 1979 but seemed to finally reducing when I retired in 1999.
Hopefully, it’ll continue to diminish–in both frequency and intensity–as the years pass. But we’ve got a long ways to go even in the nonmilitary.
Wait…the streets are his girlfriend…he’s been saying he has a nasty case of road rash…there are all those potholes on my way into work…
My morning commute is a social disease!
So many commutes to work are!