I still haven’t seen the Barbie movie. (I hear it’s great!)
But I do want to note that Tony Isabella wrote this before the movie came out. So, if the film has a similar joke, it’s copying Tony. Not the other way around.
And, Hollywood, we’re okay with that. Really. But if you want to send Tony, colorist Diego Jourdan Pereira (and me) some barrels of movie money, we are even more okay with that!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Frank Frazetta from the story “Brothers of the Wilderness” in The Durango Kid #4, April-May 1950. Published by Magazine Enterprises.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com’s presentation of the comic. The story begins on Page 28.
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SCENE: Close-up of a woman with pink hair who is looking out at the reader.
WOMAN: I’m living my best Barbie life. Like her, I have my own dream house...and my own dream car...and multiple professional careers...and a second dream house for my clothes. Life would be perfect if only...my hot boyfriend and I...had genitals.
1950 Art: Frank Frazetta Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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WOMAN: I’m living my best Barbie life. Like her, I have my own dream house...and my own dream car...and multiple professional careers...and a second dream house for my clothes. Life would be perfect if only...my hot boyfriend and I...had genitals.
1950 Art: Frank Frazetta Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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Wonderful! Very good. I haven’t seen the film, but now i’m intrigued.
You’re wrong Tipi! You and your canoe!! And Tyler? Him too!!!
That’s right, no man wants to be separated from his t.p.