More goofy Last Kiss fun from the great Tony Isabella!
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “The Sea Green Eyes!” in FIRST KISS #5, 1958. (This scan is from the publisher’s black & white photostats. The published comic was in color.)
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman seated at a restaurant, holding a menu. Man across the table is standing, leaning towards her.
WOMAN (thinks): Quiet restaurant. Lovely flowers. He’s gonna pop the question.
MAN: My darling, I have something important to ask you…Star Wars or Star Trek?
NEXT: This is what it sounds like
when doves cry…
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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SCENE: Woman seated at a restaurant, holding a menu. Man across the table is standing, leaning towards her.
WOMAN (thinks): Quiet restaurant. Lovely flowers. He's gonna pop the question.
MAN: My darling, I have something important to ask you...Star Wars or Star Trek?
NEXT: This is what it sounds like
when doves cry...
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk396
WOMAN (thinks): Quiet restaurant. Lovely flowers. He's gonna pop the question.
MAN: My darling, I have something important to ask you...Star Wars or Star Trek?
NEXT: This is what it sounds like
when doves cry...
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk396
“Well the world could certainly use a sequel to ‘My Left Fist: A Prisoner’s Love Story’!”
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“I want to go back to writing!”
“And I want to be able to introduce myself as a pretty young virgin. But you just can’t be something you’re not.”
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“Great! I’ll bribe Reese Witherspoon! If she can move copies of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, your crap will sell like diet pills at a modeling agency!”
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“I want to go back to writing!”
“Okay. But we all figured out where Waldo is. So you’ll have to come up with a new gimmick.”
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“I want to go back to writing!”
“Yes Mr. Martin. We all want you to go back to writing, as opposed to whatever the hell Game of Thrones ended up being.”
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“I want to go back to writing!”
“Well those who can do. And those who can’t show up at my office to annoy me with their blather for hours on end instead of going home and just. Bloody. Frickin’. Doing it!”
Is there any Game of Thrones happy with how it turned out? Not me.
I’ll admit the ending (mostly) makes sense from a certain perspective. (If you close your eyes and hold your nose.) But certainly not satisfying.
Jams is right. Those who can write do just that. The only moderately successful author I know is a writing junkie. He’s just gotta put words in a row every day or he gets more than just twitchy.
True enough. But by the way, being even a “moderately successful author” is still a major accomplishment these days!
Q: “Star Wars or Star Trek?”
A: “RED DWARF!”
Is it just me or does that guy look like a cross between “Mr. Botox” and a molester?