Author: DOuG pRATt

Pulse-Pounding ALL JOE Post!

Joe Sinnott felt his inking style meshed best with John Buscema’s drawings, and I agree with that. But it’s Joe’s work with Jack Kirby that will be best remembered. Here is a prime example.

Tales of Suspense 94, page 2

Joe on Gene Colan was a surprisingly good pairing.

Captain America #116 page 1

Gil Kane was his own best inker. Joe’s inking worked, but it wasn’t an ideal match-up.

Tales of Suspense 90, page 5

Neal Adams and Joe were two masters of comic book art who admired each other’s work, but their styles weren’t complementary.

Thor #180, page 4

The cover art by Buscema for Silver Surfer #1 has Joe’s name written in pencil, but it was obviously inked by Frank Giacoia. Okay, so this post isn’t 100% Joe!

Silver Surfer #1

The Green-Eyed Monster of Boston

My left-handed baseball glove, used to play ball in gym class.

I’m the odd man out among most of my friends, because I’m not a dyed-in-the-laundry Red Sox fan. I enjoyed playing baseball as a kid, at least until needing glasses but, like Stephen Colbert, professional sports doesn’t interest me. I like to go running, and I used to participate in the Boston Marathon, but that’s it.

I am obviously very much into enjoying and appreciating music, to the extent of being a former radio DJ, and yet I’ve never felt much of a connection to Bruce Springsteen. So it’s perhaps semi-ironic that my favorite song by the Boss is “Glory Days”.

What got me started on this was watching “Fenway Park”, the first episode in the PBS series Iconic America, with rich guy David Rubenstein. Next year will be the 20th anniversary of the Red Sox ending the Curse of the Bambino. The documentary makes the case that the curse was less about superstition and Babe Ruth, and more about management and longtime owner Tom Yawkey.

Gin & Orange for Christmas

At 9 PM tonight this is where I’ll be.

https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/135080

Until then, on this Christmas evening I will be watching Top Secret!, the totally whacked-out follow-up to the totally whacked-out Airplane! This is the movie that made Val Kilmer whatever it was that Val Kilmer became. It asks and answers the question, “What if the Nazis had held onto power in East Germany at the end of WWII, and where the French resistance continued to resist?”

https://youtu.be/FHUgwQjO9Mo