Last week at Half-Price Books, I got Chester Brown's Paying For It, and while looking for more information on it, I found that Brown decided to add a new influence to his art, and the strange thing is, he writes about and draws the most mundane things in his whoremongering life, but this new influence is anything but:
Yes, this was an actual comic, published in December 1939. To quote TVTropes:
Also, he created Fantomah, the first Superheroine, a year and a half prior to Wonder Woman's first appearance (and, indeed, a few months before William Marston ended up working for DC Comics.) And, as you might have expected from the last video, she was weird, too:
Yes, this was an actual comic, published in December 1939. To quote TVTropes:
Quote:While it's likely that Hanks didn't realize he was creating a Lovecraftian horror that happens to be on our side, here you have a creature who inflicts terrifying fates on evildoers, whose powers run on nonsensoleum, whose origin, nature, and motives are totally unknowable, and whose home is something that's as impossible as he is.And just to drive home how bizarre it is, he lives on the surface of a star, and flies through space via "highly accelerated light waves in a tubular spacial," which barely even makes sense as a sentence in English, let alone an explanation for how he can fly.
Also, he created Fantomah, the first Superheroine, a year and a half prior to Wonder Woman's first appearance (and, indeed, a few months before William Marston ended up working for DC Comics.) And, as you might have expected from the last video, she was weird, too:
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.