by Moebius
Issue 2, August 1993
Epic Comics
issue 1 is here
Monday, July 17, 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
Ranxerox (April - May 1984)
Ranxerox
by Liberatore
from the April and May 1984 issues of Heavy Metal magazine
This standalone Ranxerox story (not to be confused with the inaugural 'Ranxerox' story that debuted in Heavy Metal in September, 1983), which was serialized over the April and May 1984 issues of Heavy Metal, is one of the best strips ever to appear in the magazine.
Ultraviolent, packed with satiric humor, and featuring a gang of homicidal, feral children who shoot squirtguns filled with acid (!), the plot shows a warped originality that is completely absent from modern-day comics.
Liberatore's artwork, which used Pantone markers to apply the colors, renders the seedy world of near-future Rome with the kind of prescient fidelity that is at once spot-on, but also a little disturbing......as if Liberatore had somehow traveled into the future and actually seen what the future Rome would (will ?!) look like in all its trashed, grafitti -strewn glory.............?!
Posted below in its entirety is 'Ranxerox.'
by Liberatore
from the April and May 1984 issues of Heavy Metal magazine
This standalone Ranxerox story (not to be confused with the inaugural 'Ranxerox' story that debuted in Heavy Metal in September, 1983), which was serialized over the April and May 1984 issues of Heavy Metal, is one of the best strips ever to appear in the magazine.
Ultraviolent, packed with satiric humor, and featuring a gang of homicidal, feral children who shoot squirtguns filled with acid (!), the plot shows a warped originality that is completely absent from modern-day comics.
Liberatore's artwork, which used Pantone markers to apply the colors, renders the seedy world of near-future Rome with the kind of prescient fidelity that is at once spot-on, but also a little disturbing......as if Liberatore had somehow traveled into the future and actually seen what the future Rome would (will ?!) look like in all its trashed, grafitti -strewn glory.............?!
Posted below in its entirety is 'Ranxerox.'
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town'
Live, March 2, 1972
'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' was written by Mel Tillis. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition recorded and released the song as a single in 1969. It was a major hit, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
I remember hearing the song on the radio back in those days, when I was a kid. The ongoing Vietnam war gave the song an edge that makes it one of the more effective antiwar songs of the era.
As a Pop Culture Footnote, Leonard Nimoy recorded his own version (!) It's not as bad as you would think...............!
'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town'
Live, March 2, 1972
'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' was written by Mel Tillis. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition recorded and released the song as a single in 1969. It was a major hit, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
I remember hearing the song on the radio back in those days, when I was a kid. The ongoing Vietnam war gave the song an edge that makes it one of the more effective antiwar songs of the era.
As a Pop Culture Footnote, Leonard Nimoy recorded his own version (!) It's not as bad as you would think...............!
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