SO....what's a PorPor Book ?
'PorPor' is a derogatory term my brother used, to refer to the SF and Fantasy paperbacks and comic books I eagerly read from the late 60s to the late 80s.
This blog is devoted to those paperbacks and comics you can find on the shelves of second-hand bookstores...from the New Wave era and 'Dangerous Visions', to the advent of the cyberpunks and 'Neuromancer'.
Heavy Metal Preview from National Lampoon March 1977
Here's a blast from the Pop Culture past: in its March, 1977 issue National Lampoon offered a nine-page preview / advertisement for the very first issue of Heavy Metal magazine, appearing on stands that same month. The preview includes copies of September 1976 correspondence between Leonard Mogel, President of the National Lampoon; Matty Simmons, the Lampoon's Chairman; and Editor Sean Kelly, revealing their decision to produce an American version of Metal Hurlant. Because, as Kelly states in his letter, 'the people who like the NatLamp would love Heavy Metal '. Here's where it all started, back in 1977. Toss aside those Marvel comics and Warren magazines and fire up a joint: something New is coming...............!
Buckaroo Banzai Official Comics Adaptation Bill Matlo (writer) and Mark Texeira and Armando Gil (art) Part One Marvel Super Special No. 33, 1984
I can't call The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension all that great a science fiction film, nor one of the better films of the 80s. When I first watched it when it came out in the late Summer of 1984, I though it was so ardent in its campiness that it would up being incoherent. Even today when it comes on TV I can't bring myself to sit down and watch it from the opening credits to the ending, although I will make the effort to view selected segments of the film - such as the immortal scene with Penny Priddy at Artie's Artery ('No matter where you go, there you are') and the march by the cast through the Los Angeles storm drains shown in the closing credits. The Marvel Super Special that provided a comic-book adaptation of the movie is an easy read, and makes the film's plot coherent, which is no small thing. I'm going to post the entirety of the comic adaptation as a two-parter; Part One is below. If there is interest, I'll also post the 'making of' pictorial essay that was included in the Super Special...............?
