Honor Among Punks

My scanner is not working and this is the only image of the cover I could find. Now let us start with some background on this amazing comic and me. I love Sherlock Holmes and I was in a punk band for many years. So you take these and combine then and you have a most buy for little old me. I sought it out to no avail and I found it after much time and forgetting the name. I was shown 2 issues back in the mid nineties by a friend and was hooked right then and there. This is a common trend in my comic book love someone shows it to me and I seek like a hound.

This comic is about a world where WWI was not so bad to be honest and WWII never happened making it so the British Isle never drifted away from the Victorian way of thinking dressing and thinking. Because of this  we get this world where Hitler died an old man with no power and hence the world truly never learned of real country wide evil. A young girl american in 1988 moves across to the pond as all Americans to this day seem to dream about and gets involved in with a girl Sharon Ford and her best friend Sam. During this time she gets involved with a gang know as the Bakerfields who are at war with another gang know as the Goths. The battle leads up to great violence and during a fight a robbery happens and fingers are wagging at all sides. Like any good mystery it is a rollicking good fun. This was not the story arc that got it firmly placed here though.

The second arc is the reason it is here all by itself which tells a tale of female empowerment that goes to a very dark place. It delves into what it truly means to hate oneself and how far one can be pushed around by society till the breaking point is reached. The only word I think I should use is this story arc is powerful and heavy handed in a good way to teach us how it truly feels to feel like an outcast something everyone tends to forget once that situation is removed from our lives. Sexuality is the way they handle that here and it is truly amazing. 

The art is to die for and I wish I had a few sample images but I do not due to the scanner not working when I turned it on to start working on this project. The reason I picked this comic up though is mainly due to my love of Sandman Mystery Theater which was drawn by the wonderful Guy Davis and this is another great comic to check out if you can find it.  He wrote the second arc the one that got it placed on here. The great Gary Reed did the writing of the first arc and some of his deadworld stuff may be on a future list if I can dig up my copies. I truly like to re-read or have the comic as a reference when doing this articles. Now like always beacuse I know people tned to be lazy here is a Buy It button for the world to use. This comic is rather rare but it tends to be on amazon randomly. 

Brat Pack

Comic books oh dear comic books. How I love thee and how I have wasted many an afternoon deeply enthralled as a child and later as a teen. I have been a fan of Rick Veitch since his work on Swamp Thing and I Can't Get No. This is a one shot he published awhile back and I had the pleasure of finding it and re reading it recently. I found it tucked away in a dust shelf in a comic book shop on a journey. It was a wonderful find as before I had only read the first two issues this was truly a treat.

This has a lot to do with Watchmen  meaning it is a another attack on superheroes taking it to the No No Place .  This comic is about how evil corrupts youth with everything it can muster in the world.

To start with this is about the death of sidekicks in the first few pages. Now the heroes of Slumburg,PA need new toys to play with I mean sidekicks and they go to an elder a priest that has found them sidekicks before young flesh and minds eager to bend to the heroes of this city. Leading to a setting that can be very easily driven into horrific and hateful situation filled with drugs and blood. This comic is all about the death of innocent and ravels in this feel. 

King Rad, The Mink,Judge Jury,Moon Mistress

So to explain the horrible let us walk through each of our heroes. I shall start with my personal favorite his Wonder Woman and her name is Moon Mistress. She is a super feminist thinking that men are worth nothing if they do not physical want her and will go to any means to enjoy sex. She her goal is to turn her sidekick into a raging whore like she is and is aging and truly hates herself for it.  Totally a truly fucked up persona of a woman that just needs to be loved and boned into happiness.

King Rad totally high like a kite and he needs the adrenaline to keep himself moving through these troubled times. His stunts are getting a bit erratic and truly he is embraced by the love of Live Fast Love Hard and Die with your Mask On. The tag line of this series. Also he is a little bit of flash and green lantern through into the mix.

The Mink well where to start here okay a check list here okay Batman check. Gay CHECK CHECK. Pedophile big red check so big it gleams in the sun with it's rhinestones kinda of like a group of gay pride dancing to the ymca at fill tilt through the streets of San Fran. Now I'll put this out here now I love the gays and well they truly are a blast to be around. My best friend well not to sound cliche is and to be honest what bothers me most is the pedophile that he is into talking about how fruit can get to be too ripe etc. This does not say all gays are pedophiles just that all pedophiles are evil.

Jude Jury oh my god did I say batman last time this is batman part 2. SO YES TWO HORRIBLE EVIL BATMEN. This one is drive to great lengths to give out law and order torture totally in a sexual manner who enjoys punishing minorities the most. It's a pleasure to see the horrors he gets up to in this comic. I will say no more about this one sorry. The true reason for this is due to the fact this comic is only 5 issues and would be spoiled way too quickly. 

The setting is a city on the verge of greatness saved before by a great hero who has quit and left. Now all that can be seen is great man leaving a  city still in danger and heroes that only care of themselves. This is the horror of this story. You truly need to see this city to believe all horror all the time.

Moving off of this plot and on to the art. IT IS AMAZING and dirty and hateful I shall now post a few sample images of this beauty of a comic.

Now if you wish to Buy it from amazon that was the link in blue go ahead and click it you know ya wanna! I love the joy of honesty people who buy the art they enjoy and well I hope you will honor my requests. If you read any of this and would like to discuss it feel free to post a comment and we shall.

Hello and welcome to the No No Place

Hello dearest Readers. My name is Travis and this is well I guess you can read the title. The No No Place and the purpose of this hear blog is to discuss things we do not wish to discuss in art cinema music and literature. The books that are not spoken about,the movies buried in time and the musics that takes us to the strangest places forever buried as well. So stay tune and soon the fear of the No No Place will take us to a magical land into of discovery.  Now the No No Place is a vague concept it's something truly buried or ignored in society. It can even be something praised for what may very well be the wrong reasons. Such as satirizing a group of people and then having that very seem group love your film.  I will be dealing these out in weekly installments or maybe even twice a week if it's a good week. I have quiet the back log of ideas new posts will go up Friday or Saturday given they are the days I have the most freedom to do so.