tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489622848939498705.post512892489589415308..comments2024-03-18T17:34:56.486-04:00Comments on Four-Color Shadows: Starchie-Harvey Kurtzman/Will Elder-1954Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489622848939498705.post-20535569960199412972013-11-18T06:41:44.794-05:002013-11-18T06:41:44.794-05:00I never appreciated it in my youth, but Elder'...I never appreciated it in my youth, but Elder's work is just phenomenal. Bottleneck's persistent disgusting spitting, Starchie's trembling chin in the next-to-last panel, Mr. Weathernot's shoes, Starch' taking one final hard drag on his cigarette while Wedgie viciously sinks his fist into a crying child's guts at the end of page three...Elder had a real feel for violence, despair, filth, and decay, and it would be utterly spirit-crushing if it wasn't so funny.<br /><br />And my God, Biddy and Salonica and those sweaters...I'm grateful Elder gave 'em such awful acne so I could move on and keep reading. Can you imagine anyone making funny of a high school principal horndogging after students today?<br />BillyWitchDoctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14311279565432013472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1489622848939498705.post-41688251314164131562013-11-17T01:03:17.792-05:002013-11-17T01:03:17.792-05:00I love every bit of it, specially the fight with h...I love every bit of it, specially the fight with his parents and the "Bottleneck was no Jughead" bit (Since Bottleneck is a parody of Jughead).<br /><br />The Disapproved Reading seal is a parody of the Approved Reading seal that Archie comics put on there prior to the Comics Code (Which they help co-founded).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12502707360040238028noreply@blogger.com