Cockroaches and Lorraine being… well, Lorraine.
A classic page!
Having interacted with the rock group Fanny, a band from the early ’70s that was composed of only women, has taught me that the rock ‘n’ roll game was a boys-only club and still is for the most part. Bud’s expressing his view as well as mine in the second panel. And a recent run-in with a rather large cockroach in my home’s shower inspired this page as well. We do not have a cockroach problem, but my youngest son’s rental home is a haven for them. His home does not have a washer and dryer, so it seems one of the little bastards hitched a ride with his dirty laundry and ended up in my shower one morning. That will wake you up but fast as it was a big fucker too!
Speaking of Jeff’s pants, this song, “Jeans On” by David Dundas, was created as a jingle for a blue jeans TV commercial and became a one-hit wonder for the singer/writer in 1977. Most do not remember this song, but once you hear it, you’ll remember it for sure (if you’re old enough that is). It’s a real toe-tapper too.
NOTE: For those of you new to the comic, I post rough sketches of the pages and then as I update the inking and coloring during the week I update this page with the finished product. I am seeing lots of new visits to the comic’s site and figured I should explain how I operate around here.
Cockroaches…I remember one trip to Lajes in the Azores, I’d passed out in my room in the Transient Barracks after a 20 hour patrol down in an Argus (CP-107, look it up it was a good A/C) then overwing fuelling several thousand gallons through the same type of nozzle you fill a car with and topping up the engines with quart cans of oil (at 60+ gal/engine) and woke up to the biggest cockroach I’d ever seen about three inches from my nose. Apparently, from the size of the crowd gathered in the doorway, I make a lot of noise beating one of that size to death with a combat boot. 🙂
They can startled the hell out of you for sure. The bastard in my shower was about 4″ inches long and he was pounded dead with my shoe about 12 times even though the first hit killed him but good. Spiders and cockroaches are not my friends, especially in my house. To quote Homer Simpson “You go squish now!”
Jeans On — I do remember that song fondly. Even a music video clip; must have seen it on tv three decades before YouTube. It did have a strong blue jeans commercial vibe to it, but I didn’t mind, it was whimsy and aesthetically well done.
It’s a fun tune. Not something I’d listen to regularly, but when it comes up I don’t turn it off either.
You don’t see original jingles so much anymore, especially ones that are good enough to be turned into full length songs for airplay outside of ads.
Mostly now they grab whatever the copyright’s expired on (or cheap to get the rights to) and throw it into a commercial that has nothing to do with the tune used.
It’s particularly jarring in some cases, especially well known tunes from years gone by that have absolutely no relationship to the product on offer…I’m looking at you, car commercials 😛
Barry Manilow got his career started by doing commercial jingles like “Mac Tonight” for McDonald’s. Yeah, I hate when they use a song near and dear to your heart for a stupid shoe commercial. I think it’s advertising agency owners finally having the money to buy the rights to a song they like and use it no matter what.
Now for a blue jeans commerical, there’s only one tune/video that fits, and I’m not entirely sure it wasn’t used in one 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCu7LHBrwEc
I don’t remember that one at all. And all I can think of is that poor actress had to put up with a camera crew and director spending hours on end shooting her ass as she walked along the city streets at night. That must have looked good on her resume.
“Hey, what did you do last night?”
“Walked in tight jeans wiggling my butt for a music video.”
Being as it was the start of a long and varied career in movies and tv and eventually a successful real estate business with her husband of almost 40 years, I’d warrant she said something along the lines of “I got paid and didn’t even have to remember any lines” 😉
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112205/
Most likely the same went for the girls in Robert Palmer’s “addicted to love”, the guys in Shania Twain’s “Man, I feel like a woman” and “That don’t impress me much” and pretty much every other model that’s ever modelled anything.
Fear the arthropods of doom hahahaha for 320 million years they have been on this earth. “Roaches were here before us and here after us because they eat crap.” Al Bundy second episode of the first season. Too bad they don’t have roach hotel roach check in but they don’t check out mohahahaha. Better yet call Kelly Bundy the Verminator with the sexy costume ‘Casa la vista buggies.” and poor Bud dressed as king roach. roaches survived the Permian Triassic, the Triassic Jurassic, the Cretaceous Paleogene and Eocene Oligocene extinction events climate change, volcanism, asteroids and mass glaciation can’t stop them. But they are roach declines in Russia, the wood feed roach of Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia is endangered and Sinanda cave roach is extinct in the wild. I never take you to a arthropod show insects and spiders over 4 inches even a 12 inch centipede you have to see the jaws to believe. Roaches are eaten in Mexico and Thailand used as medicine in China even owned stared in movies. Madagascar hissing roaches featured in the 1975 movie Bug, the1977 movie Damnation Alley. I the 1990 comedy Joes Apartment they had taking roaches reminds one of William Burroughs book the naked lunch and Franz Kafka Metamorphasis. Plan 9 could sing the jazz band from Toronto the Shuffle Demons get out my house roach the roach out smarts them. I saw a German roach but he was a disappointment he didn’t goose step to Prenbenlied (song of Prussia). Nor dis he wear a pickelharbe helmet sport a handle bar mustache like Kaiser Wilhelm 2. To prevent food poisoning roaches do that I threw him out into the lawn and clean the apartment so he’ll never return though with the birds and spiders fat chance.
The original MTV short of “Joe’s Apartment” was hilarious! I bought it on VHS back in the day and watched it a lot until DVDs took over my household. “Damnation Alley” was one of those films that was really hyped-up as a great sci-fi/action film and ended up being a stupid film.
I always liked Damnation Alley, it was one of those “so bad it’s good” type of films.
It ranks right up there with early BBC sci-fi like the original Dr who and Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy.
On the plus side, while it only loosely followed the book, it did sort of keep the storyline mostly intact except for leaving it wide open for a sequel that never came 🙁
It might be interesting seeing what could be done with today’s sfx, but somehow the low budget ones worked and I don’t know if making the mbetter would be a good idea.
The ‘Landmaster’ is still around though so maybe someday…
Jan Micheal Vincent who incidentally was in the Tv show SWAT cool theme song was in the movie Damnation alley. Along with those M 16 better than AKs just western bias plus lighter cartridge. I prefer the Dutch/German made fennek four wheel nuclear, chemical and biological to the fictional land masters. Apart from being they look better but I should not under estimate the rocker without university degrees. As for Jeff try using a porta potty crawling with maggots now that’s gross showered after use the first chance. I guess Jeff wussed out so no Contressa but he’ll get a life time supply of diapers unless he can hold it. He can always be mommy’s wittle man.
Jan Micheal Vincent who incidentally was in the Tv show SWAT cool theme song was in the movie Damnation alley. Along with those M 16 better than AKs just western bias plus lighter cartridge. I prefer the Dutch/German made fennek four wheel nuclear, chemical and biological to the fictional land masters. Apart from being they look better but I should not under estimate the rocker without university degrees. As for Jeff try using a porta potty crawling with maggots now that’s gross showered after use the first chance I had. So grow a pair Jeff.
Yup, once it started playing I remembered it – but not till then. That’s a common exprience, though. I occasionally watch MTV 80’ies, and it happen time and again that they start a song with an artist whose name is totally unknown to me and I go ‘Why are they digging up such an obscure guy/gal/group?’. And then the song really gets going, and I go ‘Oh yes, you heard that one everywhere back in 198X’ – but I’d clean forgotten (or quite probably never knew) who the artist was
There’s a ton of songs from the ’70’s that I have no idea who the artist is, but I do know the song’s title when I hear it start on the radio or DirecTV music channel. Like you, when they show the artist, I go “Who the hell is that?” And then I have to Google them.
At least the tile is intact.
Love the dark shading (and the cracks in the tile).
Thank you! These pages are taking me forever as there’s just a lot of details to the pages. I have to work on the poses and do my best to avoid feet (I hate drawing feet). Then the background can’t be too generic as I have to set up an atmosphere and mood as well as establish where they’re at on each page.
The exteriors are going to kill me! Next I have to draw them in a recording studio, then a bar, then on the streets of New York. So, yeah, it’s gonna take me a while to get this story done.
I wonder if small fire breathing dragon things eat cockroaches ?
Then again these are New York cockroaches so it might go the other way…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoRuIZEJpU