Bizarro deano and jerry take on the aliens, love and rockets, penny century Martin & Lewis Impersonators Slaughter Alien Hordes in New Comic Book
Everyone remembers the heyday of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, but how many of us remember the cheap imitation duo of Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo? While Dino and Jerry got the radio shows, the magazine covers, and the hit movies, Mitchell and Petrillo got a co-starring role with Bela Lugosi...and a brutal battle with attacking alien forces. In the premiere issue of Love & Rockets: New Stories #1 (out this week and next in your more discerning bookstores and comic books shops), Gilbert Hernandez gives us "New Adventures of Duke and Sammy," and we've got a preview for you. Because who doesn't love comedy team knock-offs trapped on strange planets?
Snagged mid-concert and rocketed through space, Duke and Sammy end up on a strange alien planet (which compares not entirely unfavorably to Las Vegas), engage in some "eat or be eaten" slapstick, may or may not die once or twice, and (of course) gain superpowers.
Sadly, the superpowers don't hang around long enough to help our boys when they end up cheesing off the populace:
And the singing/comedy team has no choice but to resort to the sort of pluck that carried them all the way from The Colgate Comedy Hour to Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla:
If that's not enough for you, this book-sized wonder also has fifty pages of superheroines banding together in "The Search For Penny Century," courtesy of Jaime Hernandez.
In sum, the first issue of Love & Rockets: New Stories ensures you'll be able to meet the USDA's required amounts of CRAZY and AWESOME for the rest of the year. And if you catch yourself humming "That's Amore" as well (because, let's face it, Duke's song "'Deed I Do," is no "That's Amore"), so much the better.
6 comments:
Wow! That is so cool. I never knew about this. I'll definitely have to check it out. I love it. Thanks for posting about it. Very awesome.
Hey pallie Keith, I posted a Dinoalert over at the Dinopad 'bout this and so then I did some Dinosearchin' and found this great Dinoarticle 'bout the new comic book....wanna gets this in the worst Dinoway.....thanks for faithfully Dinopostin'
What a cool post - thanks Dino Martin Peters.
Glenn Bishop
Hey pallie Glenn, yeah it is such a Dinoblast....and hopes to get the Dinocomic...btw, have you been able to order the Matt Helm Lounge Dinoquartet yet?
Hey Thanks Dino Martin Peters. I am going to have my wife get that DVD set for me for Christmas.
Thanks again for the link.
Glenn Bishop
Hey pallie Glenn, no problemo dude...just a part of true Dinopalliedom...and wants everyone to gets their hot little hands on that Dinoquartet of Matt Helm flicks...and likes how Dinoappro that they'll be in your stockin' on the day that our Dino left our planet.....
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