Sunday, December 17, 2023

Cynical Blog Post: I Wanna Hold Your Hand... Then Again, Maybe Not!

When I start becoming cynical about Love - and The Beatles - it's worth noting...

But fear not... I'm probably just working through the lingering aftereffects of "Our (recent) Crime Story", and I'll be as high as ever on the Beatles (...and, in the later years of their original band incarnation, they could be pretty "high" themselves) and Love in a short while! 

When The Beatles first sung "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", they probably never envisioned anything like this sequence from CAPTAIN AMERICA #103 (Marvel Comics, Cover Date: July, 1968)! 

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Or, just focus in the two panels that count...


POWDERED CORROSIVE?!  MICRO-FLAME THROWER?! 

That's enough to deter even a hopeless (but cynical) romantic like me!  ...Or even this guy...


Oh, and before we leave this issue, let's have a look at the cover and see The Red Skull and what may be the ugliest bunch of Nazis ever to (dis)grace a comic book...


...Including, at... (Ironic Phrasing Alert) the "far right"... a Nazi Mr. Spock! 


WOW!  Talk about "Mirror Mirror"! 


But, hey... It's not as if he hasn't done this bit before!


Um, maybe we'd best go back to something more pleasant... like hand-holding...


...Aw, skip it! 

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