Sergent Laterreur

And now, for my 500th post…

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… I bring you a of ‘clip show‘ of sorts: excerpts from past entries of this blog, but with a slight twist. For, unlike your textbook clip show, I’ll be drawing from episodes you’re probably unfamiliar with. After all, while this is my 500th piece, this is our blog’s eight hundred and fortieth: quite enough of a tangle to get hopelessly disoriented in.

I have culled from the earliest days of WOT?, when we had precious few readers — each one precious! Five picks from the lot seems a reasonable ratio: neatly one per hundred.

While many of our posts from those days have since, one way or another, found their audience (or vice versa), these dispatches have languished in obscurity — deservedly or not, who can say?

Here they are, in chronological order and everything:

Unexpected Delights: John Severin, 1971-72 (Published on Jan. 5, 2018)

While it seems like everyone and their probation officer dig Severin, this look at Marvel’s ‘Picture Frame’ era got lost in the shuffle.

“Cartography of a nowhere-land”: Patrick Woodroffe at Warren (Published on Apr. 26, 2018)

This one was a gathering of English fantasy artist Patrick Woodroffe (1940-2014)’s covers for Warren Magazines. You may have seen his fabulous cover for Judas Priest’s 1976 LP Sad Wings of Destiny.

Free Inside Package: James Sturm’s The Cereal Killings (1992-95) (Published on June 10, 2018)

A love letter to one of my favourite series, sadly obscure. I’m still surprised and grateful that it got finished — and in such fine fashion.

Barracks Life With Le Sergent Laterreur (Published on June 23, 2019)

A truly singular concoction from the pages of Pilote at its 1970s peak. Honestly, you don’t need to read French to grasp its appeal.

Celebrity Car Crash Corner! (Published on Aug. 24, 2019)

A ghoulish and gloriously fitting backup feature for Pat Mills’ unhinged Death Race 2020 (1995-96, Roger Corman’s Cosmic Comics). I collected them all so you don’t have to!

Incidentally, this is all you’ll be seeing of me this month — it’s not a case of burnout: I’m just furiously cobbling together this year’s Hallowe’en Countdown, and that takes time. Thanks for your patience and loyalty, and see you in October!

-RG