DECONSCRIPTION-Writings of Curtis Cottrell Comics Trip
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Alley Oop
Caveman Alley Oop With his faithful dinosaur Looks for Miss Oola, His sidekick cracking in rhyme Antediluvian time.
Antman
I can talk to ants. My silver cyberhelmet Tunes to their wavelength, Then I ride to victory With my Myrmidon army.
Asterix the Gaul
From Armorica, Asterix and Obelix, Miss Panacea, Warrior Tragicomix And Getafix, The Druid.
The Atom Why does Doctor
Light Appear only black
and white, Illuminating Our hero caught
in a lamp Cyan, yellow
and magenta?
Barbarella
An angel is love Psychedelic space cadet Bound by the black queen On Duran Duran's machine Orgasmatron from above
Beany and Cecil
Beany and Cecil The big seasick sea serpent Had buttons for eyes. They began as hand puppets Before they became cartoons.
Blackhawk
Blackhawk squadron of Paramilitary jets Swoops in for the kill. Another petty tyrant Falls to the coup d'evil.
Brenda Breeze
Skirt above her knees, Brenda Breeze was quite a tease, Made me pant and wheeze. Since the feminists complain We won't see Brenda again.
Buster Brown
That brat Buster Brown Almost electrocuted His poor old father When he fixed the radio To fall into the bathtub.
Chip and Dale
These good buddies are The epitome of cool, Calm and collected. Their etiquette never missed. "After you." "No, I insist."
Dennis the Menace
Dennis the Menace And neighbor Mister Wilson Are at it again Displaced Oedipal complex Or Kronos eating children?
Doctor Seuss
The Cat in the Hat Went down to Mulberry Street For green eggs and ham Horton hears a Who today Or the Grinch that stole Christmas
Doonesburial
Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing, And The Great Gonzo Shark Hunt Duke Hunter Thompson's Cremains shot into the sky Just like the circus
Donald Duck
Uncle Scrooge McDuck, Inventor Gyro Gearloose, And Donald's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, Ain't no Mickey Mouse outfit. Fearless Fosdick Get wildroot,
Charlie, And square the
end of your chin, Then you'll get
your man Unless it's Sadie
Hawkins, And then you
run for your wife. Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
and Dale Flee from Ming
the Merciless Personifying Paranoid xenophobic Fear of all things alien.
G.I. Combat
Ride The Haunted Tank With Jeb Stuart on the track Eponymously Mapping ghostly strategies Against the ghastly Nazis.
The Great Pumpkin Good grief! A pumpkin Has taken root
in my yard: Washed up by
the flood From Hurricane
Katrina Just in time
for Halloween.
Green Lantern Imagination Focused through
alien lens Brings the ring
power. You are only
limited By the freedom
of your will. Hawkman Weapons of the
past Join science
of the future: Fight present
danger With a beautiful
partner Flying on waves
of the wind.
Iron Man
If you have money, You can replace your body With metallic parts. Unfortunately, one part Needs more than a little oil.
The Katzenjammer Kids
Katzenjammer Kids Play their mischief-making pranks On the poor captain, Who wishes he had never Come to this tropic island.
Krazy Kat A brick on the
head Brings sudden
enlightenment And encouragement To the eternal
triangle With rat and
Officer Pup. Little Nemo Living in the
dreams Of a flying rarebit
fiend, Possibilities, Clown, prince
and savage bushman Merge with baroque arabesque. Gerald Mac Boing Boing
Onomato boy Gerald Mac Boing
Boing, Cousin of John
Cage, Industrial ancestor Audio expressionist.
Bill Mauldin
Take a tour of the European Theater With our dogface pals Bold GI's Joe and Willie Tired of wading through the mud
Moonraker
Down the mountain pass A Bentley skids off the road The rocket's hijackers The werewolves hound our hero But Bond is back in action Plainclothesman Hawk nose and
square jaw, A grotesque heiroglyphic Of law and order: Law of commercial
design; Art of sequential
order. Icon of action: Car curves around
a corner; Tracy dodges
past, Swasticated arms
and legs, Coattail signifying
speed. A reader complains, "Your villains
are so ugly!" Popular phrenology Characterizing
affects. There's nothing
cute about crime. Flattop, B.B.
Eyes, Littleface, Pruneface,
Shakey, Breathless Mahoney, Mumbles, Mole,
The Brow, The Blank, Stooge Viller
and Sketch Paree. Too many questions On two-way wrist
radios: Proper procedure Calls for us
to go at once, Sign off with
a big ten-four. Popeye
Popeye, goon
and jeep Enact Thimble
Theater Saving Olive
Oyl From evil sea
hag potion Exclaiming, "Et
tu, Bluto?" Buck Rogers
Anthony Rogers, Airlords of Han nemesis Better known as Buck, Awoke in a world of war Ruled by anti-gravity.
Leonard Sansone
Who's that lurking here? The Wolf in GI Clothing With a nasty leer For Miss Red Hot Riding Hood And he don't mean her no good
Showcase Jack Kirby’s
heroes Challengers of
the Unknown Live on borrowed
time— Puzzle in a mystic
box Courtesy of Gardner
Fox.
Spiderman
Radioactive Peter Parker picked a pack Of gossamer web Swinging from all the rooftops Just hanging around downtown.
The Spirit
Detective comics And sequential narrative On the edge of time Humor, glamor and suspense Zoot suit, wide brimmed hat Terry and the Pirates
The Dragon Lady Sends a horde of her henchmen To greet downed pilots, While she waits in her salon Smoking a long cigaratte. Thor Come along with
me, Journey into
Mystery. What’s
that eerie sound? Strike your hammer
on the ground Be the thunder
god you are!
Wonder Woman
Why is Diana More sexy with her glasses Than Amazon garb? When she goes into action She loses all her repose. Zap
The Checkered
Demon's Creator S. Clay
Wilson Recoiled in horror When shown a
child porn comic: "I don't dig 'short eyes,'" he sighs.
Phoebe Zeitgeist
Mike O'Donahue Wrote absurd adventures in Evergreen Review No tarpits or ex-Nazis Tarnish the name of Zeitgeist
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