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The Golden Age thread is chockablock with poor art, bizarre anatomy, unintentionally (?) suggestive elements, general nuttiness. WTF, right?
Then there are the other ones. Every so often I run across a cover that seems like it should "make sense" but I can't quite work out what the artist was trying to convey. It probably comes down to one of three things:
cultural references no longer commonly understood
poorly realized situation/gag
99 out of 100 people understand it just fine (I am the 1%!)
I'll post 'em, you guys help me out. Deal?
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Can we just exclude all Liefeld covers right off the bat and accept that they are in a class all their own?
From: Turn around... | Registered: Jul 2003
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The Wikipedia disambiguation page for Eight-ball says that it's "U.S. military jargon for a soldier often in trouble"
OK, that's sort of making sense. But how does the guard house play into it? I've heard of standing guard as punishment, but that sounds pretty plush when compared to a frozen trench on the Russian front*. (The comic is dated January 1946 which probably means it was written months earlier, possibly even when the war was on.)
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The only thing I can think of is she is a mother who doesnt want her son going off to war and is pretending he's crazy?
8 ball = "Section 8", which is when the army dismisses you for cracking up.
"he's in the guard house" = meaning, that's where they'd lock up a crazy person? I'm unsure of that one. "We locked him in the guard house" *sounds* like it could be a recurring phrase in the 40's, but I cant pinpoint where I've heard it.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Now I cant tell if the man is a soldier or some milkman / trash collector mash-up.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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There we go. I'd only been thinking of a guard house as a guard BOOTH (at an entrance of a camp) but guardhouse can mean JAIL in the military.
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What the F is in her left hand, and what the F is she doing with her right hand?
That could be a special kind of cake pan, I guess. I'm no expert in the field.
As for the right hand, that sort of looks like testing a cake for 'doneness' with a toothpick, but it doesn't work. First, if that is NOT the pan but the actual cake, well, shiny blue/black cake? That could be explained by poor touch-up work to the photo. BUT...who turns a cake out of a pan and THEN tests it?
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NO ONE holds a cake like that to test it, but I'll ignore that because the scene is exaggerated for the camera.
Also, if your cake is burned SO BAD that it is blue/black, there's no way you'd test it. You'd know it by the smell. Again, exaggeration for the camera -- fine.
It's a photo so I expect "reality" (as opposed to something in a drawing that doesn't work) but of course they didn't burn a cake just to take this picture. So what IS that prop in the model's hand?
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Jeepers! She's just a young, inexperienced teenager! She clearly has no idea what she's doing.
Hence her taking dating advice from clearly gay actors!
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