In fact, I believe William Moulton Marston once said of the series, "You know, that comic has too much bondage in it."
First, there's this cover, which must have flown off the shelf, with upside-down, crucified, spread-eagled Blackhawk.
Here are just a few more randomly selected images from The Blackhawk Archives:
I think Blackhawk isn't flinching because this happens to him pretty much every day.
"Scream, Blackhawk, Scream': now that should be the title of the Blackhawk movie.
If this blog were Armagideon Time, it would, first, be smarter, funnier, and better written. Second, it would contain mp3s for X-Ray Spex's "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" and Gang of Four's "I Love a Man in Uniform" to go along with this post.
What are they going to do with that pot!?!? Do they have some sort of totally inappropriate understanding of "teabagging"?
ReplyDeleteMy good Doctor:
ReplyDeleteEverytime I read your blog I think to myself, "Wow, this is what AT could have been if I didn't (a) let the music carry the slack, and (b) get tossed out of graduate school."
You're spot on with those musical selection ideas, though.
Very very late coming to this post, sorry (followed a link to a link etc).
ReplyDeleteI had no idea about the bondage - my first encounter with the Blackhawks was in the paperback novel from the early 80s. I had always assumed, even since the age of 10 or so when I picked it up at the supermarket, that the bondage was just something icky/weird Rotsler, the author, came up with by himself. Interesting to see he didn't.