December 2018

Hard Boiled Comix

This is the city, Los Angeles, California... there's a thousand stories in the big city, most of them not worth mentioning - this is one of them... Seems our tough femme gumshoe, Vikky Marlowe, has been disturbed while occupied with... er, something or other, by muffled noises in the next room... and the stealthy but well-meaning intruder might not get off with a "Ho-Ho-Ho..."

Ahem, so... did you ever wonder how these calendars come about? Seems that back in 2013 I'd scribbled out this Hard Boiled Xmas layout - but at the time I didn't take it any further... Then this year, for no good reason, I thought perhaps I'd finish it - mostly, I suppose, as I had nothing better in the way of Xmas ideas... Vikky Marlowe is a sort of Hard Boiled doppelganger version of Cutey Bunny's vixen nemesis and perhaps she was on my mind, as back in 2016 I'd written a new Hard Boiled story for her, which I'd recently dug out of the dog-eared an coffee stained files, thinking perhaps to post it on Tumbler or the like...

In the meantime, we all have the annual Xmas Xploitation Xtravaganza of gross consumerism to look forward to...Still, we all remember what the original Xmas was about, don't we? The story of Christ and his message of peace – but who was eventually sold out for 30 "pieces" (of Silver)... And this year it seems that in that same old Xmas spirit, the Chump in the whitehouse has jumped the holiday a bit by selling out American resident Jamal Khashoggi, for mega-bux in Saudi business deals (That is, the US arms companies selling them billions of bux in weapons, so that they can slay more ragged, starving Yemenis)... Betwixt Judas & Chump, It does seem that the payola for betrayal has increased considerably, but that's inflation for you... JQ

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December Calendar Pix:

Hard Boiled Xmas - small pix