Day Two of Adventures into Weird Worlds #10 and also our Lyric Challenge contest! Today we have a great Bernie Krigstein creature classic… it’s one of my favorite tales by him, and one that undoubtably helped spawn the countless imitation stories that used this same plot in the Silver Age monster-fests yet to come. Awwwesome.
“Many miles away, something crawls to the surface,
Of a dark Scottish lake…” (Synchronicity 2 by The Police)
Bernie Kriegstein is one of the most underrated artists in comic history , he was years , if not decades ahead of his contemporaries ; never saw this story , anyway for me it's already a classic !
ReplyDeleteas for the "lyric contest" , I can't compete with Patrick , but it's amusing , so I'll propose a verse from Metallica's "seek and destroy" ...
" RUNNING ,BULLETS WILL FLYING , PEOPLE WILL DYING , ONE THOUSAND DEATHS" ...
Well I missed yesterday, back when I thought I had seven days to post three soundtrack lyrics for this difficult assignment. Now I see I really only have five days. So today I'm doing the whole soundtrack for this post, which will hopefully account for two entries.
ReplyDeleteWe start with the typical deedle-deedle-dump pah pah of the credits, flowing into the wee-weedle doo doo doo of a really boring day in class. Finally! The chump-paddah-paddah dee (repeat) of a fun fishing afternoon, slowly fading into the Beetles:
"Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen." ...crescendoing at panel six page two with
"I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob."
Next, our heroes are dunna dunna dah-dah, dunna dah-dah running for their lives, then a moment of baaah-biddy-baaaah safety (whew!) before buhhh-buhhh drones the impending duh!-duh! doom! as they discover the lake is actually full of those monsters! We cut to a montage of swirling newspaper headlines (wheedle-wheedle-WHEEDLE dah! DAH!) and the brump brumpo tiddy brump march as the talking heads detail the military plan on the chalkboard. Somewhere in here, the track is taken over by the Ramones singing
"Somebody
somebody put something in my drink"
and this culminates in the tweedly-bum-bum deedle DUM-DUM relief as all the lake monsters roil up and die!
But wait! The chump-paddah-paddah dee (repeat) wells up again, shrilling out into kree-kreee-baddah-EEEEEEEEE as everyone learns the error of their own prejudice just before the world is taken over by EVEN WORSE MONSTERS! Kreee. Kreeeeedle KREEEEE! Rumble-rumble doom-doom over the credits.... The end (?).
THIS IS A PHENOMENAL KRIGSTEIN STORY! WOW!! I WANT A GIANT POSTER ON MY WALL OF THAT LAST PANEL
ReplyDeleteAND GOOD LUCK TO ANYONE WHO CAN TOP MR CALVINS BRILLIANT SOUNDTRACK, AWESOME JOB!
"all forms / genres of music are most welcome"
ReplyDeleteExcept that, if anyone uses an actual Killers song in this one, I will not hesitate to give you wicked Indian Burns with my tail.
>not hesitate to give you wicked Indian Burns with my tail.
ReplyDeleteActually that sounds like something I'd rather enjoy. Alot.
But yeah, I don't wanna sway anyone's vote this week, but so far Mr C has gone above and beyond the contest with the most inspired musical concept, and I'm referring specifically to the chump-paddah-paddah dees and the Rumble-rumble doom-dooms. He has effortlessly scored today's Krigstein Monsterfest the way Akira Ifukube would have.
Man, Krigstein really had a great style- I love his monsters for sure!
ReplyDeleteSilvano, don't worry about outdoing me on the lyrics thing- I am just doing the contest for fun this week since I was appointed a guest judge!
Mr.Cavin really did a great job today- cool concept for the background music and all!
So my choice for today comes from METALLICA and their legendary "Pastor of Muppets" album- the song "The Thing That Should Not Be" seemed appropriate:
" Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Timeless sleep
Has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the shadows is rising
immortal in madness you dwell
Not dead which eternal lie
Stranger eons death may die
Drain you of your sanity
Face the thing that should not be"
Looking forward to the rest of the entries this week!
Creature of the Abyss (White Skull)
ReplyDeleteIn the highland, there is a hiding place
In the highland the monster lives
Under the water it is concealing
Creature of the water we want to see
Chorus:
Survivor from earth attack
Hidden in the sea and lake
You are the only one
Creature of the abyss
Monster from the lake
great krigstien story never saw this one before
ReplyDeletebet blue oyster cult has a good song about sea monsters
For the balance-of-nature theme:
ReplyDeleteTODD:
The history of the world, my sweet --
LOVETT:
Oh, Mr. Todd,
Ooh, Mr. Todd,
What does it tell?
TODD:
Is who gets eaten, and who gets to eat!
Sweeny Todd, Stephen Sondheim
Wow, lots of great submissions today... from Metallica to classical scores to showtunes, to Dr Phibes quoting a metal band that even his bud Karswell has never heard of! Yes, a wonderfully varied day, this is what I like to see. Mostly I just want Kitty and Patrick to really work for that judges promotion I gave them ::whip crack!::
ReplyDeleteHey, thanks everybody.
ReplyDeleteOw! That smarts!
ReplyDeleteMore, please.