{"id":604,"date":"2006-01-17T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2006\/01\/17\/not-brand-echh-10\/"},"modified":"2006-01-17T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T14:23:00","slug":"not-brand-echh-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/604","title":{"rendered":"Not Brand Echh #10 [1968]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2822\" alt=\"nbe10b\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10b.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10b.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10b-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;d love to see a straight FF story where Doc Doom just suddenly attacks with that pose. That goes on my list of funniest Kirby panels ever.<\/p>\n<p>NOT BRAND ECHH #10 reprints some of the highlights from the first few issues of the series, including three 8-page Kirby stories from 1967. The first two are inked by Frank Giacoia and the third is by Tom Sutton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Silver Burper&#8221;, from the debut issue of NOT BRAND ECHH, is the strongest of the three stories, primarily a parody of the Doom\/Surfer story that run in FF not long before its initial publication. Kirby&#8217;s art is pretty out-there and absurd in self-parody, in particular anything with &#8220;Doctor Bloom&#8221;, such as the scenes where he&#8217;s trying to convince the Burper that he&#8217;s a good guy. And of course the face-off between Weed and Bloom, with the classic &#8220;I own a hundred pair of stretch socks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Both this story and the one it parodies are going to be in the upcoming VISIONARIES JACK KIRBY v2 collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2823 aligncenter\" alt=\"nbe10\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10-684x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10-624x933.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/nbe10.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Origin of Sore, Son of Shmodin&#8221; is from <a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/58\">ECHH #3<\/a>, which I covered before. Still funny stuff, this time around I was most amused by Shmodin, in particular the last scene of him coming to Earth and dancing.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, from ECHH #5, &#8220;The Origin of Forbush-Man the Way-Out Wonder&#8221;. I&#8217;m not as fond of this one. Looks like either Kirby&#8217;s contribution is a lot looser, or Tom Sutton takes a lot more liberties with it, but either way the styles don&#8217;t really compliment each other. And the jokes still come a mile-a-minute but the laughs at a much slower pace. I&#8217;m not sure why anyone ever thought the name &#8220;Forbush&#8221; was inherently interesting, but then I never quite got Kurtzman&#8217;s fascination with the name &#8220;Melvin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1968<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d love to see a straight FF story where Doc Doom just suddenly attacks with that pose. That goes on my list of funniest Kirby panels ever. NOT BRAND ECHH #10 reprints some of the highlights from the first few issues of the series, including three 8-page Kirby stories from 1967. The first two are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-humour","category-superhero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}