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This is what passed for "Mature Women's Comics" back in the day. I found it in a dollar bin at a con a while back and I just HAD to share it here. The cheese is just glorious!!



The first story centers around a White female social worker who falls madly in love with a hot-tempered Puerto Rican man who lives in the ghetto she works in. He doesn't love her back; so she stalks him like a creeper despite the fact that she already has a loving boyfriend. Apparently, us ladies are supposed to find this romantic.




THE WALL BETWEEN US:



No means NO, Lady!!
And I love how this dingbat assumes that living in the ghetto is what made Carlos moody. He couldn't possibly be pissed off because of the crazy blonde who wont leave him alone. It HAS to be the neighborhood!



A "magnificent animal"!? I guess this means Blondie is into bestiality!







For the love of G-d, Carlos! Just tell her you're gay!



Oy. Blondie is such a loathsome nut that she has me feeling sorry for the racist rich White dude.
And "strange tongue"? How the hell can this woman be a social worker serving in Little Havana and not know what Spanish sounds like!?

Oh, and refusing to eat the food sure was classy. "I can't eat your disgusting, alien food Señora Ramirez. I just came here to f**k your son!"



Why do either of these men continue to have contact with this woman!? WTF!?





What's up with that cop? Does he get off watching couples make out?

This story would have been AWESOME if it had ended with Carlos and Win falling in love at the office and skipping to the courthouse together (while holding hands, naturally) to obtain a restraining order against Blondie McCrazy. That would have made my inner romantic swoon.

MORAL OF THE STORY: White girls can never date brown men because of THE WALLS BETWEEN THEM! But if you annoy a hot man-of-color long enough, he'll help you snag a rich White boyfriend (and cure said boyfriend of bigotry)! Puerto Ricans are especially magical when it comes to these things!



Next up is the story of a man-whore soldier who mends his ways for no reason!





Oh goody. A story centered around the "OMG I can totally change a douchebag into a prince with the power of my LOVE" fantasy. :P






Why would she give a damn if he danced another girl? She doesn't even know him! Sargent Slutty sure is arrogant!





"Oh Jim! The moment that scalding hot coffee burned the skin off my fingers, I knew it was TRUE LOVE!!"
**gag**



"JIM! PLEASE COME BACK! I NEED YOU TO POUR DANGEROUSLY HOT COFFEE ALL OVER MY BODY!!!"
Wow. Suddenly Blondie McCrazy isn't looking quite as bad.



Jim spent that entire night making sweet love to Nina. But tragically, the next morning Jim awoke to the sensation of piping hot Folgers being poured onto his junk. The doctors could not save his charred manhood. He now goes by the name "Jessica".



This next story is about a bored rich girl who wants to find a boyfriend outside of her dull social circle. Yes, it's as boring as it sounds.





Yeah. 'Cause ALL rich guys are totally like that. Little Miss Whiney is the first rich person to EVER think of slumming it with the bohemians for shits, giggles, and/or romance.



"And now I've met you! I think...maybe a different kind of love is entering my life!
......a love of having a Sugar Mama who'll make it so I never have to pump gas to pay my rent again!! WHOO HOO!!!
"






I find it hard to believe that the fact that her Dad used to be a struggling painter never came up before that day (especially since he works as an ART COLLECTOR). By the time I was 20, I knew the basics about how my parents lived before I came along. Maybe parents just didn't talk to their kids before 1980?



Next up is another boring story about a "Summer Romance"





Wow. Chicks in the 70s were NUTS (one date and they start planning the wedding)! Must have been the drugs.






DAMN! What an asshole! These two crazy jerks deserve each other!



"Sorry, Cary. One dude didn't call me back after a hot date. Therefore I can never love again and have no choice but to die alone and untouched. That is what it means to be a woman!!"



This all turned out to be an elaborate prank set up by Bruce and Cary. Vivian was humiliated yet again and many LOLs were had that day.



"The Dos and Don'ts of Dating"! A handy guide for ladies who are too stupid to take a hint!

Considering what went on in previous stories, I'm just glad Miss Page didn't tell her friend to start stalking Bruce and/or find a magical Puerto Rican to solve her relationship problems.



Next up is THE LOVE GAME. A story about two sisters and their different approaches to romance.




Yeah, Phyllis is such a dog! It's no wonder boys prefer spending time with her bitchy sister and totally ignore her!
/sarcasm





Why does Jayne date so much when she clearly hates men? Jayne would probably be a LOT happier if she looked into lesbianism. Just sayin'.







I gotta agree with the Ice Queen here. Dating your sister's leftovers is icky (regardless of how big a bitch your sister is). I'm pretty sure there's an official honor code that forbids this kind of thing.




Moral of the story: Girls who play the field will die alone and miserable. And their sisters will steal their boy toys.



Time for the ads:

First up is some bad poetry. I really hope I'm not humiliating anybody by putting these old poems on the internet:






How to mend a broken heart:


I love number 7. "Just buy a hat! Hats fix EVERYTHING".


What is this superhero ad doing in a girly book!? Must have been put there by mistake!




Ads for random stuff
















DC Artist Awards

I've never seen anything quite like this before! Comic Book artists getting recognized in the pages of an actual book (and one that is clearly NOT marketed to fanboys, no less!). And they get their own little portraits, too! I love Denny O'Neil's dramatic CSI pose! XD




Well, that's it! I hope you guys enjoyed this cheesy thing as much as I did! ^_^

Date: 2012-05-27 12:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dj-rocca.livejournal.com
OMG LOL! That was certainly special!
I'm totally shallow but I love the clothes in 70s comics. I blame growing up with lots of old Archie comics

Date: 2012-05-27 01:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com
Oh good! I'm not the only one who loved the outfits in this book!

Date: 2012-05-27 01:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dj-rocca.livejournal.com
You're totally not alone! Keep in mind at one phase in the 90s I rocked hippy outfits because they were in style ;) I miss those days

Date: 2012-05-27 02:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com
I miss being able to buy bell-bottoms in every clothing store. Those things NEED to come back again!

Speaking of the 70s, I recently lost my ability to watch Happy Days without getting upset because of this thing...
<http://brendala.livejournal.com/163528.html>

...Henry Winkler is a terrible person.

Date: 2012-05-27 03:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secondlina.livejournal.com
Abuse and Harrasment is the way to love, i've been doing it all wrong for years!!

Date: 2012-05-27 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com
You forgot stalking hot foreigners, stealing your sister's leftovers, and poring coffee onto places where coffee shouldn't go!!

Date: 2012-05-27 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dqbunny.livejournal.com
I just ... That was ... right. Head. Wall. Hitting now.

Date: 2012-05-27 09:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com
What? You and Mike don't show your love by stalking Puerto Ricans and pouring coffee on each other? Clearly, your marriage will not last. XD

Date: 2012-05-29 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steamage.livejournal.com
...I can't stand the girl in the Puerto Rican one. :S And most of the protags seem like crazy stalkers... These are a special treasure of craziness from the past. Thanks for posting them.

That said, though, I do love the fashions.

Date: 2012-05-29 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com
I think Coffee Girl was worse. She literally had no reason to fall for Sargent Slutty and every reason to tell him to bug off.


I loved the fashions, too! I wish bell bottoms would make another comeback (my legs looked fabulous in those!).

Date: 2012-05-30 05:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com
Wow. I just....

I am so glad I am happily single.

Date: 2012-07-21 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarajayechan.livejournal.com
WOW. XD These things are harlequin romance novels in visual form! The melodrama, the tears, the over the top EVERYTHING!

Date: 2012-07-21 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com
I KNOW! ISN'T IT GLORIOUS?
It's like a slightly less stupid Cori fic!! XD

My favorites are Blondie McCrazy and Coffee Girl. And the tips for getting over a break up slayed me (exercise and buy a hat!).

Date: 2012-07-21 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarajayechan.livejournal.com
Hahaha, you're right! And of course the adversarial girls (Jayne) are portrayed as the bitchiest things this side of Bitchtown. And True Love is the most IMPORTANT THING EVAR!1!!!!

Date: 2012-07-21 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com
Yeah. I don't understand how playing the field makes Jayne a heartless slut; but Blondie stalking some poor dude (while ignoring a perfectly loving boyfriend) is totally cool and ~*romantic*~.

The 70s were weird. :P

Date: 2012-07-21 10:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarajayechan.livejournal.com
I'm generally not the biggest fan of "heroine blows off a loving, devoted boyfriend to cry and pine over a Bad Boy who doesn't care about her", but at least Blondie's story avoided the cliche of "he has to do something horrendous to her to make her appreciate the loving boyfriend" or rewarding her creepy stalking WITH the Bad Boy.

And I bet Jayne really did turn out to be a lesbian, too. Just throwing that out there.

Date: 2012-07-21 11:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com
You have a point. It's nice that Blondie learned her lesson without enduring a beating/almost-rape/whatever and that she didn't get Carlos in the end. But she didn't deserve the rich White dude, either. And her two love interests hooking up and having her arrested would have been a FANTASTIC ending! XD

Oh, Jayne is TOTALLY gay. It even makes sense in the context of the story (since living in the closet was still a necessity back then)

Date: 2012-07-21 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarajayechan.livejournal.com
Hahaha, that wouldn't have been a bad ending either. XD And this is coming from someone who usually takes up for the females. Blondie was just being a total butthead about the whole thing.

Definitely! I think being sad over Jerry was just an excuse.

Date: 2012-07-22 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weelisa.livejournal.com
Your commentary is priceless. I like "A Girl without Love" best. Rodney Cabot III? He comes from a "respective" family? doesn't she means "respectable"?

Date: 2012-07-23 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com
Thanks.


He comes from a "respective" family? doesn't she means "respectable"?

I guess money can't buy smarts. LOL

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