The Hands of Uncle Roger: Master of Fried Rice parody covers

If you love Asian food as I do, then you must know about Uncle Roger. Uncle Roger is a character played by comedian Nigel Ng who is very concerned that Asian cooking be done correctly. If you use a flat pan instead of a wok, add some extraneous non-Asian ingredient like "chili jam", or forget to add the life-altering/life-affirming MSG, then you will come to know Uncle Roger's if not wrath then wonderfully skewed sense of humor as he chastises you as celebrated chefs Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver can attest.

In that spirit I created these parody covers to Marvel's much-loved The Hands of Shang Chi: Master of Kung Fu from the 1970s which I call The Hands of Uncle Roger: Master of Fried Rice.

So grab some of your favorite Asian food, be it Chinese fried rice and kung pao chicken, Malaysian nasi lemak, or Korean japchae and curl up with the four-color adventures of Uncle Roger.

original Master of Kung Fu covers Copyright 2022 by Marvel Entertainment.

In A Daze Of Futures Passed

The cover for The Uncanny X-Men #141 is one of the most legendary in all of comics. Penciller John Byrne and inker Terry Austin (likely under the direction of their X-editor Louise Jones (Simonson)) created a grim masterpiece for part one of the two part future-set epic "Days Of Future Past."

For a while now I have been gathering once a week on the interwebs with friends I made on Twiter and we watch fun silly mostly '70s and '80s fare such as Buck Rogers In The 25the Century, UFO and Space: 1999, Star Trek TOS and TAS, Ultraman, Knight Rider and Automan. However there is one show that brought us all together that first time and from which our group's name was coined: Manimal.

Presented for your approval is my loving homage to the incredible Byrne and Austin cover of that X-Men title for the "ManimAlliance" and many of the wacky goofy television shows of yore we have enjoyed and skewered in friendship.

Uncanny X-Men #141 Copyright 2022 by Marvel Entertainment. 

Killer Bees On Horseback -- Once Upon A Swarm In The West

Henry Fonda, one of the greatest actors of his generation, was in many classic films, including the Sergio Leone masterpiece Once Upon A Time In The West.

Fonda was also in The Swarm. That's right the Irwin Allen movie about the killer bees that you used to see on late night TV; now it's hopefully in the free stuff on Amazon Prime or similar.

I thought what could be better than to combine these two films. So I give you Once Upon A Swarm In The West. 

Note: No one will be allowed to leave the theater during the thrilling "bees on horseback" sequence.