go jack wild

This week Found Sound
brings you some songs sung by Jack Wild, star of TV's "HR Pufnstuf" and filmland's "Oliver!" and also various addiction treatment programs, hospitals, and what have you. Child stardom didn't work out for Jack: I mean, check out this album cover.



Dude was 20 when this was taken. 20! Yet the tweens and preteens buying this album, and Jack's management, insisted he remain an elfin man-child long past the age when he should be, you know, an adult.

The songs are pretty standard celebrity bubblegum pop, with a couple of tracks verging strangely into calypso-reggae territory, for some reason. All I know is that parents, when you feel like turning your little kids into TV stars; don't. Just don't.

encyclopedia fakemangaica part 23

It's back to the well of Americans making comics totally ripping off Japanese cartoons over at Mister Kitty's Stupid Comics.



The first thing you'll notice is that it's by the same guys who made "Mecharider", and as such shares the artist's peculiar orientation to move the action in a right-to-left direction, rather than a left-to-right movement most familiar to Western thought. The second thing you'll notice is that the parts that aren't painfully unoriginal are painfully tedious. Fully half of this 17 page story is taken up with a convoluted setup involving space aliens invading Earth and using a device to turn people into monsters, being opposed by a secret organization run by people who talk like and dress like Elvis. And of course it's a continued story because you know people will be rushing back to the newsstands to see how this one turns out!

There is another fake Dirty Pair comic out there, titled TEAM ABUNDI. I would love love love to have a copy of this. I will pay cash money.

The rest of the comic features the continuation of the "Mecharider" story previously featured on Stupid Comics - where better to continue it than unadvertised in the back of another comic book? -and a short story starring "Kimber, Prince Of The Feylons", which was actually an original concept and actually lasted more than one issue. Be original, kids.