The Manly Apocalypse
1.Two-Fisted Tales
A cowcatcher jaw splinters the door.
“Jack Ginch, you slants!” The opium den clears.
Strike a match - so much for that sinister laundry.
Three roundhouse rights seduce the blonde hostage.Jack leaps to mount the fleeing U-boat.
“Need a light, Fritz?” Jack applies the blowtorch.
“Round here we vote for the master race.”
Now back to HQ for a fistful of scotch.
2.Liberte, Egalite
The Davester brands the keg with a delta.
Azure bandanas bandage pledge haircuts.
Kilt party, motherfuckers! Blow my fricking bagpipe!
Big Brad surreptitiously sizes up his delts.
3.Cops on the Edge
Malone deep-sixes pigeon after pigeon.
Veterans pound their desks. Paperwork!
Rookies scald the chief with coffee -
just what he needs; his wife’s become a Krishna
Bud tumbles the set-up - jet ski smuggling.
Bayside warehouses go up in flames.
The Lieutenant takes credit. Meanwhile, Heather
bustily
re-educates warring multi-ethnic street gangs.
4.The 0L’ Flea-Flicker
Kohart posts through the beer commercial.
Whiteman throws long with his broken arm.
The director writes it in, but Vanuatu stumbles -
the Plowgirls get mauled Melanesian style.Kohart thinks fast through his broken neck.
Plowmen think faster; Ko’s head severs.
Woof! Woof! Woof! It splits the uprights.
Kohart spikes it and reclaims his helmet.
5. Buy, Sell, Buy. Sell, Buy, Sell
Lawson dons his Armani shades.
The company chopper rises from the squash court.
He checks his Rolex. Time to deal, sucker!
He dials himself on his mobile phone.It rings. He won’t answer. He yanks the antenna.
He grins at himself in the polarized glass -
let him wait. Then he clicks off the phone with a
wink.
No mercy. He cuts himself out of the loop.
6.What Thundarr Said
Rogue comets reverse the spin of Earth.
The moon hangs in halves. Rising from the
cataclysm,
Thundarr glowers out of his hairshirt.
Ookla thunders in on his dinosaur horse.
Princess Ariel wryly looks on. “Lords of Light!”Serpentine necks lift from the water.
The Sun Sword buzzes. Heads litter the riverbank.
Dynamos, robots, whirlybirds, slot machines
creak and falter with an oath and a drop-kick.
Thundarr isn’t finished. “Qokia! Ariel! RIDE!”
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