Monday Memories #41 - Body Doubles #3

Each Monday this year I'll be taking a look back at a random comic, prestige format issue, graphic novel or collection of reprints from amongst my 3,000 or so comics that date from 1962 to 2003 - I figured anything in the last ten years would be too recent to hark back to.

The comics are chosen completely at random and apart from a four week lead-in period, even I don't know what I'll be looking at in the weeks to come!

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #187

Nothing dampens Vandal Savage's opinion of himself

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #179

A talking horse? Who's ever heard of such a thing?

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #162

That's what comics need: good, old-fashioned politeness.

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #158

Parents - they have no idea how to talk to your girlfriend, do they?

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #154

Always good to know what you're sitting on.

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #150

Or gender, and rightly so.

Resurrection Man #3

From the solicit:

The femmes fatale known as the Body Doubles have finally tracked down the Resurrection Man – and they seem to know more about him than he does! As they set out to test his abilities to withstand death – literally – Mitch discovers a far darker truth: More than one unearthly power has taken a strong interest in his immortal soul.

Yay! The Body Doubles are back!

Friday Night Fights - Men Are So Easily Distracted

It's true, we are. Even in the realms of the DCU, and without wishing to sound sexist, gentlemen are not above being distracted by the charms of a lady.

In this case, though, we have neither a gentleman nor a lady as Merlyn, the black-clad archer and sometime foe of Green Arrow, faces off against Carmen Leno of the Body Doubles.

That arrow may have missed but, unknown to Carmen, it's an ultrasonic arrow that quickly lays her low. Pinned down and at the archer's mercy . . . well . . . what's a gal to do?

Shocking, isn't it? A grown woman using her . . . er . . . womanly wiles to distract her would-be killer. But then he is trying to kill her so I guess he deserves what he gets:

Oh yeah! A sharp WHAK to the nose! That'll teach him!

Would Carmen fare so well against our referee? Only Spacebooger knows!

This blatant display of immoral behaviour first appeared in New Year's Evil: Body Doubles #1, cover dated February 1998, written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning with art by Joe Phillips and Jasen Rodriguez.