THE BIZARRO ZINE #4

Mini Review By Sarah Thompson

I cannot begin to describe how wonderful these are. Even people who never heard of B7 like them. Part of what makes them so funny, I think, is the completely deadpan approach to the wacky Bizarro Seven universe. The accompanying visuals help, too.

I strongly recommend ordering #s 3 and 4 from Leah while she still has some left! (I'll post the contents info on those in a day or two.) And the coloring book, too.

Contents

Editor: Leah Rosenthal
Publisher: Poncho Press
Date: 1992

Fiction:
Leah Rosenthal & Ann Wortham, "The Heat is On" (Bizarro Seven universe; S2; humor; reprinted from Southern Seven #2)
Ann Wortham & Leah Rosenthal, "Vila Don't Lose My Number" (Bizarro Seven universe; S2; Miami Vice crossover; humor; reprinted from Magnificent Seven #4)
Leah Rosenthal & Ann Wortham, "Mutual Policy" (not Bizarro; S5; humor; reprinted from B7 Complex #11)
Ann Wortham & Leah Rosenthal, "Cash on Deliverance" (Bizarro Seven universe; S2; humor; reprinted from Gambit #2)
Ann Wortham & Leah Rosenthal, "All I Need Is a Miracle" (not Bizarro; alt-S2; humor; reprinted from Magnificent Seven #4 and Chronicles #30)
Ann Wortham & Leah Rosenthal, "Still the Dead" (Bizarro Seven universe; S2; humor; reprinted from Everything But the Kitchen Sink #3 and Chronicles #26)
Ann Wortham & Leah Rosenthal, "Suit Yourself" (Bizarro Seven universe; S2; humor; reprinted from Of Dreams and Schemes #5 and Chronicles Annual 1987)
Leah Rosenthal & Ann Wortham, "Hernia" (Bizarro Seven universe; S2; humor; ROS crossover; reprinted from B7 Complex #15)
Ann Wortham & Leah Rosenthal, "Gumbit" (Bizarro Seven universe; S2; humor; new story)
Ann Wortham & Leah Rosenthal, "Seems Like Old Times" (Bizarro Seven universe; S3; humor; reprinted from Gambit #1)
Ann Wortham & Leah Rosenthal, "Stray Thoughts" (not Bizarro; S4-Trek movie crossover; humor; reprinted from Southern Seven #1)

Nonfiction:
Leah Rosenthal and Ann Wortham, "Makin' Whoopie" (editorial)
"With a Little Bit o' L.O.C." (letters of comment)
"Good to the Last... Drop (or, Oh, Gauda)" (B7-style endings for other TV shows; humor)
"Un-Zine" ("a comprehensive listing of fanzines that don't really exist now;" humor)
"Passing the Quackers" (collage of clippings; humor)
"Hit List 1992" (bibliography)

Poetry:
Jane Mailander, "Serving Under Servalan (A Federation Trooper Ditty)"
Leah Rosenthal, "On the Flight Deck" (f, I'm Too Sexy, by Right Said Fred)
Leah Rosenthal & Michele Rosenberg, "Dancin' with My Duck" (f, "with heartfelt apologies to Bruce Springsteen")
Anne Collins Smith, "Bizarro" (f, Zorro theme)
Jane Mailander, "Bad, Bad Rebel Scum" (f, You Don't Mess with Jim, by Jim Croce)
Anne Collins Smith, "The Place Where Blake Is" (f, The Street Where You Live, from My Fair Lady)
Anne Collins Smith, "Duckie to Quack" (f, Ticket to Ride)
Anne Collins Smith, "In the Hair Tonight" (f, In the Air Tonight, by Phil Collins)
Leah Rosenthal, "Can't Compute" (f, I Can't Dance, by Phil Collins)

Art (all by Leah Rosenthal; all Bizarro cartoon style except one; reprinted from original zines unless otherwise indicated):

cover "Vailcano ski resort" (new)
p. 7 baby Tr (new)
p. 10 illo for "The Heat Is On"
p. 14 illo for "The Heat Is On"
pp. 16-7 illo for "The Heat Is On"
p. 20 illo for "The Heat Is On"
p. 23 illo for "The Heat Is On"
p. 25 illo for "The Heat Is On;" "serious" style (reprinted from cover of Southern Seven 2)
p. 28 illo for "The Heat Is On"
p. 31 illo for "The Heat Is On"
p. 33 tombstone
p. 34 So-A cartoon
p. 36 A-B; illo for "Vila Don't"
p. 38 V-Crockett-Tubbs; illo for "Vila Don't"
p. 42 A & shrink cartoon
p. 43 illo for "Vila Don't"
p. 45 A-B; illo for "Mutual Policy"
p. 55 B-J; illo for "All I Need"
p. 57 A-J; illo for "On the FLight Deck"
p. 59 illo for "Still the Dead"
p. 62 A-B; illo for "Still the Dead"
p. 63 "This is your brain on Bizarro."
p. 67 V-B-A; illo for "Suit Yourself"
p. 70 V-A; illo for "Suit Yourself"
p. 72 V-A; illo for "Suit Yourself"
p. 75 B and duck; illo for "Dancin'"
p. 76 B-Herne; illo for "Hernia"
p. 89 illo for "Gumbit" (new)
p. 91 illo for "Gumbit" (new)
p. 101 illo for "Seems Like Old Times"
p. 106 illo for "Seems Like Old Times"
p. 109 illo for "Seems Like Old Times"
p. 112 C-O cartoon

Photos:
Helen Woolverton p. 5 "Lulabelle Travis"
Katrina Larkin p. 32 "Avon" on the Gainesville, FL, PD (clipping?)
? p. 48 "Space Commander Travis Experiments with Fiendish New Machinery" (clipping)
? p. 52 MK
Kaye Dotson p. 53 "stud story" (fashion photo; clipping)
? p. 56 GT in duck T-shirt
? p. 74 GT and Bizarro display
? p. 96 "Scene from The Adventures of Young Kerrick Avon"
? p. 98 "A Barracuda alpha" (clipping)
? p. 111 "Coming this fall to the BBC... The Adventures of Young Kerrick Avon"
Pablo Picasso back c. "Elvis Ate His Brain"


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