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Disneyfied Mad Max characters by comic book artist Mark Brooks (when he briefly took a break from his many Disneyfied X-Men days).

“Max is Back – and Tina’s Got Him!” Released in North American cinemas forty years ago today (10 July 1985): Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. I’m so old at this point, I can actually remember seeing this as a teenager on its original release at a drive-in cinema in Renfrew, Ontario. As I recall, I was disappointed that Thunderdome was so much less gritty and hardcore than the first two Mad Max movies (it featured a gang of cute orphans, like a bad 1960s Elvis movie!) and – much as I venerated rhythm and blues diva Tina Turner - I hated the big corporate stadium rock power ballad “We Don’t Need Another Hero” (especially when the children’s choir kicks in – ugh! In retrospect, the song foreshadowed Turner’s post-Private Dancer musical direction). On the plus side: as Aunty Entity, this was Turner’s first movie role since she memorably played the Acid Queen in Ken Russell’s Tommy ten years earlier, and she looked fierce in her post-apocalypse look of chainmail and punky white fright wig with the shaved-back Mohawk hairline.

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller, 1985)

Around the time MAD MAX III came out one of the mental images that got stuck in my head for a while was Tina Turner as Aunt Entity. I don’t know why, I’m not sure I even saw the film back then. I just thought about the character a lot, like her appearance contained a hidden message for me. She looked stern and troubled, charismatic. Aunt Entity, queen of a derelict hell-hole. I only have to look at these images—and zap, I’m right back in those empty sunless rooms of my childhood home.

This strip came from a road trip we took to Erie last weekend where a LOT of motorcyclists were on the road, and Heidi commented on her lingering desire to own a bike one day. We both talked about how it was an appealing and fun dream, but that it was impractical AND for me, extremely dangerous. Seriously, I have the WORST balance and would die very quickly on a motorcycle. lol We laughed, imagining the visual of the first panel and wrote the idea down for this strip.

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7765 words, approximately 12 pages.  With this chapter, Ekstasis is now over 86k and Fortunae Plango Vulnera as a series just crossed 300k words.