PHANTOM BABOOOSAH YOBO YOBA –I cried out in my sleep 28 years ago.
My wife woke me up and asked me what is all this Yobo Yoba – and these my secret girl friends, stashed away some place ?
I told her “ I was dreaming of my childhood hero, Phantom, the ghost who walks".
When Diana had twins , Guran comes out of the skull cave and cries out jubilantly “ phantom baboosah yobo yoba “ – meaning Phantom got twins , one boy , one girl” to the pygmy Bandar tribe waiting anxiously outside .
After all Phantom chose Diana to deliver his heir inside the jungle skull cave , NOT some slick city hospital in USA.
I had read all the Phantom comics as a child, daily on a newspaper strip-- as did more than 200 million others.
He was our ultimate super hero. Quite often we would fantasize how Phantom would kick the livin' shit out of Superman , if ever they had a one on one close combat.
So in 1996, I was 41 years old, still feeling like a bubbly small boy when it came to Phantom. I went with my wife to watch the movie starring Billy Zane as Phantom, rubbing my hands in expectation.
I was left squirming in my seat as Billy Zane and the Jewish lobby of Hollywood destroyed my childhood idol piece by piece, over two hours.
The ghost who walks was a legend who made evil men flinch , rather made their blood freeze when his eyes met theirs.
Phantom was a mature strong and silent type man of few words - when he spoke, all listened.
He was NOT a merry motor mouth , jumping jack like Zorro or Robin hood.. And if you think you can speak in the same monotone throughout the movie , and sound like phantom--well , it does not work like that!
He was NOT a merry motor mouth , jumping jack like Zorro or Robin hood.. And if you think you can speak in the same monotone throughout the movie , and sound like phantom--well , it does not work like that!
First of all Phantoms eyes and pupils never showed through the mask, in the comic strip. Our hero did NOT have dartin' eyes.
He was made of full blooded beef and muscle .
He was made of full blooded beef and muscle .
When Phantom hit someone, the guy stayed hit.
No wonder the movie was rejected wholesale by all the diehard Phantom fans of this planet , and it could rake back only 16.5 million of the 44 million spent. Literally this movie pushed all us diehard fans into a deep abyss of shit.
This is despite massive propaganda. They roped in even the President of USA Bill Clinton for this.
This is despite massive propaganda. They roped in even the President of USA Bill Clinton for this.
All the die hard fans including me, got such a massive heartache over dashed expectations -- that we never looked at another Phantom comic ever since.
This slick joke was supposed to make us laugh -- and roll all over the clover--
“I contracted malaria, mother” –Diana
“That’s nice.” -Lily
Here is another worn out one to the librarian --
This slick joke was supposed to make us laugh -- and roll all over the clover--
“I contracted malaria, mother” –Diana
“That’s nice.” -Lily
Here is another worn out one to the librarian --
“I guess you won’t need these anymore” while crushing his glasses - Drax
The skull cave did NOT even have a waterfall over it. Phantom’s dog did NOT look like a menacing wolf.
The zing was never there.
The zing was never there.
It was like you loved to eat brain cutlets , ate it with relish throughout your life, and then one day some asshole forced a rotten brain cutlet on you, which you had to lump, and now you will never ever look at a brain cutlet till you die.
Sometimes Phantom left the jungle to clean the night streets of New York in a trenchcoat, fedora and darkglasses. The evil men of the city trembled in their shoes, and cold sweat ran down their necks , down the cracks of their asses.
Billy Zane only made them giggle.
And to rub salt on our wounds , Billy Zane grinned like
a Cheshire billy cat at the drop of a hat, which made
us cringe. Thank god he did NOT have rotten teeth.
a Cheshire billy cat at the drop of a hat, which made
us cringe. Thank god he did NOT have rotten teeth.
My childhood hero Phantom was a strong , silent man with an amazing legacy and script to live up to..
He rode a white swift stallion by the name of Hero, and his menacing wolf followed him like his shadow.
When he punched bad men to the ground it left an indelible skull mark on their mangy faces.
For four-hundred years, the Phantom has haunted the Bengalla woods, known to the native inhabitants as "The Ghost Who Walks." Kit Walker is the twenty-first man to take up the mantle, inheriting it from his late father , who makes occasional ghostly appearances to advise him. It's the lot of the Walker family to "fight piracy, cruelty, and injustice in all its forms", and has been since the boy who became the first Phantom witnessed his father's murder. Because all the Phantoms wear the same costume, the outside world believes that there's only one of them -- an immortal vigilante of sorts -- and Kit aint in any tearin’ hurry to dispel ze illusion.
For four-hundred years, the Phantom has haunted the Bengalla woods, known to the native inhabitants as "The Ghost Who Walks." Kit Walker is the twenty-first man to take up the mantle, inheriting it from his late father , who makes occasional ghostly appearances to advise him. It's the lot of the Walker family to "fight piracy, cruelty, and injustice in all its forms", and has been since the boy who became the first Phantom witnessed his father's murder. Because all the Phantoms wear the same costume, the outside world believes that there's only one of them -- an immortal vigilante of sorts -- and Kit aint in any tearin’ hurry to dispel ze illusion.
He had an early warning radar , a falcon called Fraka .
When a new Phantom takes the task from his dying father, he swears the Oath of the Skull: "I swear to devote my life to the destruction of piracy, greed, cruelty, and injustice, in all their forms, and my sons and their sons shall follow me".
-- and we all cried WOW!
-- and we all cried WOW!
This makes me ponder over how cleverly the Jews have taken over Hollywood.
They push their type of Jewish looks , and the rest of
the world has to lump it.
the world has to lump it.
The paradigm for a handsome man or a beautiful
woman is now, someone with quintessential corny
Jewish looks.
woman is now, someone with quintessential corny
Jewish looks.
What a disgrace.
How many of you know that all the following are Jewish. Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner, Charles Bronson, Richard Gere, Stevan Segal, Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis—plus hundreds of others.
Today if you see a man looking like Michael Douglas- all would say “ Wow—so handsome!” His weak chin looking like water is now accepted as the “ in look “ of a typical handsome man.
Does all this make me anti-semitic?
Just the truth , folks! Truth is bitter.
The Jews themselves are quite blatant about their “ rub it in “ banner—
HOLLYWOOD , MORE JEWISH THAN EVER.
Yes-- sure-- you gave us a Jewish lookin' Phantom. Whom must we congratulate?
Attaboys!!
Advise: Next time you select a Phantom hero, make sure his shoulders are wider than his ass.
Why blame the Jew lobby? In Bollywood before Salman came and introduced fitness -- all our yester year super heroes ( other than Dharmendra ) had narrow shoulders and wide hips .. Just visualize, -- the entire Kapoor khandaan of Raj-Shashi-Rishi-Randhir-Shammi, Rajesh Khanna, Manoj Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, Rajendra Kumar -- the entire dang lot. How many of them dared to remove their shirts to expose their tuft titties or have a swimming pool scene , revealing their gargantuan bottoms?
Lee Falk passed away on Saturday 13 March 1999 in New York, USA aged 87 years. His career, spanning 1934-1999, was the longest of any comics writer, and it is impossible for anybody else to achieve a similar record of almost 65 years creating the most widely syndicated Phantom strip in the world. Lee, was always insistent that his famous creation be portrayed with accuracy and dignity and it was probably the reason so many studios could never make a Phantom. -or probably they were smart enough to figure out , that it is very difficult for the movie to measure up to millions of dreams and fantasies.
He teamed up with Phil Davis , a master artist. His passing away, removes the last link to the golden age of nostalgia via comics.
He teamed up with Phil Davis , a master artist. His passing away, removes the last link to the golden age of nostalgia via comics.
If he was alive I would have cried-- LEE FALK FOR PRESIDENT
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