FANTASTIC FUR OR FUR-TASTIC FOUR ?

One of the very first "copy" covers I did was of Fantastic Four 181, from way back in 1970's .... It was not a really great story, but the cover looked easy to reproduce.... Plus the Thing saying  " IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME " worked well worth my DAWGS Theme.  IT'S SLOBBERIN'  TIME ! still makes me laugh;

Some of my earlier work, used some different types of drawing of dogs.   I used these mainly for my DC DAWGS, as I felt they worked better with the BAT - FANG cartoons I was doing originally.
This cover was originally  done as a Xmas card for friends. 


BUT recently I went back to my FANTASTIC FUR cover, and re did it with my BUDDY style DAWGS, that I tend to use more these days.   I feel that "BUDDY" works well with The Marvel Universe of characters.

Although its the same cover, I did make some changes, and now its MORE like the original cover. Also I re named "MY" characters the FUR-TASTIC FOUR as in hindsight I think that name is better. Also it keeps from confusing my readers, think of it as an Alternative Universe.   The comic people do it all the time after all.

So Here is me ripping off my own work, which originally was me ripping off some one else    !

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I Hope you Like them both.  

THIS WEEK ITS CRAZY COVERS WEEK

This week I will be show casing some of the comic covers I have reproduced for my blog.

Some I have listed before, and some are new.   The older ones I have slightly up dated or improved on a little.  So they are new-ish.

Anyway here is a NEW COVER ..... My take on the Classic X-MEN 101 ..... which we got to meet the PHOENIX for the first time,  or in may world, you get to meet The Furry Phoenix

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THE ROVER NOVA ................. PART TWO

Life was happy for Foxy Straye, she had a new life as a hero hound, a new family with the Fur-Tastic Four, and she had a new boyfriend. What could go wrong ?

She had started  accompanying the FF on missions more and more. and was becoming more skilled with her flaming powers.  Although she still kept her apartment, she was offered quarters at the world famous BARKER BUILDING, home of the FUR-TASTIC FOUR.

One day the peace was shattered by the arrival of TER-REX, The TERRIER.... Herald of The Mighty DOG-ALACTUS..... was he here to announce that his master was on his way to destroy Earth ?  No he was here to get revenge on the FF for causing him to be enslaved by the Planet Muncher in the first place.

It transpired that yet again he had run off from his duties as  Herald Hound ( which he had done in the past )  Dog-alactus knew not where he was or where he went. ( so he thought )

He started his attack by using the power cosmic that he channel through his Axe to slice the top floors off of the Barker Building.  This was not just the Head Quarters to the FF, but more importantly this was their home.

The FF plus Foxy engaged Ter-rex in battle..   and it looked at one point that Ter-rex would win, until DOG-ALACTUS appeared on the scene. He was very unhappy with Ter-rex for running away, and also for using the power that he had been granted for personal gain. Also he was HUNGRY, as the naughty Ter-rex had not provided him with a good meal in ages.  He quickly subdued his Herald Hound, but not after sustaining much injury from TER-REX. 

It transpired that DOG-ALACTUS had not fed in a while, and the energy he had wasted chasing and fighting Ter-rex had left him completely weak.  He stripped Ter-rex of the Power Cosmic that he had original granted him, but announced to all that he needed to feed.  AND HE NEEDED to FEED NOW.

This meant that he would need to destroy Earth as he was too weak to find another meal.  This did not sit well with the members of the FF, who enlisted the help of as many Hero Hound they could muster in the area to fight the mighty Planet Muncher.

The FF were joined by MANY  HEROES INCLUDING,  DOG-TOR STRANGE, mutt of the mystic arts and Magic, an assortment of Avenging Hounds , including The Mutty PAW, the Dog of Thunder, IRON HOUND, The WASPISH POOCH & CANINE AMERICA,   along with THE SPIDER PUP and DARE DOOGIE....... plus Foxy Straye, the new Canine Torch of course !!

The fight went well mainly because Dog-alactus was far from being a peak power..... he was at his weakest  to tell the truth.  BUT a combination of the might of the Heroes and a clever spell from Dog-tor Strange, which DOG-ALACTUS was made to face the spirits of all he had killed in his time, caused Dog-alactus to fall.

As Dog-alactus lay there dying, Lead Richards enlisted the help of the Heroes to prevent his death, as Lead knew that even though Dog-alactus was dangerous, he was not evil. He was a force of nature that if allowed to die would upset the balance of the whole universe. Like any other living being in the Universe, the planet muncher needed to eat to survive.  Unfortunately, his only source of nourishment was to consume PLANETS

Lead was able to give Dog-alactus enough power to leave Earth and go get his diner elsewhere. He even gave him a list of  Planets without life that would be suitable for his feeding needs.

Dog-alactus thanked Mr Fur-tastic for his help ( well kinda did ) and agreed that he would not try to feed on Earth again.  BUT before he left he announced that he needed a NEW HERALD HOUND to help him sniff out this next meal. Whether The planet muncher had sensed it or by luck one of the amassed heroic hounds offered to be the new Herald. This was FOXY STRAYE.   Who had hankered after travelling all her life. As a Herald Hound she could do this big time.

Before Jaw-nee or the other members of the FF could stop her, DOG-ALACTUS empowered her with his PUPPY POWER COSMIC, and FOXY was no more.  Stood before them was a figure of golden fire...... The ROVER NOVA had been born.

Without a goodbye to anyone she flew off into space, off to find diner for her new master.

This combination of Master and Slave lasted for many years, Dog-alactus found he cared much for his new herald hound. Whilst the part of Foxy that was still alive within the ROVER NOVA began to love her Master. She had now every thing she ever wanted, TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, MEETING NEW PEOPLE, AMAZING POWERS and DOG-ALACTUS her new FATHER FIGURE.


That is not the end of the story of The NOVA ROVER, or DOG-ALACTUS and his HERALD HOUNDS..... but it is for now.


Tomorrow something different(ISH)

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THE NOVA ROVER ................ PART ONE

When as a young pup FOXY STRAYE'S mother died, she grew up under the care of her step father Tom-mutts Straye. He was a kindly person who spent his time inventing things. To spend more time together, Foxy helped him in his lab when ever she could.

She loved him and he cared for her as if she was his own puppy. They had a simple life, but one day that life would all change.  It was whilst watching television, there came news about the appearance of a new Super Hero Group of Hounds in New Yorkie City.   They called themselves The FUR-TASTIC FOUR.  Tom-mutts became enraged when he saw that one of the new hero hounds was calling himself  HOT DOG, THE CANINE TORCH.

What Foxy did not know was her step fathers name as not really TOM-MUTTS STRAYE, it was Doctor FURRIUS T HOUNDTON the creator of the robotic first CANINE TORCH. 

Furrius Houndton had tried to build the first artificial canine in the 1930's . He had built a Robotic Rover that looked and sounded like a real living doggie.  However, something went wrong with the process, and the Jim-bone, the name he gave to his creation burst into flames when he was exposed to oxygen.

The government who had paid for his research were very unhappy with his results, as what good was a Artificial Hound covered in flaming fur !   They shut his research down and  locked away the robotic doggie,   as  they thought it was too dangerous, along with all Dr Houndton's equipment and research material.

The Artificial Hound would one day escape, and would go on to be one of the famous flaming hero hounds from W W 2 ( that's World Woof 2 to you and me....... and a story for another time. )

Tom-mutts aka Dr Houndton knew where some of his original research was located and he took Foxy one night to try to retrieve some of his old research. Why he wanted to do this is still unknown.  BUT  Not knowing why her step father wanted it also, FOXY went along to help.  The warehouse containing his equipment had long been considered not vital or of any value, so Tom-mutts had little if any problems braking into the warehouse.  Once inside he instructed his daughter to collect together as much stuff as possible. She spied a cabinet of bottles containing  liquid, but whilst carrying them over to her step father, she fell through the rotten floor into a barrel of toxic liquid. The bottles she was carrying became broken and she was covered in both sets of chemicals.  She screamed as her fur and skin began to burn hotter and hotter until she  burst into flames. Her step dad help douse the flames and tried to comfort his traumatised daughter.  She was still upset, when minutes later she again burst into flames, but as Tom-mutts tried to calm  her, and she found she had the ability to turn the flames on and off at will. Still amazing was that the flames had not done  any damage to her body.

Tom-mutts was horrified,  and worried about his daughter being in any way alienated in the same way Jim-bone had been, or even worst taken away by the government like his "son" Jim-bone was all those years ago.  TOM-MUTTS, then decided that he had to destroy this new female Canine Torch, this he did not by killing his beloved child, he did this by making her forget she had had the accident and had developed these amazing powers.  He managed to make her forget the whole experience through HYPNOTIC suggestion. Also he planted a strong fear of fire, or PYROPHOBIA in her mind.  This hopefully would stop her from wanting to "flame on" but this would not stop it from happening by accident.  He created a golden yellow uniform for her to wear, which could suppress her skin from bursting into flame.  This uniform once in contact with her skin would become invisible to on lookers This too was part of hypnotic conditioning, and once she put on the uniform she became unable to see it herself, and due to the design no one else could see it under her every day clothes if it was ever to become visible.

They went back to normal life, but Tom-mutts worried that his presents to his step daughter would in some way remind her of the accident, so one day he disappeared. He did not abandon her completely, she would send her money every month, and although she never saw him again, he would always keep a watchful eye on her beloved step daughter from a far.

Foxy Straye finished school and went to college and graduated  top of the class.  She felt sad that her father was not there to see her big day, but little did she know that Tom-mutts was there in to see her receive her award.  Foxy had developed an interest in wanting to speak foreign languages at an early age, and she left college with the ability to speak and understand many different tongues.  She had a hankering to travel and world and see new places, but she was unable to do this due to her limited finances. So she took on a job as an interpreter and translator at the U N in New Yorkie City. This would give her a chance to earn some money for her travel needs, also she could use and improve on her language skills.

By chance she met a young dawg called, Jaw-nee. She felt attracted to him from the first sight,  he felt the same. She was later shocked to discover that her new boyfriend was Jaw-nee Storm,  The Hot Dog, Canine Torch.  Her fear of fire seamed to be suppressed by her love of her new boyfriend. She was confused about her feeling for him, she loved Jaw-nee, but feared The Canine Torch.  As their love grew she began having strange visions of about her body and the colour yellow. These visions continued until one day she became fully aware of the uniform that she had been wearing.  Although she could only see it in mirrors, but could not see or feel it on herself.

Upset, she revealed this to Jaw-nee, who was able to see it now. Jaw-nee suggested that he took her to see Lead Richards, aka Mr Fur-Tastic.   Lead was fascinated by the whole story of the invisible / visible costume, and after scanning her completely was able to realise that Foxy must have been given a mental block to stop her seeing the costume.

He used a mind scanner, and this caused Foxy to again burst into flame.  This released all of the hidden memories from her mind, along with a conversation she had had with her father, when he told her the truth about everything including who he really was.

Now free from the  her pyrophobia, she now able to reach her full protental. She would be asked by the FF to join their family of heroes where they along with Jaw-nee could help her with training in the use of her new found powers.

Long before she was able to become a full time member of the team, a BIG TALL visitor came to call who would change her life completely.


More Tomorrow


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TER-REX THE TERRIER

DOG-ALACTUS '  next herald hound was a real terror to control. From the very first time he saw him, Dog-alactus knew he was ideal for the position now vacated by the DOG-STROYER

TYREX was the ruler or should I say Dictator of the Planet Birex, he had powers already which enabled him to control rocks and the earth beneath his paws. He used these powers to enslave the people and he ruled them with a paw of steel. 

Dog-alactus requested Tyrex to be his new herald, but Tyrex was not prepared to  be anyone Else's slave, so he fled.  Dog-alactus believed that his past Heralds had been too moralistic, and as a result had always worried too much about finding unpopulated worlds for him to consume. The Planet Muncher believed that Tyrex was without morals, so could do the job of sniffing out planets without the worries of destroying life as a result.  So he really wanted Tyrex for the roll of next Herald Hound.

 Around this time Mr Fur-tastic, Lead Richards from the FUR-TASTIC FOUR came to call. (with a little help from the WATCH DOG)  He asked for Dog-alactus to help him defeat the Vill-hound called Spinx, the Pharaoh Hound.  Lead offered to relinquish the mighty planet muncher from his vow never to attack Earth if he came to Earths help.

Dog-alactus agreed to help on the added  provision that the Fut-tastic Four find him his new Herald Hound, Tyrex .   Unhappy with this request, they agreed and Dog-alactus transported the FF to Birex, the home planet of Tyrex.

Where after a big battle, they managed to capture Tyrex and delivered him to Dog-alactus.  To say that Tyrex was unhappy to be turned into a slave was an understatement, and his hatred of this and the FF for their roll in it would come back to haunt them all in the years to come.

But for now, there was nothing Tyrex could  do to stop things, and when Dog-alactus empowered him with his PUPPY POWER COSMIC, TYREX was no more.  He was now TER-REX THE TERRIER.

Like the Herald Hounds before him, he was very powerful, He was given an AXE through which he could channel the Puppy Power Cosmic. He still had his power over  earth and rocks, but this had been increased a million fold.

The relationship between Master and  Slave was never good, as Ter-rex tried his upper most to cause harm to his Master where ever possible. Although he  did it behind his masters back, so that he would not be punished if he was found out.   Although he hated Dog-alactus, he hated the Fur-tastic Four more, and he would battle them as much as he could in the years ahead. As he blamed them for his slavery.

In the end, Dog-alactus would need to SACK his herald hound, as he realised that Ter-rex was trying to stave him to death. He did this by feeding on the PUPPY POWER COSMIC that he had originally given to Ter-rex and left him de powered.

This was not the last of TER-REX THE TERRIER as he soon got back his comic powers and went off to cause havoc all over the Universe.

Again DOG-ALACTUS was with out a Herald Hound, he would find his new one in a very unusual place, this time on EARTH

More Tomorrow

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NOW BACK TO OUR STORY..........

Lots of problems getting into my blog today........ major problems with BLOGGER CENTRAL I believe, BUT Hopefully I can now get back to my story of the Planet Muncher and his Herald Hounds

When we last visited DOG-ALACTUS he had said good bye to Fire Paws, and hello to his new Herald, The DOG-STROYER.

The Dog-stroyer was little more than an Suit of Armour, that was from the fabled land of AS-DOG, Home of the Mutty Paw, Dog of Thunder.

Dog-alactus reanimated the armour, and suped it up with a little bit of his PUPPY POWER COSMIC, and set the new automaton off to sniff out his next snack.

The relationship with Dog-alactus and The Dog-stroyer was not good. As a slave the new herald hound was ok, he did a good job, BUT Dog-alactus missed the companionship that his other Herald Hounds had offered.  

Later when the AS-DOG DOG of EVIL, LICKY stole the Dog-stroyer to use in one of his dastardly deeds, Dog-alactus was not too upset.

Now the Planet Muncher was without someone to find his food. He was a BIG DOG and had fended for himself before, but yet again he  missed having someone around to do the cooking for him, or was that doing his food shopping  !.

He would soon locate a new candidate to fill the position vacated by the Dog-stroyer, but the chosen one did not want the Job....... so it was up to Dog-alactus to convince him that he should take the roll as his new Herald Hound. Which he did with a little help from a Fantastic Foursome.


More about the new Herald Tomorrow !


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OH MY LORD, IT'S THE FIRE PAWS !

PUPPYREUS  K'ROWL was born on the Planet XANDOG. He also went to the Nova Paws Academy. He was the first officer under the command of  GRABB-HOWL LA  who was his best friend and captain. When GRABB-HOWL LA was abducted by DOG-ALACTUS, Puppyreus spent many  years searching for his KIDNAPPED friend.

When he finally located the Planet Muncher named Dog-alactus, he confronted the kidnapper face to face.

Dog-alactus still morning the loss of his much loved Herald Hound, informed Pup about Grabb, and their life together. He told Pup about GRABB-HOWL LA and his transformation into the AIR WOOFIE WALKER and his roll in finding food for his hungry Master.

Dog-alactus also tells PUPPYREUS the sad news of the Death of  his Herald Hound whilst trying to protect him from the OVOIDOGGIES.    PUP then decided  to offer his services to Dog-alactus, to serve him as his friend had done before him.

The Mighty Planet Muncher then endowed Pup with a fraction of his own PUPPY POWER COSMIC, and as a result Puppyreus transforms into FIRE PAWS, the newest Herald Hound to DOG-ALACTUS.

Fire Paws serves his master for many years, but later begged to be released from his position of Planet Sniffer to the Mighty Dog-alactus.   Dog-alactus agrees BUT only if  Fire Paws will find him as suitable replacement.

Fire Paws then leaves and later returns with a replacement,  The lifeless form that had once been called the DOG-STROYER, which had originated in the Fabled land called AS-DOG.  The Master agrees to release Fire Paws from his duties, and sets about re-animating and Empowering the DOG-STROYER as his next Herald Hound and Planet Sniffer.


More Herald Hound Tales tomorrow

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