The Haunted Spookshow Of Channel X: June 2023

Sunday, June 25, 2023

The Guys Of Wrexus Are Upon You — Meet Señor Güsto, Viscous Vendor!

Señor Güsto is the owner / operator of Señor Güsto's Fine Slimes, the go-to Gunspoint vendor for all your ooze-, goop-, and sludge-related needs.

Corrosive cruds?

Mucks medicinal and murderous?

Automotive alluvia?

Lascivious lubes?

Señor Güsto's got 'em all!

His petite, five-foot frame is inverse to his flamboyance. Señor Güsto affects an outlandish Spanglish accent, gesticulating all the while with folding fan in one hand and dabbing handkerchief in the other. (And, boy howdy, does he go through hankies, as he's perpetually dripping. Señor Güsto blames the Grueston humidity, but nobody perspires that much.)

Señor Güsto is cagey about where, exactly, he procures his clammy commodities. When queried, he narrows sly, twinkling eyes and mutters about "the labyrinthine Sewers Of Syzzurp".

[In Don't Mess With Wrexus: The Movie, Señor Güsto is portrayed by a CGI'd Luis Guzmán.]

Monday, June 19, 2023

SLEAZE FEATURE: 'BASIC CB RADIO GUIDE‘ (1976)

Been teaching myself Trucker, and found this arcane tome out in the wild. I remember seeing booklets like this in autoparts joints and skeevy stereo stores (which were more headshops than not, now that I think about it) as a wee one.

Few copies seem to exist. There's zero info about it on the ol' cyberwebs. No ISBN. No pricing.

Roger "Ratchet Jaw" Hammer is seemingly a pseudonym.

APC (American Publishing Corp.) vanished into the ether, as their phone number goes to a defunct pizza joint and their address is now an adorably homey li'l office park suite.

The cartoonist goes unnamed (but has that common style in gag-mags of the era).

The buxom model isn't even credited (though she has a familiar "maybe a Playmate?" vibe).

So those're all the reasons I'm posting this lovingly hand-scanned treasure in its entirety.

FOR SCIENCE!