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"Bull Digger"
2 pgs. Appeared first time
in
Horror in the Dark #4 (1991).
Reprinted
in
Heavy Metal #159 (1995).
Story/Art/Color(prob. colored by overlays): Richard Corben
(written sign © 1983 Ricard Corben, in Heavy Metal
version, there is additional written sign "by Corb"
just under the title). Lettered by hand (Corben) in Heavy
Metal version and (mostly) printed in Horror in the Dark version.
BRA: as "Escavadeiras
no Cio" in Heavy
Metal - Edição Brasileira # 3 (1989).
FRA: as "Bull Digger
[FRA]" in US Magazine [II]
#24 (1985),
and Créatures
de crève (1989).
GER:
as "Bull Digger - Der Goldgräber" in Epic
[GER] #11 (1984), and as "Bull Digger Der Goldgräber" in Der
Dämon im Cockpit (1985).
ITA: as "Bull Digger [ITA]" in L'Eternauta
#57 (1987).
SPA: as "Toro
zapador" in Zona 84 #1,
and Richard
Corben obras completas #12 (1992).
SWE: as "Tjurgrävaren" in Bild
och Bubblas Stora Seriebok (1989).
Style: Black line with colors. Genre: SF / Humour. Time
Span: Future. Nudity: Full frontal nudity.
Keywords: Robots. Mining. Malfunction. Copulation.
Synopsis: Ape-man is driving gigantic male robot and a
voluptuous girl a female one. They are mining, while one of robots
gets malefunction on female robot.
Comment: Corben's own story is only marginally SF; it
is made for male magazine and it is visible. Bodypainting is
wonderful. There is no actual need for censorship, because only
female body is shown naked. There exists some rewritten parts
during chancing handwritten text into printed: in the end (B&W
version) last two quotes, "I think it was a short in the
sublimation curcuit" is turned to "I think it was a
short in the sublimator circuitry", and "Can't you
make it last longer?" to "Oh yeah? You'd better stop
leaving those copies of MECHANICAL BREEDERS GAZETTE around in
the hanger." There is also in the color version a signature
"Corb" in the opening frame, not in B&W version.
Copyright © 2000 Heart-Attack-Series,
Ink!,
Created: April 23, 2000. Modified:
January 4, 2010.
