Lance Mountain #2.

Lance penned a few comics for Powell Peralta's Intelligence Report team 'zine and catalog.

After doing the website for over four years, I'm a little surprised that this is only the second time Lance has been on here.

There will be a rare Saturday incident on Vert Is Dead tomorrow. You can't take a brief two week survey of skateboard comics without including this one.

Powell Peralta Bones Brigade Intelligence Report - Fall 1990 Volume 3 Number 6

Kevin Wilkins.

Ortho Stevens was by Kevin Wilkins and appeared in a 1996 Tum Yeto catalog that featured cartoons by Ed Templeton, Gustavo Vargas, Tod Swank and Cleon Peterson. It's interesting to note that in many skate comics the story involves the character being caught in some undesirable place or going through a series of mundane activities before going skateboarding in the last panel.

Kevin used to be a writer and staffer at Transworld until the Skateboard Mag started in 2004. He does all those things at the Mag to this day.

When I got on the mailing list for Tum Yeto, they would send me the catalogs to my real name. At some point in the late 1990s, the catalogs started being addressed to Busta Rhymes. Thanks, guys. It made me laugh every time I got the mail.

Ben Hall & Brian Lindgren.

Thrasher started a feature on skateboard comics in 2000. The column ran for a few years before being ended due to a lack of quality submissions. One of the highlights from that run was Ben Hall's Sk8 Coach. The Coach's job was to whip various pros back into skateboard shape after their attention started to shift elsewhere. This was even turned into an animation for the first King Of The Road video.

Thrasher - June 2004 Volume 24 Number 6

Steaming The Glue.

This is some bizarre Poweredge weirdness by Little Ricky mocking Gleaming The Cube.

Of particular note is the "Elvis had a stinky butt" t-shirt the one character is wearing. Assuming you are of the right age, you probably remember the shirt from small black and white ads for assorted punk band t-shirts that ran in Thrasher. Alongside recognizable names such as Black Flag, Sonic Youth and Bauhaus, was this mysterious shirt putting down Elvis. It made you laugh and left you confused at the same time. What was the shirt for? Was it for a band? What did it mean? Would my mom get mad if I ordered one? The only question with a definite answer was the last one, thus the shirt remains a mystery to me. I bet a bunch of college kids did wear them.

Poweredge - July 1989 Volume 2 Number 6

Sean Cliver #3.

Everything sucks.

I always thought this was drawn by Lance Mountain, but when I scanned it in something didn't seem quite right about the art. I noticed that Sean signed his name on the car door. This probably would have been some of the last stuff Sean did for Powell before changing jobs to work at World Industries and its related companies.

I know some of the scans I'm using from this week and last have been on the internet already. I wanted to present a solid collection of skateboard comics from over the years in one handy package.

Transworld - January 1992 Volume 10 Number 1

Neil Blender #10.

Blender is basically the champ of skateboard comics. In addition to bizarre tales such as this one, which was perfect for the early days of the Alien Workshop, he was also using comics to invent tricks like the Fall Guy and map out doubles routines on the half pipe.

Transworld - October 1991 Volume 9 Number 10

Ed Templeton #15.

Foundation made a catalog in 1996 with comics by Ed Templeton, Gustavo Vargas, Tod Swank and Cleon Peterson. This is Ed's installment of Transistor Sect. A drop bear attacks and gets its ear chopped off.

Where did Transistor Sect #1 appear? I looked around a little and couldn't find it.

Maybe the funniest part in the catalog is the teaser for Toy Machine's Welcome To Hell video which is as follows:

Better than all the Foundation videos put together bungholes!