Page 3: Wile E. seems to have as much muscle as Popeye, at least for a moment. He also has the anchor tattoo of a sailor.As Road Runner zips by, a pained Wile E. Coyote looks out from a large plant that has caught him. The venus flytrap-like plant grows out from a box marked "Acme All-Natural Trap."
Wile E. Coyote looks over his latest item from Acme: a guided missile. This missile homes in on a special disk which must be placed on the target. The coyote unpacks the disk and tries to set it down under a bowl of birdseed, only to have it nearly blow away not once but twice. When Wile E. decides to glue the disk in place, the glue won't flow from the bottle. The coyote squeezes the bottle harder and hard until it pops and covers him in glue.
Before he can react, Road Runner zips by so fast Wile E. is left in a spin and the disk comes to rest on the glue-coated coyote. As Wile E. hops and contorts trying to get the disk, and the glue, off himself, he snags a lever on the missile launch control. This time he's lucky and the control doesn't fire the missile. The coyote relaxes until he hears the missile making an odd sound. In a panic he pulls the firing control, which looks somewhat like the first control.
As the missile flies high, Wile E. sees the disk is still stuck to him. He tries to remove it by pulling himself away from it when he gets it on a rock outcropping. The rock gives, sending both rock and coyote over a cliff. Just after they hit, the coyote not under the rock for once, the missile hits. Amazingly, the disk survives. As a final painful insult, the launch platform also falls onto the hapless coyote.
Page 3: Wile E. seems to have as much muscle as Popeye, at least for a moment. He also has the anchor tattoo of a sailor.
Page 3: Wile E.'s anchor tattoo is upside-down. It may look right in panel six, but it should like that when his arm is at his side, not when raised. (EC)The Chancellor of the Culinary Cloister is about to preside over several cooks when he is suddenly hit by a flying pizza. Lola, who was delivering the pizza, slipped on food scraps on the floor. The Chancellor, however, blames her for ruining his outfit and his pizza. Lola doesn't take well to being threatened with not being paid and gets tricked into a cooking contest with the Chancellor's personal chef. As if that wasn't enough, the ingredient that must figure in whatever recipe is used is exotic: phoenix eggs.
Lola works rather secretively, not answering an intervewier's question while the chef is a busy blur of activity as he works on his dish. Cracking an egg only to find a live flaming phoenix, Lola has a setback, and the phoenix considers Lola to be it Mama. Though the chef comes up with supposedly grand result, the flaming Vesuvius casserole, Lola wins the contest with much simpler Rice Krunchy treats.
For winning, Lola gets a tip. Unfortunately it's a cooking hint rather than a monetary tip. Enraged, Lola directs a flock of phoenixes to attack and the flame-spitting birds go after both the Chancellor and his chef.
This story was inspired by the Food Network show Iron Chef, the host of which, chairman Kaga, also has a fondness for yellow peppers and flamboyant dress. Page 1: The cooks and chefs are: Miss Prissy, Wile E. Coyote, Mama Bear, the chef from A Hound for Trouble (Jones, 1952), the dueling French chefs François and Louie from French Rarebit (McKimson, 1951), Claude Cat, as well as Granny and Witch Hazel. (EC) Page 1: Bertie the mouse is in jar with some cheese in the third panel. Page 1: Of various items in panel three, perhaps the strangest is the box of Scooby Snacks. (EC) Page 3: The special ingredient really is special. It shouldn't exist in two ways. First, the phoenix is a mythical bird, but more importantly for the comic, the phoenix did not lay eggs. Instead, it emerged live from the ashes of the last phoenix, which,at the end of its life, would set its nest and itself on fire. Page 4: Besides what one might expect, the chef also uses an electric toothbrush. Page 5: Rice Krunchy treats are quite similar to Rice Crispy treats. Page 6: Rock performer Elton John is known for dressing flamboyantly. Page 6: Lola directs the phoenixes with a line used by the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz as she directs flying monkeys. Page 6: Lola even gets the Chancellor's shirt. Page 4: The chef's oven mitt is not colored at all. One would expect the flower designs to at least be colored. The steps leading to the Culinary Cloister take a different route on page six as compared to page one.The editor of Looney Tunes kicks Daffy Duck out of the office. Daffy had suggested, evidently repeatedly, that the name of the comic be changed to one that featured his, and only his, name. Upset at being forcefully kicked out, the duck declares that he is quitting the comic.
Daffy leaves the DC Comics offices and waits at a bus stop until he looks around and realizes he's still in the comic book. The duck erases the background, including the people waiting for the bus, but finds the panel borders won't erase. A karate chop takes care of the artist's pencil before anything new can be drawn. Attacking the borders, Daffy doesn't get anywhere with the borders despite his efforts which include a chainsaw.
The duck tries to blast his way out of a panel, but an artist's brush repaints it as a lollipop. Though Daffy tries not to fall for the gag, he still ends up getting his feathers blown off. He also mentions the Comics Code, suggesting the violence of the explosion and his de-feathered state might be a problem. Daffy gets his feather painted back and then turns to the reader, begging the reader not to turn the page.
On the next page, Daffy erupts into screaming accusations as props go flying from his rage. When he settles down, he tries his last trick, which is 3-D glasses. Wearing the glasses, Daffy jumps out the panels and is no longer confined by them. He does have some trouble, such as tripping over the page number. Escaping, Daffy runs over other comic stories, messing them up. The duck is stopped when he collides with a very stationary word balloon. While Daffy talks about it, the artist draws a more escape resistant border around him.
Daffy concedes defeat but figures that with all the effort expended to keep him in the comic, he must really be wanted. The duck gets his hopes up for starring in a great story. Daffy is bitterly disappointed when the last page turns out to be an ad, with him as the "before" picture.
Page 1: The artist with sample drawings is penciller Walter Carzon. Page 6: Daffy's exclamation J'accuse! translates as "I accuse!" J'accuse! was the title of an open letter by novelist Émile Zola which brought problems with the Dreyfus Affair, a scandal of false accusation and coverups in 1890s France, into sharp public view. Page 8: Leon Schlessinger was the producer of the Warner Bros. cartoons from 1930 to 1944. Page 9: The ad is a parody of the Charles Atlas ads which were once common in comic books. Particularly amusing is the recasting of "dynamic tension" to "dynariffic tension" here. Page 1: Sylvester's footpads are not colored in. Page 5 and 6: These pages would have worked better if they had not been on facing pages of the comic. (I don't know how the advertizing layout is decided, but the ad between pages one and two would have helped the story had it been between pages five and six. This would have allowed for page turning, and not changed the required page turn to get to the very last page of the story. ...PN)* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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