Saturday, September 18, 2010

Hungry Stairs to Heaven










The final entry in the Cranium Station DMZ and Eternities of Darkness trilogy, this minicomic has pretty much the same printing history as the latter title (meaning I'm not aware of any digest size versions). The 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed. consisted of 5 copies with red covers and yellow and orange guts.

Trivia: Like the two previous parts, this one also has a secret message, although not as obvious."Omnia Exstares" was my nod to The Evergroove State College. Our school mascot was the geoduck (pronounced "gooey-duck"), a very obscene looking shellfish found on the shores of Cooper Point, where TESC resided. Although the college didn't actually have any official athletic teams in the 1970s, we still considered the geoduck as our icon. "Omnia Exstares" was as close as the college could get in Latin to "Let it all hang out," which, when captioned under a picture of a geoduck in full glory, was pretty rude. Cougars and huskies drool-- geoducks rule, man! In the 1978-1979 school year (the year I graduated), certain officials attempted to get rid this mascot, but the students overwhelmingly voted in a special campus election to keep the critter, and the geoduck mascot remains at TESC to this day. Omnia Exstares!