I’ve always had a crush on Henry Rollins, and Glenn Danzig’s solo band, at least the incarnation of it from the late 80s through the early 90s, is one of my favorite metal bands – back in high school, I taught myself to play the John Christ lead guitar for most of the songs off Danzig II: Lucifuge. So when I heard about this Henry and Glenn Forever comic by Tom Neely, I could only wonder, how did Towleroad get this story three weeks ahead of me??? (no offense to Andy Towle)
Starring super-notorious musclebound punk/metaldudes Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins (with a little help from super-notorious soft-rockdudes Hall and Oates) Henry & Glenn Forever is a love story to end all love stories! The premise of this Cantankerous Titles-released comic is explained at the front of the zine: “Henry and Glenn are very good 'friends.' They are also 'room mates.' Daryl and John live next door. They are satanists.” What follows is ultra-metal violence and cryfest diary entries, cringing self-doubt and mega-hilarious emo-meltdowns. Who knew Danzig was such a vulnerable, self-conscious sweety-pie? Who knew Rollins was such a caring spouse? Who knew Hall and Oates were so infernally evil—yet so considerate? Well, illustrating/writing team Igloo Tornado (featuring super-awesome comixdude Tom Neely) did and they kicked down 64 fully-illustrated pages with it. Genius on all fronts. Terrifyingly cute. Cutely terrifying. As the real-life Rollins says, quoted on the back cover, “Has Glenn seen this? Trust me, he would not be impressed.”
I don’t even know what to say. I mean, I was never too physically attracted to Danzig, but still… This is like some kind of adolescent dream of mine come true! At sixteen years old, this would have probably blown my closet-gay/stoner mind. My birthday is coming up this week and I’ve been having a rough time with family and work and wanting a new job and a new life, so I’m hoping that if I get nothing else out of it, one of my friends will get this for me and cheer me the fuck up. The one good thing is that I’ve been doing a ridiculous amount of writing and am now 33,000 words into a new manuscript. Anyway, for those readers who don’t know anything about Rollins or Danzig, Here are a few videos.
Here’s the video for Rollins’ Band’s “Liar,” from 1994 and directed by one of my favorite music video directors, Anton Corbijn:
And here’s Glenn Danzig running with wolves!!!!!!!
And his song “Her Black Wings” from the Rick Rubin-produced, 1990 album Danzig II: Lucifuge, which I disturbed my former guitar teacher, who was really catholic, when I started playing it as a young innocent teenage closeted kid. Damn, if they could see me now…
Microcosm Publishing: Henry and Glenn Forever
Towleroad: Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig Drawn Up as Gay Lovers
3 comments:
I'm in love with Henry and "Liar" was my fantasy video
Oh, glad you are 33k into your writing
Henry Rollins looks like a geeky dork lately, though, with all that cosmetic surgery. And that talk show he recently had made him even geekier.
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