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SON O' GOD Chapter Two Continued from here... Listening to the Son O' God concept, Neal Adams didn’t smile. Choquette began to sweat. As he and Kelly continued to describe the bellicose Pope caricature who runs the Boston police and Knights of Columbus while planning a diabolical assault on white Protestant decency, democracy and fair play, Adams began quietly drawing on pad. When the pitch was over, Adams turned around the paper to show the writers a precise rendering of the evil Vatican dweller they’d been describing. “Yeah, I’ll do it,” Adams deadpanned. Continued after story...
SON O' GOD COMICS #3 (National Lampoon #41, August 1973)




Continued from above... The work Neal Adams, Michael Choquette and Sean Kelly did on “Son O’ God” was painstaking, with intricate and heavily-researched renderings of St. Patrick’s cathedral, the White House under construction, the Brooklyn Bridge (complete with city view), Washington Square Park, vaults buried beneath the Vatican, cardboard cutouts of actual former Popes, sculptures, religious art treasures, totems, and icons. The entire project [the first Son O’ God story] took nearly three months. The three lapsed Catholics were serious about their parody. In May 1974, Son O' God met Zimmerman, a superhero-satire parody of folk singer Bob Dylan, whose real name is Robert Zimmerman! Special guest artist: FRANK SPRINGER. Continued after story...
SON O' GOD COMICS #4 (National Lampoon #50 May 1974)





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