


Club recently spoke with the affable single father about his Gong Show fame, famous friends, and the unique challenges of making a living with a paper bag on your head. Before entering semi-retirement in the early '90s, Langston wrote and starred in the 1988 comedy-drama Up Your Alley and wrote, directed, and starred in 1990's Wishful Thinking. The character took off, and Langston soon parlayed his fame as The Unknown Comic into television appearances, a feature film (1984's Night Patrol), and a wildly successful Vegas act. A veteran of numerous variety shows ( The Sonny And Cher Show, The Wolfman Jack Show, The Alan Hammel Show, and many others), Langston got his big break when he appeared on The Gong Show as The Unknown Comic, a brown-paper-bag-sporting shtick-slinger who specialized in razzing show host Chuck Barris. Joe, and the new Energon Universe.Murray Langston's public profile has lowered considerably since his heyday as The Unknown Comic, but for much of the '70s and '80s, he was one of entertainment's unlikeliest success stories, an unassuming guy who found fame and fortune by putting a paper bag over his head and telling bad jokes. Transformers #1 is published by Skybound on October 4, 2023.Ĭheck out our in-depth interview with Robert Kirkman about Transformers, Void Rivals, G.I. And humanity’s only hope for survival is Optimus Prime." As these titanic forces renew their war on Earth, one thing is immediately clear: the planet will never be the same. Instead, the fate of Cybertron is unknown, and his allies have crash-landed far from home, alongside their enemies - the Decepticons.


"Optimus Prime was supposed to have led the Autobots to victory. We're still a little way off the publication of the first issue, but Skybound's preview copy for the first issue reads: In the same interview Johnson revealed that he considers 1986's classic Transformers: The Movie as his "visual bible" for the new Skybound series, his general dislike for the Michael Bay movie series, and that the comic will be a fresh start with no connection to the continuity of IDW's previous comics, though it does, of course, tie-in with the recently launched Void Rivals and the upcoming range of G.I.
