"No One Told Me the Price of Admission Would Be...a BROKEN HEART!"

August 18, 2009 4:43 PM

The Woodstock Festival ended forty years ago today, on August 18, 1969* -- and roughly, um, two years later, Marvel Comics was there! Writer Gary Friedrich and (wildly overqualified) artist Gray Morrow bring you an improbably cleanly tale of romance that first appeared in issue #14 of Marvel's My Love (November 1971): "It Happened at Woodstock!" (Guest-starring Janis Joplin, among others.)

*...Although the story in question would have you believe it was 1968.

posted by kittens for breakfast (15 comments total)

Yay, she marries the violent jerk!

I kind of want to start telling people to FLAKE OFF! now, regardless.
posted by cortex at 4:51 PM on August 18, 2009

Hey e-spouse? What's the haps? What? You want monogamy? Look, baby! When I told you I loved you, I really meant it ...but not the way you took it! I mean, I love lots of people...and you're just one of them! Dig?!

MetaFilter Spouse-a-rama: my big romantic adventure.
posted by filthy light thief at 5:00 PM on August 18, 2009

FUNKY IS UP!

(I still have that pinback button, and for some reason it seemed appropriate to say that.)
posted by Ron Thanagar at 5:03 PM on August 18, 2009

Funniest think that happened at Woodstock was Pete Townshend absolutely clocking Abbie Hoffman with a guitar. Hoffman always insisted it never happened.
posted by edgeways at 5:50 PM on August 18, 2009

Did Rick just sleep straight through Woodstock? What a square.
posted by oinopaponton at 5:53 PM on August 18, 2009

Rick was mindful of his precious bodily fluids, is all.
posted by cortex at 5:54 PM on August 18, 2009

I was talking to some of my younger brothers' friends yesterday and they had never even heard of Woodstock. What is this world coming to?
posted by dunkadunc at 5:54 PM on August 18, 2009

I was talking to some of my younger brothers' friends yesterday and they had never even heard of Woodstock

It sounds like they were there, man!
posted by mazola at 6:10 PM on August 18, 2009 [2 favorites]

The Establishment wins! The Establishment wins! Yaaaaay!!
posted by Spatch at 8:08 PM on August 18, 2009

I was talking to some of my younger brothers' friends yesterday and they had never even heard of Woodstock.

Mindset List, baby.
posted by dhartung at 8:42 PM on August 18, 2009

And the kids working in my kitchen had never heard of Nirvana or frigging Pol Pot. Go figure.
posted by dunkadunc at 9:14 PM on August 18, 2009

Also, super worth seeing: Woodstock, the documentary. Sly And The Family Stone never sounded so funky.
posted by dunkadunc at 9:18 PM on August 18, 2009

You led yourself on, baby!
posted by telstar at 2:10 AM on August 19, 2009

I lost my heart to a long-hair named Flowers!
posted by Sweetie Darling at 3:33 AM on August 19, 2009

Flowers? I'll bet anything his real name was Herman. Also, she probably saved herself from crabs. So there are two upsides.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 7:22 AM on August 19, 2009