ROLL OVER SHOGUN

There's this group called Kiss. We've dealt with their history, their rationale of themselves, etc., in our own way [i.e. the General and Foot Soldier interviews of the Bat Lizard and the Pirate Dog]. Now we have decided to tumour attention to Kiss as Sociological Phenomenon —that's right, take out your notebooks, you'll be quizzed on this. War correspondent Carl Arrington filed this report from Japan [revenge for Pearl Harbor, for that wayward Sony, that plastic shirt...], and we are printing it in an effort to understand just what it is our younger brothers and the Japanese hordes see in this corporation known as...Kiss...

Consider the odd swaps: We send them wire and transistors that make their way back to Times Square as discount radios. We barter our baseball for Kung Fu. They get re-runs of "Bonanza" and "That Girl" and pass along Ultra Man and Godzilla us. Megallon in return. We peddle them franchises of Kentucky Fried Cardboard and we get Sushi bars that serve saki. Our latest exports are the four chrome-and-leather puppets collectively known as Kiss.