The internet hates the humidity. Once the temperature here goes over 80 degrees my connection passes out from exhaustion, which is a surprising impediment to my ability to upload junk here.
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I don’t need Mac Tonight watching me use the toilet. Nor most people, now that I think of it.
In search of a good fake-mistaken reference for pink hands (I went with “demons”), I thought for certain, –because superheroes are inherently funny and everybody but me knows stuff about them who would thus be in position to appreciate such a mentioning– there was a DC or Marvel character who had pink gloves that I might use. Not because I remember there being one; it just seemed like there was a good chance. I didn’t find one. Not one I could pick out of a crowd, anyhow. I did come across this picture (from this page this page.) There are a LOT of weird looking goofs I don’t recognize in there, and there’s no sense in asking about them all. However…
who’s that oaf next to Wonder Woman that isn’t Superman? MAILMAN? Or is he a train ticket collector, maybe? He does an important job but he’s not a hero of intergalactic acclaim! In fact, he’s a monster for plundering and combining the DNA of Herve Villechaiz and Gary Coleman in an attempt to create an ultimate being. It’s still too soon, Mail Man! Not to mention likely to make your Jim Morrison/any actor from the 1970s clone jealous. Additionally, I used to think Jim Morrison, Van Morrison and Morrissey were the same person. They are all exhibit equally morris-like tendencies in my eyes. I would not be surprised to see them shilling for cat food.
I am also of the opinion that Plastic Man is getting a little chummy with Darkseid and Orko back there.
Oh, OH. ExcYUSE me. Are you two friends? Man, that guy’s so touchy just because the doctor who filled out his birth certificate came down with a bit of dyslexia. That’s even weaker reasoning than
Lex Luthor hating Superman forever over inadvertently making him bald –a condition easily remedied by either of these two who regularly create exact robot duplicates of themselves out of stuff they just find lying around, sometimes while in prison,— which I’m told was largely written/fired out of “canon” not terribly wrong after this story was published. Darkseid’s name is STILL misspelled, so many years later. Whenever I see his name I always think it wants to be pronounced “dark seed.” Clearly he can’t be all that evil since he keeps his bit torrent ratio up. At worst he’s a pointy 1970s roller skate.
And… I expect to be at a hotel before I get this posted so don’t be surprised if I end this without any sort of conclusion.
Hey how about that I ended up staying at the hotel before I got this out because my computer is too dumb to recognize certain types of wireless internet and I’m too dumb to know which or why and thus I now have plenty of time to give you a conclusion.
I do not always make good use of my time.
But sometimes I do.
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Pigbuster sez:
According to the (mangled by the mural painter) black hawk emblem on the man’s coat, he is, in fact, Blackhawk of the Blackhawks from the comic Blackhawk. I can only assume the person he’s laid claim to is Chop-Chop, Blackhawk’s resident comic relief and stereotype-on-the-go; unless there’s some other DC character that has a tendency to wear such gaudy vests I don’t know about.
Here they are in a re-imagining that lasted all of two issues.
Also: shy Rorschach.
Frubaklop sez:
No good news ever starts with “hey kids!”
That picture has for a few years been and remains my only exposure to the exploits of Blackhawk (This is what the dominance of wikipedia is doing to our perception of past works). Nevermind solving problems or stopping villains, we have ALL NEW secret identities! And all at the same time! Dig it! We don’t do this to protect our families or to hide from our foes, in fact we do it to get MORE attention! We can’t fight crime if nobody cares about us! We’re like the monsters in the closet that cease to exist if people stop believing in us.
I also appreciate that Chop-Chop’s hero alias is more mundane than his real name. He needs a new PUBLIC identity. I get the impression a bunch of those guys are stereotypes, and that’s about the best impression I’m getting.
There really is so very much wrong with that picture. Olaf has to wrap himself in tin foil just to JUMP? Chuck has to put on his pajamas and boots just to PAY ATTENTION?
And Rorschach, what’s he even DOING there? When did he meet ANY of these people? I thought it was strange that Rorschach was in the mural at all but I didn’t want to risk having someone say “actually he was in Infinite Hibiscus issue 3, page fifteen, frame 5, helping Captain Bunny Marvel replace the little tire on an antique bicycle.” Because I have warped priorities.
That muckraker again sez:
Some time in the recent past: Pigbuster vanishes from bimshwel.com for an extended period of time.
June 15: An entire truckload of pigs is found busted in North Jutland, causing extensive traffic problems.
June 30: Pigbuster nonchalantly reappears at bimshwel.com, performing the textual equivalent of whistling with affected innocence.
Coincidence…?
Pigbuster sez:
I intended to comment on the massive How To Train Your Dragon and/or general animation-related post a while back, but instead of actually writing anything I spent my time pacing around and thinking up a kind of manifesto, which became too much to write so I gave up. This happens a lot.
The only thing I really know about Blackhawk is that it’s invented a fair share of ridiculously impractical Nazi weaponry.
As for the Jutland incident, I admit nothing.
Fenfizzelt sez:
Site is optimal. Will revisit in future. Proceed performing in similar manner.