Clark Kent and Diana Prince are taking a stroll, when:
Apparently, "grotties" is Paradise Island speak for "stupid muggers," because...
"Petunias"?? Anyway, let's stand back with Clark and watch the carnage...
"The lass"???
Diana didn't even drop her purse!!! Even Spacebooger is impressed by that level of fashion competence!!Denny O'Neill, Dick Dillin & Joe Giella give us a 40-year early sneak peak of JMS' runs on Superman and Wonder Woman in World's Finest #204 (1971). Why are Clark and Diana out walking together? Much more on that next week...
Now, if you don't go and vote for my fight this week, JMS just might come back to monthly comics...and we don't want that, do we?
If he comes back, maybe he can work on getting out the next issue of "The Twelve" before the year TWENTY-twelve.
ReplyDeleteAnd why is Clark dressed like a gangster?
Because that's how Clark Kent dresses when he wants to impress the ladies. Details on Sunday...
ReplyDelete"The Lass"? I imagine him saying that in my Yorkshire accent, because it's a word we use often. Also, this scene reminds me so much of the scene in Watchmen, where the two off duty super-peeps get attacked in the alley.
ReplyDeleteRe: "Apparently, "grotties" is Paradise Island speak for "stupid muggers," because...
ReplyDeleteActually, it comes from the Beatles (trust me, I'm a self-described and avowed Beatles-*freak*).
During their early days, one of the things they were famous for (among so many others) was their introduction of new, "hip" slangy words, like "Fab" (as in "-ulous") or "gear" (meaning "great, cool, awesome" etc, from the French "de rigueur" or "as required(to be fashionable)", etc)...as well as "Grotty" (from "grotesque").
The irony in this case is that "grotty" was actually done intentionally and with tongue firmly planted in cheek for the 'Hard Day's Night' film, where George Harrison almost literally pulls the term out of his ass and throws it at a particularly snide fashionista controller in an ad agency (who thinks that George is his next client and promptly has his secretary write the term down for future reference and usage).
Such were the power of the Beatles (and the underestimation of those with no sense of humour, as they would find out again repeatedly later in their careers), that the word ended up *actually* being used and entering the modern, popular, hip English slangy language.