Monday, June 20, 2011

Manic Monday--It's Tough To Be A Super-Hero In Georgia

The first problem with trying to be a super-hero in Georgia is that when you arrive at the Atlanta train station--



--there's just no good place to change into costume.

Secondly, when you go to visit your old friend, who lives two hundred miles from Atlanta "in the swamp,"--




--you've got to deal with the occasional drunken redneck.

Finally, when you uncover a dog-fighting ring there, you invariably discover that your old friend is involved in it--

--but you still have to break up the ring, because, you know, dogs--

--so you end up destroying the local economy, and losing your old friend forever.

Lesson? Super-heroes, avoid Georgia!!

Michael Vick obviously never read Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1993). Or, maybe he read it and was inspired by thoughts of bolstering beleaguered economies...
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3 comments:

  1. SiskoidJune 20, 2011 at 8:42 AM

    Marvel Super-Heroes' disposable inventory stories are really awful aren't they? Every time you talk about them, it's a document in how the 90s handled "relevance".

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  2. snellJune 20, 2011 at 9:09 AM

    Dude, you don't know the half of it. That same issue of MSH had a Doctor Strange story dealing (metaphorically) with the evil of alcoholism and an Iron Man story dealing with hackers...

    For the record, the Falcon story was scripted by Dwayne McDuffie, from a plot by George McNeill. Many of the MSH stories were credited as "from a plot by." I think the standard procedure was to have someone come up with a plot, send it to an artist, and don't bother to script it until they were ready to publish...

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  3. SiskoidJune 21, 2011 at 8:48 AM

    The Marvel Method, but taken out of the more collaborative area of the bullpen.

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