Oh,
Quarter Bin, the painful memories you manage to evoke!
Such as the time
Marvel tried to hop on the late 1980s
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle craze:
Oh, dear, I thought I had suppressed
that memory forever.
You see, on
Earth-12927, there's a
familiar mishap at a gamma bomb test site:
Meanwhile, a circus train car of
pregnant elephants had been rolling by,,,
...resulting in:
And, after communing with four of the
Three Stooges (for gods' sake,
DON'T ASK) those elephants became...
No, I don't know why an
Elektra analogue is in an
X-Men parody...
They did, however, have a pretty
bitching HQ:
And they end up meeting their
arch-foe in their very first mission:
During the battle,
Electralux falls into a vat of
radioactive make-up (?)...
Ah, there's a female X-Man...
OK, that
mock-Claremontism made me laugh.
Anyway, they beat the bad guys, save Electralux, go back and beat the crap out of the Stooges (
DON'T ASK), and we leave them...
This sad little enterprise, from
1989, was pretty dismal. It couldn't make up it's mind whether it wanted to be a straight-up pastiche, a wonky 1950s-
MAD style "throw everything-at-wall-and-see-what-sticks" style romp, a funny animal book, or a parody of the X-Men. It didn't do any of those terribly well, and sort of stunk.
The credits read "Created by"
Tom DeFalco and
Adam Blaustein, written by
Roger Stern, penciled by Blaustein, inked by
Jon D'Agostino. All of whom probably
hate me right now for bringing this book up. Sorry.
The
Power Pachyderms have pretty much faded from memory...until
Jonathan Hickman revives them for an important role in the upcoming
Infinity event (OK, probably not...)
1 comment:
Okay, now you've gone & done it. No matter how ridiculous this looks, now I want to find a copy of this comic. Yeah, it seems really silly, but it's still probably a better read than most of the DC New 52 books.
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