Monday, August 24, 2015

Manic Monday--Scott Snyder's Zur En Arrh!!

An Anti-Superman and Anti-Batman have appeared out of nowhere, plaguing the World's Finest team:

Well, eventually they're caught, and...

A Commissioner Gordon who looks young and has no mustache? Why, that could never happen--

Oh, never mind.

Anyway, the Anti-Superman turned out to be a similarly de-aged Perry White. How did it happen?

Pure Silver Age. Gordon and White are taking an (unescorted!) tour of the Fortress Of Solitude, when...


Oh, sure, right...a mysterious unknown element that can completely erase and change someone's personality. That could never happen--


Oh, never mind again. Seriously. (That's Alfred and Clark Kent discussing the new, improved but unscarred by tragedy Bruce Wayne, BTW)

It's clear now--Scott Snyder is just trying to outdo Grant Morrison's "every Silver Age Batman story happened" by amping it up to an even more ridiculous level!! Take that, silly Zur En Arrh!!

From World's Finest #159 (1966), as reprinted in World's Finest #227 (1975), and Batman #43 (2015)

3 comments:

Brian said...

It's clear now--Scott Snyder is just trying to outdo Grant Morrison's "every Silver Age Batman story happened" by amping it up to an even more ridiculous level!! Take that, silly Zur En Arrh!!

You say that like it's a BAD thing!

Martin Gray said...

That Silver Age Gordon is quite the Silver Fox ...

Dan said...

Oddly enough I really liked the Zur En Arrh or whatever storyline. The only thing I disliked was the new grossed up Joker. Otherwise it was a pretty old school noir tale.