Colonel Sanders is a badass

[his_spiffynesss]

Adverting comics: Gotta love them.


Four pages from the just released Colonel of Two Worlds comic.

Comments

[q99]

Hah, great stuff!

I like the Colonel as a memetic badass- I think it started in Japanese stuff.

[baihu]

I think it's also because he sorta looks like Teddy Roosevelt, so you get a transference of memetic badassery.

[leoboiko]

Colonel Sanders is a surreal villain in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore (together with Johnny Walker). There's also the Curse of the Colonel.

Japanese culture loves mascots, and they love KFC, so you see plastic statues of Sanders everywhere.

[q99]

The first time I saw him was in Project A-ko, where he seemed to be in a horror movie the characters watched in a theater ^^

KFC has somehow become the big Christmas place there, with reservations made months in advance.

[onceaskrull]

YES +1 Project A-ko. I don't recall much of the badly dubbed episodes I watched in days of yore, but I distinctly remember someone shrieking "it's the COLONEL!!!!"

[q99]

Sounds like you saw the original movie :)

And whatever that film they were watching, it was great ^^

[dr_archeville]

I still say it's a missed opportunity to not have had the Codiment King in this.

[cainofdreaming]

Not Burger King in Yellow?

[alicemacher]

Along the grill the Whoppers fry.
For this some poor cows had to die?
The lineup lengthens
___In Kingcosa.

[captainbellman]

"Not in us, oh King! Not in us!"

[alicemacher]

CREEPY KING: I wear no mask.

[captainbellman]

'The Clown turned his powdered face to the mirror.
"If to be fair is to be beautiful," he said, "who can compare with me in my white mask?"
"Who can compare with him in his white mask?" I asked Death beside me.
"Who can compare with me?" said Death, "for I am paler still."
"You are very beautiful," sighed the Clown, turning his powdered face from the mirror. He seemed to gaze into its surface with a kind of proud, despairing admiration.
"My paleness...are you - are you loving it?" said Death.
"I am," said the Clown, a tear tracing over his cheek. "I am loving it."'

[lamashtar]

Thank you, the mascots were creepy enough before!

[captainbellman]

'He is a king whom emperors have served...the "Madness and Grief" Mustard Whopper only found on the secret menu.'

(For real, though, the official Secret Menu website lists a "Suicide Burger" under its options. Probably you can only obtain it by playing a game of Russian Roulette with the King himself while never looking away from his blank eyes.)

[his_spiffynesss]

Very true, he could have been stealing the Eleven Herbs and Spices recipe.

[cygnia]

Kinda reminds me of the manga homage someone did of/for Alton Brown...

[lucean]

I somehow love the thought that in the DCU, you can't even go to a fastfood joint without having to witness a superpower fight between a man and his evil clone running the said the joint.

[his_spiffynesss]

Yeah, life in a comic book universe can really suck sometimes.

[icon_uk]

That's why, in another universe, they have Common Grounds

[thanekos]

The Colonel's opposite's from Earth-Three, not Earth-Three The Hard Way.

[beyondthefringe]

Flash's new outfit offends my eyes.

[lyricalswagger]

Yeah, what's up with Flash's costume?

[crinos]

I love the fact that the colonel has a suit on underneath his suit.

[icon_uk]

He's like Husk of Generation X, he constantly regenerates new suits and sheds them like snakeskins.

[cainofdreaming]

But... how would he go to the bathroom?

[icon_uk]

With cheerful abandon! :)





The better question is "What do they do with all the shed skins?"

(I'm not for one second going to suggest that that they roll them up into little balls, coat them with batter and deep fry them into nuggets)

[icon_uk]

Well, given the horribly creepy Colonel Sanders adverts that the USA has had running of late, I'm not sure which Earth the evil one would be (and the pink slime "Mechanically recovered meat" is perhaps a little close to the bone (or stripped off the bone at least)

I also wouldn't be roo sure that if I walked into a KFC and shouted "Auto Defences Activate!" that missile launchers WOULDN'T descend... might try that next time I'm passing one.

[crinos]

I don't think Colonel Sanders is that creepy. Of course since his major competition is a clown and a silent, masked king who appears before people and silently offers them burgers, maybe creepiness is relative.

And the auto defense system is probably keyed to the Colonel's voice. Or at least the store manager.

[deh_tommy]

At least Ronald is portrayed as a caring, genuinely good person. If I remember correctly, The Burger King has been retired (long live the Burger King). What is Colonel Sanders like?

[crinos]

Well the original colonel sanders was a real person (Much like Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's), who lived from 1890 to 1980. I don't know much about him except he was sort of a patron of B movie films (He would provide catering for the cast and crew of such films, in exchange for some product placement and a walk on cameo. The best known example of this is in the Nazi biker/Spy movie Hells Bloody Devils, which was reviewed by the Cinema Snob).

[captainbellman]

The only time I've ever found Ronald entertaining was in David Wong's "John Dies At The End" - Wong's mind is being haunted by an inter dimensional Lovecraftian horror with the mindset of a spoiled white American 12-year-old.

When he approaches a McD's, his perception has been altered so that he alone sees the decal on the restaurant window as a picture of Ronald being forced to swallow his own large intestine. Rather than "McDonalds - I'm Lovin' It", the slogan has been altered to "MCWONGALDS - SHIT LUNCH TURDWOMAN".

It's a fun little book.

[icon_uk]

I have enough trouble with the ACTUAL logo for the old British chain "Happy Eater"

[his_spiffynesss]

Oh gods, and someone in advertising didn't see any problem with this?

[icon_uk]

Fair point that, in terms of monster movie franchises, KFC isn't really a patch on McPennywise or Burger Creep, but there's something.... more sinister about the guy, especially when you realise that it's some trying to impersonate a dead guy specifically to flog dead chicken.

So much so I believe they replaced a recent "replacement" Colonel with another because the former was creeping viewers out...

[crinos]

Yeah, they even lampooned that in the most recent commercials by having the new colonel sanders lookalike watching the old one on TV and saying that HE'S the real colonel Sanders.

its kinda surreal.

[skemono]

*sniffs* It's even more beautiful than I imagined it would be.

[crinos]

Wait, I just noticed something: Mirror Master and Captain Cold are working in Bizarro Sander's restaurant.

What? WHAT?

[captainbellman]

Sometimes freezing people or trapping them in the mirror world isn't enough to make ends meet. This makes a lot more sense than, say, Gorilla Grodd or actual Bizzarro working at KFC - the Flash rogues have always been more representative of working stiffs.

[his_spiffynesss]

The Rouges had a slightly bigger role in the story. But I had to cut since it's a new comic.
Check the link at the top, you can download the whole story in pdf format.