DC Superfriends #19

[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

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The group goes to the zoo,to steal an elephant and whale. When ask why,professor response is"That's what villains do!"

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[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Heh, this is fun. For the "old reference" geeks amongst you Black Flame was a villain who operated in Kandor City and fought Supergirl, Mind-Grabber Kid is an old JLA foe (who tends to get referenced more than you'd imagine given his original one-shot status, something about the geeky outfit and name I assume), the Ant is an old 1960's Teen Titans foe (Love the "Oh no Batman's after me... Oh no Batman's after me..." "Correction.. AQUAMAN is after you" scene! :) ) and Clown Kid is based on Punch, another 1960's Titans enemey.

[04nbod.insanejournal.com]

Black Flame, wow someone knows their stuff. I thought she got lost down the back of the who's who

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

There is some deep geeking among the Super Friends writing staff; I remember scans (might've been the old comm) of a Bat-Mite story that ended with a whole passel of Silver Age imps, including Mopee!

[dr_hermes.insanejournal.com]

I like that phrase, "deep geeking." It sounds so technical, like high resolution or low probability.

[lieut_kettch.insanejournal.com]

I was initially peeved that Black Alice was in the villain school, but the last panels look like she did a heel-face turn. Was she working for the Superfriends all along?

And now I want to see the Superfriends version of Misfit. DAAAAAARK VENGEANCE!

[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

She had a change of heart also like Grabber kid.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

They cutened up Georgia Sivana quite a bit, didn't they?

[crinosg.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, she went from "Her dad in drag" to "cute librarian".

I approve.

[crinosg.insanejournal.com]

Also: "Big red cheese" reference.

Why did they start using that anyways? Why cheese?

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

All I can imagine is that CC Beck and Bill Parker thought it'd be a funny sort of G-rated insult. That may be enough.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

I've always assumed it was after the popular cheese Edam which is always sold as a ball, with a distinctive bright red wax layer around it (to protect the cheese).

Or maybe because he is so cheesily heroic and decent all the time.

[bingojones.insanejournal.com]

I always assumed the red was for his costume and the cheese was because the lightning bolt logo on his chest looked like a wedge of cheese.

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

I figured a combination of the phrases "Big Red" cause he's a big guy in a red suit, plus "The Big Cheese" because he's acting like he's in charge taking the villains down. Plus maybe a bit of the way he act is cheesy, thrown in.

[dr_hermes.insanejournal.com]

The Edam reference seems likely to me, although we may never know for sure. In any case, it's a much-loved phrase.

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

I have no problem with this update.

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

AW YEAH TITLES TARGETED AT KIDS THAT DON'T TALK DOWN TO THEM AND MAKE DECADES-OLD JOKES THAT ONLY 40 YEAR OLD FEN WILL UNDERSTAND LORI!

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Sorry, my irony-ometer must be on the blink, are you celebrating this, or denigrating it?

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

Celebrating Superfriends, denigrating Tiny Titans.

[kingrockwell]

D:

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

It's not that I dislike Tiny Titans, but dude, it's so not a kids title.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, I think the way SUPER FRIENDS does it is perfect - you've got these references, like Blue Snowman or Black Flame or the Terrific Whatzit, that only the old-timers will pick up on, but that's all bonus content. If you don't know who the Terrific Whatzit is, it's still funny that Flash is trying to make a turtle his pet; if you don't know who the Blue Snowman is, you can still understand "cold-themed badguys versus the Justice League" just fine. True Warner Bros style, there.

[bluejaybirdie.insanejournal.com]

That was awesome! And it was too cool to see Black Alice and Georgia Sivana Superfriendified. I have so much love for this title--they even make Aquaman cool! (Which, you know, I thought might be difficult for any Aquaman in a Superfriends title, given his history in the old show...)

"Because that's what villians do!" I admit it, I lol'd. It seems like that's sometimes their motivations in the comics too!

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

This is another example of how DC needs to push these books more. The sivlerage fans would go nuts for this,yet most shops just put them in the "kids section".

[04nbod.insanejournal.com]

You have no idea how many people at newsarama didn't know 'supergirl:cosmic adventures' existed. People were going gaga over wednesday comics and an all ages supergirl with silver age sensibilities and how that could be an 'all-star supergirl' but didn't even know that 10 months ago DC were publishing one. I think some just skip over the all-ages solicits for starters. I know my local store have all ages with the regular titles so it would be (Titans, Teen Titans, Tiny Titans) (Legion of Super-heroes, final crisis:legion of three worlds, legion of super-heroes in the 31st century) (superman, supergirl, supergirl/superman:maelstrom, action comics, supergirl:cosmic adventures, superfriends) because they realise if a person is picking up 2 or three already they will pick up another at a lower price point. There are months I can't buy all-ages titles in my local store because they are gone by the time I get there.

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

Hello, Georgia! :)

[dr_hermes.insanejournal.com]

[Ray Charles]Georgia on my mind...[ /Ray Charles]

[zegim.insanejournal.com]

I remember back when I was I kid how much I loved the Spider-man animated series, even if I didn't catch a lot of references made to the Spider-man mythos (the Spider wars or whatever was called the event with Spideys from many dimensions come to mind).

I guess is the same with these comics. Kids will like the meat of it (Adventure! Superheros being heroic ) and once they grow and start learning more about comics, they'll look back and think "man, that was cool".

In other words: This stuff is great!

[blake_reitz.insanejournal.com]

The Ant is clearly an update of DC's Ant-Man, posted a while back. Yay!

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Eh, no, actually - the Ant was a stand-alone Teen Titans villain, from way back in the early days. He made an appearance in the 'Teen Titans: Year One' miniseries, but otherwise, he hasn't really been seen much of since then.

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

Wants less Black Alice. Needs moar Jumpa!

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

I thought Mindgrabber Kid was male.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

He was and is, just as he is shown here.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Huh... he looks awfully femme to me, but maybe that's because long-haired guys are a rarity in this type of comic. Long hair of that sort is usually visual shorthand for girls.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Uhh... what hair? Mind Grabber Kid is wearing a crash helmet. Who are thinking MGK is?

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Er - the long-haired redhead girl/guy/whoever in the black outfit? The one who's boasting about having Superman's powers? My computer is messing up a couple of the scans, so I was basically going on intuition.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Ah, right, well that's the problem than, that's very definitely not MGK, that's Black Flame.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

And she is...? I've never heard of her.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

A short lived pre-Crisis Supergirl foe. She was a criminal in the bottle city of Kandor who left the city and caused trouble on Earth. Her super-villain career ended when Supergirl exposed her to Gold Kryptonite and returned her to Kandor.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Ah, OK. Thanks.