The Hypnotizing Bowling Ball
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scans_dailyA classic for Beyond Big Two Week: Herbie Popnecker, also known as The Fat Fury, one of Alan Moore's favorurite characters, and the greatest superhero ever!
In the absurd, bizarre, unpredictable series created by Shane O'Shea and Ogden Whitney, Herbie is a withdrawn boy nicknamed 'little fat nothing' by his father because he doesn't seem to do anything save eat his lollipops. But Herbie gains magical powers from the lollipops - he can walk in air, time travel using a grandfather clock, talk to animals, charm any woman, walk through walls, outrace airplanes, and lift cars. He's basically God, if God fought communists, stopped alien invasions, met historical figures, and foiled the plans of criminal masterminds, like the Black Whack in this issue.
The Black Whack is a cunning criminal, as cunning as cunning criminals get. He mass produces hood-wearing hypnotizing bowling balls, then he mails them to people's houses.
Oh, he's tricky, Black Whack is. Of course when the bowling ball tries its powers on Herbie:
Puny hypnotizing ball, did you really think you could defeat Herbie in a battle of willpower!
When it fails, The Black Whack makes his awesome appearance - no, actually he just walks into Herbie's room.
I also forgot to add that Herbie's buddies with The Man! When he wants things done, he just talks to the U.S. President or the director of FBI, because that's the kind of pull he has. Civil War would never have happened if Herbie were part of the Marvel Universe.
To cut a long story short, Herbie's dad is framed, Herbie rides a missile like in the cover, and Black Whack gets arrested by Atlanteans. An ordinary day for Herbie.
In the absurd, bizarre, unpredictable series created by Shane O'Shea and Ogden Whitney, Herbie is a withdrawn boy nicknamed 'little fat nothing' by his father because he doesn't seem to do anything save eat his lollipops. But Herbie gains magical powers from the lollipops - he can walk in air, time travel using a grandfather clock, talk to animals, charm any woman, walk through walls, outrace airplanes, and lift cars. He's basically God, if God fought communists, stopped alien invasions, met historical figures, and foiled the plans of criminal masterminds, like the Black Whack in this issue.
The Black Whack is a cunning criminal, as cunning as cunning criminals get. He mass produces hood-wearing hypnotizing bowling balls, then he mails them to people's houses.
Oh, he's tricky, Black Whack is. Of course when the bowling ball tries its powers on Herbie:
Puny hypnotizing ball, did you really think you could defeat Herbie in a battle of willpower!
When it fails, The Black Whack makes his awesome appearance - no, actually he just walks into Herbie's room.
I also forgot to add that Herbie's buddies with The Man! When he wants things done, he just talks to the U.S. President or the director of FBI, because that's the kind of pull he has. Civil War would never have happened if Herbie were part of the Marvel Universe.
To cut a long story short, Herbie's dad is framed, Herbie rides a missile like in the cover, and Black Whack gets arrested by Atlanteans. An ordinary day for Herbie.
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