Superdictionary And Hostess Ads!

[espanolbot]

Because we need funny.

Sorry Hal, your antics generally people to have this reaction, whether you want them too or not.



...Ask a stupid question.



Ah, the explanation for Bruce's laughter is surprisingly obvious.



Stop being creepy guys!



Black Canary: As clumsy in the Superdictionary as she was in the series she shared with Ollie!



Dammit Ollie, what did you do now?



Heheheh, somehow, knowing this comes from the kind of grim Mike Grell run makes this all the funnier.



...The guy turned a woman into a sentient dress pattern, I think this calls for more than just giving him pastry Steve...



Holy crap, Hulk just flat out murdered those guys!



Thor vs. the Space Hillybillies... you know, like regular hillbillies, but from space!



Can't decide whether this is more or less horrifying than the above sweatshop one...



This raises so many questions...



Huh, it occurs to me that supervillain crime rates must be skyrocketing now that Hostess has gone bust...

Comments

[nightauditguy]

Hostess goes out of business and the world goes nuts. Coincidence?

[freezer]

Since when does transforming someone against their will into a dress pattern count as a "small crime?"

And I do like how the other lady sneaks up on Taylor with a fruit pie, rather than something ot brain him with.

[skjam]

Mr. Taylor is a "job creator" and thus should be exempted from laws preventing the mistreatment/horrific transformation of his employees.

[cainofdreaming]

Captain America is clearly a commie loving unionist, keeping the free American entrepreneurs down like that. Bad Cappy, no Twinkie.

[leoboiko]

It’s Taylor the Tailor! Got it? Taylor! I understood that reference!

[auggie18]

Technically speaking, I'm pretty sure that there isn't any law against turning somebody into a dress.

[silicondream]

It would almost certainly count as battery in a US jurisdiction; that crime also covers nonconsensual medical operations, intentionally infecting someone with a disease, and pretty much any sort of messing with their body without their permission. It'd probably also count as false imprisonment, assuming living dress patterns can't move.

[glprime]

I'd love a back-up feature written by those lovely bloggers (and professional lawyers) where cliched villains try and maniacally laugh there way out of serious repercussions (jail time, forced removal of powers, execution) only for the judicial system to sternly tell them no, they're getting the book thrown at them.

Course, as Dan Slott's She-Hulk run showed us, an effectual comic book legal system would also open up all kinds of legitimate civil suits and counter-suits.

[captainbellman]

Well, it's a very poor dress pattern unless you're in the market for an outfit with matching gloves, socks, and an authentic "Screaming In Horror" full-face balaclava.

[randyripoff]

Mummy...ray...gun?

And I'm reminded once again that I miss Sif's white costume.

[q99]

To note the classic criticism, if you have a special mummy ray gun, it'd better work on mummy's!

[randyripoff]

Must have gotten it from ACME...

[his_spiffynesss]

Anti-Mummy Ray Gun is my new band name!

[fungo_squiggly]

I think it's a ray gun for turning people INTO mummies.

Hence it's failure to work on someone who's a mummy already.

[icon_uk]

Ah but it obviously does, provided the Mummy isn't dead.

[silicondream]

So it only works on the mothers of small children and Bertie Wooster?

[icon_uk]

Bertie would be much more likely to refer to his "Mater" and "Pater" rather than Mummy and Daddy, though as his parents are deceased before the first Jeeves story, they don't really get mentioned (Aside from explaining that he has the middle name Wilberforce because it's a horse that his father won money on the day before Bertie was born)

[nezchan]

It only works on anti-mummys.

[lieut_kettch]

And obviously this one was an uncle-mummy.

[glprime]

*chorus of boos and thrown tomatoes*

[grazzt]

The giant teaspoon is my favourite Superdictionary entry in a while now.

[auggie18]

Have you seen the one of Hawkman eating a sandwich? It's pretty damn amazing.

[nezchan]

I'm pretty sure Barry and Ollie are both mooning Diana.

[superfangirl1]

Lol. I was wondering what they did this time to piss off Diana. I can imagine them doing that now.

[moetushie]

As a creative but untalented person, I understand Ollie's reaction on a deep, meaningful level.

[silicondream]

If you see Batman rolling on the floor while laughing uncontrollably, shouldn't you pout at him after ring-scanning for Joker venom?

[pallas_athena]

Cap: "Simon, you made the pants too long."

Through my SUPERPOWER OF MUSIC GEEK, I know what this refers to. Hark to the tale:

Around 1932, there was a mournful ballad called "Lord, You Made The Night Too Long" that became popular with the crooner set. Here's the earliest recording I could find (NSFW, pin-up girls in varying levels of undress).

The next year, a dude named Joe Lewis wrote a parody entitled "Sam, You Made The Pants Too Long". Both songs were hits.

The 1933 date means that Steve would know the song from before he became a super-soldier. The joke's of just the right vintage for him.

[auggie18]

*claps*


That's some impressive background knowledge right there.

[glprime]

It's Pallas Athena. Do you expect any less? :)

[cricharddavies]

The Joker ad is a clear demonstration of why he went back to being a homicidal maniac; the universe is clearly weighted against him. He employs the same strategy in pursuit of his goal that the so-called heroes do -- distribute Hostess products as a distraction so as to win the day -- and yet when he does, they inexplicably fail. ("We also like catching you"? Does this mean that the Chairman doesn't like turning people into chairs? Does that make any sense at all? Of course not! His acts are not a demonstration of the universe's nonsensicality, they are a reaction to it. Why not slaughter everyone you can get your hands on?

[icon_uk]

To quote Mr Nobody, leader of the Brotherhood of Dada in Morrison's Doom Patrol (Which I MUST see about posting some of)

"Look at us. Are we not final proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense?"

[leoboiko]

You know, I think trying to explain the multiple meanings of a polysemous word (tear, trip) all in the same example really isn’t that good of an idea, pedagogically speaking.

[jmacq1]

I'm still agoggle over the space-hillbillies, whose incestuous powers are greater than even the might of Myew-Mew!

[nemryn]

I'm kind of on the mummy's side here, actually. Those archaeologists did, y'know, violate the tomb and everything. Leaving them to suffocate is admittedly a bit extreme, but, uh, he was acting in self-defense against a pair of dangerous trespassers, maybe? Probably wouldn't work IRL, but it might be a good enough defense for comic-book law.

Also, that is one surprisingly articulate mummy.

Also also, I didn't know they were still making mummies 2000 years ago.

[cainofdreaming]

It went on at least until Cleopatra's reign ended. The practitioners had lost much of their skill by that time, though.

[arilou_skiff]

Longer, there are roman-era officials that have been mummified. (some of the caskets are fairly interesting, with roman-style art on an egyptian-style casket)

[jlroberson]

No, not the kind-of-grim Grell run: that shot of Ollie is from a Neal Adams scene so grim it's even set to a Hemingway quote.

And god, do I love Superdictionary posts.