The Mighty Marvel Marketing Department strikes Again!

[his_spiffynesss]

You may or may not have heard the little comic news item this week. In much of the tradition of Craftsman Bolt-On Systems Saves the Justice League, Marvel cut a million dollar deal with the Florida Department of Citrus to give their mascot, Captain Citrus, a truly super heroic makeover.

Gone is original Captain Citrus, the portly orange defender of Florida's commodities futures...



In his place we have...

Captain Citrus: The Fruity Avenger!

The general gist of his first adventure, is that some cosmic McGuffins he calls Solar Pods come out of the sky and embed themselves in the backs of of his hands. Which he can use fly, create force fields, and create various "hard light" objects.



So, with the hand mounted magic crystals, he's really not much more than a re-skinned Doctor Spectrum the State of Florida spent a million bucks on....

And what does the original Captain Citrus think of all this?

Comments

[icon_uk]

At least they didn't give him one of those tangerine tinged permatans...

Sounds like his solar pods escaped from Quasars Quantum Bands!

[his_spiffynesss]

Could be, but they seem to have a lot more in common with Doctor Spectrum's power crystals. They usually are mounted on the top of the hands.

[obsidianwolf]

They could be yet another attempt by an alien race to duplicate the bands. Or perhaps left over bits from the sets Thanos made during the time he created duplicates of dead former protectors of the universe.

[his_spiffynesss]

I'm so tempted to hit the Captain Citrus Facebook page with all these continuity questions, just to see what the poor social media interns might think about it.

[raspberryrain]

Uh-huh. It reminds of the "Sexymon Wooper."



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[drtechnobabel]

So, they changed him from an orange to a character that looks like he leapt right out of City of Heroes. Seriously, I have a program saved on my computer that lets me still play with the character creator, and I'm betting I could make an almost exact duplicate of that costume, stupid leaf hair and all.

As for the comic itself... hoo boy! WAAAAAY too much to say on that for this comments section alone. Honestly, I'm thinking about just straight up doing a full post on that thing myself. I was thinking about having my first post being something from Tangled Web, but this may just be too good of an opportunity to pass up!

EDIT: Actually, reading through the posting guidelines, I'm not entirely sure that I can post more than 4 pages of it since it's new (I think), despite it being a free digital comic. Anyone with more experience in the community willing to help clear this up for me?

[donnblake]

So... he got the solar pods, and decided to become a superhero. Check. And he calls himself Captain Citrus... because he just really loves oranges? Seems legit.

[big_daddy_d]

not a bad looking costume honestly.

[junipepper]

Words fail me.

[bradygirl_12]

Well, Captain Citrus is better than Anita Bryant!

He is a HEALTHY hero! Another source of his power is orange juice, riffing off Popeye and spinach. ;)

[mishalak]

Well... juice is actually no more healthy than drinking a soda. Apparently most of the goodness of fruit drops out when you get rid of the fiber. Much tastier than sodas, but no healthier. Still I could easily imagine a superhero getting power from a juice or soda. The RC Cola Avenger!

(For the record I rarely drink either soda or juice. When I do I get rid of any possible health benefits by combining them with alcohol.)

[halloweenjack]

Part of the con behind the "no sugar added" claims of fruit juice is that the fruit industry breeds fruit to be way more sugary than it used to be. And, of course, vitamin C (well, ascorbic acid) has long been synthesized.

[bradygirl_12]

Ha, I could see him as the RC Cola Avenger! Maybe he gets his power from oranges and lemons and other citrus fruit. Whenever it's his turn to cook, all he does is throw together fruit! ;)

[doomedpatroller]

I don't think he's the first fruity Avenger. I'm sure that award goes to Starfox.

[donnblake]

Um... please elaborate.

[sianmink]

Fruity, not rapey.

[indyreloadx]

The Green hair just.... if he had a baldcap-esc mask, it wouldn't be so bad but that green hair just makes it look like he should be on the Jersey Shore