Colonel Sanders is a badass

[his_spiffynesss]

Adverting comics: Gotta love them.


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

Comments

[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.