DC's Beach Blanket Bad Guys Summer Special #1

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Comments

[thenicochan]

*nod nod* I like this.

Cute art, like the family, and love seeing the side of Victor as he may have been before the tragedy his life became still somewhere inside him. Also love the giant ass robot with the Batmobile chasing it down in that last panel.

[joetuss]

Yeah, good story, but using Mr Freeze, or Captain Cold to sell ice cream, is like using Ted Bundy's likeness to seek VW Beetles.

[cyberghostface]

There’s a Batman restaurant in Gotham which has Joker-themed fries so I guess it’s something they’re used to.

[janegray]

Admittedly Captain Cold has a much lower kill count than the average supervillain, and in the vast majority of his stories he avoids killing civilians (some writers have taken it to mean that he "doesn't kill women and children," which is a bastardization of his MO, he absolutely does kill adult women who are out to kill him such as female assassins). But still...

Then again, Gotham has a McDonald's analogue that takes after the Joker.

[mastermahan]

If you're going to use a supervillain as a mascot, Mr. Freeze is probably one of the better choices, seeing how he tends to be played as a sympathetic anti-villain. Sure, this version is a crazy stalker obsessed with a frozen girl he's never met, but he's still one of the reasonable guys in Gotham.

[strejdaking]

I believe they retconned that away now too.. I think he's just normal Freeze now.

[joetuss]

Why use a villain at all? Why not a hero like Ice? Or Polar Boy?

[icon_uk]

Yup!

[crinos]

My headcanon on the McDonalds Epilogue was that when Joker got wind of there being a Batman themed restaurant, he went to the owners and said "Put an homage to me on the menu or I'll burn every last store in your chain to the ground."

Also, Joker occasionally stops by one of these restaurants. He doesn't hurt anyone or break any laws, he just goes in, orders some food, hangs out, and occasionally gets his picture taken with patrons who assume he's a guy in a costume. All the staff know he's real, but they're too afraid to do anything.

[crinos]

I don't think anyone would be using Captain Cold considering what he did to the last guy who boosted his likeness to sell unlicensed merch.

In an issue of Superman, Funky Flashman was selling a bunch of Merch with Superman and other heroes on it. There was nothing Supes could do to stop him since his likeness is technically in the public domain. So Lois went up to Flashman and was like "If you're making bank now, imagine how much you'd make if you made supervillain merch too."

Cut to Flashman in his office later, being frozen alive by Captain Cold, who was not terribly amused by Flashman's Captain Cold party cooler.

So yeah, respect the Flash Rogues intellectual property.

[joetuss]

So Lois basically led that guy off a cliff?

[crinos]

Yep.

And that's pretty much everyone's reaction to hearing about that issue: "Holy shit Lois Lane got a dude potentially murdered by supervillains."

[silverhammerman]

This is not where I expected to see John Paul Leon art. I mean, I love it, I generally love Mister Freeze, just very unexpected.

[spider_man6]

Out of this special, this was probably my favorite next to the Lex, Grodd, and Cheetah ones. I like how the special showed there are some bad guys who have a shred of decency in them and others who won't act like heroes for the common man. In this case, Freeze has some humanity left.

[liliaeth]

I also like how at first there's a chance of him being a threat for seeing them using his likeness as an insult. Because i'd imagine that would be a risk if you use a supervillain as your mascot.

[long_silence]

The Giganta story was pretty good too.

[bradygirl_12]

Brain freeze! *tickles*

[remial]

I love this.
wait, where is Fries' helmet? doesn't he need that to, you know, survive?

[stubbleupdate]

But how does he eat with a helmet on?

For the sake of the joke, I'll allow it.

[crinos]

From the look of these scans the Ice cream vendors are in some kind of force field or energy field, while Freeze is standing outside it with his men (who are all wearing suits). Presumably Freeze brought them back to his hideout and put them under a heat lamp or something so they would be warm and able to survive in his lair.

[superfangirl1]

This is humorously great. I like it. Mr. freeze getting a brain freeze. lol

[strejdaking]

I wonder how that works though. He's supposed to be extremely sensitive to temperatue right? It needs to be about North Pole level of cold for him to walk around without his suit. Ice-Cream should be if anything little hot for him (which raises the question how the hell would hot ice cream taste).

Mod Note!

[icon_uk]

Great though this is, and it is only four pages, it's still more than 1/3 of the Mr Freeze story in that issue, which is only 8 pages long. Please trim to be no more than 1/3 of the sstory.

[cygnia]

And now I want Tiger's Blood shave ice...