Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #89

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:20:06 +0000

Julio --

Well, at least he's honest enough to call hmself "Jerky." There's that.

By: Justin Alexander

Justin Alexander — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:12:05 +0000

The Hopi also shut down large sections of their normal tourist operations in response to the kachina issue. (I was vacationing there that summer. Ironically as part of a trip to the San Diego Comic Convention.) It was not the first time that they did this. Apparently whenever they feel that their religious practices are being disrespected, they turtle up. Which makes sense -- it's a good way to use their tourist industry as a point of both leverage and as a way to raise awareness of the issue.

By: Julio

Julio — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:13:50 +0000

"Whoever wanna look like anyone named â€œSuperboyâ€ must be a fag" well, applauses for Jerky, our Bigot of the week...

By: Dr. Insomnia

Dr. Insomnia — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:26:26 +0000

on the subject of TMNT, the analogous characters continues: Stick=Splinter, the Hand=the Foot, originally all the turtles wore red bandanas, elbow/knee pads, etc. a la Elektra and DD...fun stuff

By: sean

sean — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:43:30 +0000

I remember the first time I read Miller's "Daredevil", I realized how "The Foot" got their name.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:31:24 +0000

Does that TMNT story really constitute an "urban legend"? I was 10 or 11 when I read the comic and got the reference right away; it's not particularily subtle. Given that the first issue was extremely popular in the 1980s (I think I have the fifth printing of it, and this was before the cartoons, toys, movies, etc.), it's not like it's particularily obscure, either. BTW, the whole issue can be read here.

By: Peanut Gallery

Peanut Gallery — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:20:21 +0000

Cerebus, initially a funny animal parody of the popular Conan, started the whole b&w indie movement in the late 70s. TMNT just continued this trend with the popular comics of the time--X-Men and Daredevil.

By: yo go re

yo go re — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:58:43 +0000

basically, TMNT took the four hottest things in comics at the time and rolled them together: teenagers (Teen Titans et all), mutants (anything with an X in front of it), ninjas (the Frank Miller oeuvre) and funny animals (really? those were popular any time after the '50s?). What are the odds that something so calculated would actually work?

By: comixkid2099

comixkid2099 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:06:33 +0000

i have heard that ninja turtles is also a parody of new mutants, because of teenage mutants fighting crime.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:09:17 +0000

Here's a possible topic for a future column.

I remember, a few years back, hearing about a crossover comic between the Battle of the Planets and Voltron properties. It never came out, but was there even one planned or am I just going crazy?

By: David Frankel

David Frankel — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:04:11 +0000

For Denn and anyone else interested:

Superboy #109: Influenced by the mental powers of Jax-Ur and the Phantom Zone criminals, the greyhound Swifty (last seen in Superboy #105) creates a formula giving him super powers and inadvertantly turning him evil. Swifty outduels Krypto in a test of wits, then assists Superboy in bringing peace to an alien world.

Superboy then brings Swifty to a secret cache where he stores trophies and dangerous weapons. Swifty turns on the Boy of Steel and releases a Kryptonite trap. Krypto who is also affected by the Kryptonite has enough strength to activate the duplication machine which creates a Bizarro-Swifty. The Bizarro-Swifty is good and rescues Superboy from the Kryptonite. Superboy then creates an antidote for Swifty removes his powers and evil compulsions. Finally, he fashions a special collar preventing the Phantom Zone criminals from further controlling the dog.

You gotta love Jerry Siegel and Mort Weisinger; whole new flavors of crazy comics.

By: JosephW

JosephW — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:35:47 +0000

The series I meant in the previous comment was NFL SuperPro. (That's what I get for posting before double-checking. Oy.)

By: JosephW

JosephW — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:34:46 +0000

What amazes me is that I worked on the retail end of comics in the 1980s and 1990s, and I don't recall the ongoing series (though I *do* remember the prestige-format book). Maybe some memory loss isn't so bad, after all.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:58:24 +0000

Here's a question: Who did Jim Lee have in mind when he introduced the concept of The Traitor when he was in charge of the X-Men?

By: Denn

Denn — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:55:24 +0000

And how the hell does that kryptonite leash not kill Krypto. And how did Superboy get the thing on him without being sick himself?

By: Denn

Denn — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:51:19 +0000

I'm curious about Swifty. What's his story? Bizzaro Krypto? A trap set up by Luthor?

I MUST KNOW!

By: Jerky

Jerky — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:50:00 +0000

This week's was boring. Except for the Superboy one, haha. Whoever wanna look like anyone named "Superboy" must be a fag. Or he must be from the '50s, lol.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:15:54 +0000

It's always fun when someone takes one's rumor and rampant speculation and then does actual research as to the facts of the matter. So, cool SuperPro bit, Brian!

But did SuperPro save the rain forest or not? I must know!!!