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Which comic is this?
- by Greg Burgas
- in General
A comic came out this week that is NOT written by Grant Morrison, and features:
1. Green Lantern chopping up the Royal Flush Gang's card with a giant green scissors;
2. Bat-Mite;
3. Batman gaining the powers of the Justice League;
4. A giant, grumpy octopus;
5. Mr. Mxyzptlk;
6. An out-of-sequence story that invites the readers to put the panels in the correct order;
7. A pronunciation guide for Mr. Mxyzptlk (it's "Mix-Yez-Pitel-Ik," in case you're wondering);
8. Mr. Mxyzptlk with a giant ant-head;
9. A giant, sentient carrot, tomato, cauliflower, celery stick, apple, and two water bottles;
10. The giant, sentient tomato getting smashed into a pulp on top of the Royal Flush Gang, with no care for the new sentience of said tomato;
11. A syrup-breathing dragon;
12. Bicycle-riding jellyfish;
13. Flash saying "Holy Bat-costume!";
14. Qwsp and other fifth-dimension imps;
15. Plots by fifth-dimension imps to take over our dimension!
Phew! Can you guess what awesome comic this is? If it was titled "Final Crisis" and had a "Morrison" on the cover, you'd be peeing your pants over how breathtakingly fantastic it is! You know it's true!
- Posted on January 14, 2009 @ 06:31 PM






21 Comments
Michael Gallagher
January 14, 2009 at 6:40 pm
No way! Surely I would have heard about such a book!
Fred
January 14, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Is it the Superfriends comic?
Brian Cronin
January 14, 2009 at 6:52 pm
But everyone knows Super Friends is awesome!
Right?
Right?!?!?!
Thok
January 14, 2009 at 7:00 pm
I'm just waiting for the pirate Starro issue.
Brad Curran
January 14, 2009 at 7:11 pm
IT DOESN"T COUNT!
Greg McElhatton
January 14, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Um, this sounds fantastic, regardless of who wrote it. What is it so I can buy it?
Cass
January 14, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Yeah Greg. A+ for intrigue. F- for promotion. We need to know what issue it is so we can cop that. Brian is right?
Thok
January 14, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Brian is right?
Yes. It still won't be as good as pirate Starro. Nothing really could be.
Cass
January 14, 2009 at 8:13 pm
If it's really that good, Brian should feature Sholly Fisch as one of his writing stars. I never see any of the big sites talk about this book, so a nod on CSBG might help get it looked at, and CSBG is all about that kinda stuff, right?
Greg Burgas
January 14, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Of course Brian is right! He knows EVERYTHING! It's creepy.
DC Super Friends, written by Sholly Fisch and drawn by Chynna Clugston. I almost didn't get the issue, because it is, after all, a kids' book*, but I saw the giant vegetables and had to have it! It's quite awesome.
* That's not to demean it at all, because the DC kids' line often features excellent stuff, but I'm not a kid, after all. I like reading these every once in a while, but I'm not going to read them regularly.
Joe Lechem
January 14, 2009 at 8:59 pm
If it was titled “Final Crisis” and had a “Morrison” on the cover, you’d be peeing your pants over how breathtakingly fantastic it is!
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And people say the Morrisonites have a monopoly on the barbs...pfft.
Dave Ziegler
January 14, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Wow, you're missing out, Greg. When DC was publishing the comic book version of JLU (Justice League Adventures, maybe? I don't recall the title off-hand), it was not only good stuff, but it was among the best books DC was putting out. ESPECIALLY when Adam Beechen was writing it.
I still miss that book.
Kai
January 15, 2009 at 1:20 am
I second Dave. The JLU comic was absolutely fantastic.
Blackjak
January 15, 2009 at 4:02 am
It's not Giffen by any chance?
Blackjak
January 15, 2009 at 5:05 am
Oh, sorry, misread the point that it was Superfriends! Doh!
Dan Bailey
January 15, 2009 at 7:28 am
Chynna Clugston drew it? I'll get it. Period. (The only issue of ... TEEN TITANS GO!, was it? ... that I own I bought as a back issue just about a month ago because I learned that it had featured her art. Same with ULTIMATE MARVEL TEAM-UP, or whatever it was called.)
Edward Liu
January 15, 2009 at 8:39 am
A lot of early issues of the JLU comic were also written by Dan Slott, and they were mind-numbingly awesome. For a long while, Batman Adventures was one of the best written Batman books on the stands, but nobody bought 'em because, "Those are kids books." Made me nuts, especially when you'd hear that from the same people who would then complain elsewhere that "comics aren't fun any more." The short run that Slott and Ty Templeton had in the book's last incarnation was absolute gold.
I didn't notice that this months' Super Friends was drawn by Chynna Clugston when it was solicited or I would have pre-ordered it.
Stephen
January 15, 2009 at 10:10 am
Don't forget none other than Mark Millar on Superman Adventures. DC takes the time to put good talent on those books, or at least use them as a good long-term tryout space like they did with Beechen's JLU.
Michael Mayket
January 15, 2009 at 11:09 am
Some comic I had as a kid back in the 70's had a pronunciation guide for Mr. Mxyzptlk which was the same as what you list above except the X was pronounced Icks and not Ick so that's how I've always pronounced it.
Just a random thought.
Apodaca
January 15, 2009 at 12:21 pm
"If it was titled “Final Crisis” and had a “Morrison” on the cover, you’d be peeing your pants over how breathtakingly fantastic it is! You know it’s true!"
"Gorilla with a jetpack" isn't good enough. I want to know what that gorilla's doing and how he's doing it.
David
January 16, 2009 at 9:50 am
Is it bad that I got this on the 2nd number?