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Comic Critics #44!
- by Brian Cronin
- in Comic Critics
Here is the latest installment of the Comic Critics strip, courtesy of Sean Whitmore (writer) and Brandon Hanvey (artist)! You can check out the first forty-three strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog.
Enjoy!

Let us know what you think, either here or at the ComicCritics blog!
- Posted on March 10, 2009 @ 08:00 AM






29 Comments
Thok
March 10, 2009 at 8:10 am
Bwahahaha!
Tom Fitzpatrick
March 10, 2009 at 8:17 am
Super-man: a musical.
God help us all!
Michael
March 10, 2009 at 8:19 am
I don't quite get it.
Mike Loughlin
March 10, 2009 at 8:27 am
Very funny!
Squashua
March 10, 2009 at 8:39 am
Michael - re-read the last issue of Final Crisis where Superman directly defeats Darkseid.
John Warwick
March 10, 2009 at 8:44 am
Can we get a scan of that scene?
Dalarsco
March 10, 2009 at 8:49 am
Not the best. I was confused at first since you recently did a comic mocking people who didn't want to understand FC. It wasn't until after I was done that I realized that the punchline was mocking everyone else at DC.
Thok
March 10, 2009 at 8:56 am
It wasn’t until after I was done that I realized that the punchline was mocking everyone else at DC.
Actually, I think this falls under "mocking people who don't understand Morrison but try to build on his work anyways." Also, this isn't limited to DC (see anything about the X-Men post-Morrison that doesn't involve Emma Frost-Cyclops.)
John Cage
March 10, 2009 at 9:01 am
Ha. That was pretty good.
Have a good day.
John Cage
sgt pepper
March 10, 2009 at 9:42 am
Nice one.
Jeff Holland
March 10, 2009 at 11:03 am
Damn - For a couple of panels, I was actually expecting that strategy to work.
Tom Russell
March 10, 2009 at 11:30 am
@ Fitzpatrick: Of course, there actually _was_ a Superman musical.
Scavenger
March 10, 2009 at 2:18 pm
So Super Karaoke defeats Darkseid in FC? really?
Alvin
March 10, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Exactly! Now bring back BATMAN!
Blackjak
March 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Second the Bwah-hah-hah-hahaaaaa!
(with all the quiet irony of your choice)
Apodaca
March 10, 2009 at 3:22 pm
How do you not get this? I don't even recognize the song, and it's completely obvious what the joke is.
Good one, by the way, guys.
Mr. JR
March 10, 2009 at 3:51 pm
That would be Pat Benatar's "Shadows of the Night"
Mr. JR
March 10, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Which I should also say makes it that much more hilarious to me. Especially imagining Superman using "super voice mimicry" to sound just like her.
Wesley
March 10, 2009 at 4:19 pm
RE Superman: The Musical
It exists. It's from the late sixties, and it's called "It's a Bird, It's a Plane... It's Superman!
Check it out on wikipedia.
Chris Jones
March 10, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Most excellent.
aboynamedposh
March 10, 2009 at 9:13 pm
I approve!
AERose
March 10, 2009 at 11:31 pm
This Sean Whitmore fellow... he is not unformidable.
DanCJ
March 11, 2009 at 5:12 am
I'm guessing that the joke here is that Morrison's ideas are mad enough that he's probably got a musical universe in the new multiverse? Not sure though. This one didn't work for me.
(and it's a good thing I checked the "Your Name:" field. It wanted to put in "Cambert" for some reason)
Ranald
March 11, 2009 at 5:15 am
I laughed at this. Also, Black Manta wiggling his feet in the air is cute.
Tanzim
March 11, 2009 at 6:54 am
Ha! awesome.Actually, the DC people don't usually want to even touch the concepts morrison throws in. Case in point: the ultramarines, seven soldiers of victory.
KMFPL
March 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm
LOL! I loved the line, "It worked once, I swear to God it did!" This coming from a man with super-ventriloquism, a flying Supercar, and a pet monkey.... Is there any story too outrageous for Superman.
Does anyone else remember the story where they said his glasses made from Kryptonian glass hypnotized people into seeing Clark as being smaller and skinnier than Superman?
KMFPL
March 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Oh, and my first huge laugh was on BC's "Aw, Hell"...
ScottyQuick
March 19, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Look! Black Canary being competent when not written by Simone or Bedard! Take a picture, kids, or else your friends wont believe you!
TERESA
March 26, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Nice...