things I never expected to see in DC comics No. 6342

[ratcreature]

Jon Jonzz the "Slim Green Lord of Glam Rock"
and
teen-angst balladeer Bruce Wayne of the Pennyworths

I have no words.

However the really disturbing images come later when they do Silver age spoofs in the "Hall of Silver Age Elseworlds First Pages", like Robin as Squid Wonder, Gorilla Grodd as Christoph Columbus, or Batman as Adam with the Joker as snake.

(The pages are from the 80 page Elseworlds Giant from 1999 that was never published in the US but some shipped to the UK, apparently it's really hard to get and quite expensive, however I downloaded a copy, and now have to cope with the consequences. The images in my brain. Ack.)

ETA: I fixed the link to teen-angst balladeer Bruce Wayne...

Comments

[adamlizz.livejournal.com]

Everyone was hiding and crying. I was just enjoying. Perhaps I need a stronger kind of crack. ;)

[ratcreature]

You're made from stronger stuff than I am... *grin* I could post the scans from this issue of Superman in kind of frilly clothes crying into an embroidered handkerchief...

[adamlizz.livejournal.com]

YES! I still have a vein or two free. Please do?

[ratcreature]

Okay, look at those two pages:
http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v96/ratcreature/E80-Page_78.jpg
http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v96/ratcreature/E80-Page_80.jpg

[adamlizz.livejournal.com]

Oh - dear - god.

What happened, to cause this?

Why do I want to manip different text to old Supes/Bats?

Why am I not dead from an overdose of DCU (Delightful Crack Universe)?

[ratcreature]

You know, I have read the story, but it honestly doesn't make sense at all, and I can't really tell you why we see the bizarre images we see in these pages. BTW, that happened with a lot of stories in this issues, like I said, the rockstar one was one of the saner ones. The first page I linked *is* the explanation, i.e. apparently somehow he's been traumatized by the others being killed, but we don't get details. Don't ask me why he wears frills, or why the heroes and villains are these weird mergers, or why LuthorJoker quotes the bible all the time. It just *is*. My best guess is it's like with the gratutious bondage imagery that is everywhere in the DCU: someone has weird kinks, so we see Superman crying into an embroidered lace hankey... Unlike with the bondage gear, frills aren't a kink I share, though.

[adamlizz.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Crack.

Not ours, but the kind the writers/artists take.

DCU =

[buggery.livejournal.com]

(Delightful Crack Universe)

I laughed until I was coughing and choking, at that. Because it's so. TRUE.

They should change it officially-like.

[adamlizz.livejournal.com]

the million crack icons i'm making? entirely your fault.