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

[buggery.livejournal.com]

J'onn as David Bowie. The mind boggles.

Ditto for goth-rocker!Bruce (why is a sleeveless Batsuit so porntastic?), Eden!Batman (his legs are hairy, yes, but freakishly, almost girlishly slender, wtf?), lace-hankie!Clark (could he and his Bruce be gayer without actually being engaged in an act of sodomy?), etc.

Re: the Darksea Detective and the Squid Wonder, though, I can't believe I'm the first to say it: tentacle porn!

[ratcreature]

Yeah my mind was pretty much boggled too. And I guess it's possible to make Clark and Bruce even gayer (reading DC comics has taught me never to say that there's no possible way I'd see something), but at the moment I can't think of how they'd do it. But then my imagination isn't nearly as, um, creative as theirs.

It's a shame that most of the printed issues were destroyed by DC, I'd love to have a paper copy of this comic. Though at least they accidentally shipped some.

[lcsbanana.livejournal.com]

It's a shame that most of the printed issues were destroyed by DC

dude. seriously?

wow. even THEY realized they'd gone TOO FAR this time...

*insane giggling*

[ratcreature]

Yeah, seriously. It was never shipped in the US, there was some last minute decision against it the only reason it got out at all was because some of the print run was shipped to the UK early. And actually according to this site, the reason it wasn't published wasn't any of the totally weird stories, but the story about Baby!Clark and his babysitter, which is kind of like a cartoon with an indestructible baby and lots of mayhem, which they feared might be offensive or result in copycat behavior (of someone putting a baby in a microwave or something like that). That story was actually later republished as part of some Vertigo collection. Their minds work in the strangest ways, seriously.