If characters from the literary canon wore spandex

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Leopold Doom

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Humbert Humbert, the final Lee-Kirby collab (in issue #7 of Magnificent, Lee famously misrefers to him as "Hubert Humbert").

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Holden Parker

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen Deadalus

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Tender is the Dark Knight

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Finneguns Wake

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

you know there's more than Joyce in the canon, right, Leee?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

He fights bootleggers! He longs for Selina "Daisy" Kyle! He cuts a mean rug! He is: the Great Batsby!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Orphaned by an unfair world, mentored by the Golden Age's Dodgerman, he has sworn revenge! In the next issue of Ollie Twist: Please, sir, can I have some more JUSTICE?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

By day he's Eddie Puskelvitz, mild-mannered accountant, but when evil rears its ugly head, all it takes is one quick jab in the eyes with his enchanted pen to turn him into OEDIPUS REX: one mean motherfucker.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

He's a sardonic, mysterious playboy with a heart of gold, by night he haunts the streets of London for those who would harm his precious Elizabeth. He's Darcy: Avenging Angel

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Raskolnikov- An Axe of Vengeance!

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

By day, he's a mild mannered scientist, but at night, overcome by his emotions and with the help of some hinky science Dr. Jekyll becomes...oh wait.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 May 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

you know there's more than Joyce in the canon, right, Leee?

News to me!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

In the next issue of Finneguns Wake!: trapped in the surreal underworld of Nighttown, Stephen Deadalus, master of the dead (languages), fighting the effects of the poisonous elixir Drink, faces off, both guns a'blazing, against his nemesis-cum-surrogate-father Leopold Doom, the pariah who doesn't see himself as an arch-villain but the protector of those like him!

Also, watch for the debut of Leopold Doom's sidekick: Soap!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote a series of short pieces years ago on the theme of 'what if the literary giants had written superhero comics?' - quite a good Hemingway Hulk, I thought, a half-decent Shakespeare Avengers, a very poor Twain Spider-Man, and my favourite was a Wodehouse Batman ending with Batman asking Alfred to help him with his little problem of having accidentally become engaged to Catwoman.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Crazy Jane Eyre? Les Invisibles ? Or maybe...Macbeth!: mild mannered Thane of Glamis by day; knife wielding regicide who stalks the night. "Yes, that is a dagger you see before you. Creep!"

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit, Martin, now I really want to read this Wodehousean Batman comic.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll see if I can find the little piece I wrote somewhere.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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