Top 100 Made-Up Comics Drugs

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There may not be 100 made-up comics drugs. But I suspect there are.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:04 (twenty years ago)

1. ICE. I think this is the right name for the drug that CAPTAIN AMERICA got addicted on. Needless to say he kicked it w/ his moral fibre intact.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:09 (twenty years ago)

2. Velocity 9. Great drug from the semi-mythical Mike Baron's Flash. It made you run really fast and then your system BURNED OUT, another function of made-up drugs is that they often kill you on the very first hit which would surely be a disincentive for dealers, who quite like repeat customers. Obviously in comicsland drug dealers aren't actually in it for money, they are in it merely because they are EVIL SCUM. Anyway Velocity 9 turned out to be concocted in the terror labs of Vandal Savage.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:11 (twenty years ago)

3. Miraclo. Hourman used to take this to give him an hour's extra strength. A sort of Golden Age PCP, I suppose.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:44 (twenty years ago)

4. Getafix's "potion". Asterix, Obelix and the rest of the Gaulish village would drink it and it would make them want to FITE. Magic, or just really, really strong bouze? Who can tell?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:03 (twenty years ago)

5. I have a dim memory of a particularly rubbish drug from (maybe) a Louise Simonson X-FACTOR which turns people who take it into MONSTERS!! Who then die. Why would anyone take this???

Actually it may have been from Superman: Man Of Rub.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:31 (twenty years ago)

6. Kick. Grant Morrison's New X-Men highlight features young mutants, and eventually Magneto, try and enhance their powers through using this. Seems to work, but can make your brain bleed through your ears.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:36 (twenty years ago)

7. MGH (Mutant Growth Hormone). In Alias, Bendis invents a drug which is produced from the blood of Spider-Woman. It gives you powers of some sort till it wears off. Jessica feels obliged to help out Spider-Woman and break up the drug ring.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago)

There may well be 100 made-up comics drugs in Transmetropolitan alone. Though obviously I can't think of any.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago)

8. TAR. Turns kids into giant versions of themselves who wreak havok in the ghetto. And on your third hit your brain melts and you DIE, because drug dealers don't enjoy having repeat customers or anything.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Number 5 would be S-TAR which was a brainmelter after just one dose.

Anyway. 9 - DMN. Like TAR only it turns you into a demon because it's sold by Satanus. In his spare time.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 10:07 (twenty years ago)

10. SNAP. Speedfreek though his 'man' was the only supplier of snap. But he was wrong. Since he was the only user of 'snap' in the world, I assume he thought there was only one person selling it too.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 10:09 (twenty years ago)

Lord I'd forgotten DMN.

Louise Simonsen - classic or dud?

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago)

11. Venom. The performance enhancing drug that made batman go bat-cold turkey in the batcave.

12. Squeak. As invented by the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. A precursor to Chris Morris' Cake?

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 3 September 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago)

13. STOOKIE. The illegal anti-aging drug made out of aliens.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago)

We interrupt this litany of greatness for this special bulletin.

The following thread has just been created: Louise Simonson: C or D

Those who are interested in discussing this topic should seek out this thread at their earliest convenience.

We now return to wanton drug abuse.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 3 September 2004 11:35 (twenty years ago)

14. WHITE SUPREMIUM. You may come to enjoy having the head of an ant for short periods.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago)

I have only just realised the unfortunate connotations of 'white supremium'. Oh dear Mr Moore.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago)

1. ICE. I think this is the right name for the drug that CAPTAIN AMERICA got addicted on. Needless to say he kicked it w/ his moral fibre intact.

isn't there a real drug called Ice? I read a great scare article about it once.

how did CAPTAIN AMERICA get addicted to this drug anyway? Did someone put it in his coffee?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 3 September 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago)

I think the real drug was created by the drug men after Captain America's endorsement.

I can't remember how he got addicted to it. Actually - and disappointingly - I now think that he didn't, he got addicted to a 'modified super-soldier serum' instead and his ensuing mania was subtly parallelled to (and somehow linked with) the deluge of Ice that was 'sweeping the ghetto'.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago)

DING DING DING DING! I think.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 3 September 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago)

15. RAJAIJAH JUICE. The poison of madness.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago)

16. TOAD JUICE - Some pheremone exuded by this toad-looking mutant in Mutant Town; distributed in tab form (though the toad-looker's mom just licks his face to turn on); makes muties feel gooooooood, makes normals sprout like kudzu and writhe in pain. And die. Unfortunately, this Mr. A-type wandering character cured the toad-looking kid, so there's no way to synthesize any more. (From _District X_.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 3 September 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago)

17. ZZIZZ. Judge Dredd doesn't like it.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Can they really not do better than Zzizz as a name?

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago)

but 18. UMPTY CANDY obviously. The scene where it's so addictive that their analytical computer gets hooked on it would be a contender for Top 100 2000AD scenes.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's the best you get.

19. SNAKE. Really And Truly got off on this. They did some other made-up drugs too but I can't for the life of me remember their names.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago)

20. There's that drug in Top 10 that makes everyone move really fast. Mongoose Juice?

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:23 (twenty years ago)

21. KT-28s ("Katies"). From _Watchmen_. I'm assuming it's a standard amphetamine sorta thing. Classic.

22. Nano-tech-heroin (aka the never-named "Techroline") from _Automatic Kafka_. Vague sorta euphoric for robots. Dud.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago)

23. GO. Drug from My Flesh Is Cool that lets you possess anyone you want.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago)

24 Heavy Liquid, from the series of the same name,
25 Pixie Dust (?) from Top 10, the thing that makes your hallucinations take effect shape for a little while.
26 The actual drug in the main plot of Top 10, that I've currently completely forgotten the name of.
27 Electrocaine (?) from Terminal City.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago)

No. 26 is XENITE.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Cheers.

28 Aklo, from The Courtyard (this is cheating)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:54 (twenty years ago)

That's so cheating. But if we're allowing freaky sweets then a drug language must be allowed.

29, I suppose. XIPE - John Smith New Statesmen drug that makes you all headachey.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 13:07 (twenty years ago)

30. SLD-88. PJ Maybe uses it to KILL.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago)

31. INFINITY FORMULA. Nick Fury was on this so he wouldn't age. But then he found out his body makes it on its own, in defiance of all biological laws, so he'll never grow old or die even if Marvel try to kill him.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there a drug in the all-new Teen Titans series (the one with Argent, Prism, Joto, Risk, and the other one)?

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Probably. Dan Jurgens is on my mental list of writers who were fond of made-up drugs.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Surely at some point a drug has been brought up that only/especially affects Kryptonians? Crack Kryptonite or some damn thing?

(Or does Red K occupy that niche?)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

(I first learned about drugs from comic books -- there was an issue of The Flash where someone ... Iris? ... was slipped some angel dust, or tricked into taking angel dust, or ... I don't know, something involving angel dust. "Angel Dust!" thought very young Tep. "That sounds ... super great! But everyone talks about it like it's bad. Maybe it makes you THINK you're an angel! Holy crap!")

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

32. ELIXIR X. UK superhero of the forties Streamline shot up with this stuff to become the fastest man alive. Literally shot up.

The bottom of the barrel is approaching fast. Surely humour comics have strange drugs in them?

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago)

33. GINGOLD. Christ, they were all at it.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago)

34. FULL O' BEANS. Acts like the deadly drug TAR, only it's beans. In a tin. And there's no brain-melting, just a series of merry japes.

35. FIENDS BEANS. A version of the DMN drug, also in the form of seventies-era beans. In a tin. This was deemed normal at the time.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 3 September 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago)

36. The Super Soldier Serum

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 4 September 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Alright, from the Invisibles:

37. SKY - imitated alien contact, did some weird stuff with words.

38. Key 23 - Another semantic drug. If you saw the word "cold" you felt cold, if you say the word "sexy" you felt sexy I suppose.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago)

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