The Annotated Marvel and DC Universes--hilarity ensues

Woooooooooooooooooo!

gee thanks, i now wasted many hours when i really really should have been working reading those. (and sadly i had both the Marvel & DC volumes under discussion and could remember actual entries)

For Tep!

"FORCE OF JULY. Only the stereotype-lovin', crappy-pun-spewin' Steve Englehart could have come up with a concept as wack as this supervillain team who battled the equally pointless Outsiders. A team of demented super-patriots with a jingoistic theme, the FOJ consisted of (seriously) Lady Liberty, Major Victory, Mayflower, Silent Majority and Sparkler. This all-American team was, coincidentally, all white. I would like to seem them updated for today with characters like USA-PATRIOT, Shock & Awe, Soccer Mom, and the Angry White Male."

Sweet jiminy. That actually sounds more Gerber than Englehart! (No, I guess what I mean is "Gerber would play that for laughs and it could be funny and then Howard and Bev would have rishathra.")

This is top-notch nerd humour.

This has taken up every spare minute I've had this morning, and I haven't got to the end of Marvel yet.

Was Captain Carrot actually PART of the DC Universe? &, if so, WHERE THE HELL IS HE NOW?

My favourite entry so far:

"BUG-EYED BANDIT. Okay, so you're a brilliant entomologist (who, in a particularly gross example of the Name-As-Destiny concept, is named Bertram Larvan). And you're also a superhumanly gifted inventor. And you're bitter and hate the world, probably because your name is Larvan and you have a molester mustache and everyone laughs at you because you study the sex organs of stag beetles all day long. So you build a huge army of lethal, nearly indestructible robot insects who can tear people to shreds and chew through solid steel. So what do you call yourself? Hey, I know! How about...Bug-Eyed Bandit? That's got slightly more dignity than the other ideas you came up with, Fat-Assed Fuckface, Pencil-Dicked Perpetrator and The Ridiculous, Retarded Rhino-Beetle Recidivist."

"Snapper's bio contains both the phrase "graduate school" and the phrase "came under the mental control of one of Starro's giant starfish deputies", which, as far as I know, have never appeared together anywhere else."

This may be the funniest sentence ever written.

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