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victor infante - Aug 08, 2009 2:21:06 pm PDT #2363 of 5059
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
victor infante - Aug 08, 2009 2:24:43 pm PDT #2364 of 5059
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
OK. I have to say this somewhere where people won't jump down my throat, because I am laughing my ass off about the bit of throwaway dialog, from "JLA: Cry for Justice," that has seemingly set the Internet on fire:
Green Lantern: I have a confession to make.
Green Arrow: If it involves you, The Huntress, Lady Blackhawk, and a bottle of grappa, [Black Canary] already told me. And all I have to say is, "Well played, sir."
Green Lantern: No. It's about -- wait -- you heard about that?
Green Arrow: Everybody heard about it -- from Man-Bat to Metamorpho. And [Metamorpho] was quite the lothario before he turned all weird looking, so for him to be impressed took some doing.
It's not the quote itself, although I both smirked and am waiting for a punchline (like Peter's "I get anal" on "The Family Guy.") No, it's the miles and miles of commentary this one joke has generated, the vast majority of which reads like the posters are having sex and its aftereffects described to them second hand.
Comic fandom: Sometimes it lives up to its stereotypes.
Steph L. - Aug 08, 2009 3:05:20 pm PDT #2365 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Victor, I read that part and laughed and laughed.
I haven't read any of the internet reaction, though.
victor infante - Aug 08, 2009 4:36:07 pm PDT #2366 of 5059
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Oh, just Google "Huntress" "Lady Blackhawk" and 'Green Lantern," and sit back and watch the silliness fly. From the overly serious to the overly puritanical to the very, very sexually confused. It's hysterical.
amych - Aug 08, 2009 4:51:24 pm PDT #2367 of 5059
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
We don't know that he meant it sexually! It could have been referring to an evening at the theatre!
P.M. Marc - Aug 08, 2009 4:59:04 pm PDT #2368 of 5059
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The worst part about that panel is that for SOME REASON, the internet furor around it keeps earworming me with The Beastie Boys "Paul Revere."
Not that I think Green Lantern involved a whiffle ball bat in the grappa shenanigans.
amych - Aug 08, 2009 5:09:05 pm PDT #2369 of 5059
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
(loves Plei)
victor infante - Aug 08, 2009 6:05:11 pm PDT #2370 of 5059
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
We don't know that he meant it sexually! It could have been referring to an evening at the theatre!
If I were James Robinson (or better yet, Gail Simone) should come up with a story that completely re-interprets that statement. I can think of all sorts of ways.
Tom Scola - Aug 08, 2009 6:18:07 pm PDT #2371 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I just googled "Hal Jordan Huntress" and the second hit was for rec.sport.wrestling.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 08, 2009 7:21:45 pm PDT #2372 of 5059
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So am I the last to know that they've announced an official date for the last issue of Planetary? They have a poster for it and everything (Thanks, P-C!).
Of course, I'll believe it when I have the issue in my hands and have finished reading it, but...
So Chinese Democracy finally comes out (not that I actually cared about that); now they announce the last issue of Planetary. What's next? A new My Bloody Valentine CD? Jerry Lewis' THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED gets a Criterion DVD release?