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Tweak says, "That's an Irish thing"

jlroberson (jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-04 02:39:00

Current location:	Seattle
Current mood:	working
Current music:	Killing Joke, Peel Sessions
Entry tags:	char: firefly/harley hudson, char: hangman/bob dickering, char: the fly/thomas troy, char: the web/john raymond jr, creator: jerry siegel, publisher: archie, publisher: mighty comics, title: mighty crusaders

I Don't Want Context. I Don't Care.
I would rather just consider this the quintessential Mighty Crusaders page, and consider the series the foremost example of pure dada in comics. Or, perhaps, anywhere.

He's the goddamn Hangman. When he was a hero, he lynched people. Now he's not so good. He's wearing tinfoil under that mask, and probably smells like pee.

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	freezer818 2009-07-04 09:47 am UTC (link)
	Umm.... WHAT? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-04 10:02 am UTC (link)
	You can just hear brain cells popping as you read it, can't you? It gets better. This was written by...Jerry Siegel. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	freezer818 2009-07-04 10:10 am UTC (link)
	You can just hear brain cells popping as you read it, can't you? Yes. Yes I can! o_O (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-07-04 11:27 am UTC (link)
	But surely they knew that Fly-Man NEVER misses "Dancing with the Stars"? (Reply to this)

	filkertom 2009-07-04 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	Why, yes, drugs were very popular in the 60s. Why do you ask? Wowzers. (Reply to this)

	perletwo 2009-07-04 02:22 pm UTC (link)
	I smell Legion Tryout Dickery here. Am I close? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-04 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	I believe it's something like that, coupled with "good guy gone bad." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	yaseen101 2009-07-04 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	'Magic Rope do as I say' is the best line I've ever heard. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-07-04 05:24 pm UTC (link)
	"Ha, ha, haa-aaa!!!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-04 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Hee-hee! FLAMING YOUTH, eh? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kitty_tc_69 2009-07-04 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	"Super-frigidity barrier"...? Some of us probably have ex-girlfriends with that power. (Reply to this)

	salamangkiero 2009-07-05 01:12 am UTC (link)
	Far from popping, I think some of my brain cells squee'd with glee at the writing. It's not exactly reassuring, but wow! more! (Reply to this)

	meatwhichdreams 2009-07-05 04:09 am UTC (link)
	Dig that crazy slang those "teen" agers use! (Reply to this)

	ashtoreth 2009-07-05 04:41 am UTC (link)
	And the pitch was: "He has this rope, see, and it can do anything. Anything." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-05 04:43 am UTC (link)
	Of course it can. He's the goddamn Hangman. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-07-05 06:17 am UTC (link)
	It's a shame that the Hangman doesn't keep up that inspired level of lunacy throughout the whole comic - he's really pretty generic in the rest of it, but in that one panel, he's GOLD. (Reply to this)

	Says The Boy With No Pants jlroberson 2009-07-05 09:58 am UTC (link)
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	Re: Says The Boy With No Pants mysteryfan 2009-07-05 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	Love Fly Man's deflection there. Also, nice icon! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Says The Boy With No Pants jlroberson 2009-07-06 11:13 am UTC (link)
	Thanks! I'm thinking that if a story ever cried out for Fletcher Hanks art, this is it. (Reply to this) (Parent)