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July 4th, 2009
02:39 am
[jlroberson]
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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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From:[info]freezer818
Date:July 4th, 2009 09:47 am (UTC)
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Umm.... WHAT?
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From:[info]jlroberson
Date:July 4th, 2009 10:02 am (UTC)
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You can just hear brain cells popping as you read it, can't you?

It gets better. This was written by...Jerry Siegel.
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From:[info]freezer818
Date:July 4th, 2009 10:10 am (UTC)
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You can just hear brain cells popping as you read it, can't you?

Yes. Yes I can! o_O
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From:[info]icon_uk
Date:July 4th, 2009 11:27 am (UTC)
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But surely they knew that Fly-Man NEVER misses "Dancing with the Stars"?
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From:[info]filkertom
Date:July 4th, 2009 12:37 pm (UTC)
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Why, yes, drugs were very popular in the 60s. Why do you ask?


Wowzers.
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From:[info]perletwo
Date:July 4th, 2009 02:22 pm (UTC)
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I smell Legion Tryout Dickery here. Am I close?
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From:[info]jlroberson
Date:July 4th, 2009 07:33 pm (UTC)
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I believe it's something like that, coupled with "good guy gone bad."
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From:[info]yaseen101
Date:July 4th, 2009 04:40 pm (UTC)
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'Magic Rope do as I say' is the best line I've ever heard.
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From:[info]aaron_bourque
Date:July 4th, 2009 05:24 pm (UTC)
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"Ha, ha, haa-aaa!!!"
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From:[info]jlroberson
Date:July 4th, 2009 11:50 pm (UTC)
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Hee-hee! FLAMING YOUTH, eh?
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From:[info]kitty_tc_69
Date:July 4th, 2009 06:09 pm (UTC)
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"Super-frigidity barrier"...?

Some of us probably have ex-girlfriends with that power.
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From:[info]salamangkiero
Date:July 5th, 2009 01:12 am (UTC)
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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!
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From:[info]meatwhichdreams
Date:July 5th, 2009 04:09 am (UTC)
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Dig that crazy slang those "teen" agers use!
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From:[info]ashtoreth
Date:July 5th, 2009 04:41 am (UTC)
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And the pitch was: "He has this rope, see, and it can do anything. Anything."
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From:[info]jlroberson
Date:July 5th, 2009 04:43 am (UTC)
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Of course it can. He's the goddamn Hangman.
From:[info]psychop_rex
Date:July 5th, 2009 06:17 am (UTC)
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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.
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From:[info]jlroberson
Date:July 5th, 2009 09:58 am (UTC)

Says The Boy With No Pants

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From:[info]mysteryfan
Date:July 5th, 2009 02:38 pm (UTC)

Re: Says The Boy With No Pants

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Love Fly Man's deflection there.

Also, nice icon!
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From:[info]jlroberson
Date:July 6th, 2009 11:13 am (UTC)

Re: Says The Boy With No Pants

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Thanks!

I'm thinking that if a story ever cried out for Fletcher Hanks art, this is it.
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