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goblinthebamf (goblinthebamf) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-29 16:29:00

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creator: j.m. dematteis, creator: keith giffen, creator: mike mckone, theme: animals, theme: penguins, title: justice league of america

killer penguins: a proud JLA tradition
So, recently maslego posted a battle from Blue Beetle where Jaime and Guy fight a flock of killer penguins.

but this isn't actually the first time in the modern era where the JLA went up against these deadly swarming nightmares of the Antarctic. .

oh, they so ARE part of the Justice League.

The Injustice League decides to try one last big heist, but things get a little out of their hands:

don't you just hate it when your diamond heist is ruined by another villain team?

Major Disaster decides to make the best of things, work is still work:

and Max is devious:

Shenanigans follow which mainly consist of snark and slapfights. Skipping ahead:

G'Nort calls in the rest of JLAnt, where they stumble across an old crackly video, as you do in these situations:

Other teammembers Scarlet Skier and Big Sir are still outside:

Max gets worried:

and sends in back-up:

unfortunately, neither Blue Beetle (Ted) nor Guy Gardner were part of the ground crew for this mission, so there is no page I can put in direct response, but you get the idea.

did you know:
penguins are universally carnivorous predators?
smaller species live on krill, larger, on squid and fish.
while all species of penguin are native only to the southern hemisphere, they are widespread across all latitudes, from the temperate Galapagos Islands to frigid Antarctica. (YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CANNOT HIDE.)
Micheal Phelps swam the 200 meters in 1 minute 4Emperor penguins, on average, swim at about 6.7 mph and have been observed at 8.9. (NVM YOU CAN'T EVEN RUN. well, run, yes, but YOU CAN'T SWIM.)
depending on the species, a single colony can range up to several hundred thousand pairs.
some ancient species were the size of humans. HP Lovecraft drew inspiration from this when he wrote "At the Mountains of Madness". No, really.

Unfortunately most penguin species, especially the arctic ones, are seriously threatened by global warming:
Penguin Decline in Antarctica Linked With Climate Change
King Penguins Declining Due to Global Warming
Climate Change To Devastate Or Destroy Many Penguin Colonies
Future generations may only get to see these vicious predators in the zoo, or worse, in books or old footage.

edited for HTML borkage.

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	thokstar 2009-09-29 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	See, now I need to go post a couple pages from Hitman. (Reply to this)

	espanolbot 2009-09-29 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	Great scans! Huh, didn't know that the Lovecraft Penguins were based on real things. :) Though I prefer my penguins to be this big. ^^ (Reply to this) (Thread)

	taggerung301 2009-09-29 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	hahaha, killer penguin week is starting to get to me when I looked at your picture, I immediately imagined that little penguin suddenly lunging at that guy's face (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goblinthebamf 2009-09-30 09:08 pm UTC (link)
	now I can't stop seeing it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-09-29 10:46 pm UTC (link)
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	taggerung301 2009-09-29 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	childhood obesity - even penguins suffer from it (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zordboy 2009-09-30 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Well, everything is better with penguins. (Reply to this)

	madripoor_rose 2009-09-30 01:38 am UTC (link)
	Thank you so much for posting that! So that explains the Justice League Antarctica joke in superbuddies. And sigh, that's the Maxwell Lord I developed a disturbing fangirl crush on. Damn, I wish DC would reprint more JLI trades..... (Reply to this)

freddie_mac
2009-09-30 02:15 am UTC (link)

YES!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! After I'd posted I realized that Beetle & Booster probably weren't involved with JLAnt (can you imagine the amount of disasters they could have caused if they worked *with* JLAnt? Max had nightmares for years), but the killer pengiun scans are made of win anyway. I always liked JLAnt -- so inept, but so well-meaning. And yes, we really do need more trades of the JLA/I/E (ahem, DC needs to "optomize their content") ... things like this need to get out into general circulation.

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	madripoor_rose 2009-09-30 03:56 am UTC (link)
	I am this close to actually believing it's a conspiracy. They aren't reprinting the JLI years because they're afraid we'll see how awesome comics used to be. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goblinthebamf 2009-09-30 09:13 pm UTC (link)
	did I ever mention that I like the way your brain works? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	madripoor_rose 2009-09-30 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	It makes a certain amount of sense, doesn't it? If they figure the new readers don't care about the established characters that are getting slaughtered in every new event, and so they aren't reprinting any of their old stuff so there'll be fewer people yelling at them over the internet. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thatnickguy 2009-09-30 04:32 am UTC (link)
	I am SO proud that I own a copy of this comic. =D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kingrockwell 2009-09-30 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	Me too! (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-09-30 08:25 am UTC (link)

You know, penguins can't actually run very fast compared to humans. I would imagine a brief sprint would be sufficient for you to outdistance them fairly easily. And remember, most of these guys can fly, which means all they have to do is zoom up to the giddy height of, oh, let's say three meters or so above the ground, and they'll be perfectly safe from the dreaded killers in natural tuxedoes. They'd be unholy terrors in the water, I'll give them that, but on land? Get about a mile or so ahead of 'em, use whatever powers you can muster up to dig a large, concealed pit, stand on the other side and go 'nyah nyah' when they show up, they'll rush forward, and - goodbye, killer penguins.

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	goblinthebamf 2009-09-30 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	Atom, Bea, J'onn or Rex could handle the killer penguins by themselves, but the overkill adds to the humor of the situation. ...although the image of Atom setting off a nuclear detonation to take the penguins out does make me giggle as well. (Reply to this) (Parent)