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Tweak says, "Squirrel!"

Badficwriter (ashtoreth) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-06 01:08:00

Entry tags:

char: captain america/steve rogers, char: red skull/johann schmidt, creator: peter kuper, creator: ryan dunlavey, group: nazis, publisher: marvel comics, theme: parody

Captain America and Little Nemo present:
Two dream sequences parodies in the Little Nemo tradition in the Captain America line.

The first is from Toyfare magazine, the Sunday comics edition. No idea who wrote it, but it was probably one of the Twisted Toyfare writers.

Please note the lil' Daredevil clinging to the church steeple! :)

The second is 'Cap versus Rarebit', story and art by Peter Kuper. Printed in the 150-page trade, Captain America: Red, White and Blue.

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	ezlebe 2009-09-06 05:43 am UTC (link)
	Cap has a seriously messed up imagination, lol. (Reply to this)

	jlroberson 2009-09-06 06:21 am UTC (link)
	Both of them are great but...Peter fucking Kuper? Right on! I published him once! (Reply to this)

	ian_karkull 2009-09-06 07:22 am UTC (link)
	1:Das Crocodile 2:Meinen Kaptain America Dream 5:Meine Mask 8:Das Face 10:Die Germans 12:Dummkopf Grade: F Very poor! See me after class. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	regulus13 2009-09-06 09:10 am UTC (link)
	Por que? No hablo Doych. :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-08 04:17 am UTC (link)
	Well, considering that the dialogue from most of these guys is pretty much a parody of the cobbled-together quasi-German that Nazis used in old comic books, it's not surprising that there are some inaccuracies. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ian_karkull 2009-09-08 12:05 pm UTC (link)
	I can't help it, bad German in comics is a pet peeve of mine. I'm currently working under the assumption that all the Nazi Super-Villains operate in the USA because nobody back home had any idea what the hell they were saying. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-09-08 08:31 pm UTC (link)

Or perhaps it's some kind of 'living up to the stereotype' thing, like how black people back in the pre-Civil Rights era used to adjust their mannerisms while around white people in order to fulfill their expectations and not get yelled at or (considerably) worse. In other words, these Nazis have spent so much time interacting with adversaries who speak bad German (if any) themselves that they've started to pick up their mannerisms in order to save time while bellowing threats.

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	robogeek 2009-09-06 11:10 am UTC (link)
	Technically, the second isn't a reference to Nemo, but to McCay's Dream of a Rarebit Fiend. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-09-06 07:12 pm UTC (link)
	Oo thanks for the correction! I thought that kid was the one eating rarebit all the time. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-09-06 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	What story is that stilt-bed based on? I've seen it referenced a lot, but never found what it was supposed to homage. (Reply to this) (Thread)

bazzargh.blogspot.com
2009-09-06 09:26 pm UTC (link)

It's this one (apart from the 4 tall panels on the bottom half of the page):
http://madinkbeard.com/images/nemo2.jpg

I don't know if the bottom 4 panels are online anywhere, I'm sure I saw them on old S_D. There's a small blurry photo here from some japanese site:
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:b2EK6_4rYgP4oM:http://blog-imgs-13.fc2.com/d/h/a/dhatu/NIMO.jpg
... you can't make out the detail, but you can see where McCay takes the story, with the stilts getting ever taller.

Dammit I keep putting off buying this book, and I love the art.

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	dejadrew 2009-09-06 04:11 pm UTC (link)
	The lettering in the first one is much, much too nice to be a proper parody of McKay. Hilarious, though. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2009-09-07 03:02 am UTC (link)
	wow. all this disney talk the last week made me read that as "Captain America and Finding Nemo present:" lol wow (Reply to this)

	kingrockwell 2009-09-07 03:08 am UTC (link)
	Delightful! I had to dig out my Smithsonian Collection Of Newspaper Comics for some Little Nemo because of this. Is Cap: Red, White and Blue all stuff like this? Like, a Bizarro Comics/Strange Tales style anthology? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-09-07 04:35 am UTC (link)
	It's a tribute collection. Most of them are straight, could-be continuity with twists. The Dini/Alex Ross intro. Falcon's speech at the funeral. Then there's this one, 'Capsploitation', and the cartoon with Zemo and Skull. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-09-08 04:22 am UTC (link)

Of the two of them, I think I definitely prefer the first one, because it's drawn in a very 'Little Nemo'ish style - the artist obviously had Windsor McCay in mind when he drew it. The second one, on the other hand, is just your average nightmare dream sequence up until the last panel - if it weren't for Cap making the reference to rarebit, I don't think I would have gotten the reference at all. (Plus, the first one's much more kooky and surreal.)

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