You Know That Show/Comic Books

You Know That Show — Comic Books

The purpose of this page is to allow contributors to post descriptions of half-forgotten shows, those old classics that sit on the edge of the mind, with details and images remembered but names tantalizingly forgotten. Whether to gather trope examples or just for peace of mind, post them here. Be warned that, due to necessity, all entries may contain spoilers.

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Awaiting suggestions

• Can anyone help me find a right wing cartoonist, who has a blog, and had a T Shirt idea which had Sarah Palin riding a moose with wings.
• There was a comic book series in UK from the eighties/early nineties, small pocketbook comics each one containing their own complete story. It was all old fashioned sci-fi and fantasy stuff, but somehwere conan-esque sword and sorcery, some post apocalyptic horror, and some old school pulp space opera. I can't remember what the series was called, and I'd love to put the Nostalgia Filter to the test. Can anyone help?
• Does anyone know where this comes from? An issue of Justice League had a team-wide mind-switching happen. Booster Gold ended up in Wonder Woman's body. He spent the next twenty-four hours in front of a full length mirror. Of course, it's Wonder Woman, so who can blame him?
  • This is interesting, considering Booster was never on the same team as Wonder Woman.
    • They're both in Justice League Unlimited, and have appeared together in the spin-off comic thereof. It might have been an issue of that.
    • That or the OP is misremembering maybe Power Girl or Black Canary.
• This is an issue of JLA where, on one of the first pages, there is a full page splash of Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, standing on top of a massive pile of prison escapees, in a super-prison, or at least maximum security, considering that all of the inmates were villains he and his team put there, with his uniform torn, his body beaten blood and blue, and yelling out the words (paraphrased) "Who the HELL stole my power ring?!"
  • This is most likely JLA # 34, collected in the "World War III" trade. It begins with exactly the sort of scenario you describe, except that Kyle doesn't yell anything. But his power ring has been stolen.
  • This is the cover of JLA # 34, in case it looks familiar.
    • Thanks, I've got a hold on this at the library. I'll let you know if it's right then, okay? X3
    • Okay, I read it... It doesn't have the scenerio, though... So either this was wrong, or the CMoA was severely exaggerated... ^^;
• A horror comic book where somebody finds part of an animal (possibly a dog's head) which follows him. Most likely published as a book and not from a comics publisher. (Definitely not Watchmen.)
• In Justice League of America does Flash ever really have to wear a dress? Rumors are it's in some sort of "Issue 17"...
• A comic series that was basically a Funny Animal based fantasy adventure parody, with intentionally anachronistic elements. At one point, in the one issue I ever read, a hog character fell asleep and started drooling, and a character who was a stereotypical longhaired "rocker dude" rodent (or possibly a rabbit?) complained of his "Maximum halitosis, dude!". I think it was the same rocker rodent/rabbit who also got on stage with a rock band to perform a song with a refrain along the lines of "what you see may not be me/ thanks to a thing called androgyny". It had to have been from the early 90's or so - I believe I was in middle school or late grade school at the time, and it was the first time I had ever heard of either halitosis or androgyny.
  • I clearly remember the phrase "Maximum halitosis, dude!" from a cartoon, not a comic.

Questions with suggested answers

• I remember a black and white fantasy graphic novel from the '80s, possibly '70s, involving an empire at war. they had ornithopters and each Imperial legion had a totem and matching armour eg. the ram legion had ram helmets and the eagle legion wore eagle helmets. I think it might have been by Michael Moorcock.
  • Probably the graphic novel of the Hawkmoon books, then - the Great Britain analogue country has ornithopters and animal-themed, masked legions. Google says it was adapted 1986.
• Heard about this in 2003 from someone who had read it many years earlier; probably late Silver Age, almost definitely pre-Crisis, and an imaginary story to boot. Story where Superman and Batman fight, and Batman ends up using a nuclear bomb on Superman.
  • This might be a distorted recollection of 1986's The Dark Knight Returns: at one point Batman and Superman fight, with Batman winning because he has a big weapon up his sleeve (but it's not a nuclear bomb); and at another point Superman is blown up and nearly killed by a nuclear bomb (but Batman had nothing to do with that).
    • I don't think that's it; it would have been older than DKR for one thing. Also I seem to recall that, according to the person telling me about it, Batman was the bad guy in the story.
  • This could be a post-Crisis Superman Annual from the Armageddon2001 crossover: the one where Superman winds up President (I think) and Batman takes exception to it, resulting in an alternate version of the Dark Knight Returns battle.
  • If Batman was the bad guy, it almost certainly wasn't Silver Age. Remember? Superman was a dick. Badbatman was invented by DKR, on the other hand.
• I once saw a couple of pages from a comic where Wonder Woman had crashed her invisible jet and Superman pulled her out of the wreckage, screaming "MEDIC!". This ring any bells for anyone?
  • Was it DC's New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke? There was a scene with Wonder Woman crashing and bloodying up the invisible jet. IIRC, Superman was the one who got her out. Check out the animated version as well.
• I remember an Elsewhere-type comic which was basically what would happen if Superman aged normally. I never read it, but I heard about it. I remember one of the quotes was "It's not as easy as it used to be". My Wikipedia-fu has failed me.
  • Was it Superman: Secret Identity?
  • Another Elseworlds with Superman aging was Superman/Batman:Generations. I can't remember if that quote was there, though.
  • For the record, Superman: Secret Identity was about a kid in the "real world" named Clark Kent who develops Superman's powers as he grows older. Doubt that's it.
• It's about a baseball team of kids and their coach (an old guy with white hair and a moustache). I think they have some sort of time machine, or some other futuristic device. And I know that they had a crossover with Spider-Man.
  • That was the Jr. Jays Magazine, a publication made for young fans of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball franchise in the mid-1990s. The magazine did feature comics starring a baseball team of youths and their eccentric mentor: the baseball coach, who had a time machine. However, to my knowledge, I don't think the Jr. Jays ever crossed over with Spider-Man, and in fact, their comic replaced the PSA comics starring Spidey and were released through schools in Canada. (Those series did have an issue where Spidey went to a Blue Jays game in Toronto and teamed with Ghost Rider to stop a criminal, however, and there were baseball players involved.) However, given the presence of product placement in the Jr. Jays comics, I wouldn't be surprised if Spidey did show up somewhere in one of the issues.