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| Comics Geekery: The Legion of Substitute Super Pets |
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June 05, 2003
| Humor |
Nicolas Juzda wrote a comic script to go with this cover and put it up on Fanzing
1.) ADVENTURE COMICS ("... starring THE LEGION OF SUPER- HEROES!")
Title: "Meet the Legion of Substitute Super-Pets!"
Cover: Four animals -- all sporting li'l, bitty red capes with the distinctive shielded "S" of SUPERMAN fame -- are in the foreground: "Winky, the Super-Gerbil"; "Butch, the Super-Manatee"; "Louise, the Super-Osprey"; and "Adolphus Q. Paddywhacker, the Super-Cockroach." Winky is off to one side, being noisily and violently sick; Butch is mooning, lovesick, over a photograph of a smiling Bouncing Boy, held in one massive flipper; and a grimly determined Louise is scurrying after a shrilly shrieking and blubbering Adolphous, clearly hellbent upon gobbling him up, whole.
In the background, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad are watching all of this transpire; frowns of consternation creasing their handsome, teenaged features.
"Great Krypton!" a (plainly) incredulous Superboy is exclaiming. "Four more creatures surviving the destruction of my homeworld... and each one possessing all the incredible same super-powers as I!"
"... and if we can't get them to work together, somehow," an equally astonished Saturn Girl adds; "... then the entire30th Century is DOOMED!"
The story does justice to the cover.
"'I'm not sure it's a good idea to put a girl's mind into a super-powerful body, even an animal one, but this is a desperate time,' Superboy adds. Since, let's face it, he would have said something like that."
Recommended Reading.
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| .:Posted by Michael on June 5, 2003 5:18 PM:.
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