Showing posts with label comics just for fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics just for fun. Show all posts

06 January 2010

Norm Nails THE FANTASTIC FOUR


abbracadabbling takes superheroes seriously, because superheroes are serious things, after all.   So we're glad that The Incredibles, comics like X-Babies, and creative teams like Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire are there to remind us that shouldn't always the case. Turns out, we can add another name  to our short roster:  Norm MacDonald. 


Yeah, we never would have imagined that, either. Raley recently caught the former Weekend Update anchorman of Saturday Night Live fame on a Comedy Central roast, and his 'Deathly voice' on a re-run of Family Guy was quickly pegged by us all.  But we admit none of us were familiar with MacDonald's own stand-up.  


Until yesterday, when a friend of the Home Office  turned us on to MacDonald's 2006 sketch comedy album,  Ridiculous.  We laughed from start to finish -- with a first track called The Fantastic Four, Norm had us sold from .01.  We loved his act because it's spot-on perfect -- and probably a lot like what Stan Lee himself was thinking when he created and named the Fantastic Four back in the Marvel-ous year, 1961.  

  

12 November 2009

Just For Fun: Batman's Other Secret Origin ...Concludes!

See, you didn't have to wait long at all! If you missed yesterday's Part I of the untold secret origin of The Batman, read up! Part II's on the comicsblog today, where we've always got Comics...Just For Fun!
Batman Thanks to Jay Pinkerton

11 November 2009

Just For Fun: Batman's Other Secret Origin

Batman debuted in 1939's Detective Comics #27, although his secret origin wasn't revealed until Detective Comics#33. That's when the world first learned the legendary story:
Young Bruce Wayne, the son of Billionaire doctor and industrialist Thomas Wayne, his wife Martha, and their happy eight-year old son Bruce are returning home from a movie. A small-time hood named Joe Chill robs them at gunpoint in a dark alley way, then senselessly murders them both as Bruce looks on. Left alone with their bodies, Bruce swears an oath to rid Gotham City of its criminal element, and begins years of physical and mental training in preparation. Upon realizing that "criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot," he knows the best weapon against crime is fear. Taking inspiration from a bat which flies through an open window, Bruce forges a new persona and wages his war on crime as The Batman.
Pretty much what everybody knows. What's not as known is that there were actually two stories - one written for the kids, and then the real one. We'll let you figure it out... just for fun.
How kids think it happened...
...and the way s%it really went down:
OH NO!
Batman thanks to Jay Pinkerton.