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[thebitterguy]

Speaking of unnecessary sequels, the people over at PCA.com have produced The World's Lames Superheoroes II: Electric Bogaloo.

Still going strong on a 20% Substitute Heroes quotient (HA HA STONE BOY U R LAME! U 2 INFECTIOUS LASS!), it includes this little gem:

Wilma: Oh no. Your flying powers just conked out. Your to late. Betty is now T-Rex food. You suck Captain Caveman. Oh no Cavey. Look out for that frozen lake!!!!

The running-gag AIDS joke is particularly cute. Thankfully, he seems to have omitted any intentionally stupid characters.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

The Greatest American Hero's entire schtick was based on him being lame, wasn't it?

And... Captain Caveman??

[thebitterguy]

The GAH was about a guy who got great power, but had no idea how to use it. Like, say, someone who had a popular website who was also clinically illiterate.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

"Reports say that Extraño was last seen in a bath house in Thailand with Gary Glitter, but that's another story."

Identifying a character as gay and then associating that character with a convicted pedo for comedy's sake? Speaking of bad taste...

[thebitterguy]

I think he's just trying to make sure it appeals to the editors at the National Post. Write for the audience, after all.

[mouseferatu.livejournal.com]

Nope, sorry. He loses all credibility.

Anybody who doesn't get the Greatest American Hero--who doesn't love that show, heart and soul--has no business even reading comics, let alone writing about them.

Feh on him. Feh!

[thebitterguy]

God, man, that icon...

Yeah, he never really had ascended to levels of particularly high credibility in the first place.

[mouseferatu.livejournal.com]

God, man, that icon...

Ain't it great? :-D

You've really got to wonder how some of these things get past the editors. I guess it's a case of someone who knows what it's supposed to be not realizing what it looks like.

[thebitterguy]

I'd prefer to think "what a more innocent time it was", but I guess we know better.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

[...] we all know that all gay characters HAVE to be HIV positive. We can't let the straight ones be.

And yet it was fellow New Guardian Jet who died due to the complications of AIDS (Sort of. They were complications non-superheroes don't run into). Jet was as far as I know straight.

[thebitterguy]

Tell me you looked that up somewhere and don't actually remember it.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I sold comics when the New Guardians came out and I always tried to be familiar with the product.

NG wasn't as bad as, hrm,

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Sonic Disrupters. Yeah, that was worse.

[thebitterguy]

Ahhh. See, I never knew the specifics of your shop.

Sold NG, eh? My sumpathies. I think I have an issue of Sonic Disruptors around here somewhere.

Although I guess there had to be something for us to make us grateful for the arrival of Leifeld and McFarlane.

[zatara2000.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Still an asshole after all this time.

I find it interesting that you still bother to look in on my work if you hate it so much.

My successes just eats your soul up. Doesn't it?

[thebitterguy]

Man, did you not notice everyone here leaping to your defense? The homophobia is a particularly nice touch.

[zatara2000.livejournal.com]

Your just upset because you didn't think of it first.

Envy isn't very attractive you know.

[thebitterguy]

Listen, Sammy, if you were to bother to master the intricacies of the English language, you might be able to graduate from sad embarrassment to useless hack. Thankfully, you're too busy masturbating furiously to late '80s Black Canary comic books for that to be a problem.

So, why don't you go find someone to tell you your shit is Shinola, and I'll be back here to mock you when it gets particularly horrendous.