Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #55

Back to Doom Patrol #101. Seems like the Chief is beaming happy thoughts into the head of Madame Rouge (a woman who has stretching powers) so that she won't be evil anymore, however The Brain is beaming evil thoughts into her head at the same time. Madame Rouge is being overcome by the thoughtwave overload pounding her brain and she eventually splits into two different Madame Rouges and they start fighting, leading to this full page nightmare.


Yup, full page nightmare! Just in time for Halloween.

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #54

I picked up a copy of the original Doom Patrol at a thrift store a few weeks ago. As twisted and fantastic as the main story was, even better was the backup tale.

It was part of a multi-parter explaining the history of Beast Boy (Gar Logan) and how he was kidnapped as a child. Well, he did stupid child things like using "Me" instead of "I" and eventually stumbling upon some folks that were brainwashing gorillas to obey their every command.

If I were to brainwash some gorillas what would I want them to do?

Shoot Machine guns?Check!


Parachute from airplanes?

Check-ity Check Check!


Straddle two Army jeeps driven by other brainwashed Gorillas while waving a huge Nazi flag?


CHECK! CHECK! & DOUBLE DAMN CHECK!!

However, I see one terrible flaw in the villain's plan....
A handful of rice a day? I don't think that will cut it. I see some pissed off gorillas in the near future...

Meanwhile, here are the panels in all their glory.

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #53

Back for more Sugar & Spike goodness. In issue 82, Bernie the Brain invents a time ray that allows folks to travel back and forth in time. Well, this story involves Sugar & Spike & Bernie from 1969 as well as Sugar & Spike & Bernie from 1986! At one point in the story, Sugar & Spike end up getting transported to 1986 but find that future Bernie is knocked out and future Sugar & Spike are being abducted by bad guys.

Sugar tries to help, but being a baby can't do anything. Spike comes through with a most ingenious use of time travel that I have ever seen.
In case you missed it, here is the explanation of what has just happened by future Bernie.. and note the Spike with the rolling pin on the bad guy's collar!
The only thing that has come close to this is the novel The Man Who Folded Himself.

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #52

The Future is Yesterday!!!

Yup, I love the future in the old comics, especially when we've been there/done that and we don't have what they promised back in the day. From Sugar & Spike #82, Apr-May 1969, Sugar, Spike, and Bernie the Brain get a visit from Bernie the Brain from 1986!! He relates a tale of what happened to Sugar & Spike when they are teen-agers. What is the world like in 1986??

Well, there are flying cars....

Fashion had taken a weird turn with capes & sombreros...

but the fashion is easily explained by future Bernie...

Flying cars? Wish they were here. Capes & sombreros? uh, not so much.

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #51

So, as I was telling you earlier, Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter, went to the zoo with a professor that said he had developed a machine that would allow people to read the minds of animals. That sort of thing was really at the top of the public's Want List back in 1957. Sadly, the machine didn't work. Not until a gorilla started pushing some buttons. (park your cursor over the pictures for extra Chris Sims inspired fun. I work hard to make you laugh.)

Well, I guess it didn't work after all. Jimmy can't read the gorilla's mind, he HAS the gorilla's mind and vice versa. Of course, jungle Jimmy may hurt himself so the professor lets Gorilla Jimmy out the cage to rescue his own body.

Now remember, Jimmy had summoned Superman via the signal watch just a few seconds earlier. Supey shows up just in time to...

WAIT KIDS!! How many things can you see wrong with this picture?
1) Superman has a green leg.
2) Superman is hitting the tree.
3) Gorilla Jimmy and Jungle Jimmy appear to be .. uh...well, uh.. DON'T LOOK KIDS!!!!
4) The professor still hasn't contacted his attorney to keep his inventing arse from being sued from here to Texarkana!

After a good laugh, everything doesn't get sorted out by Superman. Supes tries to recreate the experiment to reverse the process, but even though he tried the over 65 million button combinations, they failed. But Jimmy has to get to work. Superman puts jungle Jimmy in a huge enclosed area on Perry White's estate and Gorilla Jimmy heads for work.

Gorilla Jimmy does a ton of good deeds around Metropolis, saving kids from burning buildings, holding up falling buildings while Superman fixes them, ya know, everyday cub reporter turned Gorilla in an orange suit whilst wearing a hat kinda stuff.

Anyway, Superman finally realizes that Jimmy's ultrasonic watch contributed to mind switch and he gives the mind machine to jungle Jimmy who presses the same combination of buttons that he did earlier. Jungle Jimmy is suddenly regular Jimmy! Yay! But Gorilla Jimmy is suddenly...


Wow, Superman, while you stopped off to get your cape bleached you were letting a rampaging gorilla loose at the Daily Planet. Ya know, for an old fart, Perry White has one helluva a vertical on him. Maybe the OKC Thunder should sign him up.

Anyway, that's the story of Gorilla Jimmy Olsen. But here is one last shot of Gorilla Jimmy and Jungle Jimmy.

Hee hee, Jungle Jimmy is scratching himself. hee hee hee

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #50

Batman's a lonely guy..

... a lonely guy cruisin' a quiet scene...

...a lonely guy cruisin' a quiet scene having to operate solo...

...a lonely guy cruisin' a quiet scene having to operate solo can get real bored...

...a lonely guy cruisin' a quiet scene having to operate solo can get real bored having no action at all...

But why, you ask, why doesn't Batman, cool playboy that he is, go out on the town and pick up some chicks?

Cuz the ones he knows are absolutely chimp-flipping crazy!!!!!

Showcase Presents the Brave and the Bold #1 aka Bob Haney smokes every substance known to man and then sits down at a typewriter.

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #49

1966!!!!

The world was in turmoil and danger and Harvey Comics came to the rescue with

SPYMAN!!!

Wow, this sucks on so many levels but I have to give it up for Harvey for including that WARNING to CIVILIANS to NEVER! NEVER! NEVER touch a radio-active bomb!!!

They give us a glimpse on the cover of the wonders of the hand, but the splash page promises so much more...crap.
Let's take a closer look at that hand (which, by the way, was installed after our hero actually stuck his hand inside an atomic bomb and his left hand melted off!!)


Hmmm, his index finger can knock you unconscious or shatter an engine block. (hope he doesn't get the settings confused on that one.) If he flips you off, he's just using the X-Ray probe (Feel free to insert any jokes right here.) His thumb is a camera, his pinky is a digital recorder. It's like he has a freaking i-Hand or something.

But who does he battle? The Whisperer! And everyone knows...

The Whisperer...
Chillin' like a Villian!!

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #48

Those lousy Brogans & their stupid friends!!!!

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #47

Damn Federal Government workers!!!!

Weekly Wonderous Moment in Comics #46

I just found the Fourth Wall, it's in the Bustead's bathroom.

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #45

Sometimes a guy just wants to take a bath...

Weekly Wonderous Moment in Comics #44

The Future is Yesterday!

Well, remember back when Superman went into the future and couldn't get back? Well, Lex Luthor was wondering about that too, all the way back in 2000.







Of course, the Luthor drone eventually finds Superman after searching for a little under a million years and then......

After killing Superman, the Luthor drone spent a week in the Bahamas, sipping Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain. Then it went on a 1,000 year book tour selling it's new book, "I killed the Man of Steel and all I got was Eternally trapped in a hunk of metal with thousands of intergalactic murderers."

Weekly Wonderous Moment in Comics #43

So Superman is still traveling forward in time until he gets to 801,970 and decides to drop in on Earth. He finds that the earth is entirely barren and a completely dead planet. Then he gets a great idea. Let's look at his to-do list

1) Drill through the Earth


2) Split it open and then weld the two halves together
3) Ignore the fact that there is no way in hell that this planet will have any gravity!

4) Suck some wind (that sounded kinda wrong)

5) Spread his seed (Whoa!! It just keeps getting worse, folks!)

6) Cultivating some weed and planting some bush.


7) Fly weird animals through space

8) Locate humanoids, ignoring smurf-caveman on right.
9) Kidnap hot cave-couple


10) Stand back and gloat as cave-couple discovers that everything on the planet is poisonous to them

Weekly Wonderous Moment in Comics #42

Waaaaaay back in 1970, the Time Trapper trapped Superman in Time (thus, his name, otherwise he could call himself the Flan Flipper) and Superman could only move forward in time, never backward. Superman ends up in the year 122,470 and he has aged accordingly as he moves through time.

Sadly, all superpowers are outlawed in Metropolis and he is sent to an old-heroes home where he meets...

...the last Green Lantern!

Anyway, there is a terrible crisis and Superman rallies the troops to save the earth and our intrepid Lantern gets this job...

I hear that happens a lot when you get older.

And, of course, since I am always pandering to my base...

A butt-shot of the last Green Lantern. Calm down, girls, he's old.