Tuesday, August 16, 2005

The Haiku Court


You know most people (other than Kryptonianologists) aren't aware that in the Classical Kryptonian court system, sentencing had to be done in haiku.

Now, Kryptonese doesn't translate perfectly into English, which, I think, is why this judge's phrasing is a tad off. It actually sounds more like this:

Lex Luthor, you killed
a Kryptonian, and so
you'll be tried by them.


Kryptonian culture was so painfully cool. Even loudmouth Luthor is stunned into respectful silence by the judge's casual use of haiku to damn him to transmolecular nullification.

And just for fun, let's have our own haiku composition contest:

What, in haiku, is that whispering woman in the gallery saying to her companion?

12 comments:

  1. A hat like that
    would make me whole and complete.
    It is quite pointy.

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  2. A bald earthman here?
    Look at his blinding green tie!
    Burns like kryptonite.

    Look at her life's lie
    Counterfeiting his colors
    I wish I were her.

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  3. DANG! That's some good stuff, people!

    Group-authored books of haiku-captioned superhero story panels ...

    our fortunes are as good as MADE!

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  4. Earthling stands stiffly.
    Up above judge fails to see
    His pants are missing

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  5. His lawyer's okay
    But he couldn't get Zod off
    And Cochrane is dead

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  6. I just HATE it when I can't get my Zod off!

    Give the high quality of these absorbascomments, I think we're going to have to make Haiku Tuesday a regular feature of this blog!

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  7. I can see myself
    in the back of Luthor's head.
    Do I look that fat?

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  8. Nikita Krushchev?
    Maybe Telly Savalas?
    No way Gene Hackman

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  9. hey mine never showed up earlier. unless they were just too bad and scip deleted them. Let's see if I can remember.

    Dal Al, I hunger
    Will they serve snacks later? Or
    is there a machine?

    He wears a smug grin
    Red-clad, a secret hiding
    Hand in pocket: glee

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  10. You don't think Kara
    Zor-El is more attractive
    Than me, right, honey?

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  11. I second the Haiku tuesday idea. I used to do Heroclix Haiku at CreationMatrix.com and The Halls of Hysteria.

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  12. What namely you are writing is a horrible mistake.
    Dartmouth | Huntsville real estate | styrofoam recycling

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