Sunday, August 09, 2009

Captain America Week! Day One

As you know, I own (among other things) a comic book store. So, naturally, NOTHING comics-related escapes my notice. Mine is the eye of the hawk on matters comics-book-sy.

As a result, I followed up immediately on rumors I'd heard about someone doing a Shield knock-off. A Shield knock-off? Scandalous! Being his greatest and perhaps only fan, I resolved to unearth the truth, no matter how many chits I had to cash in to do so.

After just a few calls to some my industry insider friends, I got someone to sneak me an advance copy of an issue from some upstart pub house called "Timely" (thanks, Stan!). Timely, as well, is my intervention, since I intend to expose this group for their shameless usurpation of the Shield's schtick (phew; try to say that three times quickly).

So, the character, who acquired his superstrength and toughness from an obscure biochemical 'vita-ray' treatment (sound familiar, Shield-lovers?), is named "Captain America". Snort; like a name that hokey going to catch on. Is it too much to hope they're going to do something remotely cool with him?

Yikes; apparently it is too much to hope...

He's playing baseball?! With Nekron from Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #2 (1981)?!?! WTF?!!!??! What kind of stupid comic book company wastes our time showing heroes playing baseball... with villains? What's next? The X-dead shall rise?

Okay, though; this is cool:

Bases replaced by tombstones? Very cool; very "Tales from the Crypt". Maybe this won't be too bad to read, after all. I wonder who the villain is...?

The...
"Black Toad"?
Gods help me, this is going to be a LONG week...

7 comments:

LissBirds said...

I bet Nekron only calls strikes.

Scipio said...

I just assume this was during the game's "dead-ball" era.

LissBirds said...

LOL.

So I guess that's Shoeless Joe Jackson sliding into third base...er...third tombstone.

steve mitchell said...

The Shield fought Archie. . .and lost.

Captain America fought the Red Skull. . .and won.

'Nuff said, True Believer!

H said...

You have my full attention.

Sounds like if you combined this story with the Greatest Super-Hero story ever told, you'd get exactly what a modern day DC version of DC Super Stars 10 would be like. Come to think of it, maybe Blackest Night will have a baseball game as the climax with Zombie Sportsmaster on the mound.

Scipio said...

That is EXACTLY how Blackest Night should culminate, H.

steve mitchell said...

Oooh, and zombie gorilla ballplayers, too!