Comments on: I Defy You, Groot!!

By: niall

niall — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:22:52 +0000

Damn, that would have been a good project.

By: fústar

fústar — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:46:30 +0000

Green Ink, There isn’t an original thought out there - even for a fleeting moment.

By: Green Ink

Green Ink — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:27:42 +0000

Damn the synchronicity of the internets!

By: niall

niall — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:48:17 +0000

I like the tabloid sensibility {”I found! I survived! I took a shitty cellphone picture of, after he came out of the men’s toilets rubbing his nose!”} aspect of the Yeti comic. It guess it was commonplace.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:48:08 +0000

No luck digging. Actually, I think I picked up a 70’s reprint.
On checking up a bit further, I found that Kirby’s Abominable Snowman was changed to Gorgilla(?) for some reason. Go figure.

By: fústar

fústar — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:44:25 +0000

Darwin,

Dig! Dig as if your very life depended on it. Though the tone of the post might suggest otherwise, I do dearly love Jack Kirby (who doesn’t?). I wanna see what happens to yer man who though about to be mashed by a giant boulder continues to keep the camera rolling.

Are these monsters any lamer than Super-Hip?

No. No they definitely are not…

By: Darwin

Darwin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:59:59 +0000

I think I have a copy of that yeti comic somewhere, must dig it out (by that I don’t mean give it stg£5,000).
Are these monsters any lamer than Super-Hip?

By: fústar

fústar — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:31:56 +0000

niall/devo,

I too was struck by Droom’s strange description (”the living Lizard”). A bit redundant, on the face of it, like a superhero called “Hu-Man - The actual, Living Man!!”

Wow!

By: niall

niall — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:20:11 +0000

If, by “all regular lizards”, you mean “the red tegu my neighbor asked me to care for while he was away in summer camp”, then yes.

Captain Obvious in the lower left is not afraid to put too fine a point on the news that Droom is alive, so I suspect that the import of the distinction will be revealed within. Erm, you buy it, Fustar.

By: devo

devo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:22:57 +0000

So ‘Droom’ is a “living Lizard”, is this implying that all regular lizards are dead?

By: fústar

fústar — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:43:53 +0000

Groot also falls headfirst into the hubris trap - declaring himself invincible and daring anyone to defy him. That always ends in tears and egg on the face.

By: niall

niall — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:15:14 +0000

Maybe Groot’s Dutch, and his name rhymes with “rote”, which likely describes how they created the monsters in your post. You know, Jack Kirby drew his share of thickoes, lunkheads, and heroes with giant tooth, but he also gave us Devil Dinosaur, and that basically does what it says on the tin. DD would have kicked these losers’ asses six ways to Sunday.