This would certainly be a battle for the ages. But would it be the most epic confrontation of the 24th and 1/2 century, or is it all a distraction in Calvin's mind to keep him from completing his homework assignment? The answer is just six dimes away!
FUN!!!
ReplyDeleteOf course, the answer to the question in your text is, of course: BOTH!
And the question on the cover is almost as easy. Spiff wins. It's Calvin's imagination fueling the story, after all. Besides, we all know what happens when Duck Dodgers pulls his disintegrator!
Right on Bob! Plus, it could be Hobbes hiding inside that hair-suit.
ReplyDeleteAnd in the meantime, Hobbes could be driving Marvin the Martian crazy somewhere.
ReplyDeletePlease tell me there's a follow-up planned with Stupor Duck and Stupendous Man! XD
ReplyDeleteI often wonder if Gossamer (alias "Rudolf") could've been the inspiration for Stanley's Silver Age Monster?
ReplyDelete@Bob: Porky Pig has to shoot him with the re-integrator!
ReplyDeleteI'll tell you what we really need: Joe Cool and the Fonz!
ReplyDeleteAnd where does the Gossamer get his shoes from? Or else they are the weirdest feet I ever did see.
ReplyDeletethank you Ross for this homage to one of Nigel Kneal's great and spooky movies Quatemass and the Pit (aka 5 Million Years to Earth)....
ReplyDeleteone of the first references to the ancient astronauts idea....
see Professor Bernard Quatemass is called to explain what the British military dug up in a part of old London....
what they at first thought was an old unexploded Great War bomb turns out to be a millions of years old alien spacecraft with remains of passengers on board who are mentally effecting the people of the Hobbe's End area of the city....
it is explained that these Martians came to our planet to experiment on our ancestors....
it is also explained that the word Hobb means devil or ghost....
and in your tribute to this great movie you have Calvin without his devil (Hobbes) meeting up with Duck Dogers a spaceman who usually fights Marvin a Martians for dominance of our planet....
well, you packed the whole of the story into your cover....
wonderful, wonderful....
an idea for a future cover pairing the animated Beatles meet the Dell Comics Fab Four who were four teenager's minds transfered into four android superpowered bodies....
again as always i love your work....
@Jack-El: you should seriously switch to decaf for those 3PM breaks.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, i do not partake of any coffinated beverage....
ReplyDeleteand Ross, another idea for leading up to Halloween would be a revisit with Disney's Doctor Sun the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh vs the Headless Horseman.....
a mere thought.....
because you do the unimaginable so very well....
@del_Tobor - I think the Monster first appeared in "Hair Raising Hare" (1946) with those giant kicks. Then there was Marvin, and much later, the whole "Hare Jordan" - Space Jam shoe campaign. I guess wearing sneakers outside of a gym back then meant you were some kind of geek.
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ReplyDeleteof course above i meant Doctor Syn not Doctor Sun....
although it was autocorrect who just corrected it again but this time i saw it do it so changed it back.....
still no coffee of any kind....
@Jack-El: you mean, "Dr. Syn." Doctor Sun was a TOMB OF DRACULA villain at Marvel Comics.
ReplyDeleteanother October/Halloween idea just bubbled up in my brain soup....
ReplyDeletehow about Solomon Grundy (born on a Monday....) vs Wednesday Addams whose name came from another childhood poem (Mondays child is full of grace, Tuesdays child is fair of face, Wednesdays child is full of woe....)....
this is the explained origin of Wednesday's name....
however if you wish to throw in Oden (aka Woden) which is how the weekday got its name (Woden's day and then Thor's day) that would be OK by me.....
Gossamer was also one of the sources (along with somebody from 'The Addams Family'?) for a character who appeared in one issue of 'Blue Devil' and was called "the Hairy Devourer"... but who, despite that name, did no harm on that occasion.
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Not a seasonally themed suggestion, just a suggestion: Superman's Pal Archie Andrews. I mean, a teenage youth with ginger hair & a bow tie, it would be easy for some crooks to mistake him for Jimmy Olsen so that Supes had to come to his rescue... Maybe some villain or villains from Metropolis (the Prankster & the Toyman, perhaps?) are trying to hide out in Riverdale?
Just putting Jimmy and Archie on a cover together would be plenty cool enough.
ReplyDeleteHow about Archie, as Pureheart the Powerful, kissing Star Sapphire's boots? With the super-powered versions of Betty and Veronica looking on, in horrified shock, from the background?
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ReplyDelete"How about Archie, as Pureheart the Powerful, kissing Star Sapphire's boots? With the super-powered versions of Betty and Veronica looking on, in horrified shock, from the background?"
:D
But in that situation wouldn't Pureheart lose his powers, and revert to being just Archie?
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There was a short-lived series called 'Jughead's Time Police', in which Jughead worked with a female descendant of Archie: So...
Jughead meets the Doctor?
Jughead vs Kang?
All the more reason for the girls to spontaneously transform into their super alter-egos and come to his rescue. ;-)
ReplyDeleteP.S.--split the difference. Jughead and Dr. Who vs. Kang!
ReplyDeletei like Carycomic's idea above of Time Police Jughead and the Doctor vs. Kang....
ReplyDeletehowever could Jughead's super persona Captain Hero vs Captain Hero from Drawn Together meet someTIME????
With all the Kang stuff going on, I'd frankly still love to see more Time Trapper, especially if we can get a Kang vs. TT war going. It could be the explanation for the timestorms that some of the characters on this blog have experienced. And I think The Doctor would certainly have something to say about that!
ReplyDelete(And speaking of time travel... what if Dr. Sam Beckett were to Leap into Capt. Jonathan Archer?)
You'll be seeing a Quantum Leap into the future soon...
ReplyDeleteWill that be Dr. Sam Beckett, as Nolan Wood, aiding David Vincent and Cade Foster against "The Invaders" (alias the Gua)?
ReplyDeleteOr will he be aiding Doug and Tony, his time-traveling predecessors from Project: Tic-Toc?