tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post748021438557192689..comments2023-11-30T02:39:02.047-06:00Comments on Comics Make No Sense: High Fashion, Varsity Vic, and Goodbye to the FFAdam Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573914395859734760noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-34999946711960584212015-11-20T14:53:58.915-06:002015-11-20T14:53:58.915-06:00Adam, you must have been a little psychic when you...Adam, you must have been a little psychic when you declared "good-bye to the FF", for Marvel Comics cancelled the title effective with the June 2015 issue. Still, you could be nostalgic and comment on some of the older issues once in a while. I am sure there are still some super Silver Age and Bronze Age issues worth commenting on that you missed.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650921114832558648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-47007856525028560832010-04-15T19:23:03.532-05:002010-04-15T19:23:03.532-05:00Thyat was quite a slap. Sue's creamy face mus...Thyat was quite a slap. Sue's creamy face must have hurt for a week!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-7535218484527666092010-02-05T01:47:22.559-06:002010-02-05T01:47:22.559-06:00Wait, I got it. Thanks for the lead, Will.
I bel...Wait, I got it. Thanks for the lead, Will.<br /><br />I believe the joke is that Vic feels so sorry for himself. After all, this is the 1950s and he is just a kid. He does not <b>know</b> yet what suffering is like.<br /><br />From what I gather of the 1950s, at that time everyone took as granted that youngsters simply did not ever face real suffering. They were not allowed to see dead bodies, for instance. They certainly were not supposed to know anything about violence, sex or drugs, either. I guess meddling with a scooter was somewhere close to the absolute limits of what a healthy 1950s youngster could do without being a clearly lost case.Luis Olavo Dantashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18128592257825949059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-84038805040585082882007-09-27T14:03:00.000-05:002007-09-27T14:03:00.000-05:00Adam, I think the joke, such as it is, is the soda...Adam, I think the joke, such as it is, is the soda jerk's discomfiture at Vic's response. He's asking "Do you want to get <B>sick</B>?" only to find that Vic doesn't only want to get sick, he actually wants to die. Since as the other commenters pointed out, he's too young to drink himself to death, this may be his only recourse.<BR/><BR/>That's not to say that the joke is actually <I>funny</I>.<BR/><BR/>Of course, this is, like the others, from my cynical post-<I>Leaving Las Vegas</I> viewpoint. Drinking yourself to death, and similar topics, may have been funnier back then. Or maybe two-timing was actually considered a laugh riot.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09254417948332004153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-46922718734795745672007-09-25T13:12:00.000-05:002007-09-25T13:12:00.000-05:00everyone raises some valid points.... but that bei...everyone raises some valid points.... but that being said, I still don't get the jokeAdam Barnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08573914395859734760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-77052678356188969572007-09-25T10:54:00.000-05:002007-09-25T10:54:00.000-05:00Varsity Vic is a kid after all. I can't imagine D...Varsity Vic is a kid after all. I can't imagine DC running a humor ad about a kid going to the local bar and drinking himself into oblivion upon discovery of his girlfriend's chicanery.Dehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10132196355430345167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-25550850039804013592007-09-25T10:34:00.000-05:002007-09-25T10:34:00.000-05:00Equal opportunity sexism! I thought it was suppos...Equal opportunity sexism! I thought it was supposed to be only women who sobbed into their half gallon of double chocolate chip?<BR/><BR/>But seriously, that was supposed to be funny? I'm still awaiting the punch line.SallyPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592635194271250605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-88110399352255880162007-09-24T18:20:00.000-05:002007-09-24T18:20:00.000-05:00Boy, if I had a Chocolate Soda for every time my g...Boy, if I had a Chocolate Soda for every time my girl two-timed me, I'd have like four sodas. Well, actually one would be strawberry.<BR/><BR/>We're so cynical these days. Is it even fair that we're making fun of the '50s? Shootin' fish in a rain barrel, I tell ya.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389457077333572415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-48091825161326610542007-09-24T17:58:00.000-05:002007-09-24T17:58:00.000-05:00Try the Simonson stuff.If Robostalin can't get you...Try the Simonson stuff.<BR/><BR/>If Robostalin can't get you back, what could.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com