They Have Rightly Named You, Lady Satan!

Well, I can't find the exact link, but somewhere in this article, there was a link back to this site from Cracked, a fine website I (honestly and truly) read regularly and readership skyrocketed for a few days... and it appears a good chunk of you re-directed folks continue to stick around, so welcome!

I'm the first to fuss about the excessive violence in some modern-day titles.  I wish we could harken back to the carefree Golden Age, where comics like Dynamic Comics # 3, with...

Oh.  Um.... Well, I'm sure that was an isolated....

Egad!  But then again, the feature is called "Lady Satan," so perhaps that is to be expected.  I'd best flip over to the gallant chivalry of "The Green Knight," to be regaled by stories of honor, bravery...

... and a woman getting her eyes plucked out.

Yeesh!  Perhaps I should put that ish down and take a look at Pep Comics #14.  Pep Comics would later introduce us to Archie, Jughead and all the gang at Riverdale, so I'm sure this comic will have traditional American values like...

Um....

Oh.  That looks a little rough, don't you ...?

Okay, I give. Comics are just disturbing.  But if they weren't what would I write about?

See you tomorrow!

The Drugs, The Drugs!

Pop Quiz:  Using your powers of deduction, my nerdlingers, what character should not be behind the green light slicing at the wooden mast?

I know, I know... Green light... but wooden mast!

Who should this absolutely not be?

Yup.

It's only the third ish of the Golden Age Green Lantern's book, and we still haven't figured out whether Green Lantern's ring works on wood.  As you've seen in previous posts, we're told time and time again that the ring doesn't affect "non-metals," but there we go.  And to make matters worse, it's cutting through wood, which we all know is the one thing that the Alan Scott's ring remained ineffective against.  YEESH!

Hey!  Let's check out Dynamic Comics #3!

Wow... Lindsay Lohan has really let herself go!

Thank you, thank you!  I'll be here all week!

Oh, and they're still milking this:

Egad, how stupid are Kent's friends?

Anyway, moving on:

Well, the butler shouldn't beat himself up, but he looks pretty okay with it.  Whoops!  I didn't save the man from getting a dagger in his chest!  Oh, well!  Chin up!  Carry on, pip-pip!

What interested me more (and I didn't catch it the first time), is that Lucky Coyne has a very familiar gimmick: 

Pretty familiar stuff, eh?

I mean, if your name is "Lucky Coyne," you're probably going to carry a coin around, but still...

So, I did a little diligence, and sure enough, Lucky Coyne came about before Batman's foe, Two-Face.

The similarities should come as no surprise, because Lucky Coyne was written by none other than Golden Age Batman writer, Bill Finger!

This guy has the whole story.  Awesome!

See you tomorrow!