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Most Hilarious Parody in Comics?
1) Grant Morrison and a group of artists decided to parody Liefeld's artistic styles and popularity with a Doom Patrol special called Doom Force. This both parodied Liefeld's art style as well as the general angst of X-Men comics.
2) Marshall Law any run. I think Fear and Loathing where the stupidity of the Comics Code A is explored through a parody of the 60's Legion of Superheroes. The one shots could also be possible choices in my opinion.
"Marshall Law Takes Manhattan" wherein he basically kills the Marvel Universe.
The other one may be called "The Kingdom Of the Blind" or it may not. Its basically Marshall Law kills Batman.
3) Another
Interesting resource on comics censorship, Marvel and DC don't always like being parodied and the info on the comics code A etc. It is interesting
Meh, MF is a ruthless cunning ******* of a business man, but at least he could draw.
Liefeld's characters looked liked they were always trying to push out a hot loaf.
Alex Ross is in a different category. His stuff is great, but aside from certain, big projects like Kingdom Come, Marvels, various covers and stuff, he doesn't produce that much work, whereas Jim Lee churns out a comic every month just about. That's just the nature of Ross' art, it's astounding but it's in a different category.
Lee was a bit of a thief, but what writer hasn't drawn upon influences? My favorite description of him that I've heard is that he was "P.T. Barnum and William Shakespeare rolled into one." He was a showman and wily wordsmith of polyslyllabic alliteration. If Ditko has a gripe with Lee, well we must remember that they still collaborated together for years.
As to parody, Christopher Priest's Black Panther featured a few moments that seemed to poke fun at comic continuity. Panther, Falcon, Cage and Iron Fist (I think, not sure) are fighting someone in New York. Out of nowhere, Bill Foster--(Black) Goliath--appears in his old costume and 60 feet tall. "Hey guys!" "Hey, Bill, didn't know you were still active." "A bit." It just poked fun at comics reckless abandon to retire and renew characters with no explanation, and to band characters together by something so inconsequential as skin color; just because a few black heroes are fighting, Goliath, who hasn't been seen in about 25 years appears simply because he's black.
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Last edited by ScarletSpider on Aug 23rd, 2005 at 03:55 PM
Yeah. Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) gave him a blood transfusion, her universal immune system cured him, but then she lost that aspect of her powers. But that was so long ago, she's lost and gained her powers back a few times since then, so I think she has the immune system back.
Naw, he had already knew about them, he waited a few issues to actually use it though. And I don't find his writing that bad, it's pretty good most of the time. It could be worse, Chuck Austin could be back on Marvel's payroll.
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Aug 23rd, 2005 10:39 AM
Cap was my hero
