I’m gonna end this today even if it maims me.
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I just love this issue so much…
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How’s that for an awesome title?

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Since Typo brought up lingual shifts yesterday, I thought this was a good time to visit Gay City.

All right, all right. I always think it’s a good time to visit Gay City.

-Site Admin Matt

Superman #7 Features what May be the Greatest Story of All Time. Why?

Because it’s set in Gay City.

What do we know about Gay City?

Well, we know that there’s a strange malady that seems incurable.

We also know that it’s no place for a woman.

Superman’s excited. Wonder why?

Ah. Up for a wee bit of R&R I suppose.

I wonder if he’s a top or a bottom…

Howdy, y’all. Site Admin Matt behind the keyboard again. Typo’s letting me continue the Best Of series on a weekly basis, so every Sunday morning you’ll be finding an awesome post from the past.

This week I pulled one from October 2008. I’ve never actually read a Pol Manning issue of Green Lantern (the closest I got was a page in Zero Hour, which has NOT aged well, by the way), and it sounds like a cool idea. I may have to hunt some down.

In the 58th century, there arose a trouble so great that the people of Earth felt the need to use time travel to recruit the famous Hal Jordan to be their “Solar Director”. Basically, every time there was a crisis, they’d pull Hal from the past, then brain-wash him and have him be Pol Manning, intrepid explorer, hero, and puppet dictator.

It was a brilliant plan, really.

So what’s the flaw, you ask?

That’s right Iona, just close your eyes and think of Earth.

Footnote: In the 80’s, the Green Lantern Salakk was yanked to be Pol Manning instead of Hal Jordan. As Salakk was quite alien, they decided to brainwash Iona so she’d continue playing her role.

The future. Such a bright place to be!

I didn’t believe it until I saw this, but there are apparently stories where The King fights someone other than The Witch (I know, I was shocked too). In this one, he’s after a tough, gun-totting lady who’s MO is to board ships, scare the snot out of everyone by firing off a few rounds, and then dash with their cash.
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Hey guys, it’s Site Admin Matt, back with another blast from the past. Today’s post (originally published in April 2006) is a pretty good representation of Sue’s place in the Fantastic Four family.

Sue knows her place.

Once Reed puts her in it, of course.

I guess Reed believes in a variation of “women should be seen and not heard”, eh?

Hey everybody, Site Admin Matt here. As Typo said yesterday, over the next week or so we’ll be showing you some of the best What Were They Thinking?! posts from the last 4½ years. If you have any suggestions, send me an email at matt.algren@gmail.com.

I thought we’d ease into it with some good old-fashioned misogyny. Here’s one of my favorites from way back in November 2005.

Yellow Fear Monster, or just being a dick?

You decide!

Dear Verizon,

WTF?

-would likely think Silver Age Lois to be a wuss:
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