Gary Concord, Lady’s Man.
A complete page of the awesomeness that is Gary Concord:
“I can take a hint…” yeah right Ginger, four hundredth time’s the charm, eh? And for someone who can “handle” her daddy, she sure runs out of there fast…
But wait… there’s more!
Gary needs to pretend to be a criminal, so that he can be “deposed”. But he’s such a stand-up guy! How would anyone ever believe such a thing?
“Yes Mr. President. I’ll start sleeping with the Senator’s daughter at once!”
Boy, I sure wouldn’t want to be Ginger.
Oh, and those “insects” they’re talking about?
That’s what they call Asian people in the future. Really.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Every time I read this kind of stuff, my amazement that xenophobia and sexism still thrive in this country erodes just a tiny bit more. With these kinds of shining examples, it's small wonder.
December 7th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Reading those opening panels, I suspect this is all taking place in the United States of Riverdale, and Ginger is the direct descendant of Betty Cooper. But, from what I can gather, Gary is kin to Jughead.
December 8th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Not only do they still remain so sexist and xenophobic, they've apparently become the worst-dressed people in history
I was wondering why the hell anybody would take Gary so seriously with his bizarre outfit, but this page makes it all too clear why. Every male in the future is wearing Military uniform tops combined sport shorts that's worn over tights?? and to top the lovely outfits off, they wear cowboy boots or socks with sandals!
The only thing that makes Gary stand apart from them is the fact that his outfit's completely mismatched in colors.
December 8th, 2009 at 12:11 am
So much to discuss and comment on.. I'm on overload. Let's start with the fact that a senator wears short pants. Really, how can you take someone like that serious?
December 8th, 2009 at 12:43 am
Wow… they're BRIGHT Yellow in the future….
December 8th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Let us stroll around in this place while we talk urgent matters. Yes Gary, sit down for two seconds and then we'll walk over to the other side of the room. And as you can see the colour of the walls change in every panel, luckily we still believe in comb-overs as poorly as the may look, right senator?
December 8th, 2009 at 5:26 am
I'm having Seezar's problem. Sooooo much to make fun of. Gary, SpongeBob's pet snail, actually survives more than a century and is rewarded with a human body and the ability to talk instead of just meow. That's it, though. Everyone raves about “superpowers” he must have been given too, but he refuses to demonstrate them. He uses his spare time to insult women. When he is disgraced, the gang from “Saved by the Bell” comes to his rescue, and Slater takes over his old job.
It's nice that they let Asians wear pants, though.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:42 am
130 years and some things change, some remain the same: Asians are back to their old tricks, an openly gay man is head of Homeland Security, but [i]diplomacy[/] is still code for abject rolling over instead of beating the crap out anyone who looks at you sideways, as one should.
December 8th, 2009 at 9:30 am
It looks to me like “insects” was referring to the actual insects seen going into the funnels in the first panel.
December 8th, 2009 at 10:53 am
All I want to pay attention to is that Ginger's dress is completely sheer …
I don't know if it's an artifact of the scanning or if it's in the original art, but I keep studying her in the last panel of the first page.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
And yet her see-thru dress is still the least embarrassing outfit in the bunch…
December 10th, 2009 at 11:20 am
There was something about the 30s and pantslessness… the old Flash Gordons have (that is, lack) them too, IIRC. “Right, the future will be a glorious age of technology and convenience. Rocketships, gotta have those. Flying cars, sure. Jetpacks. Household robots. What else can be done to really show how advanced these people are… Oh yes, let's get rid of those pesky, impractical trousers!”
(Incidentally, I keep mis-seeing Gary's outfit as boxers with suspenders – like mini lederhosen.)
December 28th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
It was a common notion in the 1930s that in the future, so much of life would be spent in the air-conditioned indoors that clothing would become minimalist (see the nylon togas in the 1936 “Things to Come”, for instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAYSq_Icrbo&feat... ).
What interests me is that the 23rd Century fashions look as though they were leftovers from earlier periods of DC's future history (the purple tunic and shorts uniform of Tommy Tomorrow's Planeteers, the rocket pack of Adam Strange), although the Ultra Man actually predates them. It sort of reminds me of the assorted “Kryptonian” costumes from the pilot episode of the George Reeves Superman TV series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2RJIZ9z1A
December 29th, 2009 at 6:19 am
It was a common notion in the 1930s that in the future, so much of life would be spent in the air-conditioned indoors that clothing would become minimalist (see the nylon togas in the 1936 “Things to Come”, for instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAYSq_Icrbo&feature=related ).rnrnWhat interests me is that the 23rd Century fashions look as though they were leftovers from earlier periods of DC’s future history (the purple tunic and shorts uniform of Tommy Tomorrow’s Planeteers, the rocket pack of Adam Strange), although the Ultra Man actually predates them. It sort of reminds me of the assorted “Kryptonian” costumes from the pilot episode of the George Reeves Superman TV series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2RJIZ9z1A