September 29, 2008 

Knowledge is Power.

Now that Thomas knows Hal’s alter ego, he has a request.

The guy really wanted a mind-wipe, and I can’t blame him. Still, Hal reassures him.

“Sure, you’ll be a target, but I’m okay with that!”

Also, a note on “great fish hooks” – this would become “jumping fish hooks”.

Because y’know, that’s so much better.


  • Dierna

    “And you’ll be the only one in the world to know it…. till the New York Taxi driver comes into the picture and I join the Justice League and you publish your book….”

  • Naryldor

    “Because everybody knows that jumping fishes are way cooler than merely great fishes…”

    Sincerely,
    Gollum.

  • madwoman

    Naryldor-shouldn’t that be “jumping fisheses are way cooler than merely great fisheses”? BTW, if some jerk kept calling me by an ethnic slur and I knew his secret identity, it wouldn’t be a secret for very long.

  • http://flickr.com/photos/sedary_raymaker/ Naked Bunny with a Whip

    “Hey, since you’re not wiping my mind, can you give me a power-ring lift home? Oh, and I’m moving on the 10th, can’t you power-ring my stuff to the new place? Oh, and my furnace’s pilot light went out. Can you power-ring that for me? And since you’re in there….” *mindwipe*

  • clarkins

    All the Batman and Robin jokes makes me wonder what kinky things Hal might have mindwiped away.

  • Michael

    “No, Hal, you don’t understand. I don’t want to forget your secret identity; I want to forget your *whole* identity. I’m getting the fuck out of Dodge, and I’d rather not have any memories of your lame white-boy ass clogging up my grey matter, dig?”

  • onion3000

    Why can’t Hal wipe out my memory of his arse?

  • http://www.jimmacq.com MacQuarrie

    Is “Pieface” an ethnic slur? Or is it just a free-range insult like “Potatohead” or”Lumpy”?

    Either way, Hal has obviously never done the Dale Carnegie course.

  • Dierna

    MacQuarrie:

    It’s an ethnic slur in this case cuz Thomas is an Eskimo and it was a play on Eskimo Pie. In New Frontier he’s offended when GL calls him Pieface.

  • Shiai

    Tom *asks* for the mind-wipe? Wow, talk about battered wife syndrome….

  • Maniac Doc

    Wait, how does Thomas know that the power ring can do mind-wipes?

  • Your Obedient Serpent

    Doc:

    He doesn’t actually SAY “mind wipe”. He SAYS “knock the knowledge out of my head”.

    Which, given Hal’s Silver Age proclivities, suggests the Big Green Glowing Mallet of Laser-Guided Amnesia.

  • http://www.justpressplay.net Ary

    Potatohead IS an ethnic slur. For the Irish.

  • onion3000

    Someone called me a stupid, ugly, smelly git once. I took it to be an ethnic slur. Please don’t spoil it for me.

  • LittlePig

    No, no, no. “Great Fishhook’s Ghost!”