June 7, 2011 

Planetary Bodies DO NOT WORK THAT WAY

The Spectre needs to ditch “Percival Pop, Super Cop”, his newly introduced (at the time) comic relief sidekick. So he puts him safely out of the way.

Aside from the insane issues of scale, or the fact that Percival is breathing in outer space, or that the Spectre seems to be able to travel millions of light years in seconds… how about those rings?

Sorry, but pretty sure the world knew planetary rings weren’t solid since like, the 1890s.

Oh, and just to bring home what a jerk the Spectre is to his “friends”:

The kicker here is when you remember (as the writers sometimes forgot at the time) that Jim Corrigan was a ghost. He didn’t need to sleep.

He just wanted to ditch the wannabe.


  • Anonymous

    Percival Pop?  Really?  Who the hell thought that was a good idea for a name? He sounds a lot less like a super cop and more like a corporate mascot.

  • Anonymous

    What happened to Spectre’s right foot in the panel where he’s coming through the window? I realize he’s a ghost, so it doesn’t really matter, but it looks like a mistake to me.

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

    The Spectre‘s astrophysics courtesy Roly Poly Oly.

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

    I think he’s supposed to be phasing through the wall. Seems like it would be easier on his secret identity to just switch back to Corrigan and go through the front door.

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

     Well, not literally through the door….

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

    I’m guessing the writers went with the first alliterative sidekick name that also rhymes with his profession they could think of before heading to the bar for whiskey.

  • Anonymous

    So… the Spectre is “The Dark Knight,” huh?

    For those who are interested, the ghost of Percival Popp appeared in the 1990s Spectre series.

  • Naryldor

    And where exactly did that alien come from? From the “far” side of the planet? xD

    The poor little fellow looks as if he was stranded there by some Tatooine crooks after he had a few drinks too much at Moss Eisley’s cantina.

  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    Nobody say anything about the gravity on the ring! I repeat “Ignore the gravity or better pretend it is the same as on earth!”

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

    Percival experienced great discomfort when the USS Voyager accidentally flew up his pant leg.

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

    You know you’re in bad shape when the Superfriends show does a better job of depicting space than your comic.

  • Ethan Mckinney

    “Falling a couple of million light years down to Earth!”

    Umm, the gravitational attraction is going to be pretty weak from the other side of the galaxy, and I’d be a lot more worried about the gravity from nearby stars and planets!

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

    Earth really sucks!  Ah ha ha ha!

  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    Well they are really small planets…