Saturday, March 10, 2007
Comic Art
All good things must come to an end, and so I think it is with the continuing series on lame Spidey villains, but we are gonna go out with a big bang. Have you ever wondered what would happen if a Playboy bunny took herself just a little too seriously, read way too much Lewis Carroll and turned to super-crime? Why you would have every adolescent comic buyers dream - The White Rabbit. If she hadn't first appeared in the early '80's, I'd say she was inspired by Anna Nicole Smith - White Rabbit is as nuts and as pointless.Needless to say, White Rabbit was intended for comic relief, I mean she originally shown as the arch-nemesis, in the Marvel Team-up depicted here, of "Frog-man" who is a loser of a hero if ever there was one.
White Rabbit has only had three story lines to date, but she is a reasonably popular character. Gee, I wonder why? Is it the manical nature of her machines of destruction? The absolutely cosmic scale of her evil plots? The pathos of her back story? The emotional connection between herself and Spider-man? Her incredible powers?Uh...No, no, no, no, and no. It's a shapely chick in a bunny suit for crying out loud - what more needs to be said? Remember, at least back in 1983 when she first appeared, the
primary audience for comic books was male, under 21 and single - really single, if you know what I mean.But then, why not? Comic relief and sex appeal in a single package, now that's selling comic books. Lame villain? Oh the lamest, but even the lame ones can be popular. What's that you say? No villain that rides a 10-foot, heavily armored mechanical bunny can be lame? Well then, your comic universe is much farther out there than mine is. I mean in a world inahbited by guys in spider suits and other guys that can stretch like rubber, a hot chick on a mechanical rabbit is just silly.
Oh yeah, one other thing - that MTU #131 up there? Mint condition in my collection. Just thought you'd want to know.
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