Post by shaxper on Aug 6, 2014 20:03:27 GMT -5
Brother Power the Geek #3
story: Carlos Danger
art: Yolande Pijcke
grade: D-
It's frustrating to me that, just when I felt this series was developing an identity and direction, we're tossed such an abrupt curve ball. To begin with, I found Danger's clear spoof of the Silver Surfer distasteful, as "The Scarlet Skier" is depicted repeatedly ramming himself against an invisible barrier cast around the Earth, and seemingly deriving pleasure from it ("Oh, I've been naughty!" So naughty to my master!!") That he inevitably rams himself into Pow and his rocket is disturbing to say the least, especially as he repeatedly comments on how Pow's lack of bones make him "so flexible" with a wry smile across his face. Truly though, I could have dealt with that.
It's really the second chapter, in which Pow returns to Earth and finds himself at the Titans' clubhouse that things start to get really wrong. Counseling Wonder Girl on whether or not she should choose to keep Speedy's love child was both a bold and, perhaps, unnecessary move for a comic of the time period. And, when she decides to go ahead with the abortion via Purple Ray, he hands her a tic tac and instructs her to keep it between her legs in the future.
Finally, we return to familiar ground as Pow must work his way up from the bottom once again, upon finding himself broke and in a totally alien region of the country from what he has known. He seeks employment at a local adult club and quickly works his way up from jizz mop, to jizz mopper, and finally to a male dancer, twerking faster than any human can in order to get more tips. Inevitably, he gives a lap dance to an underage Maria Shriver, and the stage is set for him to become the next governor of California.
Of course, before this can happen, he is randomly whisked into a dystopian future controlled by a super intelligent computer developed by his missile company that had, apparently, sent him back in time to kill the future leader of the human resistance prior to issue #1. "Will Pow return to the present? And if so, under which political party? Will he solve the state budget crisis? Will he sleep with the maid? Find out next issue!"
Minor Details:
- Why was Pow dressed like Barbarella on page 7? When we see him in the rocket returning to Earth on page 9, the fur bra and panties are nowhere to be seen.
- If you look closely at the second to last panel on page 8, in the background you'll see Mike Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Torke, and an enormous platypus. Was this some kind of dig at Davy Jones?? Perhaps a spoof of The Beatles' "I am the Walrus"?
- A comic book about a super powered rag doll is the LAST place you'd expect to see allusions to The Gospel of St. Thomas the Doubter.
- Did they really use the term "twerking" back in 1968? I had no idea.
- Implied that Mort Weisinger shot Robert Kennedy.
- The bio page devoted to Yolande Pijcke was a fascinating read -- particularly her involvement with the Watts riots, her insistence that Marlene Dietrich was her father, and her struggles working in the industry as a radicalized "left handed albino 'person of small stature' ".
- According to stashmycomics.com, four site users own this issue.
story: Carlos Danger
art: Yolande Pijcke
grade: D-
It's frustrating to me that, just when I felt this series was developing an identity and direction, we're tossed such an abrupt curve ball. To begin with, I found Danger's clear spoof of the Silver Surfer distasteful, as "The Scarlet Skier" is depicted repeatedly ramming himself against an invisible barrier cast around the Earth, and seemingly deriving pleasure from it ("Oh, I've been naughty!" So naughty to my master!!") That he inevitably rams himself into Pow and his rocket is disturbing to say the least, especially as he repeatedly comments on how Pow's lack of bones make him "so flexible" with a wry smile across his face. Truly though, I could have dealt with that.
It's really the second chapter, in which Pow returns to Earth and finds himself at the Titans' clubhouse that things start to get really wrong. Counseling Wonder Girl on whether or not she should choose to keep Speedy's love child was both a bold and, perhaps, unnecessary move for a comic of the time period. And, when she decides to go ahead with the abortion via Purple Ray, he hands her a tic tac and instructs her to keep it between her legs in the future.
Finally, we return to familiar ground as Pow must work his way up from the bottom once again, upon finding himself broke and in a totally alien region of the country from what he has known. He seeks employment at a local adult club and quickly works his way up from jizz mop, to jizz mopper, and finally to a male dancer, twerking faster than any human can in order to get more tips. Inevitably, he gives a lap dance to an underage Maria Shriver, and the stage is set for him to become the next governor of California.
Of course, before this can happen, he is randomly whisked into a dystopian future controlled by a super intelligent computer developed by his missile company that had, apparently, sent him back in time to kill the future leader of the human resistance prior to issue #1. "Will Pow return to the present? And if so, under which political party? Will he solve the state budget crisis? Will he sleep with the maid? Find out next issue!"
Minor Details:
- Why was Pow dressed like Barbarella on page 7? When we see him in the rocket returning to Earth on page 9, the fur bra and panties are nowhere to be seen.
- If you look closely at the second to last panel on page 8, in the background you'll see Mike Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Torke, and an enormous platypus. Was this some kind of dig at Davy Jones?? Perhaps a spoof of The Beatles' "I am the Walrus"?
- A comic book about a super powered rag doll is the LAST place you'd expect to see allusions to The Gospel of St. Thomas the Doubter.
- Did they really use the term "twerking" back in 1968? I had no idea.
- Implied that Mort Weisinger shot Robert Kennedy.
- The bio page devoted to Yolande Pijcke was a fascinating read -- particularly her involvement with the Watts riots, her insistence that Marlene Dietrich was her father, and her struggles working in the industry as a radicalized "left handed albino 'person of small stature' ".
- According to stashmycomics.com, four site users own this issue.
