An action figure of Shaq with a jet pack
Brand new custom made women's Superman gstring with pretty white lace trim
Superman lunch kit with cape.
GAY HOMOSEXUAL SUPERMAN BATMAN COMIC BOOK WARREN ELLIS!
A naked Supergirl statue. There is no picture here because sadly, I'm not kidding and that is a very not safe for work link.
(The Shaq figure? I secretly really do want it but can't make myself buy it. I'm so ashamed.)
6 comments:
I require a jetpack.
And a nekkid Supergirl.
That lunch kit has a CAPE?! And is that a Superman belt at the bottom?
I can't decide if the kid who took that to school would get beat up for it or not.
As for TEH GAY HOMOSEXUAL SUPERMAN!!1 - it's nice to see Warren Ellis is getting his ever-so-subtle points across to the comic-reading public.
I really haven't read enough Ellis to express a fair opinion. But let me know if my impression of The Authority was completely wrong. Warren Ellis writes a wide-screen-action "totally extreme!" comic with lots of sex (and prison rape and castration) and extreme violence and whoa-look-they're-gay! Then he says he's doing it ironically and pushing the envelope and redefining superhero comics and questioning norms and so forth. And then 95% of the fans just read it for the totally extreme!!-ness of it and ignore the other stuff... which may or may not have been all that deep anyways. It certainly never made me think as much as a Morrison comic.
Again, I could have totally missed the boat there, but that was what I came away with back in the day.
"Ian Sokoliwski said...
I require a jetpack.
And a nekkid Supergirl."
It's really the only way you could keep up with her.
"Elliot said...
Warren Ellis writes a wide-screen-action "totally extreme!" comic with lots of sex (and prison rape and castration) and extreme violence and whoa-look-they're-gay!"
You're half right. Ellis was responsible for the widescreen extreme, and the look-they're-gay (which never seemed to me to be so much mocking as a variation on a theme). The excessive on-panel violence (sometimes sexual in nature) was mostly the work of Mark Millar.
Ellis is sometimes blamed for this stuff, but his Authority wasn't too gorey. He's also sometimes credited with the anti- establishment, "The Authority ARE the villains" subtext, which really wasn't there in his version. Except for sidestepping traditional authority entirely to handle superhuman threats, the Ellis/Hitch Authority are pretty much just a superhero team.
In defense of the lunchbox, I will say that my (at the time) kindergarten son and I enjoyed each having one when he was taking lunches to school for the first time. We read Superman together, and it helped him (I think/hope -- at least he said it would!) make the transition by knowing that Dad was eating lunch out of a Superman lunchbox just like his at the same time each day. (And I did, the whole year!)
Hmm! That pattern would certainly fit with what I've read of Mark Millar's work.
Yeah, I didn't get the feeling that Apollo and the Mid-Nighter (or whatever) were being mocked by Ellis. And at the time I totally didn't get any World's Finest connection/references.
Mike, that is the best comment ever left here.
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