2008 Woodie Awards
Read Your Comics!
Michael Fitzgerald
Issue date: 2/12/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Bringing Washtenaw Community College students the best in potentially offensive columns, it's READ YOUR COMICS!
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a dick!
One of the more beautiful things about comics is that in the 1960's they were pretty effed up. A little website known as Superdickery.com takes visitors on a half-baked time travel adventure to a world of madcap mayhem known as the Silver Age.
Ask historians about the Silver Age of comics and they'll tell you it revolved around a revival of superhero comics during the time of the space race and McCarthyism. What they'll omit is that it was also the time of nonsensical, bizarre, and just plain non-sequitur stories.
Superdickery.com heralds the sensationalist covers of these comics on their website. Scenes include:
Superman forcing his best "pal" Jimmy Olsen to marry a gorilla, "Sorry, Jimmy, but as local witch doctor, I now pronounce you man and wife!" What a jerk!
What about this kindly cover featuring Lois Lane and Pat Boone writing a song about Superman, nothing wrong there! Wait, Superman's word bubble ruins everything. "Pat Boone and Lois Lane are singing a new song about me! It's a great tune, but I must use all my super-powers to prevent it from becoming a hit!"
In another, Superman uses heat vision to destroy a gift from Olsen, a robe embroidered with the trademark "S." "Jimmy, this Father's Day gift makes me sorry I ever adopted you as my son. I'll have to destroy it to teach you a lesson!" The website's caption says it all: "Damn, that's cold." There's plenty more where that came from.
The concept of Superdickery can be traced all the way back to the innocent time of 2004 from a thread entitled, "How did the comic industry even last until today? Lois Lane Comics: Stupidest thing ever." on a message board for Transformers website Allspark.com.
The thread began when a user posted the above-mentioned Father's Day fiasco along with an image depicting Lois Lane in forced wedding with a villain who looks similar to an undertaker while Superman shrugs in a church pew. The legendary thread supposedly went on to gather hundreds of posts encompassing over 30 pages.
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a dick!
One of the more beautiful things about comics is that in the 1960's they were pretty effed up. A little website known as Superdickery.com takes visitors on a half-baked time travel adventure to a world of madcap mayhem known as the Silver Age.
Ask historians about the Silver Age of comics and they'll tell you it revolved around a revival of superhero comics during the time of the space race and McCarthyism. What they'll omit is that it was also the time of nonsensical, bizarre, and just plain non-sequitur stories.
Superdickery.com heralds the sensationalist covers of these comics on their website. Scenes include:
Superman forcing his best "pal" Jimmy Olsen to marry a gorilla, "Sorry, Jimmy, but as local witch doctor, I now pronounce you man and wife!" What a jerk!
What about this kindly cover featuring Lois Lane and Pat Boone writing a song about Superman, nothing wrong there! Wait, Superman's word bubble ruins everything. "Pat Boone and Lois Lane are singing a new song about me! It's a great tune, but I must use all my super-powers to prevent it from becoming a hit!"
In another, Superman uses heat vision to destroy a gift from Olsen, a robe embroidered with the trademark "S." "Jimmy, this Father's Day gift makes me sorry I ever adopted you as my son. I'll have to destroy it to teach you a lesson!" The website's caption says it all: "Damn, that's cold." There's plenty more where that came from.
The concept of Superdickery can be traced all the way back to the innocent time of 2004 from a thread entitled, "How did the comic industry even last until today? Lois Lane Comics: Stupidest thing ever." on a message board for Transformers website Allspark.com.
The thread began when a user posted the above-mentioned Father's Day fiasco along with an image depicting Lois Lane in forced wedding with a villain who looks similar to an undertaker while Superman shrugs in a church pew. The legendary thread supposedly went on to gather hundreds of posts encompassing over 30 pages.
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