The Greatest Origin Story of All Time
April 19, 2008 | Posted by Chris Sims Your Spidey Super Stories Moment of Joy for tonight:
Thus:
Quite possibly the most aggressively nonsensical thing I have ever seen, from Spidey Super Stories #7.
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Chris Sims, I don’t mean to one-up Spidey Super Stories, but…
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=154206
Words fail in the face of what is sure to be the pinnacle of gaming. Ever.
You know, if you told me earlier today that I’d be entertained by a girl dressed like Napoleon on a yellow rocking pony, I’d have called you crazy. But then again, here we are.
Woah…does Spidey have a bump on his head in that last panel from being thumped? That’s quite a goose-egg.
You have an “Equestrian Transvestite Assault” tag now Chris, and you will be forced to use it again someday. When that day comes, I hope you can deliver.
I’m 90% positive this was adapted from an actual Electric Company episode.
Which doesn’t make it any less awesome.
My brain just snapped clean in half. good show, sir.
You sir appear to have broken my mind.
I demand more from The Thumper.
the Thumper turned to a life of crime because of an unfulfilled childhood and eventually got what she wanted. see? crime does pay.
“Look it’s the great French hero! Who died 160 years ago! And wasn’t a woman who fondled herself in public! But other than those small discrepancies it is definitely Napoleon!”
I’m looking forward to more entries with the “Equestirian Transvestite Assault” tag…
@originalslugboy: yeah, I too am confident this was a live action character making a comic book appearance.
Remember: Spidey > Spider-Man
Yep, the Thumper was a character taken from the Electric Company:
http://www.spiderfan.org/shows/tv_electric_co/season4.html
(Scroll down to “The Thumper”)
Not that it makes any more sense…
Y’know, if you stuck this story right in the middle of Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol, NO ONE would be able to tell the difference.
Not that this is even among the ten weirdest things in these panels, but: “hero”? Since when is Napoleon viewed in American pop culture (or by random American passersby) as a hero?
Indeed, Justin. I was going to say that this if this character had been a DC character Grant Morrison would have long ago brought her back into the universe.
Heck, she’d probably have been one of the Seven Soldiers. Or she’d be playing a central role in Final Crisis.
You never know when it comes to that crazy Scotsman…
Bruce Wayne sneers at the moral implications of this Spidey Super Story.
But secretly, he wants a pony too.
PS
Those aren’t bumps on Spidey’s head — they’re prepubescent horns!
Spider-Man of Universe Electric Company == Young Hellboy.
But what if she got a brown pony instead?
She would have invaded Russia.
“Napoleon-now with breasts!” It’s the new Coke of great dictators!
LOGIC!
I don’t understand the young folks’ slang anymore. By “Yellow Pony” they mean “Sybian,” right?
I had a subscription to Spidey Super Stories. Best birthday present ever!
I never got a yellow pony for my birthday either, but you don’t see me dressing up as a dead frenchman, thumping strangers.
Just sayin’.
I never thought I would say this about any comic, but if Spidey had stopped the Thumper by throwing her some delicious Hostess Fruit Pies, it would actually have made this comic less crazy.
Colleen Coover + Spidey Super-Stories = The Best Comic Book Ever.
FACT.
You can watch the Electric Company episode of Spidey vs. The Thumper here: http://en.zappinternet.com/video/BiDwXetNuc/The-Electric-Company-Spidey-Jumps-the-Thumper
Have you read the Spidey Super Stories issue with The Wall yet, Chris? If not, you need to. And The Wall needs to be a canon Spider-Man villain.
You wanna know something almost equally awesome ?
The man who wrote that Electric Company episode on which the story’s based is… Tom Whedon. I shit you not. Joss Whedon’s dad.
I demand a revamped Thumper shows up as the next big bad in the current “Buffy Season 8″ comic.
JW