And Now…

The single greatest sporting event in comic book history, and quite possibly the two greatest panels of the Silver Age of comics: The Dinosaur Throwing Contest.

 

 

 

And as if I even need to type it, here’s a brief list of things that are absolutely amazing about these two panels:

1. “Dinosaur Throwing Contest.”
2. “The Dino-Fighters.”
3. “Paralysis Gloves.”
4. “Deadly Evolutionary Buzz-Saw Blades.

Ladies and gentlemen… I think we have a new band name.

 

Gooba proves himself to be the Daniel LaRusso of the planet Rorbis in the pages of Adventure Comics #323’s “The Eight Impossible Missions,” currently available in both over- and under-priced editions. Man, I love that book.

34 thoughts on “And Now…

  1. Does the story explain why these dinosaurs had to evolve deadly evolutionary buzz-saw blades?! What menace could they possibly hae faced that simple horns couldn’t cut it?!?

  2. For the sake of the Ladies of Rorbis (also a good band name), I hope those gentlemen aren’t actually streaking into the stadium.

    Because, you know, Gooba looks like a dyed Ken doll.

  3. “Hooray for Gooba!” should really be #5 on that list. Good indie band name too.

  4. I also like how it’s not so much a dinosaur throwing contest, it’s a dinosaur ‘glove-based telekinesis’ contest.

    But really. Deadly evolutionary buzz-saw blades is my new phrase of the day.

  5. I’m too busy trying to process how a species might evolve deadly head-mounted buzz-saw blades to even begin contemplating dino-tossing.

  6. Before “evolutionary” was thrown in there, I bet that phrase looked ridiculous.
    That’s writing, people.
    Congratulations Chris on adding that new tag. These things are bound to show up again sooner or later.

  7. Next week on Head Bangers Ball…Deadly Evolutionary Buzz-Saw Blades!!!! You slay me Chris.

  8. They’re deadly evolutionary buzz saw blades because if you’re stupid enough to get near a creature with a buzz saw attached to its head that is about waste high to you it’s Darwinism in action.

  9. Setting aside the awesomeness that is “Deadly Evolutionary Buzz-Saw Blades”, my next question has to be: Why is the Grinch the play-by-play man for the Dinosaur Throwing Contest?

  10. Assuming the Deadly Evolutionary Buzz-Saw Blades sound anything at all like the Bloodhound Gang, their album will surely be called Hooray for Gooba.

  11. The only problem I have with the ISB is, in my head, I have a list of The Best Things Ever. And every time I come here, just about, I have to re-order that list because you keep finding and bringing the awesome. It is, however, a minor issue in comparison to the awesome this site brings.

  12. The Doom/Spidey lightsaber battle on Death Jaws… par for the course here at the ISB. But a contest to throw evolutionary buzz-sawed dinosaurs through hula hoops – in OUTER SPAAAAAACE?

    NOW I am freaking out.

  13. Look, I know propellor beanies when I see them, and it doesn’t matter if you tart them up by stapling them on to a dinosaurs head and call them “Deadly Evolutionary Buzz-Saw Blades”, they are still just propellor beanies. Although it is admittedly awesome that dinosaurs were able to send in enough UPCs from the cereal boxes to get the propellor beanies, unless their moms helped.

  14. I hit this one a while back when I bought the under-priced version, and immediately had to show everyone I knew. Because, man, dinosaur-tossing.

    Truly, the future is filled with rednecks.

    AWESOME rednecks.

  15. You’d think that creatures who lived in an environment so rough they had to evolve buzz-saw blades to survive would be a little less…phlegmatic. They just sort of stand around and let these guys run up and grab them.

    (That one Gooba has laid hold of has exactly the same look my dog gets when I’m trying to brush her. “Hey…whatcha doin’ back there?”)

  16. Oh, my goodness.

    Screw “Where the hell is my flying car and jet pack?”, my question is, “If I’m living in the future, where the hell is my dinosaur with evolutionary buzz-saw blades?”

  17. I think they finally figured out how to get more people to watch the Olympics in the 31st Century. Synchronized Dinosaur-Throwing pushed it a bit too far, though.

    BTW, I was being a Great Big Nerd and flipping through a Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition preview at Borders, and noticed one “Chris Sims” on the writing staff. However, the few bits I read had a distinct lack of material designed to make me freak out. Stunning coincidence, or your latest paying gig?

  18. Nope, different guy. Although if WOTC wants to pay someone to stat out Dinosaurs With Deadly Evolutionary Buzz-Saw Blades for the 4th Edition Fiend Folio… well, the contact email’s in the sidebar.

  19. Huh, I must have missed the species of badly drawn horse/pig/armadillo species of dinasour in biology class….

  20. They’re like dinosaur cows with buzz saw beanies.

    And that’s all the proof in evolution I’ll ever need.

  21. “Gooba Wins! Hooray for Gooba!” is a LOLcat caption before LOLcat captions even existed!

  22. This could only have been funnier if either a) the next event was the 400m Dash Away From The Stampeding Buzzsaw Dinosaurs, or b) volleyball.

  23. I’m curious as to how these buzz-saws evolved. Axle-like structures are infamously rare in nature, more or less only occurring in the bacterial flagellum.

  24. Between the art and the crazy my immediate reaction was that this must have been done by Fletcher Hanks.

  25. That is too much crazy for one comic panel. And followed up by “Gooba Wins. Hooray for Gooba.” ? That is just…wow.