Which of the following panels from Bob Haney and Jim Aparo’s classic Batman/Kamandi team-up in The Brave and the Bold #120 is the craziest damn thing you have ever read?
B:
Or C:
Please show your work.
You have just witnessed Batman karate chopping a talking gorilla hard enough to kill a normal man, which, coincidentally, is also hard enough to create a pink explosion at the point of impact. On a scale of one to freaking out, how awesome is this?
On their own, each one is a contender.
However, since they all are in the same story I have to answer D. All of the above.
Wow. My brain is toast.
MELTED toast.
I can’t take this quiz, teacher. I’m gonna go lay down in the nurse’s office for a while.
Well…I…I dunno…
I can’t decide, because, well, I am now freaking out.
I’d say B.
B. While Batman realizing the blindingly obvious is fun, and future cavemen worshipping comic books is cool, future cavemen using Ancient Indian Magic to summon Batman across Time and Space to the cave in George Washington’s Head is BEYOND AMAZING.
Also, I would say freaking out. Would simply be “Hardcore, man” were it not for our hero’s new title of “Captain Bat.”
I can see future cavemen worshipping Batman comic books. I mean, think about it. *We* worship Batman comic books!
Captain Bat, the karate chopping cat?
Sims you are spoiling us with this Haney insanity :)
The “simian haymaker” was one of the mid-level techniques taught by the Aicondo Men!! Amazing coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!
Aparo draws cool ancient-Indian-magic-powder-using hippies…
Is the cave in George Washington’s head the same cave where the President told Buck Rogers he was ending him into space because of an imminent nuclear war on Earth, a nuclear war Buck Rogers was put on trial for starting…five hundred years later?
Extra bonus points: there was a sequel (in Brave & Bold of course) where Kamandi came back in time and ended up hypnotized into fighting Batman – until the Caped Crusader used their past experience to break the spell.
He’s the G**DAMN CAPTAIN BAT!
~P~
P-TOR
Captain Bat and the Simian Haymakers.
BEST BAND NAME EVER.
B. Gotta go with Merlin and his pink bag of Time Travel Herbs.
I would say A, as it is obvious that it was the inspiration for BKV’s Y — The Last Man.
Well, Captain Bat will get you high tonight… And take you to that special island. Yeah Captain Bat will get you by tonight…. Just a little push and you’ll be smilin’.
I feel a ditty coming…
Captain Bat, Captain Bat
karate-chopping simians, rat-a-tat!
Traveling in time into George Washington’s head
your karate-chopping hands could leave a human dead!
I vote B. Christopher Lee really HAS been in everything.
Wait, you have that issue of Brave and the Bolde? Then all you need are some ancient Indian magic powders and you can summon the Haney/Aparo Batman across time to lead you to…well, wherever you need leading. I guess he could be like your life coach or whatever.
It’s totally B. Because that’s the one that opens up with: “I can explain that!” Dude, no. No, you can’t. Not really.
They read that comic book? Now they know Batman is Bruce Wayne!
C. Especially because Kamandi’s grandfather was OMAC. And because the idea that Buddy Blank collected comic books in his spare time is cool. And Buddy Blank was seen with his grandson (who just so happens to have blonde hair) in the latest issue of Countdown, instantly making it the greatest countdown issue ever (which you, Chris, obviously won’t say is much…).
Now I know who I want to replace Captain America.
Imagine a Brubaker-penned Captain Bat.
Captain Bat will punch you so hard that your neck explodes if you fail to give the correct answer.
BEST BAND NAME EVER.
Agreed!
Then all you need are some ancient Indian magic powders and you can summon the Haney/Aparo Batman across time to lead you to…well, wherever you need leading.
The ’08 Presidential Campaign is about to heat up… big time.
Captain Bat will punch you so hard that your neck explodes if you fail to give the correct answer.
No worse than the bigass orange explosion that Machine Man inflicted on that annoying fleshy cop.
Imagine what flesh-based explosions a Captain Bat/Machine Man character from Amalgam Universe could cause!
Kamandi comics always left me feeling kinda freaked out. But the hardass Batman in a Kamandi comic? Using man killing chops on an ape? That’s a full fledged freakout baby!
Man, the seventies were so lucky. THEY got Haney/Aparo crazawesome. We’re stuck with Miller/Lee.
Hmm. Why does Kamandi trust a guy he saw in his grandfather’s souvenirs? Grandpa wasn’t smart enough to get that book slabbed, so it’s worthless. Unless…in Kamandi’s time…there is no CGC. Oh. My. God.
I can’t believe nobody mentioned the coolest part: He beats up a talking gorilla **dressed like Volstagg.**
B and i don’t think that even needs an explanation its just fucking nuts
and i give the extra credit and a freakin out cuz of the pretty pink explosion bat captain is cool and all but its all about the pink explosion
The Bat Machine.
That’s the Captain Bat/Machine Man amalgam, and obviously the greatest creation ever.
Aparo exploding punch for the win!
So was Kamandi the Last Boy Wonder On Earth or something??
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