Defective Yeti pays tribute to Captain America’s long and apparently controversial career. Some sample milestones:
1945-1960: Frozen in block of ice
1963: Assembled team of metahumans to fight threats too large for any single superhero to handle alone.
1964: Changed name of superhero team from “Jethro Tull” to “The Avengers” after trademark dispute.
1967: Deterred Galactus by telling him about delicious planet called Krypton.
(Thanks, Chris!)
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:43 am
That was stupid.
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:45 am
Yes, that was very stupid. Not even, a “heh.” Just nothing.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Not even this one?
1981: Ended Iranian Hostage Crisis and secured the release of 52 Americans with the help of delicious Hostess fruit pies.
Actually, do younger comic fans even know what that’s referring to? If not, I’m going to feel really old …
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Don’t know if younger fans know or not but I was readin’ comics when the fruit pie ads were goin’ on.
That was almost funny but the shear dumbness of the rest totally blocked the humor from that one out.
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Yeah, I know what Hostess fruit pies are (and I’m very familiar with the ads), but the whole thing seemed to forced… It just wasn’t funny.
Incidentally, I don’t know if they still sell Hostess fruit pies or not anymore, but I returned to my home town over the holidays and walked into the old corner store I used to ride my bike to as a wee lad. They still had the same Hostess fruit pie stand they did many many years ago, and it still had Hostess fruit pies on it. I valued my gastro-intestinal tract, so I didn’t buy one, but now I wish I had, if nothing else to see if the manufacture and expiration dates were printed on them somewhere. Those things will be all an alien civilization finds on this planet 3,000,000 years from now.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Like it was meant to be the pinnacle of comics-related comedic achievement. It got some chuckles outta me so props for that.