And here I thought the Knights of Wundagore were creepy. Sports mascots freak me out. The Toledo Free Press spotlights Triple-A Baseball Heroes, a comic produced by Triple-A Baseball and Marvel Entertainment to be given away at select Triple-A games. (How many times can I use “Triple-A” in one sentence?)
In the comic, written by Chris Eliopoulos and illustrated by Robert Adkins, Rick Ketchum and Drew Geraci, the Fantastic Four (with Franklin and Valeria) and Peter Parker (with Aunt May) go for a relaxing day at the ballpark where Tony Stark is throwing the first pitch, and Bruce Banner is working the concession stand. But then Sandman attacks.
You can see John Watson’s three alternate covers — all featuring more unnverving animal-human hybrids — at the link.
August 24th, 2007 at 10:28 am
What I really want to know is if this is the drunk Tony Stark or the dick Tony Stark?
And why would a multi-billionaire like Stark be throwing the first pitch at a Triple-A game? Ant-Man I can see but Stark is a bit out of their league (pun intended only if you thought this joke was funny).
And will Howard the Duck make a cameo appearance? Given that he’s an anthropomorphic hero as well you’d think this would be the perfect follow-up to his Civil War story.
August 24th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Somewhere, a furry is getting his rocks off to the animal mascots on the cover.
August 24th, 2007 at 11:30 am
HA! I had forgotten about the furries! Man there’s going to be some heated bidding on ebay for these now!
August 24th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
If you think all those are creepy, you should see the Toledo Mud Hens’ new rubber mascots… (Speaking of, they’ve won the AAA championship for the past two years, why is their mascot stuck in the back of the group next to a nearly identical one? What’s so special about the pirate seal or weird cat thing? And do I sound like an angry jock or what?)
August 24th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Is that a seal dressed a pirate? I’m going into toxic culture shock over here… I too want to see Howard the Duck here.
August 24th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
The red bird to the right of Storm is the Rochester Red Wing’s mascot Spikes. We have a video of him running through the city streets that makes him look as crazy as he is here. He (no kidding) just got engaged to our other mascot, Mitsy, sadly not pictured here. I work for the team and couldn’t even get a copy of this comic. Time to check eBay!
August 24th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
That “nearly identical” mascot is Mudonna, isn’t it? The Mighty Mud Hens are too awesome for only one mascot! And they’re ten games ahead of Indianapolis in their division!
August 24th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
I just wanted to know why they’re all chasing Iron Man down. It looks like he ran off with the money from the concession stand or something…
August 28th, 2007 at 10:12 am
I’m sorry, super-genius, rocket-scientist Bruce Banner is working where?