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What’s The Hot New Trend In Superhero Events?

August 12th, 2011
Author Graeme McMillan

PUNCTURED TORSO!

PUNCTURED TORSO!

PUNCTURED TORSO!

Trust me, if you’re not being punctured clean through your torso by a mystical staff, Asgardian hammer or some similar McGuffin this summer, you might as well just give up. Usually, such holes are deadly – especially considering the hole is replacing where your heart is – but if you’re lucky, and happen to be the uncle of a boy with magical make-everything-better powers that now that you’ve mentioned them should really be used to end this whole story because otherwise that’s just lazy plotting right there, then you’ll find that it’s merely a setback that can be easily shrugged away. Punctured torsos, ladies and gentlemen: They’re to summer 2011 what zombie superheroes were to summer 2009.

3 Responses to “What’s The Hot New Trend In Superhero Events?”
  1. Adam Lipkin Says:

    It’s not new; it’s retro! Go read any part of Miller’s Elektra Saga for dozens of shots of sais entering torsos.

  2. Simon DelMonte Says:

    You missed the fakeout in Red Robin last month.

  3. justsaying Says:

    Punctured and energy singed is the new take on the retro classic

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