This one took me a bit longer than I'd expected, partly because I shot it out of sequence; but mostly because I had a lead pipe in mind for "Crackman." One with the traditional bend at the end, straight out of the cartoons. I thought I knew exactly where I had one, in my case full of swords and whatnot; but didn't find it. Now I'm not even sure I actually have one, or if it was only in my head...
"Crackman" is a joke dating back years, since a college friend and I had the notion of "Crackman and Syringe, the Disposable Sidekick." Every issue, Syringe would be a different sidekick: one issue, he's a preteen boy, the next month a six-foot-two Grace Jones type, then a 67-year-old Italian man..."Stay off the pipe!" would be his catchphrase, and those were about all the jokes we had for that.
I think there actually was a storyline, where someone maybe was mixing the Scarecrow's fear toxin and Bane's Venom. A Judd Winick issue, possibly? "Scarebeast" ringing any bells? I might even have those issues, but I'm not going out of my way to look that up right now.
Best Batman book that I've read in weeks!
ReplyDeleteI laughed much harder at 'Stay off the pipe, fools!' than I thought I would.
ReplyDeleteLove it, LOVE THIS!
ReplyDelete"Crackman", ha! and yeah, you can't have a new and improved batch of joker juice without PCP and Windex. I'd put some bath salts, baking soda, and some of that Honey Boo Boo Child "Go-Go Juice" in it just for the hell of it. It might've worked better. But nicer skit, and great use of that new Planet X Batman. I have so much to make up now....