Monday, May 19, 2025

I was expecting WAY more jokes about Superman's mullet, but that's low-hanging fruit.

We saw them take on Marvel last year, but today they try the proverbial other side of the street! From 1996, Sergio Aragonés Destroys DC #1, written by Mark Evanier, pencils by Sergio Aragonés, inks by John Dell, Denis Rodier, Scott Hanna, John Byrne, Ron Boyd, Jerry Ordway, Joe Rubinstein, and Sergio Aragonés.
Not unlike his foray at Marvel, here Sergio decides it's time to become "big-time super-hero drawing person!" but is shut down by their receptionist, who may deserve a raise! Undaunted, he starts his super-hero epic, forcing his long-suffering cohort Mark into providing dialog. Time for another Batman origin retelling! Needs more pearls, although there's a very 90's joke there. Wonder Woman's "glass plane," because Sergio wanted to draw it! Legion try-outs! And more!
I'm 60% sure Ambush Bug used the "villain" here too, but there's a clever way of getting rid of them, that makes use of DC's usual "two pages of ads...they always put them where they interrupt the most suspenseful part of the story!"
I may have to check my shelves, since I think I have a collection with Sergio Aragonés Stomps Star Wars. And Sergio Aragonés' Blair Which? was great!
Posted by googum at 5:00 AM
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5 comments:

Mr. Morbid said...

Man kudos to DC for allowing this to see print because all the joke-framed criticisms of DC (some of which STILL remain valid to this very day) were all spot on and landed well enough to warrant a sequel, especially a modern one now.

7:37 AM
H said...

What’s funny is that Mark and Sergio worked for DC regularly in the 70’s and 80’s (separately though). They had continuing series and co-created characters and Mark was even one of Jack Kirby’s assistants. They both seem to have more of an affection for the characters than they did in the Marvel one.

The ‘villain’ is actually one of Ambush Bug’s more frequently recurring characters, although he’s a she in those comics (or at least a female version of the character). I think Harley Quinn even had the female version show up for a few issues in one of her recent series or miniseries.

4:37 PM
H said...

Oh, and I’d be into you doing the Star Wars one if you have it- I don’t know anything about the Blair Witch one though.

4:39 PM
googum said...

I have to look on my shelves (which, as always, are a mess) but I think it's in one of the "Wild Space" trades, sort of a hodgepodge of Star Wars stuff that wouldn't fit anywhere else, like cereal box or giveaway books, one-shots. Maybe that Tag & Bink stuff?

5:42 AM
H said...

That sounds right- those omnibuses were pretty comprehensive. I think I’ve got the Droids and Ewoks one somewhere, or it might be the Marvel reprint- I forget when I got it.

4:45 PM

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