On my spinner rack, I have a couple issues of his original 1992 series and his 2017; but I haven't made a lot of progress completing either. Ghost Rider appears on the cover of 1993's
#4, which might be tougher to find; and the 2017 is probably like his Mercs for Money teammate
Solo, in that the latter issues of this one are going to be more scarce. Still, this one's here now, so...from 2017,
Slapstick #2, "Saturday Morning Massacre!" Written by Reilly Brown and Fred Van Lente, storyboards by Reilly Brown, art by Diego Olortegui.
I think I've seen him guest a few times--like maybe a really bad
Marvel Comics Presents serial--and then with the Mercs for Money, but this might be the first
Slapstick I've read? Huh. Short origin, he entered a portal to another dimension, while dressed as a clown? Now he's made of "electroplasm" and is basically an indestructible cartoon character. Still, he'd like to be human again, and has started working with the computer Quasimodo; who also had body issues. This issue, Slapstick gets dragged to a football with his niece, nephew, and best friend; which is interrupted by the arrival of Bro-Man! Slappy doesn't exactly leap into action, since he learned to hold out for a cash offer from Deadpool; and the cartoon barbarian hacks the cops up, since he appeared to be indestructible like Slapstick.
The fight doesn't go great for Slapstick, when he finally gets in there, and there's also a Spider-Man pinned-by-something-heavy riff. Eventually, he halves Bro-Man, and takes half the body back to Quasimodo; but the remaining half manages to get a message to S.H.I--no, a division of that, A.R.M.O.R. Who follow him home, to his parents' basement, and Slapstick and Quasimodo are taken into custody. Slapstick puts up a brave front, then caves hard; and the government probably would throw the book at him for trying to open a portal to another dimension. Except, another threat has appeared in Westfield, the Smurf/My Little Pony hybrid Taurs. Will A.R.M.O.R. be forced to work with Slapstick? You can tell, they really don't want to, but...
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