Why is it that nobody remembers the name of Johann Gambolputty-de-von-Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crass-cren-bon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelter-wasser-kurstlich-himble-eisen-bahnwagen-guten-abend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwürstel-gespurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-schönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittleraucher-von-Hautkopft of Ulm Herbie Popnecker? Though always a minor hero, the Fat Fury was a rare example of a comedy superhero who was both funny AND effective, even if his father considered him nothing but a waste of skin, calling the boy (to his FACE) “a worthless fat nothing.” Indeed, the very mention of Herbie The Fat Fury has a tendency to invoke actual anger in the comics fans that I know, as though they themselves were influenced by the poor and perfidious parenting of Papa Popnecker. (I also won’t bring up the large part that the character of Clara Oswin Oswald had in the formulation of today’s query.)
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) never expected to amount to nothin’, but now has a dream job; a part-time gig at the SIZZLER, asking: What’s the most disappointing development in your favorite pop culture?
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I think my most disappointing pop culture event was the unmasking of Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi.
The entire New 52.
* Amy and Rory leaving Doctor Who.
* The ham-fisted writing in the Star Wars Prequels, especially Anakin and Padme.
* Farscape being canceled.
Largely one sided political rhetoric in Marvel comics.
“Star Wars: The Clone Wars” declaring that the Fetts aren’t Mandalorian at all, that Jango was just a thug who somehow got the armor.
Marvel Comics.
I started reading comics in the mid-1960s, when Marvel was the fun, innovative, wacky antidote to stodgy old DC. And they stayed that way for decades, through Stan’s Soapbox, and the Bullpen, and Rascally Roy and No Prizes and The Dreaded Deadline Doom and even up through Assistant Editors Month and What If?
Now Marvel is so grim and self-serious and morbid and depressing that I would rather clean my cat box than read a Marvel comic. And what Marvel has become has infected almost all comics.
Thanks, Marvel, for helping me kick a forty year comic habit. And by thanks, I mean fuck you. Right in the ear.
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