Quote:Well, cool. I'll go back to giving his intelligence proper credit, then.
Perhaps, but as far as I know Ben Edlund always spelled it correctly... as did the (phenomenally rare) action figure. (And when people shorten his name, all they ever do is leave off the "Die". I think A-Maid may have deliberately mocked him with "Deflator" once though.)
Quote:Witness Mystery Men.
Or in The Diner, that being canon (comic and cartoon) for off-duty conversations...
Quote:I believe it was Valentino, yes, but it's been years since I dug my copy out of the storage boxes. And yes, you remember the plotline correctly -- more or less. It's a parody, obviously, of the opening of Superman, but Norm's dad was a junior CPA, not a scientist, and was grossly mistaken about everything except the capability of the spaceship into which he placed his son. According to the end of the story, his wife shot him for doing this, was acquitted of murder, and became a worldwide celebrity... Meanwhile Norm landed on the planet Levram, which is one single running fight scene, and was befriended by the omnipotent Captain Everything.
Never read it, but I know of it... baby sent from a dying planet to a world where he's the only non-superpowered inhabitant? Jim Valentino, yes?
More than that would spoil the story.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.