This briefing was necessary to set up what is going to happen in a few weeks, but I thought a few cameos would help. So...name-dropping time.
Of course, the "young superdude" is Superdan of BAD GUY HIGH, and used with the kind permission of his creator, the Red Death. BGH is one of the most well-drawn, most funny, and most popular strips Drunk Duck has, and an excellent superhero parody. Originally I had scripted "generic superhero type" in that spot...but how much better to use Superdan, whose origin is having been bitten by a radioactive Superman? Considering the type of adventures Superdan gets in, it isn't that far-fetched to see him at the Armory, in an untold adventure.
Similarly, the "rubber mallet", powerful enough to destroy at least one universe's "Satan", is from the excellent fantasy THE GODS OF ARR-KELAAN and is the favored weapon of the main character, Ronson, the "god" of apathy and alcohol. We were grateful for permission to use objects or people from that strip by Chuck Rowles, the creator of the strip. How the Keepers got permission to keep it, at least for a little while, is a story yet to be told.
The RDT is the Repository of Dangerous Things, a well-beloved comic strip, and S.M.O.G. is from The KAMics.
Whether the Cosmic Cataclysm Crystal has anything to do with the Cosmic Cataclysm mentioned here in SUPER STUPOR is still a matter of speculation. No "crystal" was ever mentioned in SUPER STUPOR. Only Randy Milholland, who created SUPER STUPOR (as well as the excellent SOMETHING POSITIVE) knows for sure, and I haven't yet been able to get permission from him to make a concrete link. So...for now...we'll just call it coincidence.
Maybe.
Will ANT keep yawning? Will Dasien stay in her bunny rabbit pajamas? Stay tuned. |
