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McG Wildcat

July 11, 2009

Duke has the Blue Devil. The University of Kentucky has this guy. For my favorite college team, the Arkansas Razorbacks, we get a stupid-ass Marvel character who’s a goddamned truck driver and wears a giant pig on his head. No lie. Hogs haven’t looked so undignified since they were mired in a custody battle between [...]

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McG Golden Age Starman

July 11, 2009

The Golden Age Starman is just a gorgeous catastrophe of a superhero design if there ever were one. First off, for his suit, he chooses to cover every single part of his body…EXCEPT HIS FACE. Good choice there, bonehead. Then he pulls an LL and makes his hat like a shark’s fin. And I have [...]

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McG Solomon Grundy

July 11, 2009

Solomon Grundy, grab you by your undies! That was Solomon Grundy’s battle cry when visiting Miami Beach for Spring Break ‘98.
1898, that is. See, according to the comics, Solomon is a murdered gangster who was dumped in a swamp. But not just any swamp. A magic swamp. But in comics, is there any other kind? [...]

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McG Golden Age Sandman

July 11, 2009

Wesley Dodds would corral crooks by using his gas-gun, a big honkin’ revolver looking thing that emitted a mist that would knock out the bad guys. Few people realize that the gas gun wasn’t Wesley’s first attempt at lulling his crooks to sleep. The first iteration of his crime-busting gear involved Chips Ahoy and a [...]

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McG Golden Age Green Lantern

July 10, 2009

Ballsy to call oneself “Green” anything when you have equal parts lime, purple, red, and a splash of brown as competing colors in your costume palette. The golden age Green Lantern looks kinda like a second grader colored his costume with judicidous use of the flood fill feature in Kid Paint.
The costume screams “Golden Age,” [...]

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