Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities You know what there's not enough of in comic books?

String cheese.

Asset-backed commercial paper.

Insurance Linked Securities (CAT Bonds)

Eva-Tone [tm] Sound Sheets.

(Who can forget the heyday of Alan Moore's Sinister Ducks appearing in that Fantagraphics book which I forgot the name of ?)

Those were SO cool. I once found a Neal Adams werewolf story comic book with one of those in it.
I never played it (of course), that was the heyday of vinyl and NO WAY was I going to screw up my sound system with a weird little piece of plastic.

DC COMICS PRESENTS the Mega-crossover event of 2009:

FINANCIAL CRISIS

A man known as "The Monetizer":

helps people achieve their dreams by securing finance for them. Only later do we find out that he purposely failed to do his due dilligence and he's really a villain "The ANTI-MONETIZER" trying to destroy the heroes.

Superman? Bankrupted when he defaults on Superman Series A: Lifetime Earnings Bonds, because Clark Kent was laid off when the newspaper publishing industry dies.

The Hall of Justice, paid for by auction rate tax-free municipal bonds now reset to LIBOR + 13%, is repossessed and Justice League evicted.

JSA: Went bust when their underfunded pension plans went belly up.

Titans: Stranded off planet with Adam Strange when Dick and Tim's lines of credit are called because the value of the Wayne Corp stock collateralizing their lines falls causing their starship pilot to withhold services.

In the Future: Legionnaires quit being heroes after becoming obsessed with materialism and spending every moment of their lives working to pay credit card debts they run up buying the latest gadget.

Lightweight.

A real fanboy would be more horrified at the thought of ruining the comic's mint status by removing the sound sheet. Thank You.

Oh, and now I remember. The old Fantagraphics comic with the soundsheet was Critters. Which leads me to say that the word "critter" is most assuredly not used often enough in comics. Waid/Kitson missed an awesome opportunity in that arena when they turned Cham into an androgyne but failed to use "Critter" as a suffix in lieu of "Boy."

Oh, well. We can look back now and laugh, can't we ?

guest-appearances by Mallard Fillmore

Elves with machine guns randomly appearing

All girl rock and roll bands.

economic stimulus

standup comedy

..but yeah Chameleon Critter has a real ring to it.

Cannibalistic Elvis

The Legion of Super-Heroes

that, and :

Good stories

thinly veiled homoerotica

Reunion tours.

The Arrows and a couple of Green Lanterns need to buy an old pickup and hit the road for a "Hard Travelling Heroes" sequel.

edit: Make that an extended cab pickup or an old SUV.

Jimmy Olsen in drag

*sigh*, I miss the Silver Age, too!

Hippopotamuses (Hippopotami?)

Husband-hunting girl reporters.

Girls in your Sociology 101 course who happen to be mermaids

Husband-haunting ghost reporters.

Flocked wallpaper.

Those little song-generators like you find in some greeting cards.