Monday, March 6, 2017

Brave and the Bold #60(part 2)

And now, for the blog post you have all been waiting for, the second part of the Separated Man caper! I'm still a bit stunned about that first part... It's easily one of the weirdest things I've ever read... I mean, it's just random, giant body parts attacking a town! Like, who comes up with something like that!? What sort of drugs would you need in order to dream something like that up?! So yeah, the Teen Titans were about to get crushed by a pair of giant feet. Let's find out what happens next!

Brave and the Bold #60(July 1965):

Summary: Wonder Girl springs into action and lassos the giant feet and tosses them away. However, teen mayor for the day, Tommy Holmes, notices his father, Prof. Holmes, hanging off of one of the giant feet holding, yep, you guessed it, a giant needle. Wait a minute, I doubt anybody would have guessed he was holding a giant needle...
What am I even reading?!?

Anyway, Robin takes a bunch of the town's teens, on scooters, to lasso a giant hand that was menacing the town's adults. The kids tie the giant hand to a rock, which is definitely one of the weirdest lines I've written since... Um, what day did I do that last post? From there, a giant eye flies over to the townspeople and starts to cry flaming tears! And Prof. Holmes thought this could somehow benefit society?!?!?!? Kid Flash dashes on the scene and starts to run a massive circle around the flaming tears, cooling them and turning them to stone... Why didn't they just blow out like you'd expect fire to do...
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Kid Flash then sees Prof. Holmes watching the scene play out with his giant needle, darts over, picks up the Prof. and rushes him to young Tommy. Prof. Holmes tells Tommy that it was his former cellmate who was now the Separated Man, and that his cellmate had stolen the small vial of Separated Man serum(CONTRABAND!!!) that the Prof. had smuggled into prison. His former cellmate was now tearing the town apart in an attempt to locate the Prof's lab in order to get more serum. Oh, and the giant needle contains anti-serum, in case that wasn't clear. A giant ear eavesdrops on that conversation... Yes, a giant ear, is literally hiding behind a mountain eavesdropping, and is forced to fly away when all of the town's teens begin to blare rock music at it from transistor radios... This is something that actually happened!!
Turn that racket down!!

Wonder Girl decides to chase after the giant ear to... I'm not even sure at this point... But she chases after it and is spied by a giant eye, which sends a giant mouth after her. The giant mouth tries to blow her out of the air, which ends the second part of this story...


Thoughts: Well. That happened. To be honest, I kind of just want to leave it at that. First off, can we discuss how exactly the Prof. figured this complete and utter monstrosity would ever benefit society!? I mean, it cries flaming tears! I will dare say that nothing that cries flaming tears will EVER benefit society in ANY way! Like ever! Looking past that though, the Prof. actions in prison... So he gets locked up for turning himself into a giant, separable freak, wrecks the town, and then manages to smuggle the very serum that got him locked up in the first place into the clink with him?! And then, his cellmate steals the serum(because of course he does) and is released from prison, which leads to the Prof. breaking out immediately in order to stop his ex-cellmate's path of destruction? Worst. Prison. Ever! And of course, the cliffhanger has Wonder Girl, the most powerful of the Teen Titans, being blown out of the air by a giant mouth... If she can't save herself from that, she deserves to be killed! By a giant mouth...

3 comments:

  1. How in the hell... does cooling off flaming tears turn them into stone?! I gotta say, I loved that first review but this way may nudge it out just because of how much more weird this one got, and I honestly didn't think that was possible. Yet they proved me wrong by starting off with Holmes having a needle that's half the size of his entire body...

    What in the hell foes "Have feet, will travel" mean? Is Wally on the wacky tobacky? Also, CONTRABAND! made me laugh so hard. Dude snuck a Seperated man serum into prison in his ass? That's some risky shit. Badum tsh... okay, I quit.

    A giant ear was eavesdropping. Yes... okay. And where does Robin get off calling the other kids "kids". Who is he, Batman? And I love that the cliffhanger is literally a mouth blowing Wonder Girl down. That's SO anticlimactic. At least have her seemingly smashed by the giant hand!

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    1. I'm so sad there's only one more part of this disaster... I could literally read about the Separated Man for the rest of my life quite happily...

      If you think the feet line was weird, a few issues later, Dick says, "Have costume, will travel!" That makes even less sense!

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  2. Have costume, Will travel? Was Dick an alien or someone who's first language wasn't English back when this came out?

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