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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/25/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Not a monster per se, but I think Coyote, the trickster god of many Amerindian tales would make an interesting villain. He'd basically be an Amerindian version of the Joker but with a perverse sense of justice. #moviemonsters
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    10/24/09

    In reply to Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Read Comics
    Just because we haven't had it in a while. . .
    #krunkburger #batman
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    10/24/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: Geez, it's been so long nothing is tagged with it anymore. BRING BACK THE KRUNK BURGER! #batman
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/24/09

    In reply to Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Read Comics
    That "Sex and the Desperate Cougar Housewives" sounds a lot like Eastwick, doesn't it? #batman
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    10/24/09

    In reply to Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Read Comics
    I giggled through this entire thing, but Wayne Enterprises Human Resources Department has real merit.

    I'd buy that as a short run series. #batman
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    Image of BoomingEchoes BoomingEchoes
    10/24/09

    @NerD: Blattella:

    Me too..

    Or the similar idea I had reading this about the secretary's and hired help the Justice League obviously needs to make the day to day happenings happen but keeps behind the scenes.

    "Yes.. yes mayor, I understand you want to talk to wonder woman about the guy she through your office.. Yes sir, I understand your city doesn't have superhero insurance.. Sir, I believe your insinuating that since your a man that she committed a hate crime against your office.."

    That'd be gold too. #batman
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    NerD: Blattella promoted this comment BoomingEchoes was starred BoomingEchoes was unstarred
    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    10/25/09

    @BoomingEchoes: It would be interesting to have the opposite of this as well.

    Nathaniel Broderick: Public Relations; Legion of Doom. #batman
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    10/24/09

    In reply to Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Read Comics
    I'd love to see a Wooster and Jeeves style comic book setup. #batman
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    10/24/09

    In reply to Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Read Comics
    The world is not ready for Robin / Arthur slashfic. #batman
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    Image of Taed Taed
    10/24/09

    @AmishJohn: If you mean Alfred, then it already exists; I've written it. And yes, our dear Alfred Pennyworth is man enough for all FOUR Robins.

    If you really did mean Arthur, then Arthur who? #batman
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    AmishJohn promoted this comment Taed was starred Taed was unstarred
    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    10/25/09

    @Taed: The Tick's sidekick. #batman
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    10/24/09

    In reply to Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Read Comics
    *clap*
    *clap*
    *clap*

    Well played. #batman
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    Image of Zyg Zyg
    10/24/09

    In reply to Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Read Comics
    I would rather read a Slam Bradley or Jason Bard comic than Metal Men, which I will never understand why people like them. #batman
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    10/24/09

    In reply to Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Read Comics
    I've got two words that prove this is a bad idea:
    Jimmy Olsen.
    [en.wikipedia.org] #batman
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    Image of coren coren
    10/24/09

    @goldfarb: Oh god.

    But to be fair, there *are* interesting Superman characters to hold their own stories like R&G from Hamlet - it's just not Jimmy Bugfucker Olsen. #batman
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    omgwtflolbbqbye promoted this comment coren was starred coren was unstarred
    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    10/24/09

    @coren: true, but then again Tom Stoppard isn't much for comics... #batman
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Egyptian themed monsters never get old either. #moviemonsters
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    I like the Lich. Lot's of possibility with that one. The bad beasty in My name is Bruce was sort of a Chinese Lich. #moviemonsters
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    Image of Molesworth Molesworth
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Dropbears. #moviemonsters
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    Image of golemnist golemnist
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    I want to see golems. Lots and lots of golems. And faeries; the scary, take your children away in the night faeries. Also, Elder Gods. #moviemonsters
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    10/22/09

    @golemnist: I'd be down with faeries in the Celtic sense. Scary, good looking, some evil some good. This sounds like a perfect match. #moviemonsters
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    Image of mipakr mipakr
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Always hoped Gargoyles (Disney's Animated) would make it to the big screen. #moviemonsters
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    Image of TheGreenRanger TheGreenRanger
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Not that eager to see demon raping and genitalia... But! I am eager to see the Jackalope! The most fearsome...well, sort of fearsome, some people fear bunnies, anyway, the most fearsome creature to ever roam the north american wilderness! GASP! OHHHH! AHHHH! #moviemonsters
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/22/09

    @TheGreenRanger: For a really monstrous critter from the tales of the American Frontier the Hodag is a great candidate. It was a voracious predator with a tiny mouth and no teeth. to hunt it spun around like a tornado with razor-sharp claws slamming into a moose or wagon train or whatever. ZzZzZzZinnng!Then the Hodag would slurp up its pureed prey.

    I always suspected that Robert McKimson might have been inspired by those old stories when he created the Tasmanian Devil cartoon character. #moviemonsters
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/22/09

    @Grey_Area: Dangnabit!! I've been tring to find a citation for this critter. What I'm thinking of may not be the Hodag. I recall in my distant youth a book of my grandfather's that had all these great stories from the North Woods with Fearsome critters and other oddities like the Hodag, theSquonk, the Axehandle hound, Hidebehind, Splintercat and suchlike.

    It might have been this book: fearsomecreaturesofthelumberwoods...    .com/">[www.fearsomecreaturesofthelumberwoods....com] Highly recommended for folklore fans and monster lovers of all types.

    And indeed on pg 33 is THE WHIRLING WHIMPUS! Just the monster I was thinking of.
    I wuv my interwebs!!
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    Edited by Grey_Area at 10/22/09 11:45 AM Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
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