Rise of the Planet of the Capes!

Bubbles · **Joined:** 28 Jul 2005 **Posts:** 21507

I want to read that. It seems fascinating. Why are they all wearing capes? I must know!

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

I, too, crave the answers to the questions posed by that cover.

Why does Batman have a beard and dress like a farmhand? Why is Jimmy being sold as a slave? Why does that guy at the back have a pith helmet?

These questions will haunt me until I read it.

RobertSwanderson · 01 Jan 2007

If I show up at Comic Con dressed as the fat bearded Batman...

What's the over-under on the amount of high fives I would get?

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

I think you'd have a sore high-five hand.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

I'd go dressed as the guy in the pith helmet and purple pants, just to confuse the hell out of everyone.

Bubbles · **Joined:** 28 Jul 2005 **Posts:** 21507

I think the next Baltmore Con a bunch of WANkers should do Planet of the Capes cos-play.

I think I want to be the guy in the brown suit with the yellow cape and cigar.

RobertSwanderson · 01 Jan 2007

Bubbles wrote:

I think the next Baltmore Con a bunch of WANkers should do Planet of the Capes cos-play.

I think I want to be the guy in the brown suit with the yellow cape and cigar.

You really don't know who Perry White is?

Bubbles · **Joined:** 28 Jul 2005 **Posts:** 21507

I do, but did not recognize that as Perry White.

I'm tired.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

http://www.comics.org/issue/22481/#159312

I will read this comic; mark my words.

http://www.the-isb.com/?p=2105

RobertSwanderson · 01 Jan 2007

I would've loved to have listened in on the phone call when Weisinger called Binder and told him he needed a story to go with the title, "Planet of the Capes".

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

RobertSwanderson wrote:

I would've loved to have listened in on the phone call when Weisinger called Binder and told him he needed a story to go with the title, "Planet of the Capes".

The Crank File makes it sound like a wild ride. :lol:

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

It's disturbing that Jimmy Olsen with a cape wants to buy his double as a slave.

If it were Wonder Woman doing the same, of course, I wouldn't even bat an eyelid.

Rafael · 03 Dec 2006

Simon wrote:

RobertSwanderson wrote:

I would've loved to have listened in on the phone call when Weisinger called Binder and told him he needed a story to go with the title, "Planet of the Capes".

The Crank File makes it sound like a wild ride. :lol:

The surprise villain was a surprise!

Something precious is lost in a world without new Jimmy Olsen comics.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

Yes. There's nothing comparable to them any longer.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

Gotta love that Olsen. :thumbsup:

Bubbles · **Joined:** 28 Jul 2005 **Posts:** 21507

What strange adventures he got into.

Bubbles · **Joined:** 28 Jul 2005 **Posts:** 21507

Actually, I think I want to go with paunchy Batman with a beard if we ever get a Planet of the Capes cosplay off the ground.

Rafael · 03 Dec 2006

Bubbles wrote:

What strange adventures he got into.

The best ones are when he gets married to a gorilla and the one where Supes adopted him and then gets really mean to him.

In fact, Supes really is kind of a dick with him often.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

The robot viking girlfriend one is pretty mental, as well. In fact, the stories without Superman in them are usually more insane than the ones with Superman in them.

Rise of the Planet of the Capes!

Who is WANline