Every time you say, "While you're down there...", I think of "Def Jam: Fight For New York" - the greatest fighting game of all time. Yes, really. Fight me.
I love how Sasha just casually mentioned Superman dumped his cousin in an orphanage and immediately she blazed on to the next point in the story. And I'm saying, "wait, Sasha! Tell me more about Clark putting a super powered under aged relative in the hands of strangers."
That's not even the worst of the superdickery in that issue. Superman also decrees that the world should never know that Supergirl exists (so she needs to do all her heroics without being seen) but that she needs to wear a wig to disguise her identity anyways. And Superman decided all of that to protect his own lifestyle. Silver Age Superman is really a jerk.
@@MatthewDaly Not even considering the time he told her she was a failure as Supergirl for revealing herself to his dog (of all people) and condemned her to live alone on an asteroid for an entire year!
@@HandofOmega Right. And, oh yeah, even though you are a sweet young woman who lives in an orphanage, you must ensure that you never get adopted! But all of the things that I mentioned before took place in the single issue of Action 252.
To be fair supes first appearance had him grow up in an orphanage too. Maybe he thought that's just what you do. Don't know when the Kent's entered the picture.
@@JanArrah Not as weird and bad as being his secret weapon means dressing her up like an alien superwoman and making out with her right in front of Lois...No, I ain't letting that go! Funny how times change, tho: Nowadays, no one would blink at taking in his young female cousin, but Bruce Wayne gets WAY more grief for raising Dick than he ever did back then!
In her first appearance she asked if she'd be moving in with him in Metropolis and he said it would put his secret identity at risk. Supposedly, because Clark Kent didn't have relatives at the time, he couldn't introduce her as a cousin. Lana would have known something strange was going on. As for adopting her as Clark Kent, the orphanage probably wouldn't have handed over a teenage girl to a single man.
I was just thinking the same thing. Also the dude was a grown man and Chibi-usa was a small child. So like the weirdness just had to keep piling on there.
The more we learn about Supergirl's tastes, the more I wonder what kind of place Argo City was. Was it like the Kryptonian version of a Hippie Commune that other Kryptonians kinda avoided? It would explain a lot.
Another theory lies in the fact that Zor-El kept all that lead around in sheets that came in handy when the ground turned into Kryptonite, but the psychotic effects of lead on Kryptonians, perhaps unknown to them, include signs of madness and bizarre behavior associated with what we today call Weisinger's Syndrome.
@@toddnolastname4485 Kara was nonexistant, except for an odd tale that contained time swaps to make a super baby. But putty Supergirl was dating Lex Jr till she found it was OG Lex and bounced. Then saving a girl from satanic sacrifice, she get's merged and Linda Lee Danvers became Supergirl. Then she made out with an alien horse lesbian. All in the 90s.
Sometime in the mix she finds out she's also an angel with fire wings of teleportation and starts hanging with a dweeby kid who might be God. So yeah, 90s were crazy lol.
@@toddnolastname4485 This was during Peter David's run. Comet could change from horse, horse man hybrid, to a woman. Good Grief! The 90s are beginning to sound like a weirder silver age.
I love that your Comet sounds like Mister Ed All horses sound like that. Now this was written after Seduction of the Innocent. I believe even with Frederic Wertham would miss any sexual subtext in these stories.
Actually, and I am no expert, I remember the Amazons all rode animals they called "kangas" back in the Marston era. Probably the least weird thing about that run....
Love me some Silver Age creepiness! And your Comet voice is stellar. Interesting Fact: Bronco Bill couldn't actually speak, so they put peanut butter in his mouth to make him move his lips.
Firebrand was probably a homage to the horse Fury, which had a TV show [1955 to 1960 and years of re-runs after that] and comic book, which last issue was in late 1962. "Fury, the horse only an orphan can tame".
The more we talk about him less, the better. But one day I want him to come back so Carol can kick his ass (or perhaps Genis-Vell returns and two of them can do it together.)
It's amazing how times have changed. When I was a kid and read those stories, that relationship seemed perfectly reasonable. Probably because I projected a human psyche onto the horse which appeared to be having human thoughts and urges. But being a child at the time, I never thought about what that would mean if it were an actual relationship and the deception involved. I like that take on it. Now all they need is a writer and artist to put it together with your more modern twist.
Endor...hmm. I guess if you name your planet Zerox, you should expect to be copied. Also, he turns human when a comet is in the Solar System? That’s some Gremlin-level vagueness, there. Inside the orbit of Neptune would have cleared up confusion and tied in with the Poseidon theme.
I remember pausing at both Endor and Zerox, but I was just too focused on making horse puns; but you took it to a whole different level with the “you should expect to be copied” line haha. I’d doff my hat to you, if I was actually wearing one; still, thanks for giving me a chuckle. 😀👍 All the best. 😷👍
You have ruined me forever. Now, I cannot read a comic book without the voices. I love this channel, the comments, and, clearly, the voices. Keep this up.
I'm always so impressed with the research and thought that goes into these videos - but it's the little touches that get me every time! "Stalking...I mean OBSERVING Supergirl", "Always watching... eew'... genius. Thank you!
6:23 - 'Luthor's lair' - there was an issue of the Legion of Super Heroes where the Legion had been outlawed and they were wandering in the sewers and stumbled on one of Luthor's lairs from the 20th Century
Btw The Big Red Cheese in The Captain Marvel Comics was really only used by Dr.Sivana and maybe just once by Mr. Mind when in an introduction in a DC Shazam Comic saying The Big Red Cheese as my Buddy Dr.Sivana calls him.
Question: Why didn't Supergirl question who would rather send a horse from Krypton than themselves, their family, and close friends? (Knowing the horse is not actually from Krypton). Let see, the rocket can carry 11 people or the 2200 lbs horse. I can send my family to safety or the 1 ton horse. I like people, but really love that horse....
Thanks again for another great podcast and the history lesson of Supergirl and well you know who. Just tell me she did not also make out with Beppo the SuperMonkey.
I wish Comet would have drank both potions at the same time and become a reverse centaur with a horse head and human lower half. He didn't so I'll just have to wait on a Supergirl - Bojack Horseman crossover series. A relationship with a stalker might not seem so bad after Bojack. 😅
This reminds me of the more recent Wonder Woman controversy that her invisible plane is the corpse of her shape-changing alien "lover". It's more complicated than that... and less complicated at the same time. And it all starts with an innocent change John Byrne made to the mythos and the invisible plane.
One small request - when you cite comics, you sometimes don't give the full citation - the new DC Universe service not only allows one to watch Harley Quinn TV show and Doom Patrol but also dive into many of the old comics and it is fun to look up the comics about Lois Lane and when Jimmy Olsen wished a super girl friend for Superman.
I dunno, this all seems more like Zeus disguising himself as a horse and coming up with some half ass story to get into an indestructible woman's pants
I grew up during the Silver Age. All the WEIRD stuff in comics didn't seem so weird cause "comics". I love the light of normalcy Sasha shines on these stories. Frankly, silverage craziness is hilarious when you try to fit it into REALITY. I used to roll my eyes and laugh when I read this lunacy and of course I read Marvel and IT'S crazy viewpoint through the 60's and 70's which served to balance it. Anyway thanks Sasha.
Silver Age, Supergirl going all Equus is just fine and dandy. Modern Age, Supergirl with Lena Luthor, Oh Hell No! Queller would rather put her back with the horse.
Remember at that time there was this theory that if you get your daughter into horses, she will be less into boys- you save her “virtue.” Like this era of comics is the era my mom grew up in, she told me all about this. “Get your daughter into horses and she won’t be boy crazy!” And then to have Supergirl not only be boy crazy, but horse crazy is sorta funny.
I find it interesting that the writers of the Silver Age seemed to be enamored with "choke", "gasp", and similar exclamations. Heroes would even think them in their thought balloons. Every intake of breath had to be announced, whether real or imagined. "What happens when Batman becomes... the Bat-SuperMan!" "It's too dangerous for you to fight crime now that you've lost your super-powers, Clark! You'll have to become a civilian! Turn in your costume!!" "Sniff! I-I guess it's for the best! You'll have to take care of Metropolis now that I'm just... an ordinary guy! ...Sob!" "Hello, Lois! Come to see Super-Has-Been off?" "You bet! It's splitsville for us, Superman! Now that you've lost your super-powers, Batman's the super-stud for me! Chuckle!" "Gasp! But Lois!" "And I want to be Batman's pal now, Super--I mean, Regular Man! Look! I'm destroying my Super-Signal Watch and putting on the Bat-Super-Signal Watch, now!" "Gulp! But Jimmy!" "There's no place for you in the future anymore, Sup-- uh, you! We hereby ban you from the Legion of Super-Heroes! Chortle!!" "But Legion of Super-Heroes! Choke! Groan! Sigh! Huff! Hrok!!" Etcetera.
That always threw me as a kid! Since people don't talk like that, and no other writing I read was written like that, I was baffled as to what they were going for! Really made me feel like there was something I wasn't getting...
01:44 the struggle is real, I've made it my goal to collect every pre-Crisis Supergirl appearance, and I frequently screw up Action Comics and Adventure Comics. It does help when it's Supergirl in Adventure Comics with the Adventure Comics being tiny..
This was a great video! So much of this story line flew over my head when I was a little kid and reading it for the first time. (I actually read some of those stories when they first were printed...and yes I’m that old). Seeing this now gives me a whole different perspective. Wow, those stories were really creepy back then. And, I loved your voice for Comet!
Hmm, well...that's an issue worth debating. Were comics *really* creepy back then, or have cultural values simply changed over time? There WERE adults reading these back then, and they don't seem to have seen anything wrong with these stories (at least not the same way)...It's always iffy, reading modern mores into older stories!
Circe's rationale for the origin of Comet's powers looks a lot like a hint of Captain Marvel. Not much of a surprise, probably, since apparently it is an Otto Binder story.
4:23 - "If only I were a human being I could declare my love for her!" Okay, centaurs in ancient Greece had NO compunctions about "declaring their love" to human women...
To think that I read all these when I was just barely old enough to read. Hah. Twisting little children's minds like that. Thanks for the insightful psychoanalysis Sasha.
Clearly, Comet had some boundry issues! At least this story wasn't told with Streaky the Super-Cat. I maintain he wasn't named so just for being fast(make of that what you will). As for bizarre, around the same time Wonder Woman was dating a Mer-Man and a Bird-man, cuz those Amazons are competitive!
Ah, the Comics Code era. Protecting the vulnerable from morally ambiguous stories. But how are they going to keep them in Paris once they see what goes down on the farm? :) Also, I imagine some of Lex Luthor's anger comes from always getting his clothing stolen.
the "oh Bill, if only you ~knew~ the terrible truth about me" and Comet doing that also reminds me of why I initially couldn't get into comics (in the sense of reading a series right from issue 1) because oh my God there had to be a million variations of those same lines every other issue in things like Amazing Spider-Man. I understand why they were written like that but I did not (probably still don't) have the patience for that crap. I actually recall just skipping entire pages of the first 100 issues of ASM because every time I would read some variation of "oh no, I can't tell them I'm Spider-Man" I would just roll my eyes and be like "for fucks sake Peter quit, shit or get off the pot". I actually appreciate that in modern adaptations a lot of that is just dropped, such as Peter just going for it and outing himself to Gwen in ASM1, or Lois being in the presence of Clark discovering that he is Kryptonian and subsequently doing her journalist thing and figuring out he is Clark Kent
I saw the graphic for this video and knew it was going into the really uncomfortable area of Supergirl. Lets see how cringy it gets. My young mind (back in the day, late 1960's, I was obsessive about origin stories, then I wasn't... I guess I know why now) blocked all of the psychic stalking and manipulation plot, it was bad enough that she was a bit too fond of Comet. Typical of the DC comics of the time, rash decisions to drive sales by what they though a specific demographic without thinking about the implied issues. Then we get into the post-Crisis and the mess with Angels everywhere.
I'd love to see a list of characters who were actively hurt by the hero in the name of preserving their secret identity. Lois, obviously... But Jean Loring was only practicing law to prove that she could before she quit completely to settle down (what?), So Ray Palmer would actively help her as the Atom, just to get her to hurry up, quit, and marry him? I'm sure there are a ton of similar relationships, and that seems right up your alley.
I don't give a darn about this subject matter. I'm here for your fantastic story telling/commentary and your tallent in voices. Well done & Keep it up.
Thank you for using the Mr. Ed voice for Comet while narrating this Silver age madness. Also this video title is more honest than Comet was the entire story.
Check Out Comet Dating Lois Lane lol Yes this was a thing that happened
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Clearly Kara has been spending too much time with Lois Lane, that’s what I’ve learned from this story!
Ugh. My word, that horse gets around!
"Nothing is right, it's all gone wrong." LOL
Every time you say, "While you're down there...", I think of "Def Jam: Fight For New York" - the greatest fighting game of all time.
Yes, really. Fight me.
Supergirl's face after dreaming about this horse makes me more uncomfortable than her actually dating a horse.
What about that picture on the first page where she riding Comet. I half expected to see an O face.
It looks like she's aroused lol
" Some vandals ran off with the Super girl cape!!!".
That " Mr. Ed" voice. 😂
Is it fair to say their friendship is magic?
......... *sigh* Deadpool can see you
That joke is either great or cringy. Or both.
Someone always has to be...horsing around.
@@kyleketron6418 Either way it's entertaining which is the....mane thing.
@Dreams_in_ Clay A horse is a horse of course, unless the horse is Super Horse.
Came for the centaurs, stayed for Sasha's horse voice.
This comment stopped me and compelled me to watch
you mean her "Mister Ed" impersonation?
There was too much horsing around in the Silver Age.
When they weren't going ape!
That's tooooo much, man...
What is this, a crossover episode?!!!
I love how Sasha just casually mentioned Superman dumped his cousin in an orphanage and immediately she blazed on to the next point in the story.
And I'm saying, "wait, Sasha! Tell me more about Clark putting a super powered under aged relative in the hands of strangers."
That's not even the worst of the superdickery in that issue. Superman also decrees that the world should never know that Supergirl exists (so she needs to do all her heroics without being seen) but that she needs to wear a wig to disguise her identity anyways. And Superman decided all of that to protect his own lifestyle. Silver Age Superman is really a jerk.
@@MatthewDaly Not even considering the time he told her she was a failure as Supergirl for revealing herself to his dog (of all people) and condemned her to live alone on an asteroid for an entire year!
@@HandofOmega Right. And, oh yeah, even though you are a sweet young woman who lives in an orphanage, you must ensure that you never get adopted! But all of the things that I mentioned before took place in the single issue of Action 252.
To be fair supes first appearance had him grow up in an orphanage too. Maybe he thought that's just what you do. Don't know when the Kent's entered the picture.
@@HandofOmega Wait... what?!
Ah yes. Will she/won't she with a horse? Tale as old as time.
And was Bronco Bill hung like...
No just no that would be wrong on so many levels!
Will Supergirl date a horse? Yay or neigh?
King Minos: "Same thing happened with my wife. Only in her case it was a bull."
I knew Sasha wouldn't rein in the bizarre super-family relationships, I hope she will continue to stirrup more bizarre plots.
I'm sorry
Kingdom Come Superman, I am sure you didn't want to gallop into puns but it was simply too late to lock the barn door after the horse was gone. 🙂
Im honestly more surprised that with the bab puns, yours was first out of the gate. Sorry, that must be trough.
I like how a horse has an origin story.
Also... Kara just makes out with anyone who gives her positive attention, does she?
“Supergirl dated her pet horse”
I am not one to judge, out loud
"Superman dumped her in an orphanage!" Was there ever an in-canon explanation as to why he didn't just adopt her or take her as his ward or whatever?
@@JanArrah Not as weird and bad as being his secret weapon means dressing her up like an alien superwoman and making out with her right in front of Lois...No, I ain't letting that go!
Funny how times change, tho: Nowadays, no one would blink at taking in his young female cousin, but Bruce Wayne gets WAY more grief for raising Dick than he ever did back then!
In her first appearance she asked if she'd be moving in with him in Metropolis and he said it would put his secret identity at risk. Supposedly, because Clark Kent didn't have relatives at the time, he couldn't introduce her as a cousin. Lana would have known something strange was going on. As for adopting her as Clark Kent, the orphanage probably wouldn't have handed over a teenage girl to a single man.
I mean he could have given her to Bruce to adopt
@@fishbot9902 In another universe Supergirl is the next Robin.
Let’s not kid ourselves, they did WAY more than kissing between the panels.
I guess you could say she had a horse in her throat
@@supersillyshyguy1482 all the way in her throat.
No jost no
Just a whole bunch of horsing around
@@archmagefrey Linda definitely had some serious equine appreciation.
Everyone favourite pseudo beastiality plot line even trumping the sailor mini-moon romance.
Hol up!
I was just thinking the same thing. Also the dude was a grown man and Chibi-usa was a small child. So like the weirdness just had to keep piling on there.
Oh, yeah! The Pegasus guy! Man, it's been ages
Supergirl: Bill, you love me?
Bill: neigh!
"...after Superman dumps her at an orphanage..." - yup.
The more we learn about Supergirl's tastes, the more I wonder what kind of place Argo City was.
Was it like the Kryptonian version of a Hippie Commune that other Kryptonians kinda avoided?
It would explain a lot.
Another theory lies in the fact that Zor-El kept all that lead around in sheets that came in handy when the ground turned into Kryptonite, but the psychotic effects of lead on Kryptonians, perhaps unknown to them, include signs of madness and bizarre behavior associated with what we today call Weisinger's Syndrome.
90s Comet tried not to be awkward LOL
it was awkward
There was a 90s Comet? Because I think SuperGirl was dead during most of the 90s.
@@toddnolastname4485 Kara was nonexistant, except for an odd tale that contained time swaps to make a super baby. But putty Supergirl was dating Lex Jr till she found it was OG Lex and bounced. Then saving a girl from satanic sacrifice, she get's merged and Linda Lee Danvers became Supergirl. Then she made out with an alien horse lesbian. All in the 90s.
@@philipjay2099 And once again the 90s prove to be a weird time for comics.
Sometime in the mix she finds out she's also an angel with fire wings of teleportation and starts hanging with a dweeby kid who might be God. So yeah, 90s were crazy lol.
@@toddnolastname4485 This was during Peter David's run. Comet could change from horse, horse man hybrid, to a woman. Good Grief! The 90s are beginning to sound like a weirder silver age.
Wait a minute
Wasn't super girl only like 16 when she started thinking about comet
I was just thinking that too. Ugh...
I love that your Comet sounds like Mister Ed All horses sound like that.
Now this was written after Seduction of the Innocent. I believe even with Frederic Wertham would miss any sexual subtext in these stories.
Of course, of course.
Not if it stared Batman instead.
Of course they sound like Mr. Ed NO ONE can talk to a horse of course, UNLESS it's Mr. Ed.
Wonder Woman has a pet kangaroo named Jumpa, never forget.
@@BrotherMag she used to put a saddle on it and ride it like a horse.
Actually, and I am no expert, I remember the Amazons all rode animals they called "kangas" back in the Marston era. Probably the least weird thing about that run....
Did it beat ppl up while wearing boxing gloves? I hope it did
I'll see your kangaroo and raise you Aquaman's pet octopus, Topo (who even made it into his movie, playing the drums)!
@@danaohdeliciouswhite8515 ...I was SO hoping she hopped into its pouch instead!
Horse girls have ALWAYS been crazy
Love me some Silver Age creepiness! And your Comet voice is stellar.
Interesting Fact: Bronco Bill couldn't actually speak, so they put peanut butter in his mouth to make him move his lips.
Firebrand was probably a homage to the horse Fury, which had a TV show [1955 to 1960 and years of re-runs after that] and comic book, which last issue was in late 1962. "Fury, the horse only an orphan can tame".
"I forgot about the horse telepathy." Easily done. I keep forgetting how zebras make awesome apricot jam.
No no, in DC zebras have the power of magnetism. Just look at Zebraman.
Comet is like the Marcus Immortus of Horses. 😦😧😨🤢🤮
And if this story HAD been done in the early 80's like the Marcus story...it would have been just that much weirder...
The more we talk about him less, the better. But one day I want him to come back so Carol can kick his ass (or perhaps Genis-Vell returns and two of them can do it together.)
And in some circles, Superman is known as the big blue boy scout.
Now you have to cover the second time this happened in the 90s
lol it's gonna be a trilogy
Casually Comics thats why I am here for that tea ☕️
This story should have its own chapter in ‘Seduction of the Innocent ‘
I can't wait to see what you can do with "Lana Lang: Insect Queen".
I love the story where Luke Cage goes after Dr Doom because he owes him money...
By the gleaming gates of funky Asgard, you suckers are gonna eat hammer!
I have been dying for a real-life situation in which to drop that.
That was random as hell 🤣
@@dionlackey798 Ehh. Trains of thought about weirdzo retro/vintage stories that have no sense of what is proper.
@@dionlackey798 Sasha did ask us to share some of our favorite stories
@@stevesunn2564 Mine up there was (I think?) a What If?! that showed 3 different characters getting Mjollnir. Including Luke Cage.
I love that Comet's voice is Mr.Ed's voice 😀😊 made my day
And that shirt is everything!!
It's amazing how times have changed. When I was a kid and read those stories, that relationship seemed perfectly reasonable. Probably because I projected a human psyche onto the horse which appeared to be having human thoughts and urges. But being a child at the time, I never thought about what that would mean if it were an actual relationship and the deception involved. I like that take on it.
Now all they need is a writer and artist to put it together with your more modern twist.
But that is the thing, here. It is a centaur, not a horse. Centaurs are treated in classical Greek myth as being very human-like in mentalities.
Endor...hmm. I guess if you name your planet Zerox, you should expect to be copied.
Also, he turns human when a comet is in the Solar System? That’s some Gremlin-level vagueness, there. Inside the orbit of Neptune would have cleared up confusion and tied in with the Poseidon theme.
I remember pausing at both Endor and Zerox, but I was just too focused on making horse puns; but you took it to a whole different level with the “you should expect to be copied” line haha.
I’d doff my hat to you, if I was actually wearing one; still, thanks for giving me a chuckle. 😀👍
All the best. 😷👍
"Comet, the wonder stalker" is how I'm going to describe the character from now on
You have ruined me forever. Now, I cannot read a comic book without the voices.
I love this channel, the comments, and, clearly, the voices.
Keep this up.
I came back to this video after Tom King's Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
I'm always so impressed with the research and thought that goes into these videos - but it's the little touches that get me every time! "Stalking...I mean OBSERVING Supergirl", "Always watching... eew'... genius. Thank you!
Once again this is another very good trivial and nostalgic follow-up.
Little known fact: The Unicorn from Robot Chicken was Comet's understudy and protégé for a time.
6:23 - 'Luthor's lair' - there was an issue of the Legion of Super Heroes where the Legion had been outlawed and they were wandering in the sewers and stumbled on one of Luthor's lairs from the 20th Century
Sooooooooo, Comet was the inspiration for the song "Every Breath You Take" by the Police.... Yeahhhhhh Stalker alert!!!!
"ALWAYS watching.... ew!"
Not a fan of Santa, I take it?
" it was a thing that happened "
Honestly, that should be the tagline of this channel
Btw The Big Red Cheese in The Captain Marvel Comics was really only used by Dr.Sivana and maybe just once by Mr. Mind when in an introduction in a DC Shazam Comic saying The Big Red Cheese as my Buddy Dr.Sivana calls him.
I love the voice overs for the characters 😂🤣 got Linda Lee sounding all good & wholesome!! The best 15-20 minutes ever 🙌🏾
Question: Why didn't Supergirl question who would rather send a horse from Krypton than themselves, their family, and close friends? (Knowing the horse is not actually from Krypton). Let see, the rocket can carry 11 people or the 2200 lbs horse. I can send my family to safety or the 1 ton horse. I like people, but really love that horse....
Thanks again for another great podcast and the history lesson of Supergirl and well you know who. Just tell me she did not also make out with Beppo the SuperMonkey.
“Foal me once, shame on you, foal me...can’t get foaled again.” On the other hand marketing research: girls like horses to F? 👀
Those four little words every girl wants to hear: I am your horse.
"Now ride me to your heart's content."
I wish Comet would have drank both potions at the same time and become a reverse centaur with a horse head and human lower half. He didn't so I'll just have to wait on a Supergirl - Bojack Horseman crossover series. A relationship with a stalker might not seem so bad after Bojack. 😅
This reminds me of the more recent Wonder Woman controversy that her invisible plane is the corpse of her shape-changing alien "lover". It's more complicated than that... and less complicated at the same time. And it all starts with an innocent change John Byrne made to the mythos and the invisible plane.
Whoa What?!?! I really need to get a hold of more comics.
Oh my god! Using a Mr Ed voice for Comet was a brilliant choice! My wife literately laughed out loud! Five stars!
I love how you keep using the Mr Ed voice for him no matter what form he's in. Really makes the lying doofus vibe that much stronger.
When you mentioned centaurs my Ew Meter went from "ew" to "EUUUUUUUGH!!?!!"
Great video, but you forgot about the new comet from the late 90s/early 00s. He's a Centaur and a jocky and an angel and a woman.
Comet got his telepathy from Neptune?!? Couldn't he also be Aqua Horse-great added silliness for the Silver Age.
One small request - when you cite comics, you sometimes don't give the full citation - the new DC Universe service not only allows one to watch Harley Quinn TV show and Doom Patrol but also dive into many of the old comics and it is fun to look up the comics about Lois Lane and when Jimmy Olsen wished a super girl friend for Superman.
Speaking of Kara's love life, how about a review of MY childhood crush...Jerro the Merboy?
Linda must need to re-apply lipstick frequently......
There are SO many jokes I could make about this very strange "relationship," but I'm going to take the High Road!
I dunno, this all seems more like Zeus disguising himself as a horse and coming up with some half ass story to get into an indestructible woman's pants
Or Loki turning into a mare to help win a bet.
I grew up during the Silver Age. All the WEIRD stuff in comics didn't seem so weird cause "comics". I love the light of normalcy Sasha shines on these stories. Frankly, silverage craziness is hilarious when you try to fit it into REALITY. I used to roll my eyes and laugh when I read this lunacy and of course I read Marvel and IT'S crazy viewpoint through the 60's and 70's which served to balance it. Anyway thanks Sasha.
Silver Age, Supergirl going all Equus is just fine and dandy.
Modern Age, Supergirl with Lena Luthor, Oh Hell No! Queller would rather put her back with the horse.
The CW would make a Supergirl dating her horse story over Supercorp
(shippers/anti shippers don’t come at me I just thought it was funny to say)
If they knew about that, they most certainly would.
I think William is Comet in disguise.
Sad Comet voice sounds a bit like Marvin the paranoid android.
The horse should have been in the Benoist TV show.
Good Mr Ed/Horse voice, Sasha! So much superdickery in the Silver Age.
Remember at that time there was this theory that if you get your daughter into horses, she will be less into boys- you save her “virtue.” Like this era of comics is the era my mom grew up in, she told me all about this. “Get your daughter into horses and she won’t be boy crazy!” And then to have Supergirl not only be boy crazy, but horse crazy is sorta funny.
I love that headband youre wearing. It reminds me of spider-man, and my karate kid headband. You are one of my favorite RUclips channels.
Cute top you're wearing. Also great Mr. Ed voice.
Supergirl just kissing everyone huh?
I find it interesting that the writers of the Silver Age seemed to be enamored with "choke", "gasp", and similar exclamations. Heroes would even think them in their thought balloons. Every intake of breath had to be announced, whether real or imagined.
"What happens when Batman becomes... the Bat-SuperMan!"
"It's too dangerous for you to fight crime now that you've lost your super-powers, Clark! You'll have to become a civilian! Turn in your costume!!"
"Sniff! I-I guess it's for the best! You'll have to take care of Metropolis now that I'm just... an ordinary guy! ...Sob!"
"Hello, Lois! Come to see Super-Has-Been off?"
"You bet! It's splitsville for us, Superman! Now that you've lost your super-powers, Batman's the super-stud for me! Chuckle!"
"Gasp! But Lois!"
"And I want to be Batman's pal now, Super--I mean, Regular Man! Look! I'm destroying my Super-Signal Watch and putting on the Bat-Super-Signal Watch, now!"
"Gulp! But Jimmy!"
"There's no place for you in the future anymore, Sup-- uh, you! We hereby ban you from the Legion of Super-Heroes! Chortle!!"
"But Legion of Super-Heroes! Choke! Groan! Sigh! Huff! Hrok!!"
Etcetera.
That always threw me as a kid! Since people don't talk like that, and no other writing I read was written like that, I was baffled as to what they were going for! Really made me feel like there was something I wasn't getting...
01:44 the struggle is real, I've made it my goal to collect every pre-Crisis Supergirl appearance, and I frequently screw up Action Comics and Adventure Comics. It does help when it's Supergirl in Adventure Comics with the Adventure Comics being tiny..
This was a great video! So much of this story line flew over my head when I was a little kid and reading it for the first time. (I actually read some of those stories when they first were printed...and yes I’m that old). Seeing this now gives me a whole different perspective. Wow, those stories were really creepy back then. And, I loved your voice for Comet!
Hmm, well...that's an issue worth debating. Were comics *really* creepy back then, or have cultural values simply changed over time? There WERE adults reading these back then, and they don't seem to have seen anything wrong with these stories (at least not the same way)...It's always iffy, reading modern mores into older stories!
Circe's rationale for the origin of Comet's powers looks a lot like a hint of Captain Marvel. Not much of a surprise, probably, since apparently it is an Otto Binder story.
I love that the Bronco Bill voice is so similar to the Bane voice.
Yet another great comic review of comics that I never heard of (some are ones I did)
I can't imagine how excited she would have been when she got her own car.
Which Transformer would the car turn into? She was into a horse/man hybrid turned into a horse turned into a man turned into a horse again.
4:23 - "If only I were a human being I could declare my love for her!"
Okay, centaurs in ancient Greece had NO compunctions about "declaring their love" to human women...
You gave Comet Mr. Ed's voice. That's funny.
To think that I read all these when I was just barely old enough to read. Hah. Twisting little children's minds like that. Thanks for the insightful psychoanalysis Sasha.
Clearly, Comet had some boundry issues! At least this story wasn't told with Streaky the Super-Cat. I maintain he wasn't named so just for being fast(make of that what you will). As for bizarre, around the same time Wonder Woman was dating a Mer-Man and a Bird-man, cuz those Amazons are competitive!
Ah, the Comics Code era. Protecting the vulnerable from morally ambiguous stories. But how are they going to keep them in Paris once they see what goes down on the farm? :) Also, I imagine some of Lex Luthor's anger comes from always getting his clothing stolen.
The more I learn about Comet, the more creepy it seems. The Legion of Super-Pets will never be the same for me.
Damn I love a good a Whim! The messier the better. Tina from Bob's Burgers FanFic Messy. Here for it. *shudder*
lol zombie booty fanfction...whyyyy
Alright. So. I listened. I watched. I understood. I still can't process this story lmao.
the "oh Bill, if only you ~knew~ the terrible truth about me" and Comet doing that also reminds me of why I initially couldn't get into comics (in the sense of reading a series right from issue 1) because oh my God there had to be a million variations of those same lines every other issue in things like Amazing Spider-Man. I understand why they were written like that but I did not (probably still don't) have the patience for that crap. I actually recall just skipping entire pages of the first 100 issues of ASM because every time I would read some variation of "oh no, I can't tell them I'm Spider-Man" I would just roll my eyes and be like "for fucks sake Peter quit, shit or get off the pot". I actually appreciate that in modern adaptations a lot of that is just dropped, such as Peter just going for it and outing himself to Gwen in ASM1, or Lois being in the presence of Clark discovering that he is Kryptonian and subsequently doing her journalist thing and figuring out he is Clark Kent
I enjoy your animal voice. Can you say Hello Kermit!
I saw the graphic for this video and knew it was going into the really uncomfortable area of Supergirl. Lets see how cringy it gets.
My young mind (back in the day, late 1960's, I was obsessive about origin stories, then I wasn't... I guess I know why now) blocked all of the psychic stalking and manipulation plot, it was bad enough that she was a bit too fond of Comet.
Typical of the DC comics of the time, rash decisions to drive sales by what they though a specific demographic without thinking about the implied issues.
Then we get into the post-Crisis and the mess with Angels everywhere.
This is one step from turning into a Milo Manara story.
I'd love to see a list of characters who were actively hurt by the hero in the name of preserving their secret identity. Lois, obviously... But Jean Loring was only practicing law to prove that she could before she quit completely to settle down (what?), So Ray Palmer would actively help her as the Atom, just to get her to hurry up, quit, and marry him?
I'm sure there are a ton of similar relationships, and that seems right up your alley.
Hung like a horse. A white horse. Hilarious this is said Yoda.
I love how she gave the horse a horse-voice even when he's in his human form.
Isn't she from Argo City, I hear they are into that there.
I don't give a darn about this subject matter. I'm here for your fantastic story telling/commentary and your tallent in voices. Well done & Keep it up.
Everything's better with Centaurs! 👍🏻🖤🐴
2:53 Yes, that *is* cynicism in my pocket, and yes, I am happy to see you. And yes, *that* was sarcasm.
This video is in the zone and slammin' heat!!
Thank you for using the Mr. Ed voice for Comet while narrating this Silver age madness. Also this video title is more honest than Comet was the entire story.
I like Broncho Boll's "Mr Ed" voice!!