Should the TIME TRAPPER have always been played for laughs? - 06/01/10 08:14 AM
Copied from my DC Board thread, I wondered what Legion World has to say...
I mean, let's face it: "The showdown with the Time Trapper EVERYONE'S been waiting for!" from ADVENTURE 338 is pretty hysterical. The facts:
It is a super-babies story.
The Trapper uses the exclamation "Bah!" which everyone knows is the most hilarious of villainous exclamations.
He takes delight in kicking baby Invisible Kid's ass (",,,his partial shadow reveals where he is standing! Ha, Ha!") literally.
"Yipes! The Legionnaires have been transformed into criminal babies!"
"Now I'll launch the next 'INFANT-ry' attack!"
SPLORP! "Ha, Ha! Instead of having sublime beauty, you are now revolting slime!" --Trapper to Glorith* after turning her into protoplasmic jelly.
"Oh, shut up! Hurry up and change into slime, so I won't have to hear your infernal caterwauling!" --Trapper to the baby Legionnaires. What is it with his slime fetish?
I mean, this is HILARIOUS stuff here!!
DO yourself a favor and read ADVENTURE 338 (it's also in the LSH ARCHIVES # 4) today
They messed up when they changed him from bumbling protoplasm fetishist with some form of time-control powers into some kinda abstract cosmic (pun intended) entity.
*don't feel TOO bad for poor Glorith: She herself murders one of the Trapper's henchmen in this issue, AFTER he becomes a baby ("Me not want--" SPLURP!)
I mean, let's face it: "The showdown with the Time Trapper EVERYONE'S been waiting for!" from ADVENTURE 338 is pretty hysterical. The facts:
It is a super-babies story.
The Trapper uses the exclamation "Bah!" which everyone knows is the most hilarious of villainous exclamations.
He takes delight in kicking baby Invisible Kid's ass (",,,his partial shadow reveals where he is standing! Ha, Ha!") literally.
"Yipes! The Legionnaires have been transformed into criminal babies!"
"Now I'll launch the next 'INFANT-ry' attack!"
SPLORP! "Ha, Ha! Instead of having sublime beauty, you are now revolting slime!" --Trapper to Glorith* after turning her into protoplasmic jelly.
"Oh, shut up! Hurry up and change into slime, so I won't have to hear your infernal caterwauling!" --Trapper to the baby Legionnaires. What is it with his slime fetish?
I mean, this is HILARIOUS stuff here!!
DO yourself a favor and read ADVENTURE 338 (it's also in the LSH ARCHIVES # 4) today
They messed up when they changed him from bumbling protoplasm fetishist with some form of time-control powers into some kinda abstract cosmic (pun intended) entity.
*don't feel TOO bad for poor Glorith: She herself murders one of the Trapper's henchmen in this issue, AFTER he becomes a baby ("Me not want--" SPLURP!)