So is Hawkgirl that good at hiding her secret identity or does Flash simply not care enough to learn and/or refer to her by it?
The Green Lanterns powers come from a magic ring. He doesn’t have intrinsic super powers. The suggestion here is that this makes him feel inferior and less manly than some of the other super heroes, so he wants to avoid “little weiner” jokes in the future.
In the the DCAU series Justice League, Hawkgirl is romantically linked to Green Lantern John Stewart but not to Green Lantern Hal Jordan (who is depicted here). That’s all I got and have already given too much thought to a poor joke.
I think Chip Christian has the cartoonist’s mindset. Tight costumes.
As for Arlo awards. Does it make sense to give Arlo Awards to web only comics whose entire purpose are to show off how edgy and mature they they (mistakenly think they) are?
Sorry – I’m not sure what are and what are not web-only comics. Mea culpa.
I believe that it is totally fair to respond to any CDIU of a Pop Culture Shock Therapy with “It’s Pop Culture Shock Therapy. There’s no reason to think that there actually is anything in this comic to understand in the first place: it more than likely genuinely is as pointless as it appears to be.”
Sadly, this PCST is funnier than an average one. The “superheroes” thing is completely irrelevant; it’s just that, if it doesn’t have SOME sort of pop culture reference, it can’t be a Pop Culture Shock Therapy.
@billytheskink: In general, DC characters, especially those in the Justice League, know each other’s names and use them when they aren’t in public.
Blinky – I had the same issue, sort of. Not specifically her relationship with John, but that’s clearly the DCAU design*, and the DCAU Hawkgirl never actually met Hal (who only appeared for a few minutes in one episode of JLU, where she only had a brief appearance in a different scene**).
* Save for the bare midriff – she did favour that look in the DCAU, but not when in her costume. Recent comics Hawkgirls have had it, but lack the bare shoulders, since their wings aren’t part of their body. Also, it’s mostly an element of Kendra Saunders’ costumes, and Kendra is a WOC.
** The Once and Future Thing, part 2 – time shenanigans cause John to be swapped with Hal for one scene. It’s still more time than Guy Gardner got (since Guy never appeared in that universe), but it’s the shortest appearance of any human Lantern who appeared at all.
Oh, and now that I think of it – this is the kind of joke that a Hawkgirl/Flash scene would have in the DCAU, but it would be Hawkgirl giving the punchline, at Flash’s expense. (‘I’m the fastest man alive!’ ‘No wonder you can’t get a date.’ frex.)
Trivium: In interviews, Adam West claimed that network executives were worried about his, ahem, bulging. He said he was given special pills but never took them, coming up with an alternative (either an underwear thing or intense concentration; forgot which).
Looking into Shayera’s bio, it seems the Thanagarians were trying to turn Earth into a hyperspace bypass. I never realized Justice League was ripping off Douglas Adams.
What bothers me is that the setting appears to be a JLA headquarters room, and there must be a cocktail party going on (because who eats those little cocktail weenies in other situations, especially off a little plate like that, while standing up?). But why is there a cocktail party at JLA headquarters, and granted that there is one, why does there seem to be only three JLA members present for it?
If there’s a CRISIS ON INFINITE OHNOTTHISAGAINS going on involving the rest of the team, shouldn’t these three also be out helping, and if there isn’t a crisis why didn’t more supes come for the free cocktail weenies and whatevers? If it was just one of them on scene, I’d assume s/he was on monitor duty, but that shouldn’t take three (and the monitor shouldn’t be fooling around with a poofy cocktail party anyway).
I wonder if DC characters ever slip up and use real names in public. “I need some help over here, Clark. Oh, ****, I mean Superman!”
Minor Annoyance, I heard Burt Ward making that claim because supposedly he was the one who had… the big problem.
MiB – it’s one of the more infuriating tendencies of the Batfamily, at times. Batman himself, Robin (Damien) and Batwoman are pretty good with codename discipline, but the rest have a tendency to drop their real names an awful lot. (Dick is the worst. Oracle in the Arkham Asylum game is a particularly annoying case, since she does it while talking to Batman when he’s in the Asylum.)
The Justice League, on the other hand, is pretty good about it. The Green Lanterns names get used, but the GLs don’t really have secret identities.
This panel reminded me of a highly inappropriate product promotion that I recently saw: “Disney Princess Wieners“.
Kilby: being as “Wiener” means simply “from Vienna”, do wieners get the same laughs in Germany as here?
Hmmm. That made me wonder what “30% weniger fett” meant. 30% less fat, it seems. I thought German for “fat” was “schmalz” but I see that the latter refers to rendered fat.
@ MiB – Although the word “Wiener” ist derived from the geographic adjective, it is commonly used alone to mean the same sausage that Americans would call a “hot dog”. However, it does not carry the same anatomical connotation, so the ingongruity of the packaging in my link above would probably not be noticed by a native speaker.
P.S. @ Brian – As you already noted, “Schmalz” is a particular product (you can buy rendered goose “Schmalz” in just about any grocery store here). “Fett” is the normal term for “fat” (in a nutritional sense), but is sometimes seen in recipes as a generic term (such as when it doesn’t matter whether it’s butter, margerine, or Crisco).
Disney Princess Wieners! I will think of that whenever I see a Disney Princess. Thank goodness I don’t have kids!
We music-lovers know about the adjective form of Vienna from “Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald.” (“Tales from the Vienna Woods.”) If translated as “Wiener wood” it would get another laugh from the 10-year-olds. (“Wiener Holz.”)
OK, I totally failed to see the “Wiener” part of the Prinzessin Würstchen as the inappropriate part, or even as funny; I saw the depicted wieners, and the association of “Princesses” and “Würstchen” as the unfortunate coupling, and totally assumed that that must be what Kilby was referencing (basically, I just totally read the thing in German, and that blocked all English), but now I see Kilby linked it as “DIsney Princess Wieners”, so he was going for the English.
I remember back in the day, McDonalds was giving away Muppet Baby swag, and some of my American friends had stolen the poster, because, as I realized when I saw it anew in the English context, it said, “Die Muppet Babies!”
The Bart, The.
(I sent my sister a Garfield postcard from Germany once that had Garfield (not the Goose, to be clear, the cat) saying, “Hey Ass!” right there on the front for all to see (that it meant, “Hey, Ace!” was irrelevant, because he was clearly saying, in black and white letters, “Hey Ass!”))
There are two NHL players named Schmaltz, one of whom (Jordan) plays for the hometown team.
This image is around on the ‘net with the explanation, “The Swedish word for ’Goat’ is ’Get’ and the word for ’Kid’ is ’Killing’ hence this spread from a children’s book.”
Wow, Arthur! Even prepared for the image by your explanation, I still nearly was hypnotized myself to go out and get killing — the-goats-are-telling-me-to…; it’s like some bizarre CIA LSD conspiracy plot.
larK: Kermit made the same joke when doing publicity for the 2011 film “The Muppets” in Germany. And then I think the filmmakers made the same joke in “Muppets Most Wanted”, though I might be confusing one incident for two here.
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Tight costumes? Best I can come up with.
So is Hawkgirl that good at hiding her secret identity or does Flash simply not care enough to learn and/or refer to her by it?
The Green Lanterns powers come from a magic ring. He doesn’t have intrinsic super powers. The suggestion here is that this makes him feel inferior and less manly than some of the other super heroes, so he wants to avoid “little weiner” jokes in the future.
In the the DCAU series Justice League, Hawkgirl is romantically linked to Green Lantern John Stewart but not to Green Lantern Hal Jordan (who is depicted here). That’s all I got and have already given too much thought to a poor joke.
it appears to me he’s suffering from what’s known as a small-dog complex.
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Candidate for the Arlo Award?
I think Chip Christian has the cartoonist’s mindset. Tight costumes.
As for Arlo awards. Does it make sense to give Arlo Awards to web only comics whose entire purpose are to show off how edgy and mature they they (mistakenly think they) are?
Sorry – I’m not sure what are and what are not web-only comics. Mea culpa.
I believe that it is totally fair to respond to any CDIU of a Pop Culture Shock Therapy with “It’s Pop Culture Shock Therapy. There’s no reason to think that there actually is anything in this comic to understand in the first place: it more than likely genuinely is as pointless as it appears to be.”
Sadly, this PCST is funnier than an average one. The “superheroes” thing is completely irrelevant; it’s just that, if it doesn’t have SOME sort of pop culture reference, it can’t be a Pop Culture Shock Therapy.
@billytheskink: In general, DC characters, especially those in the Justice League, know each other’s names and use them when they aren’t in public.
Blinky – I had the same issue, sort of. Not specifically her relationship with John, but that’s clearly the DCAU design*, and the DCAU Hawkgirl never actually met Hal (who only appeared for a few minutes in one episode of JLU, where she only had a brief appearance in a different scene**).
* Save for the bare midriff – she did favour that look in the DCAU, but not when in her costume. Recent comics Hawkgirls have had it, but lack the bare shoulders, since their wings aren’t part of their body. Also, it’s mostly an element of Kendra Saunders’ costumes, and Kendra is a WOC.
** The Once and Future Thing, part 2 – time shenanigans cause John to be swapped with Hal for one scene. It’s still more time than Guy Gardner got (since Guy never appeared in that universe), but it’s the shortest appearance of any human Lantern who appeared at all.
Oh, and now that I think of it – this is the kind of joke that a Hawkgirl/Flash scene would have in the DCAU, but it would be Hawkgirl giving the punchline, at Flash’s expense. (‘I’m the fastest man alive!’ ‘No wonder you can’t get a date.’ frex.)
Trivium: In interviews, Adam West claimed that network executives were worried about his, ahem, bulging. He said he was given special pills but never took them, coming up with an alternative (either an underwear thing or intense concentration; forgot which).
Looking into Shayera’s bio, it seems the Thanagarians were trying to turn Earth into a hyperspace bypass. I never realized Justice League was ripping off Douglas Adams.
What bothers me is that the setting appears to be a JLA headquarters room, and there must be a cocktail party going on (because who eats those little cocktail weenies in other situations, especially off a little plate like that, while standing up?). But why is there a cocktail party at JLA headquarters, and granted that there is one, why does there seem to be only three JLA members present for it?
If there’s a CRISIS ON INFINITE OHNOTTHISAGAINS going on involving the rest of the team, shouldn’t these three also be out helping, and if there isn’t a crisis why didn’t more supes come for the free cocktail weenies and whatevers? If it was just one of them on scene, I’d assume s/he was on monitor duty, but that shouldn’t take three (and the monitor shouldn’t be fooling around with a poofy cocktail party anyway).
I wonder if DC characters ever slip up and use real names in public. “I need some help over here, Clark. Oh, ****, I mean Superman!”
Minor Annoyance, I heard Burt Ward making that claim because supposedly he was the one who had… the big problem.
MiB – it’s one of the more infuriating tendencies of the Batfamily, at times. Batman himself, Robin (Damien) and Batwoman are pretty good with codename discipline, but the rest have a tendency to drop their real names an awful lot. (Dick is the worst. Oracle in the Arkham Asylum game is a particularly annoying case, since she does it while talking to Batman when he’s in the Asylum.)
The Justice League, on the other hand, is pretty good about it. The Green Lanterns names get used, but the GLs don’t really have secret identities.
This panel reminded me of a highly inappropriate product promotion that I recently saw: “Disney Princess Wieners“.
Kilby: being as “Wiener” means simply “from Vienna”, do wieners get the same laughs in Germany as here?
Hmmm. That made me wonder what “30% weniger fett” meant. 30% less fat, it seems. I thought German for “fat” was “schmalz” but I see that the latter refers to rendered fat.
@ MiB – Although the word “Wiener” ist derived from the geographic adjective, it is commonly used alone to mean the same sausage that Americans would call a “hot dog”. However, it does not carry the same anatomical connotation, so the ingongruity of the packaging in my link above would probably not be noticed by a native speaker.
P.S. @ Brian – As you already noted, “Schmalz” is a particular product (you can buy rendered goose “Schmalz” in just about any grocery store here). “Fett” is the normal term for “fat” (in a nutritional sense), but is sometimes seen in recipes as a generic term (such as when it doesn’t matter whether it’s butter, margerine, or Crisco).
Disney Princess Wieners! I will think of that whenever I see a Disney Princess. Thank goodness I don’t have kids!
We music-lovers know about the adjective form of Vienna from “Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald.” (“Tales from the Vienna Woods.”) If translated as “Wiener wood” it would get another laugh from the 10-year-olds. (“Wiener Holz.”)
OK, I totally failed to see the “Wiener” part of the Prinzessin Würstchen as the inappropriate part, or even as funny; I saw the depicted wieners, and the association of “Princesses” and “Würstchen” as the unfortunate coupling, and totally assumed that that must be what Kilby was referencing (basically, I just totally read the thing in German, and that blocked all English), but now I see Kilby linked it as “DIsney Princess Wieners”, so he was going for the English.
I remember back in the day, McDonalds was giving away Muppet Baby swag, and some of my American friends had stolen the poster, because, as I realized when I saw it anew in the English context, it said, “Die Muppet Babies!”
The Bart, The.
(I sent my sister a Garfield postcard from Germany once that had Garfield (not the Goose, to be clear, the cat) saying, “Hey Ass!” right there on the front for all to see (that it meant, “Hey, Ace!” was irrelevant, because he was clearly saying, in black and white letters, “Hey Ass!”))
There are two NHL players named Schmaltz, one of whom (Jordan) plays for the hometown team.
This image is around on the ‘net with the explanation, “The Swedish word for ’Goat’ is ’Get’ and the word for ’Kid’ is ’Killing’ hence this spread from a children’s book.”
https://external-preview.redd.it/9ao0QnNPRXX1UnHrARVbbQaJoJ0AIcu5SRlmDhMuE2M.jpg?width=750&auto=webp&s=cf1211e2dc6621eff116d94ce0eb956136d0eec1
Wow, Arthur! Even prepared for the image by your explanation, I still nearly was hypnotized myself to go out and get killing — the-goats-are-telling-me-to…; it’s like some bizarre CIA LSD conspiracy plot.
larK: Kermit made the same joke when doing publicity for the 2011 film “The Muppets” in Germany. And then I think the filmmakers made the same joke in “Muppets Most Wanted”, though I might be confusing one incident for two here.