Comments on: With Alter Boy!

With Alter Boy!

XQUZYPHYR — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:12:30 -0800

"Pope John Paul II is being reborn in a Colombian comic book as a superhero battling evil with an anti-Devil cape and special chastity pants." Well, of course he is.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:16:22 -0800

I've wanted to do something for a while called surf pope where the new pope is really young, and fights crime from his surf board. His sidekick is dick cheney dressed in a Robin costume.

By: AlexReynolds

AlexReynolds — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:17:13 -0800

Are those two bulges? /makesasignofthecross

By: rolypolyman

rolypolyman — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:26:00 -0800

Sample page

By: Uther Bentrazor

Uther Bentrazor — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:07:47 -0800

Is this for real? Come on, Pope based comic book [anti]heroes have been done.

By: sour cream

sour cream — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:12:55 -0800

"He isn't John Paul II any more," Leon said. "From now on, he's the Incredible Popeman." ... and that means that I don't have to worry about the deceased Pope's personality rights or other rights that might be used to put a stop to all this. Because, you see, it's not the pope in the comic. It's the incredible Popeman.

By: jonson

jonson — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:22:32 -0800

What do they mean RE-born? Isn't this essentially what the pope has always been?

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:46:25 -0800

I don't think he used to wear the lycra santa.

By: ontic

ontic — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:46:47 -0800

Actually, it's been done a long time ago (from here). Had one of these when I was young and just remembered it.

By: uhnyuftz

uhnyuftz — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:19:10 -0800

Ontic, I still have that comic book. My grandmother gave it to me, "You like comic books, right?" My favorite part is that it's labelled Issue #1. I guess I can stop waiting for Issue #2. I dug it out the other day, figuring it would be prime material for eBay. Unfortunately, my copy doesn't quite measure up to the competition.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:40:42 -0800

Holy ermm Holy stuff your Holiness.

By: ontic

ontic — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:46:13 -0800

Heh, yeah, my comic books got thrown out at some undiclosed time. If I recall, there was a St. Francis one too ... Sure enough, "Brother of the Universe".

By: biffa

biffa — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:01:55 -0800

Homopater = Gay Dad?

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:05:36 -0800

Homo Sapiens = Gay Tree.

By: ElvisJesus

ElvisJesus — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:34:19 -0800

Homoerectus = ...err, never mind

By: May Kasahara

May Kasahara — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:08:44 -0800

*looks at sample page* Wow, they're really going for an Alex Ross sort of style, huh? Strangely appropriate, but...

By: Decani

Decani — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:03:18 -0800

I cannot wait for the battle royal!

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:36:58 -0800

I've been trying to find any reference for a book a friend gave me called "High Hat" published by Dime Store novels. Its a tiny little book that could fit in one's pocket and it depicts the Pope as a hard boiled detective. The prose is a one off from Hammet/Chandler and just nails the premise. Here's the back jacket: He's ready for mystery. He's ready for danger. He's ready for lent. He's the High Hat, a hardboiled Pope with a night job, the Vatican's only private eye, and he's up to his pointy dome in trouble. Deep in the bowels of the Holy City, the big pontiff comes face to face with his nemesis, the Amish Mafia, and uncovers a fiendish plot to steal St Peter's bones. Now the hardboiled holy man must slip into his alter ego to crack a caper that mixes dangerous dames, creepy Cardinals and the Mennonite Menace with a load of dynamite and a very hunger octopus...."

By: telstar

telstar — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:57:32 -0800

I like how the cover illo preserved that "how much longer do I have to sit on these hemorrhoids" grimace and slump that so became the pope the last 15 years of his life.

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:54:41 -0800

You have to admit that's a bit...bulge-y...for a set of chastity pants.