Blue Bat
Kickman
The hero formerly known as Generic Kung-Fu Superhero Sidekick with a new name TBA.
Aquarium.
Who else will make the cut?
And will they hurry up and get off their butts to save Hero City and rescue Lana Louis-Lane?
Find out next week in Kickman, LLC!
Also, contrary to (possibly) popular belief, camel humps are not full of water. Camels drink lots of water but store their hydration in fat deposits. So Aquarium is literally surviving by breathing in the blood of a camel until a group of wandering mongols come to rescue him. If he acquires any weird vampiric qualities later, we’ll see.
I’m having flashbacks to an early iteration of the Avengers just after Iron Man and Thor (among others) quit, to be replaced by Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, the last being nowhere near as scarily powerful as she later became. I presume the reference in the last panel is too obvious to any self-respecting geek to earn Kick Points for, but you know, ice planet, rebel base etc.
This is a totally different scenario. That planet was ice and this is a desert. Actually, I guess they both get the same amount of precipitation. I will give you 3 Kick Points regardless for being quick and also being cool about it.
You mention The Avengers and not one reference to John Steed or Emma Peel??
You might earn some negative kick-points for that slight! (you might earn a pass on this due to extreme youth leaving you with no idea what I’m talking about)
3 comments already and no reference to the cheezy rip off in the last two frames??
I’m worried enough about this loss of subtlety to ask if it’s a post COVID sign. (since what can’t they blame on covid?)
I think Superior Man’s legal defense involves “blame it on Covid.”
The Green Band needs recharging and it’s talking to Matt. 🙂
Hey! I know a good name for him! We could just call him Matt. No one else is using the name. Maybe Marvelous Matt? The Green Marvel?
I know that Kickman or someone is going to suggest he be called Armoire, because, you know the armband and all the tricks, gadgets and weapons he can pull out of it. The Green Arsenal? Green Justice?
Hmm. Maybe not stick to English for the Green part of a name. Verde? Verdant? Verdigris? Kloros? Zelazny? (Yes, that means Green in Czech.) Matt is Asian, so Midori? (Yes, that means green, too.)
So many choices. 🙂
Wait about two more issues before deciding on Generic’s new name. There’s going to be a thing…
I’m not seriously trying to guess what you’re going to do, I’m just having fun with the concept. 🙂
Given the colour, why not… MATTE?
In the last frame when it was talking to Matt I don’t think it was about charging… Pearls Before Swine fans will know what I’m talking about.
All I’ll say is that, of the 3 fluids available in that camel, I’m glad he chose the blood.
Ewww. Yeah, that was a solid choice.
Cue Strother Martin saying, “You’re in a heap a mucus, boy.” 🙂
Ick!
“The hero formerly known as Generic Kung-Fu Superhero Sidekick with a new name TBA” Being his current official hero name.
I love TBA as a permanent name!
Green TBA then?
As gruesomely humorous as it is for Aquarium to live in a camel. Wouldn’t it have been better for him to dig to the water table deep beneath the sand. Or does the Gobi desert not have one of those.
Yeah, but… he didn’t have a shovel…
True however he did fall all the way from space, and I seem to remember that when things fall from space the tend to keep travelling downwards, also isn’t digging and swimming fairly similar?
Yes, that is true. That’s how you can keep your Dachshund from digging holes in your yard. Let him swim in your pool.
The last panel reminds me of how Aquaman survived in a desert by dinking vulture blood in one of those DC challenge comics whicj I know about thanks to Linkara. It also might be a reference to some old sci-fi movie, Star Battles or something, but that I’m not sure about it
Can’t say I’m familiar with that Star… Battles? But Aquaman in the desert, oh yeah, classic!