Showing posts with label Lars Of Mars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lars Of Mars. Show all posts
Thursday, February 20, 2014
The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Lars Of Mars #11!!
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Golden Age Idol--Lars Of Mars!!
We 21st century fools with our social media and our snarky irony like to think that we invented meta.
Ha!!
Our forefathers could get so meta it would make Grant Morrison's head explode!!
Case in point:
Lars Of Mars? Who dat, you say?
Let start with a great scientific advance on Earth:
This freaks the Martians out, because they once almost destroyed themselves in a nuclear war with Venus!
So the leaders summon their top agent, Lars, with a special mission!
Upon arriving on Earth, the first thing Lars sees is:
Well, all is not as it appears...
Wait a minute...
Wait...so Lars is a Martian who is pretending to be a human pretending to be a Martian, while starring in a TV show named after himself, and fighting crime on the side?? Oh, my aching head!
This is akin to watching Flash Gordon and finding out the actor really is Flash Gordon, except he's just an actor pretending to actually be Flash Gordon for publicity, except that's just a ruse because he actually IS Flash Gordon, and...oy, my brain!!
Oh, and did I mention the Martian Victory Yell?
Lars only appeared in the two issues of his comic, #10 & #11, in 1951. [Yes, the only two issue of Lars Of Mars were #10 & #11. Next time one one you kids complains about Marvel's numbering, you're going to get a stern "you don't know how good you have it" lecture regarding comic numbering in the 1950s...]
Lars was apparently created by Jerry Siegel (GCD credits all of his stories as authored by "Jerry Siegel?") and Murphy Anderson, which by itself is more than enough reason to revive him in the present day.
And holy crap--a series about the lead actor of an action series who pretends to actually be the lead character, but in fact really is that character and is just pretending to be the actor, all the while saving Earth from destroying itself?!? That screams 2014, baby!!
So someone jump on this, please!! DC, Dynamite, BOOM!, what are you waiting for?? And don't forget my finder's fee...
Ha!!
Our forefathers could get so meta it would make Grant Morrison's head explode!!
Case in point:
Let start with a great scientific advance on Earth:
So the leaders summon their top agent, Lars, with a special mission!
This is akin to watching Flash Gordon and finding out the actor really is Flash Gordon, except he's just an actor pretending to actually be Flash Gordon for publicity, except that's just a ruse because he actually IS Flash Gordon, and...oy, my brain!!
Oh, and did I mention the Martian Victory Yell?
Lars was apparently created by Jerry Siegel (GCD credits all of his stories as authored by "Jerry Siegel?") and Murphy Anderson, which by itself is more than enough reason to revive him in the present day.
And holy crap--a series about the lead actor of an action series who pretends to actually be the lead character, but in fact really is that character and is just pretending to be the actor, all the while saving Earth from destroying itself?!? That screams 2014, baby!!
So someone jump on this, please!! DC, Dynamite, BOOM!, what are you waiting for?? And don't forget my finder's fee...
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