The uncharacteristically patriotic (certainly by the 1970s and beyond) cover of ADVENTURE COMICS # 446 (DC Comics, Cover Date: July-August, 1976) greets us this Fourth of July morning!
Ya gotta love that even a reigning monarch, the King of Atlantis, turned out to honor America's Bicentennial!
And, here he is 43 years later, on July 4th, 2019!
Happy Birthday, United States of America... from Aquaman, and your humble Blogger!
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Happy Fourth to you and yours, Joe!
And the same to you and yours, George!
We at The Pack of the Patriotic Platypus love the Fourth of July - well, some of us do. That's the problem with our organization - we're all very patriotic, but all to different countries! We really must work out an official organization-wide country to be patriotic to or I'm afraid the whole thing will never work out!
Well, Happy Fourth to you anyway, Joe!
PPP:
Why pick a COUNTRY! They’re so volatile these days… especially this one! You never which way it’s going to turn from one day to the next!
My advice is to consider “going smaller”… like maybe a CITY or a TOWN! Plattsburgh, New York, for example, has great alliterative potential for the name of your secret society!
Be warned, though… I was there in January, 1980, and the air was SO COLD that even a small inhalation can freeze your nose-drippings!
Either way, Happy Fourth!
Hmmm..... that's not such a bad idea! We'll have to discuss that at our next meeting! Maybe the Pack of the Patriotic Platypus shall become - the Pack of the Patriotic Platypi of Plattsburgh!
If nothing else, it has a nice ring to it!
...Just don't breathe in too deeply in January. The prospect of frozen platypi-nose-drippings doesn't strike me as a very appealing sight!
Then again, frozen people-nose-drippings ain't too hot a thing to see either. In fact there's nothing "hot" about it at all! "Frozen", ya know...
We find your puns unamusing...
Yeah, but you probably DO find "eating people" to be amusing, so I'll keep the puns coming! :-)
...Sure wish I had one to end this comment!
Amethyst Alligators? Are you, perchance, related to the Retconning Crocodiles? We've got to update our databases!
Sometimes I wonder if all you “Secret Society Guys” started out in THIS COMIC!
Then you found there WASN’T ROOM ENOUGH for you all, and you migrated to this Blog – where some of you reformed (like you “Database-Compiling Dromedaries”)… and some of your brainwashing brethren did not!
Tell me, Droms… What was the exact moment that you changed your efforts toward good… or, shall we say, “got over the hump”?
Ha! Take that, Amethyst Alligators! (Finally found a PUN for ya! Never claimed it would be a GOOD one, though!)
Well, Joe, we may have turned our efforts to documentation - but we might not have turned good, exactly - as this story (https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/2019/06/30/pessimist-and-the-dromedaries/) may show you. Some of our organization might be more good than others, of course - but others are downright mean (we're looking at you, Darius!).
According to our records, though, several other organizations have turned to good - the Secretive Baloney Club, the Trio of the Talking Turkey, and the Ennead of the Eigengrau Easter Eggs, to name a few. But others will never change - the Gang of the Green Gorillas, for example! And the recently-revealed Amethyst Alligators! ( we like your puns, anyway! )
Oh, I think you've got it all backwards. These comis you speak of are what happened when we stole the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromaderies' files and dumped them in the past… unaware that the hideout we'd found was close to a comic-book-writer's house! He ripped off the future for a paycheck, the cad! Not that the book was bad at all…
Droms:
“Well, Joe, we may have turned our efforts to documentation - but we might not have turned good, exactly … / …According to our records, though, several other organizations have turned to good - the Secretive Baloney Club, the Trio of the Talking Turkey, and the Ennead of the Eigengrau Easter Eggs, to name a few… / …( we like your puns, anyway! )”
Relatively speaking, I think you’re STILL “good guys”. After all, there’s no such thing and a totally evil documentarian! It’s sort of our mission at this humble Blog as well.
Also glad you like our puns, and… WHA? “The Ennead of the Eigengrau Easter Eggs”?!
Now THERE’S alliteration that would put even Vic Lockman to shame!
HERE’S your link for everyone’s mutual reading pleasure!
I’d read it just for lines like this alone: (“Yes. Can you believe it? Here I am, positronic brain the size of the Homeworld, and they’ve got me pretending to be a statue so I can force random passerby to make goo-goo eyes at other random passerby. Call that job satisfaction, because I don’t.”)
Or this (“The Scarlet Crab scuttled to the center of the group. “Here’s what we’ll do. I’ll crawl on up there and make those guards really crabby. I’ll pinch ’em in the legs. They’ll be completely in-crab-acitated! Then we can flee! It might seem cruel, but remember, it’s for a good claws – er, cause.”) alone!
Yeah, you Droms might not be all that “good” after all… unless Lila can change all that!
Good luck, Lila!
Crocs:
You write: “These comics you speak of are what happened when we stole the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromaderies' files and dumped them in the past… unaware that the hideout we'd found was close to a comic-book-writer's house! He ripped off the future for a paycheck, the cad! ”
That’s a comic-book writer for you! We’re all that way, you know!
BTW, there’s an “available hideout” right next door to MY house, if you’re interested! (Drool!)
Thank you for the kind "good luck". I'll certainly try to keep the Drove out of trouble - maybe I can convince them to free all the captives in Research Laboratory 4... whoops! I don't think I was supposed to tell you about that one...
~Assistant Researcher Lila
((and thanks for your kind words about the story - I'm glad you like it!))
You’re very welcome, Lila…
…And the “residents” of Research Laboratory 4 will just have to remain “our little secret”…
OOPS… and the little secret of everyone who reads this Blog! Hope they can be trusted!
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