I started DC Showcase Presents: Justice League of America Volume 1 recently, and while these Silver Age stories are a lot of fun, it's best not to read too many of them in one sitting. When you dip into them now and again, though, you can really enjoy the wackier aspects.
Case in point: In the very first JLA story, Starro the giant starfish menaces the world, aided by his ability to absorb the powers of the superheroes and control the minds of the populace. The League's teen sidekick, Snapper Carr, is somehow unaffected by Starro's powers, though.
Check out the caption in the first panel, which sets up this chapter of the story by presenting Flash and telling us...
"Not only must he find a way to defeat the monster--he must also learn the secret behind the strange immunity of his teenage pal--Snapper Carr!"
Now let's look at the very next panel, which shows ol' Snapper standing on his lawn and, well, snapping his fingers, because, you know, that was his scene, dig?
Caption reads: "For three hours, young hipster Snapper Carr has been spreading turf-builder lime, and sodium cholrate on the family lawn..."
HMM. What in the world do you suppose could be the secret behind Snapper's immunity, as well as the way to defeat the monster?
Grant Morrison, this ain't. All I can say is it used to be a lot easier to predict what would happen in a DC Comic.
But wait! I can't cite Brave and the Bold #28 as a reason to love old comics, then discuss that specific scene, without quoting Snapper's groovy dialogue in that same panel:
"Man, this grass mat is the coolest! Wait till Daddy-O casts his orbs on it."
I'm gonna cast my orbs on some more pages in Showcase Presents: Justice League of America. It's like coolsville!
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