I haven't quite returned to blogging normally yet, but I did run my eyes over the latest search-term logs, and saw an item the absence of which I needed to redress: "only spider man collecting cloughs."
As you may know, many of the Marvel superheroes went through a phase in the late '70s when they were serious about collecting trading cards from an unusual set...
Well, let me show you a few panels from a relevant issue of Marvel Two-In-One, as I remember them:
Please click this one to enlarge it (and read it):
There you go: curiosity slaked, doodle drawn, and penance performed!
SIR:
ReplyDeleteI HAVE LOL'ED!
NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS: NOTIFY ROB CLOUGH!
Do you think the joke would have worked better if I'd mentioned Tennyson instead of Browning or Swinburne? Or maybe name-checked "Charge of the Light Brigade" or something instead of "Monna Innominata"?
ReplyDeleteI think Browning and Swinburne are quite good enough, and in a way more in keeping with Clough, as none of them is quite the giant of the period that Tennyson was; he'd upset the gravity of the joke, I think.
ReplyDeleteThat said, "Monna Innominata" seems pretty obscure, though I like its classical euphony with "Atalanta at Calydon"...
I am, as ever, all about the classical euphony.
ReplyDeleteTrue dat! Or, um, hoc verum est.
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