Friday, August 14, 2009

Doodle Penance: "only spider man collecting cloughs"

Hey, it's the return of "Doodle Penance"!

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!

5 comments:

Mike said...

SIR:

I HAVE LOL'ED!

NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS: NOTIFY ROB CLOUGH!

Isaac said...

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"?

Mike said...

I 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.

That said, "Monna Innominata" seems pretty obscure, though I like its classical euphony with "Atalanta at Calydon"...

Isaac said...

I am, as ever, all about the classical euphony.

Mike said...

True dat! Or, um, hoc verum est.