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Death Rides an American Chopper. (Senior vs. Junior Week 4)

3 Sep

September 3, 2010

Was it the Black Widow bike?

They say that life imitates art. This week, American Chopper Sr. vs. Jr. copied a comic book. Specifically, it was the cover of The Adventures of Superman 481.

In a real world tragedy, a workman who was fixing the roof of Paulie’s new shop fell through a hole to his death on the concrete floor below. His name was not released, but The Editor’s and Staff of Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride wish to send their deepest condolences. No one’s death should be fodder for either a reality show or a silly blog.

But as Vince McMahon said, the show must go on.

The usual comic book antics took an even sillier twist this week when it was revealed that Mikey’s assistant, hired to organize, well, everything about Mikey, was discovered to be legally blind, leaving Mikey no choice but to drive around his assistant on the assistant’s errands. (Did I mention that his license was suspended three months ago? No I did not. I could not make this up if I tried.)

What Mikey did not realize is that his new employee, Matt Murdoch, is secretly the blind superhero Daredevil, the man without fear.

Tragically, even Daredevil was unable to prevent the terrible events about to unfold, as the war between the Teutuls was about to take its first fatality.

While fixing Paulie’s roof, a workman succumbed to the fumes from all of Mikey’s open paint cans and fell through a hole in the roof.

Death, on his customized OCC chopper, rode in and not even the Man Without Fear could  prevent his death.

Paulie, grief stricken, called in his very creepy pastor to counsel the crew. The pastor showed up, waved around a paperback that may or may not have been a book about Roswell but was definitely not a Bible, muttered some new age aphorisms, and vanished in a puff of smoke.

Oh, and three days later Paul Sr. called to see what’s up.

Look Up In The Sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Tandy Computer TRS-80!

3 Aug

August 3, 2010

The answer is so obvious, I’m shocked no one else has seen it.

We have oil spilling into the gulf.
We have the threat of terrorism.
We have severe economic troubles.

Has no one ever read this comic?

Al Gore would love this comic. It combines two things he invented, the internet and climate change.

Back in the ’80’s, Radio Shack, perhaps hoping to create the next X-Men, put out a series of comics featuring “The Tandy Computer Whiz Kids.” Alec and Shanna, the “Whiz Kids,” were you’re typical Archie and Betty-type kids (very bland) that somehow found themselves in Scooby Doo situations every week.

You know he's evil because he wears an eye patch!

They foiled kidnappers, stopped drug dealers, and even averted World War Three by stopping a rogue soviet nuclear submarine.

How did they do it? By using their Tandy Computer TRS-80, which they plugged every chance they got.

Behold the TRS-80!

BEHOLD!

Type: Home computer
Release date: 1980
Discontinued: 1991
Operating system: Color BASIC 1.0 / 2.0 / OS-9
CPU: Motorola 6809E @ 0.895 MHz / 1.79 MHz
Memory: 4 KB / 16 KB / 32 KB/ 64 KB / 128 KB / 512 KB

Imagine- they stopped World War Three with less computing power than your average cell phone!

Eventually Alec and Shanna managed to clean up their own city and were soon invited into the Justice League, where they teamed with Superman to save Metropolis.

The Brave and The Bold

Alec and Shanna retired from heroics in the early nineties. They could no longer keep up with villains who used the internet or texted. (There were also rumors of an affair between Shanna and Robin.)

However, their influence is still felt today, as one of their community organizers has gone on to greater fame.