Howling Over Howling Curmudgeons
The comments thread for
The
Top Nine Comic Book Supervillains just makes my day:
Super-Gorilla Grodd.... Plus, and I can't
emphasize
this enough, he's a talking gorilla.
The Shark, for using an "invisible yellow force
field"
for protection against Green Lantern. Because Green Lantern's ring
can't penetrate anything yellow, even if it's invisible. That's just
plain good comics.
[On Thanos and his motivations:] That kind of
psychosexual shenanigan is just plain good comics.
Kang the Conqueror is a yutz, who has yutz written all over him, and
whose DNA coils up into chromosomes that remarkably resemble the word
"yutz". ...As for Yutz the Conqueror, the fact that he also wants
to show up on the list in four different kinds of drag contributes to
his yutzian nature.
[On why The Anti-Monitor shouldn't make the
list:] he's only great by fiat, which is to say about as great as
Doomsday or Bane (albeit much better drawn), and he's got one of the
worst names in comics. (Shouldn't the Anti-Monitor
just... I don't know, not watch people?)
the Red Skull is just coasting on that whole Nazi thing. It's like he
doesn't even try any more.
[On why Shazam villain Mr. Mind is cool, despite literally being a tiny
little worm:] Besides, you have to give it up for a worm so evil,
the state electrocutes
him.
(There's also a
spinoff
thread where various people try to work out the parameters for what
makes a Great Villain, but for my money the first thread is much more
fun.)
