Showing posts with label Fox Mulder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fox Mulder. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Hepcat Hermit Hero Profile: Fox Mulder


He sleeps on his couch. He's obsessed with alien abduction. He's watched Plan Nine From Outer Space 42 times and watches it, he says, so that his mind will make intuitive leaps of logic.

He doesn't keep much company except for the company of one of the grooviest redheads since Ann-Margret. The people he associates with are because of his work. The main others are three hermits of distinct types: The Slob, The Nerd, and the Creep.


He favours one particular type of food, as do many of us. In his case it's sunflower seeds.

His pad is groovy. Dark, but groovy.

In some ways he has an HH fantasy job. He works for an agency, carries a badge, and occasionally gets to chase people and shoot at them. But part of his job involves clerical work, much like the jobs so many of us have. He is fortunate that he gets his own basement office and generally gets paid to pursue his passions. And occasionally shoot at them.

He keeps himself groomed and in shape. He goes on vacation by himself to Graceland! Oh, that's legendary!

He may or may not be a porn freak. Almost every HH-er has a flaw that prevents him from being an ideal Hepcat Hermit. Ironically, having one flaw or another is almost an HH necessity. Most HH-ers prefer pinups to porn, but his credentials are otherwise so flawless we'll certainly let that one slide. It's the exception that proves he rules.

Fox Mulder is one of the greatest Hepcat Hermits of all time.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Tiger, Tiger: The Burning Bright Question

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These panels are from Teen Titans and Amazing Spider-man respectively.

In them, two of comics' flirtiest female characters are using the same colloquialism, ie addressing an onlooker (in the former case the reader him or herself) as Mary Jane's "Tiger" or in the case of Wonder Girl by the plural "Tigers" denoting that presumably Teen Titans has more than one reader.

So the burning bright question becomes - which came first?



The answer is the Spider-man panel. It is from 1966 while the Titans panel is from 1969. Therefore, by the parameters established in the previous post, Teen Titans is a *COMPLETE RIPOFF* of Amazing Spider-man.

But not really. Both comics rule and are quite distinct from each other. And both those final panels make my face look like this :) on account of them being so cool, and drawn so beautifully by two super artists, John Romita, Sr. and Nick Cardy* (Spidey and Titans respectively).

What else do these two things have in common? Why, the best thing of all! Both have amazing theme songs! When there's trouble you know who to call! The Hepcat Hermit! Like a streak of light he arrives just in time!





*possibly over Gil Kane pencils

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