Astro City vol 1 #5: Crackerjack

[MacQuarrie]

Thei question got buried in the "Kurt Busiek Appear" thread, so I'll post it over again...

Hey Mr Busiek!

On the Community Forum, somebody (okay, it was me) posted a scan from AC vol 1 # 5 of Crackerjack leaping over the city sporting what appears to be a woody...

Question: was that something you put in the script, or was that something Brent Anderson snuck in?

[Kurt Busiek]

Thei question got buried in the "Kurt Busiek Appear" thread, so I'll post it over again...

Hey Mr Busiek!

On the Community Forum, somebody (okay, it was me) posted a scan from AC vol 1 # 5 of Crackerjack leaping over the city sporting what appears to be a woody...

Question: was that something you put in the script, or was that something Brent Anderson snuck in?

I don't think it's either -- I think it's just readers interpreting something.

Doesn't look like he's got an erection to me -- just like he's got an actual package, unlike many superheroes.

kdb

[PatrickG]

I don't think it's either -- I think it's just readers interpreting something.

Doesn't look like he's got an erection to me -- just like he's got an actual package, unlike many superheroes.

kdb

So... Are you claiming that your super-heroes have the largest packages?

This could be the comment that spurs you into the high publicity world quips and banter that Kirkman, Bendis, Millar and Loeb inhabit!

Of course, that would launch a war between artists as to who has the biggest package. Eventually, you get the male equivilent of Bart Sears' Power Girl... Gay and female readership climbs but sharply drops off once the proportions completely exceed what's physically possible... And then it keeps getting more and more absurd until Joe Mad, Jim Balent and one of the Chaos people have a final, climactic battle that culminates in ALL comic books being reduced to splash pages of cosmic scale crotches and chests blowing apart planets and galaxies until time the various universes implode into singularities.

And then, following each universe reforming in a new big bang and billions of years of evolution, the first animals and humans come into being and the mad cycle begins anew.

[Noah Johnson]

Well, there was that nasty letter someone wrote to Astro City complaining about what poor taste it was to acknowledge the existence of dicks or dykes without a van between them.

[Kurt Busiek]

So... Are you claiming that your super-heroes have the largest packages?

Not while Rich Corben's still out there drawing stuff.

I merely claim that my guys actually have packages...

kdb

[Cam63]

Did they get 'em in the mail ?

[Kurt Busiek]

Did they get 'em in the mail ?

No mail for these males. They do not want their packages folded, spindled or mutilated.

kdb

[shrike]

Personally, with no disrespect with Crackerjack... but world's largest, uhm, 'tackle', goes to Miracleman.

If anyone can find or scan a cover of MIRACLEMAN #23 they'll see what I'm talking about.

[matterconsumer]

For those who gain pleasure from such things...

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=51350&zoom=4

[Cam63]

No mail for these males. They do not want their packages folded, spindled or mutilated.

kdb

'Good thing they fairly flexible.

[MacQuarrie]

I don't think it's either -- I think it's just readers interpreting something.

Doesn't look like he's got an erection to me -- just like he's got an actual package, unlike many superheroes.

kdb
It looks to me like one of those optical illusion drawings, like the one where it's two faces or a goblet, and once you see it a certain way, it jumps out at you. Those could just be shadows and wrinkles in the fabric of his costume, or he could be pitching a tent. Given that it's perfectly in character for Crackerjack to get off on swinging over the city being a hero, I figured it was deliberate.

Here, I marked it in the scan so you can see what I'm talking about...

[PatrickG]

Are you sure? Looks to me more like he's going the OPPOSITE way. What you circled looks like the wrinkles resulting from the bulge going the other way.

[the4thpip]

I don't think it's either -- I think it's just readers interpreting something.



kdb
So you're saying Mac has a dirty mind?

[MacQuarrie]

Are you sure? Looks to me more like he's going the OPPOSITE way. What you circled looks like the wrinkles resulting from the bulge going the other way.
Of course I'm not sure. That's why I asked.

I bought the magnet set and stuck them on my fridge. One day while getting something out, the Crackerjeck one caught my peripheral vision and there it was. So I went back and checked the comic to see if it was there, and it was. And clearly, if ever there were a superhero who would get a chubby from crimefighting, it would be Crackerjack.

So now we're left with a couple of possibilities:

1. Brent Anderson snuck it past Kurt.
2. I have a dirty mind.

Discuss.

[matterconsumer]

It's too much triangle for my taste...

[YoGo]

We should throw in Man Faye's camel toe pic in for discussion.

[Lester C.]

We should throw in Man Faye's camel toe pic in for discussion.

http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/2314/cameltoe8na.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

There you go. I actually keep all Manfaye photo posts on file so I can have them at a moments notice. This is actually your photo so it should look familiar.

[Guapo Méndez]

If there was any superheroe that would stuff his drawers to appeal more to the ladies, my vote would definitely go to Crackerjack.

[shrike]

If he's such a 'ladies man' why the heck is he sporting a near trademarked 'Vilage People' moustache and wearing a costume that would make Liberace burn with ENVY and RAGE?

Methinks Kurt is hiding the truth from us when it comes to good old Crackerjack...?

Kurt, do I get a No Prize for spotting this?

[Kurt Busiek]

Here, I marked it in the scan so you can see what I'm talking about...

Well, you're clearly not gay.

That, as was pointed out, is a wrinkle -- caused by the cloth bunching up because there's nothing underneath it.

He is, in fact, "dressing" the other way.

kdb

[shrike]

i like ranch dressing, personally.

[the4thpip]

i like ranch dressing, personally.
As you know, they fired me from the cattle ranch because I could not keep my calves together.

[MacQuarrie]

Well, you're clearly not gay.
My wife and kids will be glad to know that.

Wow. I was wrong. I hate when that happens. Though I do think that it would be very much in character for Crackerjack.

[cactusmaac]

I just got Astro City v2 #2 and #3 in the post today.

#2 has a letter from Jim MacQ, praising the characterisation of Samaritan and Winged Victory and ending by calling Crackerjack a heroic anus.

[shrike]

LOL, that is so wrong that it is terribly funny.

[Kurt Busiek]

My wife and kids will be glad to know that.

Uh ... were they wondering?

kdb