tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882610517765002247.post2039900747764505659..comments2024-03-28T09:11:49.881-05:00Comments on Warren Peace Sings the Blues: "Hernia!" "Go sit on the Chicago Bears!"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13867868039166531163noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882610517765002247.post-67310843473520303382008-03-01T09:29:00.000-06:002008-03-01T09:29:00.000-06:00Yeah, I thought I had read something about the ori...Yeah, I thought I had read something about the original plan changing from Evanier. I love what Kirby did with it though. Another favorite line: "Tell it here! To the little veins popping out of my head--to the little, aggravated <I>veins</I>!" Hilarious. He even got to have somebody call someone a hockey puck, although it's Goody instead of Don. I love it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867868039166531163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882610517765002247.post-229294430348980672008-03-01T03:08:00.000-06:002008-03-01T03:08:00.000-06:00"I don't know what Rickles' fans at the time (or R...<I>"I don't know what Rickles' fans at the time (or Rickles himself, for that matter) thought of this"</I><BR/><BR/>Rickles wasn't thrilled. As Mark Evanier -- himself a participant in these events -- tells it, Kirby had permission to use Rickles in a single throwaway scene where the comedian would insult Superman. But when he sat down to do the story, this turned into the whole two-part extravaganza with Rickles a major character and featured on the cover of both issues...and he never even meets Superman, which had been the whole point originally. This is just the way Kirby approached his stories: not meticulously planned out in advance but subject to radical change as inspiration struck him. There was some grumbling from the Rickles camp, though not anything that caused trouble. <BR/><BR/>For me, I thought Kirby freaking <I>nailed</I> the Rickles style. It's so perfectly him...yet that was Kirby all by himself.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.com