THE FANTASTIC POUR
Brett welcomes FW All-Star Shawn Myers to the Fantasti-Lounge for a very special MOCKTAIL edition of the Fantastic Pour as we talk Captain Carrot! We enjoy a Spiced Cinnamon, Orange, Thyme Mocktail and read Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew issue #12. Join us in the Fantasti-Lounge as we discuss: Why was this comic never a cartoon? Who are the best tiny heroes? What to do at the Park City Mall 40 years ago. And much, much more!
Secret Pour-igins: The Mocktail
Cocktail: Zoo Cruise
Ingredients
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 4 sprigs fresh thyme OR 2 Tbsp of crushed thyme
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp freshly grated ginger
- 1 squeezed lemon
- 1 ½ cup orange juice
- ½ cup grapefruit juice
- 2 cup ginger beer
Garnish
- Cinnamon stick OR sprig of thyme OR Orange wedge OR combination of some of the above
Instructions
- Add the water, maple syrup, thyme sprigs, and cinnamon to a small pan. Bring to a simmer.
- Reduce the heat to low for about a minute. Then let it cool to room temperature.
- Fill a shaker or glass halfway with ice and strain in the thyme syrup. Add the grated ginger and lemon juice and shake well for 10 seconds.
- Strain the contents from the shaker into 4 glasses evenly.
- Add ice
- Add orange juice, grapefruit juice, and ginger beer
- Garnish and enjoy!
Comic: Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew #12, DC Comics, 1983
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Another fun episode. It’s good to hear Fawn Myers again on a podcast.
CINNAMON!
Cinnamon is a great ingredient. As a kid my mom would make a batch of cinnamon hard candy for Christmas. It started as a hot and extremely thick cinnamon syrup that she would pour out onto waxed paper, cover with another layer of waxed paper and use a rolling pin to press it down until it was about an 1/8” thick. After it cooled she would use a hammer to shatter it into extremely sharp and delicious shards. Like all good food, it’s the perfect balance of deliciousness and danger.
BRETT FROM EARTH-C
Brett Young aka “Brett Lungfish”, the Earth-C equivalent of Aquaman, a fish that walks (and breathes) like a man.
MOCKTAIL SECRET ORIGIN
Mocktail – aka Peter Hoppel – was a brilliant German rabbit physicist and huge fan of the wartime hero the Terrific Whatzit. One (fateful) day, he and his new wife, Jeannie O’Hare, (who was a brilliant physicist hare) were developing a temporal portals to help Peter keep up with her (because hares are faster than rabbits) when an unexpected fire breaks out.
The Terrific Whatzit puts out the fire with a huge whirlwind but pushes all the smoke back. A temporal portal unexpectedly opens between Peter and Jeannie and through the smoke. Jeannie follows the sound of Peter’s voice, passes through the portal, and is lost in time! And Peter is completely bald (because of temporal shenanigans?)!
“One” blames the Terrific Whatzit yelling:
“You made me lose my hare … and my hair!”
Mock Tail wears a full body toupee (with extreme overcompensation in the posterior) and carries a portable temporal projection gun.
The surprint shows him as a young bunny reading an issue of the Terrific Whatzit and Peter and Jeannie on a date
His is often heard singing the classic song “I dream of Jeannie, she’s a light brown hare”*
(*Thanks to Bugs Bunny for his famous parody rendition of this classic song)
Aw, man. I thought for sure carrot juice would figure into the mocktail. And now – despite Shawn’s likely revulsion – I’m thinking cinnamon might not be bad combined with carrots…
Great show, though. I recall the Capt. Carrot insert in that issue of New Teen Titans quite well: yes, it was quite a contrast in tones, but it did its job as I went on to pick up Capt. Carrot and followed it for about a half-dozen issues. It was a very fun series.
As for Teen Titans Go – yes, it’s a really funny show, but I have to say DC Super Hero Girls is even better.
All the Legion talk made me miss the sports talk.
The discussion of where DC placed their bonus books makes me think, how great would it have been to do one of them in the middle of THE KILLING JOKE?
I, too, ripped more than a few of them out of comics–I remember keeping my All Star Squadron preview alongside the regular issues of that book back when I had longboxes.
Up until the 1989 movie, Superman was always the character who got roped into guest starring in whatever new venture DC was trying to launch. Poor working stiff.
Great bonus episode!
I’ve read some captain carrot and the amazing zoo crew . And ya it does have that Saturday morning vibe .
So here’s my fantastic question :
If one member of the zoo crew got a mini series or one shot who would you chose ?
Me maybe iron pig doing two in one series like marvel did with the thing
It would like Brave and bold a four issue mini series the story would be pig iron goes on trip to check out new location of his favorite gas station (buc-ees) like place . And when pig iron here’s about it he gets time off at a size that he’s gotta be there for the grand opening and decides he’s gonna walk all the way there in the store. He is essentially about his adventures and various teams team ups. He has along the way kind of a hard traveling heroes type deal, but with his ultimate goal to get to that gas station grand opening and buy a lot of souvenirs for his team and get the best vegetarian barbecue in the world. What do think would read pig iron half pig will travel .
Great show, Brett and Shawn! And that is a tasty looking and sounding mocktail.
Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew was one of my favorite books as a kid. The Crisis on Earth C-Minus storyline was a particular favorite featuring the work of Scottie Shaw, E. Nelson Birdwell, Roy Thomcat, Owl Gordon, and Duck G. Ordano. At least that’s what the cover said.
I still laugh at their first encounter w/ Batmouse from Just a’Lotta Animals. When they asked if he was a bat or a mouse, he responded, “Please! I don’t discuss my secret identity!”
If pushed to say, I guess my favorite members of the Crew were Yankee Poodle (she had the most interesting powers) and Alley-Kat-Abra (who was the most interesting character IMO).
The first thing that jumped out at me regarding this issue is the credit for inking assist to Bill Sienkiewicz. Sienkiewicz is one of my favorite artists and I love Scott Shaw’s work, but talk about wildly disparate styles! For that matter, maybe Marvel could have a preview insert for Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham inside an issue of the Demon Bear Saga from New Mutants.
Finally able to listen to the episode and it was so much fun!
I think by the time Captain Carrot came out I was also ‘too old’ at the tender age of 11 to want to read it. Those were for ‘kids’. To put in context, 5 months after the Carrot insert, Night Force was in NTT #21. I for sure was reading that book. I mean, at age 12, what would you rather read? A professor having orgies trying to harness evil as an energy source OR Yankee Poodle fighting Frogzilla? I do buy the Zoo Crew when I see in the cheap bins because at my ripe old age, I need some whimsy.
I also never saw Goonies as a kid by my girlfriend LOVES it. We watched it recently and I think I am too old to get the magic.
As for secret questions:
Fave shrinking characters: Shrinking Violet, Ray Palmer Atom, Doll Girl, Wasp, and Dyna-Mite (from the Marvels Crusaders, a JLA analog group). I love Violet in the Levitz/Giffen run because she grows so much as a character (after the trauma of being replaced by a Durlan).
Interesting you had Projectra as a crush Brett. Unusual Legion pick for that. My crush is Lightning Lass, continuing the Anj streak of liking women I have no shot with.
Zoo Crew Name: Dr. Anjou (anjou being a species of cow) … not bad, not bad
Your mall talk inspired a ton of memories. Orange Julius with the ‘add an egg’ option, Spencer Gifts that sold risque pin-up posters I could look at but never buy, and that giant cookie fad. Definitely hung out at the mall on Fridays. There was an arcade in the mall called ‘Aladdin’s Castle’ where many a dollar was spent!
Great show!
I gueeeeeess my “Zoo Crew Name” would be some sort of Woodchuck type thing.
Loved the Legion talk. The network needs a Legion podcast! I’m available.
I’m in the same boat regarding Goonies. Never saw it in the first run, have no emotional connection to it, weekly smile when friends reference it.
I never touched Captain Carrot. I was very strict in what comics I would buy and even made hand written lists (over and over again) in French class. But I did get some Captain Carrot issues for free from my association with Tony Buscema and getting free comics from his father, Sal. I think I had four or five, and when I got around to reading them I really really liked them. I drew the characters and made sure I knew their power sets and thought about getting more, but never did. My sheckles always went to JLA, LSH, Teen Titans, All-Star Squadron, and Fantastic Four. And Aquaman or Hawkman if they had a book at the moment.
Very enjoyable episode, fellas.
The thing I most remember about Captain Carrot was how weird it was to have a funny animal story with a normal Superman running around in it. Especially with that preview in the middle of that fairly intense New Teen Titans story. I did not rip any of those previews out though. Maybe not with this one, but man, picture somebody doing that to DC COMICS PRESENTS 26. It would be horrible. I did kind of like the Zoo Crew though.
As for the Legion, I really liked Saturn Girl in that pink bikini costume. Shadow Lass too. Grell really nailed what I call the “Baywatch Legion”.
Goonies? I’ve seen it, but I’m sure I get any quotes mixed up with the Monster Squad.
Since I somehow missed commenting last month, Frightful Four Dr Octopus, Super Skrull, Namor and maybe the Black Cat since Sue doesn’t like her in the current comics.
Great episode about a fun comic series.
As for an Earth C name, would “Bat Youngling” be too obvious?
Thanks for another fun show!
Still listening and loving it, barfly Bat-cousins! I have the complete original run of CCahAZC. It has survived multiple winnowing of my comics collection. (I’m down to 24 short boxes! Of course, a lot of them just got moved to bookshelves…). Regarding the artist on the Archie Legion, I think for this episode, his name is pronounced Stuart Cinnamon.