A snaky villain. A future sports star. A man from Venus. Surprint characters. A topsy-turvy aristocrat. Which are hot, which are not? The Girls of the Hot Squad continue their evaluation of Who’s Who #5’s entries based on sheer datability.
Featuring permanent panelists Isabel, Josée, Nathalie, Shotgun, and Amelie.
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I always thought that Copperhead should have had some link with the villain Kobra & his organization because they’ve got the same color scheme, also the best use of him was in the Justice League cartoon.
The coral snake/mimic mnemonic is really easy to remember but not entirely useful since it mostly applies (in the US) to the eastern coral snake and the scarlet kingsnake. Other species (venomous or not) may have different patterns, or the “wrong” pattern to fit the rhyme. Assuming you are looking at the right type(s) of snakes (they’ll both have repeating red, yellow, and black bands) the mnemonic goes: ,
“Red touch yellow, kill a fellow. Red touch black, friend of Jack.”
Best not to rely on it in practice unless you’d sure you’ve identified the species correctly, in which case you already know which is a deadly coral snake and which isn’t. Sounds cool though, and it sure sticks in your head. One more largely useless and semi-accurate thing I learned from grade school.
I had to get Google Gemini to explain ‘friend of Jack’!
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“Red touch black, friend of Jack”: On a harmless scarlet kingsnake or milk snake, the red bands are separated by black bands (red and black touch), making the snake non-venomous—or a “friend” to humans (“Jack”).
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Well there you go, ‘Jack’ means humans… is that a regional thing?
Copperhead: He’s become a running gag in our home due to the Justice League Unlimited episode, “Kids Stuff”. When Mordred, son of Morgaine Le Fey usurps her spell and sends all adults to a limbo realm, Copperhead loses his shit and proclaims “It’s Judgement Day, and we went to the Bad Place! THE BAD PLACE!!!” We occasionally evoke that line around the house.
Cosmic Boy: Very few male heroes wear pink, so good on Rokk for …ahem…rocking a different color. When you do the fashion update episode Siskoid, you should show them the Smallville version.
Cosmic King: I get the Jason Issacs vibe. I do prefer his color scheme to Rokk’s despite me admiring him for going there.
The Council: Calling out the Bald and the Bearded is potentially offending 90% of your listener base. For one of those who know, as Montgomery Burns put it “the sting of male pattern baldness”, it feels good to be able to grow hair SOMEWHERE on your head. Honestly I probably would have never grown a beard if it hadn’t sprouted out during a hosptial stay, and my wife went gaga for it. Happy wife, happy life!
Count Vertigo: I always thought this guy’s look was way cooler than the character actually deserved, but it is striking. I do see the Pattinson resemblance in the masked shot.
Copperhead….poor Copperhead. The Who’s Who entry was my first introduction to him, and it made him appear far more formidable than he turned out to be. I didn’t get to read Copperhead’s debut until the early 2000s. Copperhead had the misfortune of being introduced in one of Bob Haney’s most bizarre stories. Considering how bizarre pretty much all of Bob Haney stories are, that is saying something. If you’ll recall, in an effort to arrest Copperhead, Batman asks Wonder Woman and Batgirl to pretend to be in love with him…and then they really do fall for him. How could Copperhead not get lost in the shuffle? Batgirl gives Batman a Pink Batmobile. Wonder Woman sculpts a statue of Batman. WW and Batgirl both give Batman diamond studded utility belts. Batgirl comments, “My plane is on automatic and I’m on the smooch beam.” Yeah, hard for Copperhead to register through all that.
Michael York (Logan’s Run; Three Musketeers, Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers movies) voiced Count Vertigo on Batman : The Animated Series, and I can picture a young Mr. York playing a live action Count Vertigo. The BTAS vertigo didn’t look nearly as cool as his comic counterpart, but I’ll be the comic costume would have been a bitch to animate.
Where’s the big old tail in Copperhead’s Who’s Who image? While his B&B cover debut makes him look amazing, a snake character with legs always feels lame. Not.
Cosmic Boy’s original costume is best, because of the shoulder rings… did I imagine he could take them off and magnetically toss ‘em at foes? Probably. Hot.
The dark blue and magenta combo sported by Cosmic King is terribly unstylish. Not.
The Council? All I see is The Gang and a wonky robot. So very, very Not.
Count Vertigo. A haughty aristocrat’s cape that doubles as a rug. Smoulderingly Hot.