I mean.... Even the Sandman comic acknowledges that Weasley Dodds carried a piece of Dream's soul so he could also act like a representation of Morpheus

@@adeadphish7931 all I remember is dreaming bursting into a fit of uncontrollable laughter at the sight of the Sandman

Last i checked part of the reason Mephisto, the marriage guy, got so powerful was partly BECAUSE Lucifer abandoned his duties.

Wrong universe sadly, thats Marvel's Hell

@@PrincessAshley972 I thought it is Marville.

@@LetruneInedil no no, Marville is a Hell all unto itself. separate from the Marvel universe Hell

All wrong, that's all just part of their anti-overpopulation program. The Rehabilitation project of Princess Charlie is still in its infancy :)

You didn't even mention how she dated the son of satan and committed suicide in the 90s

I really liked Patsy's new book when I read it. What's happened to her lately? I hope she hasn't been cought up in all the weird, bad directions they've forced poor She-Hulk into lately.

@@devlinburgess2463 she is currently in iron man's comic

Kinda reminds me of how Hank Pym started out as one of many “mad science gone wrong” stories before becoming the superhero Ant-Man.

@@michealfoster4411 I hope that's a good thing, I've never been an avid Iron Man reader.

Stanley and his monster have made appearances in other comics through the years, so it's not like he's entirely gone. In fact, his grandpa is a Green Arrow villain.

Who currently owns the license?

I laughed way too loudly at Linkara imitating the face.

It’s like they drew The Mask but forgot to put on the green make-up/colour correction.

Something to rival Jerry Ordway’s Smiling Lois face

Imagine the weird crossover with Hazbin Hotel if this was picked up as a series

This would make awesome DC shorts, like they did with Animal Man, Amethyst, and plastic man

@@wolfmantheimpaler Cue Charlie showing Spot off to the others as an example of what a good demon looks like: Eating books, cracking corny jokes, and living rent-free in some kid's house.

Gross, boo this fool for trying to drag politics into this discussion

I mean fucking Krypto the Super Dog got a show, why not?

I came here to say just this. You got hear much earlier than I. Good show, wot!

Except it's not quite a reference. He made this 8 years before they started Girl Genius. I am thinking it was an idea they (Kaja Foglio has been his collaborator on most of his better works) for a long time. I now wonder if there were any references back in the 'What's New with Phil And Dixie' days.

@@iriswaters actually, it is still a reference, as Foglio had done stories involving the Heterodyne boys from even in the 80s(they first appeared in an issue of Grimjack!)

Speaking of which, someone get Linkara to review Spencer and Locke in the future. Now that's a messed up homage.

@@benwasserman8223 nyx is also hot

@@benwasserman8223 I have those comics. It’s overall a good story but it is a bizarre parody. Maybe I’ll Review it; Calvin and Hobbes was a huge shaper in my childhood

@@benwasserman8223 They actually came back last year.

There needs to be a convention for these guys.

@Mullerornis kinda funny given Morrison WANTED to use john constantine but higher ups said NO so Morrrison had to create Kipling for DOOM PATROL. at least Kipling isn't forbidden in the current DOOM PATROL tv series. also, what a shame. using a morrison character would have fit the whole idea of "Demon posing as a child's imaginary friend". given morrison's usual tropes and story beat. hell, stanley and his monster could easily become best friends with Dorothy spinner and her imaginary friends; OR with Nic Sax and Happy

So bierce is only cannon to this comic book?? Because the dude only aparence is in this 4 issue book

@Caleb Mayfield Hopefully. Especially if Kipling Meets Constantine. I would love for a Legends of Tomorrow / Doom patrol crossover. using the legends weirdest members or most iconic of the show (Sarah Lance, A.T.O.M, Nora Darhk, Heatwave, Constantine and the Firestorm duo), for that crossover, meeting the Doom patrol and realizing their weirdeness is NOTHING compared to doom patrol's weirdness. the only one who would be as weird as the doom patrol would be nora after becoming a fairy godmother. Imagine some of the following scenarios: - Nora becoming the godmother to Kay Challis and she needing to somehow bond with all the personalities of crazy jane. and actually bonding, given nora did had a rough life (being sent to an assylum, then inducted into a cult, being possesed by demon, etc). - Larry discussing with Jax and Stein about his own relationshipwith the spirit. Give or take Firestorm briefly syphoning enough of Larry's radiation so he can be without his bandages with willing everyone. - Maybe have Sarah and or Mick or ATOM bond with Clif. With Sarah maybe bonding about losing a loved one (sarah lost her sister, clif for years thought he lost his daughter, and did lose his wife). Or Mick and Cliff at one point bonding about cliff missing beer. and maybe ATOM using his powers to check cliff's robot body to maybe improve it a little. - Maybe have Gideon talk to Danny the Street. it could be such an awesome crossover. and the doom patrol could easily try to give in on the temptation of "they have a time machine. we can stop our accidents from happening" (especially given they NOW know they weren't accidents).

Would have been so much cooler if it was Kipling. "Chin, chin!"

"Because reality is...You are an Android, I AM MAN!"

Yeah, crazy pull

Yeah, and that show had the Haunted Tank... in this day and age 🤯

@@johnrussellpelt9091 Not gonna lie, I had to look up Wikipedia to understand what you were talking about. And I gotta say, while I do remember the main plot involving Booster Gold and Blue Beetle from "Menace of the Madniks!", I completely forgot the teaser from that episode which featured the Haunted Tank.

Considering that show had Batman teaming up with etrigan the demon I'm surprised that didn't happen

@@tykamen5588 From that point of view, it's not really surprising. Etrigan appeared in a few episodes of the DC Animated Universe series. Some of the people who worked on BTBATB also worked on the DCAU, so they at least had some familiarity with that character.

Think they showed up in a tie-comic. Have to check.

Good ole Phil Foglio. I realized of his works thanks to the Exile/Avernum series, of which he did special art cards for the various stats & skills.

I mean I just assumed Nyx was gonna kick a dog in the balls, but then Lewis said that line and...well...XD

He's also did a lot of early Magic: The Gathering art.

Hoo boy. Between that remark and the earlier call to action to produce Rule 34 artwork of Nyx, Lewis should probably be careful what he wishes for. ^_^

@@LanceOmikron I'm assuming that Phil himself has drawn Rule 34 artwork of Nyx, honestly.

Considering that this is from The CW, I totally believe this happened.

Linkara does... It's in the video.

Quiver, right?

@Mark Guerrero wait, that cowardly prisoner that tried to be Oliver’s sidekick while he was in prison?

@@datanotfoundpleasetryagain3559 no, no. The Star City Slayer originated in the comics. The Arrow version is more accurately an amalgamation of the two Stanleys.

Cliff and the Chief are the only folks who have actually (sorta) raised kids, so it works! :P

Actually that was much later, the earliest Hetrodyne boys story was a backup in a issue of Grimjack Phil wrote for First Comics.

Not for another six years, as issue 1 of Girl Genius was 2000 with planning started in 1998. At this point Bill and Barry were background gags, like the Winslow, whom has yet to show up in GG.

If that's the case, then I'm surprised that the "How To" guides don't include more death rays and horrible mutations.

@@BrendanKOD Well, it's a Foglio inside joke at any rate

@@tipulsar85 The Winslow made it into one Nick Pollota's Bureau 13 novels, and is...is this a spoiler? Hmmm....nah, not really...appears in the buck Godot Galliuafrey arc too. Gets around some, although weirdly I can't recall a sighting in Dynamo Joe.

I am kinda insulted they didn't appear in season 4 given we had a witch that became a fairy godmother (Nora dahrk). And yeah, THEY WOULD FIT LIKE A GLOVE. especially considering what they did in season 3 with "Beebo the god". ALTHOUGH I would like to see them appear in DOOM PATROL (both the comic boon in a new run AND the current tv show). Maybe even become friends of dorothy spinner and her imaginary friends.

@@ianr.navahuber2195 do both. they are *supposed* to be in the same universe now.

@@tyrant-den884 i think DOOM PATROL TV Show is in its own universe. Althpugh there is another version of doom patrol in the TITANS universe maybe legends of tomorrow could try something crazy like creating their own version of the doom patrol ?

@@ianr.navahuber2195 no, at the end of Crisis they clearly show that Doom Patrol is *supposed* do have been one of the universes now folded into theirs.

@@tyrant-den884 NOPE. the montage of the Multiverse's restoration (at the end of the special in part 5, in the Legends of Tomorrow episode) even showed that DOOM PATROL TV show's Earth is EARTH-21, TITANS' Earth is EARTH-9 (and it has their own version of the DOOM PATROL), AND CW's Arrowverse is EARTH-1. Also Stargirl's Show is set on EARTH-2 The characters in the shows like Flash's cast just BELIEVE their Earth is the only single one left and that ALL OTHER EARTHS got folded together into one (because reasons the higher ups at CW wanted and it is best if we don't question the weird customs of their species)

Yeah, I really wish they’d bring it back, it just seems like a fun concept to have a slice of life comedy story in the DC universe. True it may be a bit out there in genre but just as the series says at the end, the world is filled with superheroes, aliens, magic and demons so this would fit right in. I’m always a fan of showing the slice of life side of living in this world, like the support group in Astro city or marvels superhero fight repair/reconstruction unit

It gets even more meta. The Foglio's exist inside the Girl Genius setting. Phil was a traveling storyteller that gets wrapped up in things after Agatha claims her heritage, and Kaja shortly after the main cast escapes the Parisian Catacombs. Kaja manages to coerce Agatha into letting her write her biography after her adventure is over, in exchange for not telling anyone about the... compromising outfits they were in at the time. The comic is their version of events... which pissed Agatha the hell off, leading to the Foglio's escaping to OUR world. Meaning, in a weird sense, that Girl Genius and DC are somehow related.

@@fanusobscurus4309 I wonder if that means we can one day anticipate Crisis on Infinite Winslows!

Man, I *thought* the art style looked really familiar!

No, it's where they learned from

what is angel and ape?

​@@ianr.navahuber2195 "Angel and the Ape" is another humor series published by DC from the '60s. Angel O'Day is a private detective. Her partner is Sam Simeon, a talking gorilla who's also a comic book artist. Phil Foglio revived the series for a 4-issue miniseries in the '90s. Like "Stanley and His Monster", Foglio integrated them into the DC Universe, making Angel the half-sister of Dumb Bunny from the Inferior Five, and Sam the grandson of Gorilla Grodd. They've had reappearances here and there since then, including another four-issue miniseries in the early 2000s. I was actually torn about whether to request that series or "Stanley and His Monster". It came down to Linkara choosing this one based on the Sandman connection.

@@skemono Hopefully Linkara later chooses to cover Angel and Ape- was it good?

@@ianr.navahuber2195 I think it's just as good as "Stanley and His Monster". Though thinking on it, the character writing in "Angel and the Ape" is probably stronger than "Stanley and His Monster".

@Mullerornis what

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I never r Pelt aluzed hiw long sibce I last watched FUGUTIVE ALIEN until I hear hus little song and didn't rimmediately get the reference.

I remember that. What happened with Winnick? I've only gotten as far as the trade.

Not Judd Winick, it was the end of Kevin Smith's "Quiver" storyline.

@@skemono Oh yeah Kevin Smith wrote that run.

@@skemono You're right, it was Kevin Smith. I misremembered. Winick did pen Green Arrow stories though, some of which I thought were boring and wince-inducing, but Smith did write the Green Arrow resurrection arc that had Stanley and his Monster in it. And I hated what happened to Stanley in that story, so to amend my previous statement: F***ing Smith.

@@UltimateCharm Take solace in the fact that Stanley’s shitty grandfather was eaten by the monster, and Spot then wiped Stanley’s memories of the whole affair.

Clearly this means we must get Linkara to review Girl Genius next. To the Patreon!

And Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire!!

prob he was one of squirrel girl roghes that retired

That... Would be interesting.

I’d like to see it. If Lucifer can show up in the Arrowverse Crisis anything can happen

Maybe, but it's a guarantee they'd screw up their characterisations like they did to LITERALLY everyone else in that show. Spot would be a shapeshifter that turns into a dog (and thus ALL we see is a dog, ever, with a quick CG flash and a distorted face once or twice), and Stanley a creepy fat guy who pervs on the detective's daughter. It's a good thing that show's good, because as an adaptation... oy..... Literally the worst adaptation I've ever seen.

I mean, he's already shown up as an amalgamation with his grandpa in Arrow, so it would probably work

@@tyrongkojy I'd have to argue that. _I, Robot_ has it beat by miles.

That was a nice touch.

Me too. XXXenophile was a rare gem of being well... the same sort of light hearted, humorous, and just fun and pleasant stuff you get in this series, tone wise. Why I always liked Phil and Kaja's work. Just that sort of mood they channel. Which was incredibly rare in the genre that XXXenophile was in.

Considering j’onn saw Morpheus as L’zoril. I can believe that.

to be fair, Hades started it. It's believed the meaning of Cerberus is "spotted one". Because Hades is a pretty chill dude and Cerberus is a very good boy

@@LordSvzklx Sounds like you've got a little Skin in that particular Game, Wizard.

@@AzhreiVep Hey I knew that before Jim Butcher came along, I was quite elated to see he found a way to work it in!

@Mullerornis its hard to say with ancient greek descriptions, they were a lot less literal and more metaphorical about how they referenced things

Sadly, there’s no trade collection of the miniseries. Just the four individual issues.

I said FAIRLY.