Monday, May 28, 2007

FF's Impish Mort

Well, it has been a while hasn't it? Randy is once again correct, as our last Mort was indeed Vartox, the hero of Tynola, a planet "trillions of miles from Earth". His story is meant to mirror the life of Superman in many ways, insofar as his home planet was destroyed and he was the last survivor. He swears to uphold his adopted homeworld of Tynola just as Superman has become Earth's greatest hero, even though he really isn't from Earth. His physical appearance is meant to resemble Sean Connery, and his name is an allusion to the movie Zardoz, in which Sean Connery wore a similar outfit. This, of course, begs the question of where Vartox is today. My guess is that he is sitting on a couch somewhere, balding and hurling insults at Alex Trebek every day when Jeopardy comes on.
Okay, let's move to the Marvel longbox for our next mort. I doubt he is as obscure as some that we have shown, so tell me what you can.

1 Comments:

Blogger KeeperOfBooks34 said...

Impossible Man, right? He's a rip-off of Mr. Mxyztplk? Or is it the other way around?

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