It’s Bigshot, not Big-Time.
Posted by meekrat on November 16, 2009
I did stuff last night. If you enjoy said stuff and would like to see more of it, please comment upon it. More stuff will be up later today, most likely. Until then, here’s your daily dose of comic commentary.
As pointed out yesterday by Ishkabibble, Stan Lee has mixed-up Bigshot with Big-Time. While both have henchmen named Lefty, Big-Time’s gimmick was clocks. Bigshot’s gimmick is that he’s small and carries a big gun, and looks sort of like Kurt Kordok with shorter hair and no sunglasses. He’s also, obviously, the sort of guy to not think too big: while he has managed to keep the Sandman in his grasp for a little while longer, he’ll have to procure a new phone which must be either very hard or very easy when you’re a criminal. Also, even a man made of sand should be able to tell if he’s grabbed a phone or not.
TIL: Dollar signs on money bags are always a classic.
Is it really a discovery when it’s just standing out in the open like that? Also, is Nick an idiot? That’s obviously a robot, and in most stories like this, robots are prone to smash and kill any flesh-pods which stand in their way. I have to wonder why it’s holding its hands up, though. Did it get stuck that way? Does it need oil? Is it surrendering? Moreover: will it start smashing things soon? We can only hope.
I’m not sure where the Phantom was going with that. We’ve seen in things like “Phantom 2040″ that, should the previous Phantom fall in the line of duty, then the next in line will take up the skull ring despite the fact that he may have never trained or set foot in the Deep Woods before. This is especially true when his son is standing right there, and while I’m sure it’s well within the Phantom’s rights to end the Phantom line, shouldn’t his kids have something to say about that? Also, the first Phantom became so because his parents were killed by pirates. While this is a different time, I’m just saying he should take out his emotions by kicking some thugs’ teeth in.
I do like Guran’s reply. It’s nice and a little touching.
Tim said
Bigshot/time must be especially relieved that the rather esoteric way he gamed out Sandman’s participation in the robbery worked out so well. Then again, if we’ve seen anything it is that the Sandman is extremely suggestible; at least vis-a-vis Bigshot. Spidey, as is par for the course in this strip, abjectly failed to get Sandman to go along with his idiotic antics.