This is an old drama that I stumbled on while doing research for something else. I’m mostly typing this up ‘cause it’s at the risk of being lost to digital decay, and I think it’s a story worth preserving.
For those who don’t know, Charles “Chuck” Dixon was rather the Batman comics writer of the 90s. After establishing himself with smaller publishers and finding critical success working for Marvel on Moon Knight and The Punisher, Dixon joined DC Comics as the writer for the first Robin miniseries, a book successful enough that it led into two more miniseries and an ongoing monthly. The monthly series went on to run for 15 years and almost 200 issues, 100 of which Dixon wrote himself. He was also given runs on Detective Comics, where he helped create the characters of Bane and Spoiler, as well as on Nightwing, Batigrl, Birds of Prey, Catwoman, and Green Arrow. He was also one of the primary orchestrators of the various big “Bat-family” crossovers that happened during that time, like the Knightfall, Contagion, and No Man’s Land storylines. To this day, his social media pages tout him as "the most prolific writer of American comics ever."
Then, in the early 2000s, he left the company. The official reason, the reason that’s on his Wikipedia page, is that he wanted to focus his attention on CrossGen, a smaller publisher that was struggling at the time and would eventually go bankrupt. However, in the years that followed, Dixon would go on to claim that he had, in fact, been “blacklisted” from DC for his, quote, “conservative beliefs,” specifically citing a certain incident involving the Marvel cowboy character the Rawhide Kid.
See, the Kid—a character originally from the 1950s and apparently a favorite of Dixon’s as a child—had either recently been or was about to be the subject of a controversial five-issue miniseries from Marvel’s mature-audiences MAX line, in which he was re-imagined as being gay. Not in the sense that he ever gets to kiss a man, but in the sense that he is just flaming. For god’s sake, they called it The Rawhide Kid: Slaps Leather and released it with covers like this.
It’s all played very much as a joke but not, in my opinion, a mean one. Like, the punchline is less “ha-ha funny gay man” than it is “ha-ha, that gay man just kicked your macho ass and it didn’t even mess up his hair.” It’s camp, is what I’m saying. Even wit
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Yep. A year before before THE FANTASTIC FOUR# 1, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby came out with the Kid in RAWHIDE KID# 17 August 1960. Like DC's Flash and Green Lantern, he was a new character with the name and abilities of an older one; the original tall blond Rawhide Kid had run for sixteen issues from 1955. The new one, short redhead Johnny Bart, was a basically decent guy who had been unjustly outlawed. He wandered the Old West aimlessly, always trying to do the right thing but getting into one fight after another (like the long-running Kid Colt, who had been appearing in stories since 1948).
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Johnny was visually a striking creation in his all-black outfit with the jacket that buttoned up with a front flap, and he looked different from other comics cowboys. He was little, for one thing, described as only five foot two in one story, and still a teenager (so, "Kid" made sense for him as a handle). Many stories had huge beefy cowboys picking fights with him exactly because he was so unimposing. ("Ain't you sort of a puny runt to be carrying around those man-sized guns, squirt?"). They found out, though, that Johnny was a wildcat in a fight. Like Doc Savage's aide Long Tom, the Kid was quick and aggressive and regularly beat the tar out of men a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier than he was. (Kirby at his best choreography.) And that was before the guns came out.
The Comics Code was in full vigilant force in 1960, the main reason why the Silver Age had such oddly bloodless action. Adecade earlier, Kid Colt would shoot dead three or four bad guys per page but by this time he (and now the Rawhide Kid) was using the unlikely tactic of shooting the gun out of their opponent's hand without hurting them. Seriously. And they would do this while on a galloping horse against another mounted man. This is so close to impossible as to be fantasy. Inflicting flesh wounds was also common, we would see the bad guys clutching a shoulder but there was never any blood shown or screams of pain. Catching a .45 slug in a shoulder could be fatal in itself from shock and bleeding, but the victims just grunted and acted annoyed. It all seemed weirdly harmless.
Johnny Bart was an orphan raised by his Uncle Ben on a ranch near Rawhide, Texas, taught all the usual cowpunching skills as well as the science and/or art of quick-draw gunfighting. Ben is killed by owlhoots, and Johnn
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Kortika. That was the name of Isakasho's species. It was a name that rang a faint bell in Horok's mind, though he couldn't place his finger on where he'd read or heard it.
What he could place his finger on, however, was that Isa - the woman's preferred name - was a complete and utter bitch. As the group, with Kai at the lead, made their way to the basement of the station to get geared up, she could not seem to walk more than five paces at a time without complaining about her lack of authority over Horok, voicing her displeasure at being stripped of her rank, or whining about how her punishment was unjustified.
That last point, as much as Horok hated to admit, seemed to be accurate, if nothing else. As the woman had explained, she had been sent to the Petrograd Battalions for doing her job by the book.
She'd been a Staff Sergeant in the Borders, Customs, and Tariffs Enforcement branch of the Army. It was effectively Interior work, but for areas deemed too unstable or sparsely-populated to warrant a dedicated Interior presence for tasks as menial as border security.
Isa's service had been abruptly cut short when she stopped a vehicle crossing into the Governessship of Russia for a routine inspection. She had been running on autopilot, and didn't recognize her mistake until it was too late. The vehicle was, in fact, an armored limousine containing one of the Empress's great-grandsons and his wives.
Had the man had his way, he'd have had Isa's head on a platter. As it was, the nobleman had settled for sending her into the reddest of red zones Russia had to offer, and having her demoted to Sergeant if she survived.
Horok almost felt bad for hating the woman. She really had drawn the shortest of short straws, and he imagined that at least some of the animosity she held towards him was thanks to that. At the end of the day, at least some of it probably came from the fact that both of them were serving the same sentence, which Isa had earned through getting the proverbial book thrown at her, and Horok had received as a minimum punishment.
At least the man was not alone in having gotten a minimal punishment. Aka'raita, the third involuntary member of his squad, was an Exo pilot and, by her own admission, a bit of an alcoholic.
Predictably, her offense h
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
My baby brother is almost 11 (16 yr age gap) and he’s been begging me to take him to his first concert. I have two tickets for the Phoenix date, but it’s at Rawhide. If you’re unfamiliar with that venue, it’s a huge airplane hangar with standing room only and is the primary edm/festival venue in Phoenix. The show is listed as all ages, but I’m worried about the vibe in the crowd. I think he’s a little too young to be exposed to rave booties, pasties and the “party favor” use. My brother has no clue I’m considering taking him, so he won’t be upset if he can’t go because he won’t know. Looking for thoughts or experiences from those who’ve already attended. Thanks in advance!
Update: I’m so unbelievably sad. Our mom (who he lives with) caught the rona. So out of precaution for others, I didn’t take him. Since it was a surprise, he didn’t know and his precious heart was saved from the disappointment. I did go and it was beautiful. I’ve never seen so many people in a crowd sobbing crying at the same time. But I was a little melancholy the entire time because I knew he would have loved it. Thanks again friends, all your comments meant the world to me. Next time.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
My one year old Mal mix is a GREAT dog. She’s wonderful. Great with the kids. Doesn’t herd too much due to a lot of work with her. She’s stopped trying to chew on kid toys unless she’s bored and wants attention.
But any treat I get her is gone within ten minutes. Including the star mark “everlasting treat” wheels. She inhaled a kong “marathon” treat just now. I’ve had some luck with collagen sticks but they’re pricey.
She tends to ignore antlers and stuffed bones unless I’ve put fresh peanut butter on them. I need a good option to give her when the kids are doing homework or I’m cooking/cleaning so she’s occupied. She likes the porkchomps rawhide free twists, but she’s also gotten to a point where she just tries to inhale huge chunks and it makes me nervous.
Thanks! I really appreciate any insight and am so tired of spending money on expensive “indestructible” treats that are gone before I can blink.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
