Far Out There Christmas Clash – page 17
Children, gather ’round and i will tell you a tale. A tale from the far away distant distant past of 1990. A tale about a wrestling company called WWF, who put on a pa per view called Survivor Series for Thanksgiving. For WEEKS leading up to that pay per view, WWF would truck around this giant egg prop to events, promising to reveal what was inside at Survivor Series. And after weeks and weeks of build up, and no-insignificant hype during the show itself, the evening finally climaxed with the egg hatching to reveal… a guy in a sub-fast food mascot turkey costume who did a dance in the ring with the announcer. That was the payoff. Such is the legend of the Gobbledy Gooker. At least in Far Out There world, they had the decency to only waste one show hyping up their holiday disappointment.
But, of course, Vengeance doesn’t look anything like the ol’ Gobbledy Gooker, what with this not being a Thanksgiving series and all. Does that mean I actually made up something original for once? HAHAHAHAHAnope. It turns out there’s plenty of terrible Christmas gimmicks to chose from as well, such as The Christmas Creature from USWA. So this is really an in-joke twofer. Heck, I should have tried to find a way to slip in a little reference to Xanta Klaus just for completion’s sake.
(Historical Notes: I need to randomly put Vengeance back in this costume again for some later Christmas comic just to see who can remember where it came from.)
Vengeance comes from an ancient planetary culture entirely composed of similarly Dark, Dangerous, Ominous, Serious, Somber, Brooding People….and this is their traditional Christmas attire. You do NOT want to make fun of their ancient cultural traditions. Really. Like everything else, they take this very seriously. Especially the dance moves.
And the hidden weapons to use against anyone stupid enough to dare call it stupid to their face’s.
Although it probably doesn’t come up much to begin with. For some odd reason, their planet seems to receive very few visitors.