30 July 2023
Please.
I could countenance a comparison between Mary Ann® and Ginger®, or maybe choosing a favorite Bradley Daughter®. Those particular cuties would indeed be worthy competitors (assuming competition were warranted), but to compare Richard Milhouse Jones to Lucas Robert Carr is a gimme on the order of Marilyn Monroe versus Eleanor Roosevelt. Not that Snapper and Eleanor couldn’t be nice characters in their own right, but seriously… It is not a fair comparison.
But what has Snapper Carr done? Well, he discovered that certain combinations of common calcium oxides and hydroxides (“lime”) could stop alien mind control. That’s cool.
Later, he betrayed the Justice League®. Not so cool.
Whereas Rick is THE Sidekick Supreme! His reckless disregard for authority and his desire to wave his dick at his teen buddies brought on Bruce Banner‘s transformation into the Incredible Hulk®. Maybe not so cool for the inhabitants of the Marvel Universe®, but still a kick for us fanboys watching the show! He was also the driving force behind the Titanic Teen Brigade® AND the Mighty Avengers®, and he rescued the Kree Renegade, Captain Mar-Vell®, from the Negative Zone®! He is a sensitive frustrated rock star philosopher poet! He is the thinking fans’ Snappier Carr, a Buckier Barnes, AND a Billier Batson! Fie on Rick’s detractors! Fie! Fie! Fie!
16 August 2023
The name Milhouse doesn’t seem to have much of a profile, either in literature or history overall until the advent of President Nixon. Now, of course, we might be most inclined to think of Bart’s Best Bud when we hear “Milhouse,” but while Rick was retroactively renamed “Richard Milhouse” sometime in the (Post Nixonian) Bronze Age, he first appeared as a “reckless teenager” driving his jalopy into the Gamma Bomb testing grounds in 1962. So, he was maybe sixteen then. By 1969, he is still explicitly “seventeen.” Well, comic book time. Back to 1962, then. So how is “Milhouse” justified?
Rick Jones® is the creation of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby,
and is held de jure by Marvel Comics® and Das MausenKorp®.
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