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In the latest Comic Book Legends Revealed, discover how a Simpsons joke was later adapted into an actual Green Lantern crossover.
Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the eight hundred and twenty-first installment where we examine three comic book legends and determine whether they are true or false. As usual, there will be three posts, one for each of the three legends. Click here for the first part of this installment. lick here for the second part of this installment’s legends.
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COMIC LEGEND:
A Green Lantern crossover codified a sound effect joke made in The Simpsons movie
STATUS:
True
In 2007, The Simpsons Movie came out and was a big hit.
Early in the film, Grandpa Simpson begins to have a sort of fit during church services and he shouts out what sounds like a prophecy, including the phrases a “twisted tail”, “a thousand eyes”, “trapped forever” and “Eeeepa.” As it turned out, Grandpa really WAS predicting the events of the film (that led to near disaster for Springfield) but at the time, only Marge Simpson really believed that that was the case.
The first thing she needed to do was to acquire a copy of a video that Comic Book Guy made of Grandpa’s freakout at church. So Marge visits Comic Book Guy and trades him some of her pregnancy pants in exchange for the video. After they watch it again, Marge wonders what “Eeeepa” could possibly mean. Comic Book Guy then theorizes, “I believe that’s the sound Green Lantern made, when Sinestro threw him into a vat of acid.”
When Marge returns home, she learns that Homer has adopted a pig (that was in a recent Krusty the Clown commercial and was due to be slaughtered before Homer adopted it) and she realizes that that is the “twisted tail.” Later, Homer accidentally contaminates Lake Springfield and when a squirrel jumps into the water to avoid a raccoon, it emerges having been mutated so that it now has a thousand eyes (the next part of the prophecy) and then the Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA, hence “Eeeepa”) shows up and determines that Springfield be encased in a giant globe to seal it off from the rest of the country (“trapped forever”). The Simpsons escape, though, and eventually save Springfield from the dome (and from the later bomb meant to destroy the whole town as a secondary plan by the EPA).
The movie came out in July 2007 and somehow, even before the end of that year, the Green Lantern comic book responded!
November 2007’s Green Lantern #25 was the over-sized finale of the epic Sinestro Corps War storyline (recently voted as one of the Top 100 Comic Book Storylines of All-Time by CBR voters!)…
and the final battle occurred on Earth at Coast City, where Sinestro takes on Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner, whose rings were drained of their powers by the evil Manhunters…
This sequence was handled by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, with inks by either Oclair Albert, Julio Ferreira or Ivan Reis himself. Moose Baumann and Rod Reis colored the book (although I think Baumann might have just colored the Ethan Van Sciver-drawn sequences in the book) and Rob Leigh did the lettering.
The now powerless Hal and Kyle must avoid Sinestro’s evil attack just with their own guile and as they leap from one building before Sinestro destroys it, the sound effect is, you guessed it…”Eeepa!”
Very cute stuff. It’s not a vat of acid, but since Hal and Kyle were powerless at the time, a vat of acid would have probably ended the series, so it’s all good.
Thanks to Johns, Reis, Albert, Ferreira, Baumann, Reis and Leigh for the very clever Easter Egg! And that comic came out just four months after The Simpsons Movie! That’s a QUICK turnaround for a joke like that!
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OK, that’s it for this installment!
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