Combo Man is the Snack Powered Super (?) Hero - Comic Tropes (Episode 62)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Paid promotional comics are always a bit odd. But if it's supporting something like asthma education we get it. But mostly folks just phone things in. Combo Man is no exception.
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With that combo of The Punisher and Cap's emblems, he looks like he should be called Molar Man. :)
LMFAO!!
Den-Teen...
Beat me two years to it. I was going to say, "pissed-off-molar---man."
You need a BUFF
@Dorian Green sweet tooth for justice
combo-man teams up with kool-aid man. thus starts the war of or on obesity
Him liquifying his bullies would be the Punisher in him.
Actually I have heard of Force Works.
This is my favorite comic.
Maybe the news papers mentioned the Super Adaptoid?
He named himself after the snack he was eating while being blasted by super energy? Can only imagine if he was eating Ding-Dongs at the time...
Hostess Man! Able to shoot out Hostess Fruit Pies at his enemies with them being unable to control their urges to eat them
Doctor Ding-Dong, who constantly has to clarify what his name means.
Eating meatmeal cream pies...
*CREAMPIE MAN HES HERE TO CREAM CRIME*
Luckily, he wasn't eating spotted dick.
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Only the cream rises to the top!
OK, hear me out: A snack-powered superhero, but he gets his powers from some brand that got discontinued in the 90s. A powerful hero in his teens, now he must attempt to balance the normal stresses of grown up kid heroes with the added obstacle of needing to order decades-old boxes off eBay and choke down inedibly stale snack food in order to keep fighting crime.
Probably not the best story to attach a brand too but at least it'd be worth reading.
Ecto Cooler: A superhero who gets his powers from Hi-C Ecto Cooler.
Pepsi clear man. If he isn’t killed by 20 year old soda he gets powers for a few hours
Pizzeria chip man. Has the powers of an italian keebler elf. Fudgetaboutit
Oh, I'd give anything to see Combo Man show up in Marvel Legacy.
So when can we expect a live action movie from Marvel Studio?
2022.
Dang, that soon? Gonna start plans to camp overnight to be first in line. Gotta remember to pack some Combo snacks.
Combo Man will be set up in the after-credits scene of the Century movie.
IDK...maybe a Netflix series or something. Love to see more, provided he gets a total overhaul to his costume...and of course reorganizing his abilities so he doesn’t have street-level guys like Punisher and Captain America alongside OP characters like Silver Surfer and obviously scrapping a few of them.
They better do Darkhawk and Moon Knight before Combo Man.
'Stat' is the artist John Statema, who sadly passed away around 2000. He did a lot of work for Malibu comics.
Dumping a bag of Combos on your face got you an instant thumbs up. The paper plates made me wish I could have given you a second thumbs up.
I love Combos! They are my favorite road food. We need to get Combo Man integrated into the mainstream Marvel universe. How can we do that? Who do we need to call? This guy will be the next Avengers villain.
He'd be better than most of them!
He needs a better costume. An amalgam villain, okay, I mean, the Super-Adaptoid does stuff like that, but that costume...Jesus.
Combo is definitely my favorite depression meal
Oh yeah
@@VorpalDerringerclearly not everyone understand the perfection that is Combo Man's costume.
The way his superhero parts are stacked on top of each other, he should have been Rolo Man.
The character design has to be based on an eight year old's fever dream.
Remember the "crunch n munch" X-men tie-in. Or "Go to Pizza Hut and get your X-men VHS tapes?"
"Combo-Man!". Because they couldn't call him "90's Cluster F*** Man"!
I think I heard there was a contest to try and guess all the parts that make up Combo Man.
The thighs were probably a good way to throw anyone off and not have to actually pay out the prize.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that..guessing Thor and Doctor Strange's body parts would be more recognizable than Gambit and Century
What power is he getting from The punisher? I like to imagine it's PTSD
Honestly, I love this gimmicky shit. Comics and comics with adverts like he was talking about were part of what made comics so goofy and fun.
The fusion of the Punisher and Cap's logo looks like a really p.o.'d tooth. Too much snacking has it's consequences.
Actually ate a bag of Combos while watching this! ...but I don't anybody that eats a "Combo" one at a time.
theajshow It sounds so unsatisfying.
It's actually easy to learn about most supers in the MU. There are loads of reference works around for him to access. Concerning his defeating the Super-Adaptoid, strangely enough, Combo-Man is the perfect guy to defeat him: He just needs to overload his adaptive ability. Super-Adaptoid is limited to five power sets at a time, and Combo-Man has more than that. So yes, overloading him is the way to go and always has been. This does not make it a better comic, mind you. It just makes the Adaptoid's defeat legitimate. Combo-Man is still a bad idea, badly executed, with bad artwork, bad pacing, and pretty well bad everything.
Joke is on you, Combo was hoping that reviewers would be reviewing the comic and buy Combos for a gag! Combo was playing the LONG game and you played RIGHT into their plan!
I picked up on your esoteric Mystery Science Theater 3000 reference at about 7:20 from the episode "Space Mutiny".
(Anyone else?)
What’s funny is that your description of what Combo Man’s powers should be are those of an already existing Marvel character. Her name is Husk (Paige Guthrie). She’s also the brother of X-Men member Cannonball.
1:All those powers are useless because of his shins. Super strength,laser vision,magnetism,healing,heightened senses, symbiotic physiology, whatever the fuck century has, and kinetic charging all get beaten by the power cosmic
2: if he has the hulks brain, why isn’t he dumb? Why does this mean he has super strength if the hulks powers come from his enhanced muscles system. Also, hulks massive, why is that shit normal sized.
2: What in the fuck is the purpose of having Iron mans mouth? Like, why? It does nothing, it’s just a fuckin mouthpiece
3: If daredevils powers come from blindness and heightened senses, why does having daredevil hips do this, most of the 5 senses are located on the face, not the hips? And how does he shoot the damn lasers!
4: are his elbows Cletus cassidys just covered in symbiote? If so, why doesn’t the costume take over his whole body, what’s the purpose of symbiote elbows? If not, how are his elbows just pure symbiote, i am so confused
5: Spidermans web shooters travel up his arms, how does he just fire webs? He didn’t get organic ones till the 2000s
6: what’s the purpose of captian America and punisher being there? You have the only two humans in the most vulnerable spot, his fuckin heart. And what do they even do! How does having captian America and punishers heart do shit? Does it give him combat training? And if so, HOW DOES IT WORK IF ITS ON HIS HEART?!?
7: Would he kick something to charge it with gambits feet? How the hell does that work? And if so, why is that relevant, *WHEN HES GOT THAT GODDAMN POWER COSMIC?!?!?*
I wish I could write and reinvent this character for modern day, a good back story
A clone created by the jackal from collecting the DNA of different superheroes
Him dealing with trying to make a life even though he knows her just the culmination of different people
Him trying to learn how to live from the people he was cloned from, and each teaching him a contradicting piece of advice.
It would be cooler if his flight was owed to Namor's ankle wings.
I love how the chest logo, being half Punisher and half Cap, looks like a tooth with two big cavities in it. 😆
His knees are on fire... how is this not a joke? Flaming knees are dumber than thigh strap pouches and giant shoulderpads put together.
His _knees_ are on fire...
Aaaand...the Super-Adaptoid is basically Marvel's version of DC's Amazo!
My favorite snack comic is the "What if" series where Galactus tries to make Spiderman his Harald, but instead takes Aunt May. Then she fills his hunger with Twinkies haha
I'm surprised you didn't mention the second Beyonder comic. Didn't he look like a combination of a bunch of superheroes?
Remember Kool-Aid Man comic?
C-CAN'T ADAPT...!
Some sort of cheese filling.
Best description of Combos.
I was hoping he was going to win by throwing a Hostess Pie at the Super Adoptiod
I had a few comics where this guy was just in ads. Never in my dumbest dreams did I ever expect even an 8 page comic for Combo Man to exist.
There was a contest on the back of the minicomic if I'm remembering right. You had to fill out a form with all the characters that make up Combo Man. I can't remember what the prize was now, but as a kid I remember waiting for weeks to see if I had won. I didn't win....
I’m glad I finally got to experience that horrible comic in some form. Thanks Chris!
Ignoring how goddamn terrible the costume is (what with the fact I could assemble a less random selection by literally going on the Marvel Wiki and hitting ‘Random Page’ a dozen times-and Century is the LAST fucking person they coulda picked), the layout of these powers is fucking insane. Hulk, Iron Man, Cyclops, Magneto-little weird but okay-Sabertooth, Human Torch, Carnage AND Spider-Man-yeah, I guess still acceptable-but PUNISHER, DAREDEVIL and CAPTAIN AMERICA???? OK, Daredevil’s abilities are all about compensating for his blindness, but Cap is rendered totally redundant by almost everyone else; Punisher doesn’t even HAVE superpowers...unless he somehow gains Frank Castle’s fighting skills. Gambit is another one you can chuck, but *SILVER FUCKING SURFER?!?!?!* This pretty much renders Comboman HIMSELF redundant just by merit of having the Power fucking Cosmic!!!!!! All this...just to promote a SNACK FOOD...goddamn Marvel.
Thing's elbows, Daredevil's eyes, Prof. X's lower back, Mandarin's feet, Torch's neck/Iceman's jaw, Rogue's crotch, Wolverine's forearms/Cyclops's hands, Blob's rack.
Your version of Combo Man actually sounds pretty cool!
It feels like Combo Man and 90s Squirrel Girl.should joined Excalibur or X Factor or even Thunderbolts .
Still waiting for Flaming Hot Cheetos Man comic...his super power involves sphincter burning.
I really enjoyed "Force Works". But then I'm a fan of Abnett and Lanning. ;) Century actually came back in some "Avengers Annuals" as part of Wonder Man's Revengers-Team. ;-)
Dude, they may look like dog snacks, but, those Pepperoni Pizza flavored ones are scrum-diddly-umptious!
Comboman should have just been a living pretzel dude that leaked cheese blood when the Marvel villains inevitably beat the snot out of him.
With the layers..perhaps they should've been called Big Mac Man.
Their battle cry:
*Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun!!!*
Not going to lie, combos actually sound pretty tasty. Sadly you can't get them here in the Frozen North of Sweden so I can't verify that without jumping through more import hoops than I'd care to for a mere snack.
I bet Victor von Doom never has this problem.
Remember the Every-Man episode in The Simpsons? I wonder if Combo-Man was their inspiration...
Ok now someone give us the bonkers post-modern Combo Man movie where they've discontinued Combos and he has to tightly ration his power pretzels and hunt down every last remaining bag just to keep his powers and not be murdered by his enemies [because he's definitely flying off to take violent revenge on those bullies right now].
Someone should make a comic where we see Combo Man in the modern day, really fat from eating combos to activate his powers because that's what would realistically happen, like imagine if this guy wanted to go on a diet, he'd have to let go of being a super hero and deal with the fact that he could be saving people from danger if he would eat some combos. Idk maybe it's just me but I think a ridiculous character like this could have some interesting stories told about them if a writer applied realism to it without being overly dark
The combination of punisher skull and Captain America star looks like a tooth with cavities on Combo Man's chest.
A COMBO
ROFLMFAO
BRO! Really?! With Hulk hair & Century thighs? Lol
I kinda thought combo man would be more related to combos themselves. Literally the only connection is the name which is generic and the fact he’s a combination of existing characters. How lame can you get?
As a pun lover, I approve of the end joke. But not this character, Combo Man's just stupid.
Combo Man could have actually been pretty cool if they took a better approch to designing his costume and powerset. As it is, he is painful mess of clashing colors and design elements
Tiramisu Man? Trifle Man? The layers are so deep...
You have to know the writer is just phoning it in on this comic... much like Bruce Willis in his last few movies. Poor guy must have drawn the short straw or pissed the boss off.
X-Men SpiderMan and Peter David’s Hulk was the stuff of the 90’s
The comic is terrible... But, my question is... Are Combos good?
He had all their powers and their weaknesses. Mimic is one of my favorite characters so I really liked combo man he needs a solo run.
If I ever gain super powers, I'm gonna name myself after a brand of chips.
DIO
Superman=Sunchips
Spawn=Gushers
Lantern Corp=Statbursts
Chris's version of combo man is better than the real combo man! Huh.....
That makes perfect sense.
I'll take a combo.... AND EAT IT!
Who ever thought to give him hulk's hair was clearly having a laugh you gotta be kidding me
I love the little things you do to add to your videos. The plate masks were a unique touch.
your shit is way better than linkara. It sucks you don't get more views
Superman Meets The Nesquik Bunny is a comic I had and recall fondly for some reason.
April, 2001. Philadelphia, Veterans Stadium. Phillies home opening game. I sneak in two bags of Combos. I notice one bag is a bit more thick than the other. Upon opening I discover that a combo(or a dozen) had been over filled to the point that I had a baseball-sized wad of cheese in the bag. After picking out the pretzel bits, I rolled up the cheese into a perfect ball. My friend and I went to the top tier of Veterans Stadium(Yup. "The Link" did not exist yet). We look over the side and see people entering the stadium. I target one individual and lob the ball of cheese over the stadium wall. Perfect timing. It nailed the man dead center on the top of his head. No I didn't keep looking to see if he had looked up...
I like to imagine his powers ran out when he flew out the window and he fucking crashed and died
I now have a compulsory need to make a Combo Man custom marvel legends figure. Its gonna be terrible !
Bro that “I’ll have the whole thing!” I’m dying
Eating Combos sounds easier and less painful than getting bit by a radioactive spider, at least!
Get Rob Liefield to write a new Combo man series to redeem himself
Oh God, I remember this. Thanks for the walk down memory lane (I think).
Well... now I want combos. Guess it worked.
I just walked to craft services to get some combos, so the advertisement worked?
Thank god there wasn't a pupu platter in the room where he hid.
Jeez, I remember this. Plus combos are disgusting.
11:04 I don't think he's supposed to be shooting at absolutely nothing, I think the web string is only going as far as it is underlayed with white and the rest is supposed to be one of the A.I.M. guys who is reaching out with his arm at Combo Man but the guy is already completely engulfed in webbing. Still terrible ^^
Gorgeous cover and the interior art was ahead of its time.
I know of Force works and that version of Sentry because of the nineties Iron man cartoon. The bad first season.
They call him Rick Wilder, and he couldn't be milder.
10:44 Your version of Combo Man is a bit like Generation X's Husk. But that sounds like a really good idea - maybe he could have a unique costume but wear a mask that looks like the one of whichever hero's powers he's using (and he seems to take the mask off, revealing another one, every time he switches powers). Even better, his powers could come from heroes who weren't so popular and got killed off, so when Rick gains the powers he vows to finish what these heroes started and carry on their legacy as Combo Man.
Speaking of Combos, how about Marvel Team Up? Also, can you do a feature on Steve Ditko?
John Goldie I’ll definitely cover Ditko at some point. I’ve been thinking about that one for a while. And while it isn’t Marvel Team-Up, I did cover an issue of Marvel Two-in-One where Thing and Ghost Rider team up to protect the new baby Jesus on Christmas.
You are an angry young man! Lol. That's the way to eat combos. One at a time.
Actually, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others getting intelligence briefings from super heroes to write their comics is canon.
I love the gambit impression at 5:20!
Spider-Man's webbing is a power?
When they were at: and he's gonna have Human Torch's knees and Carnage's elbows - who could have still thought this was a good idea? :D
Chris, new subscriber here thanks to HoodedCobraCommander788. I enjoy your in-depth analysis and variety of subject matter. You deserve more views. The animated introduction where you are drawn into a comic is neat. Couple suggestions for future episodes: 1) Lobo from the late 80's to mid 90's. Basically classic Main Man Lobo with ridiculous violence. 2) The unmistakable art of Kelly Jones on Batman during the 90's. Remember his exaggerated Batman ears?
lo1bo2 Sure, I read all of both. Definitely potential topics. Thanks for the suggestions.
Not gonna lie I kinda want some combos now
When a criminal tries to get your money with a gun:
OH CHEESEEEE
but you take a combo's pack:
Im so scared mabye another combo.
The criminal: i'm joke for you?
Another fun video! Was this originally a free mini-comic?
Ken Ives Yes and it was small, like 5 inches tall.
Combos...Snausages for people!
Well it worked, you bought a bag
Good episode, I lol'd a lot... LOL