Bea Arthur was a founding member of Rob Liefeld's Youngblood?

[captain_slinky]

Jump on board the captain_slinky Thought Train Express!

Woke-up at 7am to take the many elixirs and concoctions required to make life livable right now during Allergy/Cold Season, turned on the TV and let all the stuff kick in.

Only thing on TV was a re-run of The Golden Girls.

The Golden Girls were traveling to Rose's home town of Saint Olaf for some hillarious reason or another, but my drug-addled brain became fixated on one AND ONLY ONE detail of the show.

DAMN those old broads wear a lot of huge shoulder pads!

For a while I toyed with making jokes comparing the Golden Girls to the 1988 Chicago Bears Defensive Line-Up, but then the drugs took me elsewhere. They took me to my current obsession, The Emerald City Comic Con.

So my mind kept going back and forth between Golden Girls and Comic Books... Comic Books and Golden Girls...

And then I started wondering about Shoulder Pads in comic books. I think that the first comic book character I ever saw that had those HUGE shoulder pads was Rob Liefeld's "Cable" in New Mutants #86. And after that I don't think he drew any characters that DIDN'T have those giant shoulder pads. And this, in turn, influenced pretty much every artist of the time to also put shoulder pads on every other super hero being published. Even SPIDER-MAN and BATMAN got temporary costume designs that had shoulder pads on them!

So now I have to hunt down Rob Liefeld at ECCC and ask him directly (1)WHERE did the inspiration of all the giant Shoulder Pads come from and (b) who was wearing them first - his characters or the Golden Girls?

Comments

[alittlerebel.livejournal.com]

I'd be scared to live in your head. I'd never know where you were going to take me. hehehe I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I know who alot of their main characters are. I'd enjoy seeing some pictures of the ones you are talking about.

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

The Golden Age Girls were heroes (Mystery Men)in the 1940s who fought the Nazis using St. Olaf, Norway as a base. They never could quite give up the thrill of the game and continued to wear their costumes under their civilian clothes long into their senior years. Unfortunately, their modern costumes were designed by one Robert Liefeld, designer to the celebrity heroes who was more about the flash of the costume than its practicality under normal clothing or when trying to change quickly in a cramped phone booth.

So now a challenge for you. Design a super hero persona for each of the Golden Girls, keeping in mind that they were in their 20s during the war (except for Sophia who would have been in her late 30s.)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I accept your challenge! Do you have a preference of which Universe they come from? Marvel, DC, Image or Watchmen?

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

Doesn't matter to me. As long as that world had a WWII and also had Golden Girls. ;)