Anyone going to watch "Tripping the Rift" on Sci-Fi tonight at 10:30? Although I love Stephen Root (News Radio) this looks like a REALLY BAD show.

http://www.scifi.com/tripping/

According to sources too numerous to count, the Nazis have built over a hundred super-secret but highly fortified bases that were poised on the brink of achieving whatever foul plan they'd set into motion years earlier... only to have a rag-tag band of american misfits blow each one up... AND get away with the gold. I used to take this in stride, until the height of Nazi-bashing took place in the classic "Surf Nazis Must Die".

Is this fair? Not only this, but all the nazi soldiers look like they trained by watching Muppet re-runs. No wonder a single wise-cracking american can bring down a whole platoon with a cigar and some dynamite thrown like a grenade.

And now it looks like you want to keep Nazis out of the timestream?

Hey, you take out the annexing, the persecutions and a general tendency to murder minorities on a whim - you know what you have? A bunch of guys just trying to get by.

Well, yeah - trying to get by you so they can shoot you in the back... but I'm just saying.


....hasn't taken his medication in days...
Monte

(PS- On a similar vein, I'd like to suggest Harry Turtledove's "Guns of the South". While it is a great accounting of what may have happened if the Confederates gained a sudden advantage during the Civil War, with thanks to a handful of time-traveling Nazis.)

Tripping the Rift was awful. SOmething more for Spike than Sci-Fi channel.

I'd actually like to see Nazi's in a DC Legion storyline. It would make an interesting storyline. Nazi's present in the future. (I'm Jewish so chill on the feedback.)

Nazis Nazis Nazis!!!


Like, "Those are some bad Nazis."

Not like in "He was a Nazi's Nazi."

I have so few pet peeves. Indulge me.

Mike Sawin

Your Friendly Neighborhood Pain In The Ass

For those who have not heard this story before:


When Roger and I were doing CAPTAIN AMERICA a story appeared elsewhere in which the Black Panther battled the Ku Klux Klan -- and no attempt was made to pretend it was anything but the Klan.

Roger and I immediately decided we wanted to do a story wherein Cap went up against the American Nazi Party. (You can imagine how fond Cap would be of such an organization. The name alone would make his skin crawl.)

Anyway, this being Captain America we soon saw that our story would have to end with Cap coming to the horrified realization that he had to fight for the Nazi's right to be assholes as much as he fought for any American's right to be anything legal.

Crushed and disheartened, Cap starts to walk away, as the leader of the Party mocks him. "Ha! Captain America! I spit on your flag! I spit on your shield! I spit on YOU!"

Cap stops at the door, turning slowly with a big grin on his face. "Oh, well. . . " he says, "if you want to make this PERSONAL. . . "

And then we cut outside the room as Cap closes the door and in the next couple of panels we see plaster falling off the walls.

JB-)

I do enjoy your stories of things that might have been! Such a shame that those in power made them only that.

Wow - Did that ever see print? I'd love to see that!

This is why I could never be Captain America. I wouldn't wait for the personal insult to bust that Nazi's nuts.

Cap stops at the door, turning slowly with a big grin on his face. "Oh, well. . . " he says, "if you want to make this PERSONAL. . . "
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It's stories like this one that reminds me what a creative
"match" you and Stern always are. Your Captain America
run was one of my favorites...

-C!

The short Cap run is way up there on my list, too. Great stuff. Damned be he that caused it to be cut short.

That sounds like a great story JB. Just hope nobody steals the idea from you now (unless I misread your post and it did appear somewhere?)

Nope, never published. But if it is now, you'll know where it came from!