Liberty Bell March, Day 1: It's...

...Liberty Bell March! Featuring Monty Python all this month on Comics Oughta Be Fun! (gasps, falls down on beach)


Each day through the month of March, we'll present to you comic books highlighting Monty Python or its members, referencing their famous routines or movies, and (trying to be) putting them in context with video examples (where available). In other words, please don't sue us, Python (Monty) Ltd.! (Warning: there will be some John Cleese and Terry Gilliam material in this feature.)

First up: We can pretty much guess that somebody like, say, Deadpool is a big fan of the absurd compedy of Monty Python. But...if you ask me (and of course you won't)...who is the least likely character in the Marvel Universe to be an aficionado of the series? I think it would probably be this guy. And yet here he is, quoting from that infamous documentary on the Piranha Brothers, Ethel the Frog:


from Namor the Sub-Mariner #16 (Marvel, July 1991); script, pencils, inks, and letters by John Byrne, colors by Glynis Oliver

from Monty Python's Flying Circus series 2, episode 1 "Face the Press (or: Dinsdale!)" (15 September 1970)

So: join us here each week, my friends / for laffs 'n' fun undying / From six quite strange Englishmen / On Python's Circus, Flying!