Santo in Action – Eddie
Y’know, there are Blue Demon people, and Santo people. It’s kinda like Batman and Superman – Blue is the slightly blurred hero while Santo is the squeaky clean superman. But after seeing this panel, maybe I’ve misjudged El Enmascarado de Plata…
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That Santo!!! (I think I still prefer Blue, though
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Hmm.
I don’t know anything about this comic strip or story but kinda reminds me of Superman and Wonder Woman.
Off topic.
What do you guys think about the Adobe Macromedia merger?
I wonder how this will affect flash?
I don’t ever remember Superman and Wonder Woman getting in this sort of booty-riffic clinch.
I could be WAY off, but I wouldn’t think it matters what happens to Flash. From versions 4 upwards Macromedia has been just shuffling the cards – with each version there hasn’t been any radical jaw-dropping changes. Maybe Adobe will finally release a TV animation-friendly version. And if it all turns to crap, we still have our MX licenses.
BLUE!BLUE!BLUE!
I am in complete agreeance in the Blue people and the Plata people. I am and always have been Bluue through and through!
We can only hope Blue gets the same kinda action in his upcoming comic. ¡Arriba Demon!
Dios Mio, indeed!
Blue Demon is a bad ass, but El Santo is a sacred icon.
I think Santo is the gods’ gift to Mexico… and Mexico’s gift to the world!!!
Viva Santo!
jorge
If it was Blue in the same pose, ol’ Proffe Manotas’ amazing gorilla hands would be grabbing her in a whole different place!
Eddie, you and I have talked plenty about our frustration that there was never a Santo y blue flick that explored the differences in their characters. Where was the buddy film where Santo was the uber-boyscout and Blue was the edgier anti-hero type out doing all the dirty work? “Santo contra las mujeres vampiras” should have been one of these, and when time came to impale the ladies, the holier-than-thou Saint should have stepped aside while Blue took on the unseemly grisly task.
From our prespective here and now, this type of Angel & Devil dynamic seems so obvious, but we forget that while Santo was a huge rudo for years, Blue never spent a day as a heel ever…
K
So true Keith!
As far as a pop culture icon, call me a proud Mexican nationalist but I just can’t get over Blue Demon’s name being in English. El Demonio Azul sounds so much better!
And yes, English names are a staple of lucha, but for our most beloved Mexican hero? Hell no!
Yeah Keith, someone so needs to do that movie. Alas, I can’t ever see Los Hijos ever, ever, sharing the spotlight.
So Jorge, I’m assuming you have your foot firmly in the Santo camp?
My brain thinks blue, but my heart is silver. El Santo for life. Forever!
Spoken like a man who was married in a Santo hood