Greybishop's Board: Here We Go Again!

A while back, I made a post at the ghost. In the now defunct Purple Hatch II, I made a long case for the Greatest Moment In Television History. I say that moment happened in a 30 or so second spot at the end of an episode of The Flash where they revealed the full cgi-fest that was the first appearance of King Shark in live action. It was beautifully rendered but more importantly it was a total embrace of the crazy end of DC Comics villain gene pool.

This week on Evil Chef, King Shark shows us how to prepare Cisco-babs.

There are a ton of weird concepts in the libraries of both Marvel and DC but I am pretty certain that DC wins for having the most out there characters by volume. There's guys like Mr. Banjo (yep, for real) the one mentioned in my latest Doom Patrol article, Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, the psychic Gorilla Grodd (an actual gorilla, not just a dude with a nickname) on the villain side. There's also a ton of "hero" characters that tip the weird-o-meter too, like Detective Chimp (seriously, Sherlock Holmes' hat on a talking chimp), C'hp (a Green Lantern who happens to be an alien that looks exactly like a squirrel), G'nort (another Green Lantern, this one a talking, bumbling humanoid dog alien) and on and on.

While shows like Arrow and Supergirl have showed us a bunch of DC characters from the odd side of the comic book pages, no show has yet embraced that side more than The Flash. Recently, they took it up a notch when they put King Shark up against Gorilla Grodd in a supervillain rumble. While Doom Patrol may someday take the crown, given that The Doom Patrol comes from an already weird corner of the DC Universe and one of their villain teams (The Brain and Mr. Mala) is a brain in a jar with a beret wearing gorilla henchman, for now The Flash still trips that meter more and louder than any other show.