Begorrah! Where's me shilelagh?

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 17 2008 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Hm, how does one celebrate St. Paddy’s Day in comics book terms?

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Apparently Banshee (Sean Cassidy) no longer has a green costume so that kinda sucks.

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The CBR forum discusses Irish superheroes.


A video of Irish writer Garth Ennis (and Darick Robertson…with Laura Hudson!)

The Dublin City Comic-Con’s Myspace Page. No word on whether there will be one in ‘08.

Hm…is that it? Why doesn’t someone make a comic book version of the legend of Cúchulainn? Think of the visuals for his battle rage alone!

The first warp-spasm seized Cúchulainn, and made him into a monstrous thing, hideous and shapeless, unheard of. His shanks and his joints, every knuckle and angle and organ from head to foot, shook like a tree in the flood or a reed in the stream. His body made a furious twist inside his skin, so that his feet and shins switched to the rear and his heels and calves switched to the front… On his head the temple-sinews stretched to the nape of his neck, each mighty, immense, measureless knob as big as the head of a month-old child… he sucked one eye so deep into his head that a wild crane couldn’t probe it onto his cheek out of the depths of his skull; the other eye fell out along his cheek. His mouth weirdly distorted: his cheek peeled back from his jaws until the gullet appeared, his lungs and his liver flapped in his mouth and throat, his lower jaw struck the upper a lion-killing blow, and fiery flakes large as a ram’s fleece reached his mouth from his throat… The hair of his head twisted like the tange of a red thornbush stuck in a gap; if a royal apple tree with all its kingly fruit were shaken above him, scarce an apple would reach the ground but each would be spiked on a bristle of his hair as it stood up on his scalp with rage.

UPDATE: From the comments, the comic book versions of Cuchulainn (pronounced, sort of, koo-CULL-in): Illustrator Connor Willumsen:
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And…the standard…

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  1. Lee Maguire says:

    “Why doesn’t someone make a comic book version of the legend of Cúchulainn?”

    Sláine from 2000ad is partly based on this.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine_%28comics%29

  2. Steve Taylor says:

    I thought this sounded familiar.
    I wish someone would make a Slaine movie.

    Heck,…I really wish someone would make a Nemisis movie.

  3. Steve Taylor says:

    I thought this sounded familiar.
    I wish someone would make a Slaine movie.

    Heck,…I really wish someone would make a Nemesis movie.

  4. Steve Taylor says:

    Wow!
    That things faster than I expected.
    (One of those spellings is correct. I’m pretty sure.)

  5. Katherine F. says:

    Cuchulain was the original inspiration for the Hulk. TRUFAX.

    (…I don’t know if that’s actually true, but I want it to be.)

    There is a comic called An Táin which features Cuchulain. Here: previews. Unfortunately, it’s in Irish, but the publishers have provided an English translation of the text and the art is very pretty.

  6. Ralf Haring says:

    “Why doesn’t someone make a comic book version of the legend of Cúchulainn?”

    http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=52343&zoom=4

  7. Cúchulainn is never far from my heart …

  8. “Why doesn’t someone make a comic book version of the legend of Cúchulainn?”

    Soon-to-be-rock star Connor Willumsen is on it…

    http://connorwillumsen.blogspot.com/2008/01/cchulainn.html
    http://www.drawingboard.org/viewtopic.php?t=62133

  9. Steve Taylor says:

    I wish someone would make a Hulk movie.

    (…never mind,….)

  10. Crackerbob says:

    I’m pretty sure that Banshee’s costume is a casket these days. Just sayin’

  11. michael says:

    that was a great interview with Garth and Darick! Thanks. :)

  12. That Bachalo image is one of my favorite drawings of Banshee.

    However, as Crackerbob pointed out, Banshee is dead last I checked (which I thought was almost as big a mistake as killing Colossus), so that kinda sucks even more.


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