I respect Barack Obama. I think he's a cerebral fellow who actually thinks before he talks, though admittedly he lacks the common touch a bit. But he beats some of the sidewinders we've had in recent decades.
That said, I think he looks amazingly like "Flippa Dippa", Jack Kirby's unfortunate addition to the Newsboy Legion when he revived them during his Jimmy Olsen stint. I think it a good thing that Kirby added some ethnic diversity to the Legion, and I understand that scuba diving is happily not a cliche for the African-American community. But the name is painful.
Still I think he looks like Barack Obama. What say you all?
And while we're on the subject, it was noted that Gabby used to look like Richard Milhous Nixon in his original incarnation.
But was changed during the revival to avoid the similarity be a point of contention.
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Me thinks the Gabby resemblance is a lot stronger than the Flippa's. I would go as far as to say you have a characterization commonality with Gabby and Millhouse, too.
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Steven G. Willis
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I always felt there was a similarity between Obama and Flippa too, so it's not just you. But thinking about it, the resemblance might be even stronger between the President and Flippa Dippa's father, who can be seen in Jimmy Olsen issue 136!
ReplyDeleteTwo things about the name: it was originally "Flipper Dipper" (rather than "Dippa") and understandably shortened to "Flip" -- which seems to confirm the idea that the name came from nothing more than Kirby having The Flip Wilson Show on tv in the background while he was working at his drawing table.