Saturday, September 22, 2007

Jehovah's Witness joke in Countdown #37

I mention this primarily for Elliot's amusement and/or frustration: Countdown #37 contains a jab at door-to-door evangelism when stage-magician-themed heroine Zatanna shows Mary Marvel around her mansion:

2 comments:

D. G. D. Davidson said...

Okay, I think that's pretty funny.

But that's not Mary Marvel! Don't they know she's a six-year-old now?

Elliot said...

JWs do use the term 'literature' a lot, but I don't recall them using the phrase "the good word" at all. But there could be regional variations!

One wonders if the comic writer was sitting at home working away on this very issue and JWs turned up at his door!