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Thursday WHO’S WHO: Dr. U’bx

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…and then there was that time DC decided that the space cartoon chipmunk who was a Green Lantern needed a enemy who was sort of the space cartoon chipmunk version of Cobra Commander.

And it was glorious.

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The Unstoppable Gravy Express said on May 26th, 2011 at 9:05 am

Is his name some kind of weird, failed pun on “Rubik’s”, as in the cube, or something??

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Saidi said on May 26th, 2011 at 9:11 am

Glorious indeed. I always knew beavers & chipmunks were bad, but one that holds the Sucker Stick ( no double-entendre,please) is just the definition of evil!

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Katzedecimal said on May 26th, 2011 at 9:13 am

He appears to be a beaver. Either that or he has a toilet lid frou-frou thingie stuck to his back.

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Will said on May 26th, 2011 at 9:20 am

A beaver with “Crabsters”. And a “Sucker Stick”.

It’s like everything my parents warned me about when I went away to university, all in one suspiciously moustachioed package.

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The Unstoppable Gravy Express said on May 26th, 2011 at 9:36 am

FEAR MY PATIO LANTERN OF DOOM!

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Kid Kyoto said on May 26th, 2011 at 10:04 am

Those Green Lantern Corps books from the 80s were pure gold. Have they been reprinted?

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Dan Wallace said on May 26th, 2011 at 11:03 am

His name is a tip of the hat to Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney’s early partner and one of the pioneers of American animation. IIRC, this was confirmed in an editor’s note at the time.

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Joe X said on May 26th, 2011 at 11:04 am

He’s named after UB Iwerx, the original partner of Walt Disney.

I still remember the original Ch’p stories, where he was a realistic animal and drawn by Don Newton, and then Englehart and Staton retconned him into a funny animal.

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The Unstoppable Gravy Express said on May 26th, 2011 at 11:06 am

Wait, are you saying Walt Disney invented the Rubik’s Cube?

🙂

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Cookie McCool said on May 26th, 2011 at 11:12 am

You wouldn’t think a foot tall space beaver in a bathrobe with the aforementioned Patio Lantern of Doom would have a lot of, um, command ability. Does he just threaten to chew your knees off? At the same time, I’m a little disappointed he only got 82% RTWD rating.

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Brad said on May 26th, 2011 at 12:23 pm

Now I’m thinking about that issue of “Mosaic” where Ch’p got run over by a bus, and I’ll be bummed out for the rest of the day.

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Greg Morrow said on May 26th, 2011 at 1:39 pm

Is the Rex the Wonder Dog rating supposed to be missing?

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Greg Morrow said on May 26th, 2011 at 1:41 pm

Nevermind. My browser was apparently acting up. Sigh. Just because I opened a dozen tabs at a time, I still expect everything to load.

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Saidi said on May 26th, 2011 at 1:56 pm

I still hope Snow-flame appears in the WHO’s WHO. A fight between the god of cocain & Rex the motherfucking wonder-dog would be so epic even Wolfman’s Anti-Monitor would freeze in fear ( the Johns version is just a jobber…)

@Cookie McCool : well don’t forget that one of Billy Batson’s main enemies is a caterpillar with a radio, so Dr Ubx is still more threatening

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Burke said on May 26th, 2011 at 2:43 pm

So, is his name Ub’x, or U’bx? Or is it interchangeable? Because I see both spellings on that page.

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Skemono said on May 26th, 2011 at 5:25 pm

Ub’x is his real name; U’bx is his supervillain name.

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Evil Midnight Lurker said on May 26th, 2011 at 5:52 pm

U’bx is a misprint.

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Garfield said on May 27th, 2011 at 12:48 am

U’bx is the Earth-2 equivalent of oh hell I give up. Loved this run of GLC though.

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T.Shock said on May 27th, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Space animals always command respect and admiration. Hell, I’ve seen that Red Lantern cat mentioned a bunch of times places. He’s the next big thing, I’m telling you.

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The Unstoppable Gravy Express said on May 27th, 2011 at 2:15 pm

@Skemono: That’s ridiculous! Ub’x wears glasses. U’bx.. DOESN’T wear glasses. I don’t know how many more times I have to tell you.

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Doug said on May 28th, 2011 at 10:12 am

Doctor Ub’x was the only being in the entire *multiverse* who managed to survive the Crisis on Infinite Earths without being “re-written”!

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