Talk:Brat Pack (comics)

Page name

Pardon my ignorance, but how do we change the page name? "Bratpack" isn't correct, it should be "Brat Pack". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.249.185.2 (talk) 19:59, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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Different endings + plot summary

The article neglects to mention that the comic was edited (with the removal of some pages and the addition of others) and its ending was changed when the trade paperback was published shortly after the comic's inital print run.

In addition, the "Plot" section of this page contains some inaccuracies, to the point that it seems whoever wrote it read yet another version of the comic, different from the two I've read (although I'm open to the possibility I may have read comics with some pages missing or censored versions or something like that).

1. "The residents of Slumburg, Pennsylvania are venting about their dislike for Chippy[...]. Dr. Blasphemy challenges the host of a local radio program to hold a call-in radio poll: if a majority votes for Chippy and his fellow superhero sidekicks to die, then Dr. Blasphemy will carry out the will of the people and murder them." This is inaccurate: it is actually the radio host who suggests the poll and it is not revealed that it is Doctor Blasphemy calling until the sidekicks are already dead.
2. "Meanwhile, Cody finds himself repeatedly visiting Father Dunn. He reveals that all three of his fellow sidekicks hate and despise him. He further states that he has become disaffected with the life of a hero." This does not happen, he visits Father Dunn only once with Midnight Mink and a second time before the final confrontation with Doctor Blasphemy. While the second and third statement are true, he does not reveal it to Father Dunn.
3. "Dr. Blasphemy reveals that the kids are pawns of corporate America: they require the psychopathic heroes have teen sidekicks to make them appear wholesome to the masses." While not with this clarity, it is arguably what Father Dunn tells Chippy, in the first version of the comic (where it is also more strongly implied that Father Dunn is actually Dr. Blasphemy)
4. "Blasphemy then reveals that the superheroes murdered their sidekicks' parents so they would not have to split the money from the merchandise deals." This doesn't happen in any of the two versions.
5. "In one document, Chippy discovers a clause stating that when the sidekicks come of legal age, the heroes must start splitting the proceeds from their merchandise/media deals with their sidekicks." In the first version of the comic, afer Blasphemy has almost killed Chippy, the sidekicks find media and merchandising contracts they are being cut out from, but they have nithing to do with the sidekicks' age.
6. "Chippy realizes that the superheroes were responsible for the bomb blast that killed their original sidekicks, all of whom were on the verge of turning 18." This is inaccurate, in both versions Chippy has already turned eighteen.
7. "long-lost superhero True-Man returns and murders his former friends by trapping them under the church bell which he melts on top of them." This only happens in the second version of the comic.

I've read the previous versions of this page, in which, judging by the fact it uses the wrong names for the characters and contains events that don't happen in either version (despite claiming to differentiate the two), the plot summary seems to be based at least in part around an earlier version of the comic and then haphazardly edited by someone trying to shorten it.

Can anyone help me make sense of all this? 213.32.213.210 (talk) 14:38, 28 September 2024 (UTC)