In this age of reboots and re-imaginings, do you know who most needs to come back to screen and comics?
Yup, The Flying Nun!
Some of you are no doubt shaking your head as if in a dream. Oh, youngsters, there really was a network television series called The Flying Nun. Set at a convent in Puerto Rico, it starred future two-time Oscar winner Sally Field as Sister Bertrille!! Who could, as the title implies, fly.
How? let Wikipedia tell us:
Sister Bertrille could be relied upon to solve any problem that came her way by her ability to catch a passing breeze and fly. This was generally attributed to her weighing under 90 pounds (41 kilograms), high winds at the Convent high on the ocean bluffs, and the large, heavily starched cornette that was the headpiece for her habit.
Look, you may scoff, but this show lasted for 3 seasons on ABC. It had more episodes than Star Trek, for heaven's sake!!
And, as was the style in those days, it had it's own Dell comic book.
And to prove how worthy the franchise is of revival, check out this story!
The nuns take the orphans on a trip to tour a U.S. aircraft carrier!
But one of the orphans, Felipe, is a tad too curious!
All goes well enough, with no one aware of Felipe's presence...
Disaster strikes!
Oh, no!!
Fortunately, Sister Bertrille can save him!!
Yay!!
So, someone get to work on The Flying Nun Rebirth, will you?
This current bout of Friday Night Fightsis Minimum Clonage--we can't re-use any fighters during these twelve rounds. So let's check my list so far:
Spider-Man Judomaster Marl Kincaid T.H.E. Cat Namor Mr. Kotter John Carter Of Mars Steed and Mrs. Peel Ant-Man (Henry Pym) Shang-Chi
Well, you guys asked for it.
You see, you punk kids don't realize how good you have it today. Back in my day, this was popular culture:
Ye gods!! Let me attempt to explain the premise: Young and well-to-do Elsie Ethrington was arrested in a vaguely described "protest" in Chicago. So to put her life back together, she took the vows and joined a convent/orphanage in Puerto Rico, taking the name Sister Bertrille.
Well, it turned out, because of her light weight, heavily starched cornette, and who knows, maybe divine will, she could fly whenever a stiff breeze came along. So she and her fellow nuns and the orphans and a Puerto Rican playboy named Carlos had all sorts of wacky 1960s sitcom style adventures. No, really.
The best part? This show was on the air for three seasons!!!
And of course, as did virtually every show of the era, it had its own comic book:
Join us, then, as the nuns take the orphans beachcombing, where they discover:
Well, by the Inevitable Coincidence Theorem, the thieves choose that exact moment to retrieve their loot. The nuns hide the children, but they themselves are captured, and the outlook isn't good:
Fortunately, besides her flying ability, Sister Bertrille is smarter than the average crook:
But wait...she's not done kicking ass yet!!
BOO-YAH!!!
As an added bonus, from another story in the same issue, let me provide graphic evidence of a very important lesson:
YOU DO NOT F#$% WITH SISTER BERTRILLE!!!!
So endeth the lesson. And I think even Spacebooger has to approve of flying nuns chucking dynamite around!! The reason your parents took drugs is aptly illustrated in Dell's The Flying Nun #3 (1968), by author unknown and artist Henry Scarpelli.
Now, it is more important than ever that you vote for this fight, because if I win, I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now you like me!!! (And damn you, Academy, from removing all footage of that speech from the interwebs!!)