History ComicBook / Marville

** Ted Turner trying to convince bystanders to save the world from a meteor shower by Tomahawk Chopping the meteorites (as mentioned in the ColonyDrop example above). One man calls him out on this, but only because [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad it'd be offensive to Native Americans]].

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Marville #7 is a submission guide for the then-upcoming Epic line of Marvel Comics.

%%* EvolutionaryLevels: The "biological clock".

* GenreRoulette: ShallowParody > GoingCosmic [[ContemplateOurNavels Philosophizing]] > PreHistoria Adventure/Philosophizing > HowWeGotHere RecapEpisode finale with post-modern FramingDevice > submission guide for now-defunct comic line.

%%* IdiotHero: Al.

* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: Used verbatim to prove that HumansAreBastards, going even further to claim that AUsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein had "20% more", [[ScienceIsBad which drew the roadmap to developing nuclear weapons]].

** The money Al is given as reward ($200,000,000) is in hundred-dollar bills, as confirmed by the second issue. However, the amount he's given (2 million $100 bills) would take up 3,980 square feet (more than 1.5 times larger than the area of the average house at the time ''Marville'' came out), and weigh 2,040 pounds (1.02 tons), meaning that not only should said reward money not even come close to fiting in a sack that size, but Al should not be able to effortlessly lift said sack.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Ted Turner and Jane Fonda are still alive (and married, despite divorcing before the comic was published) in the year 3002. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext No explanation is given for this.]]

* RandomEventsPlot: The first issue involves Ted Turner and Jane Fonda sending their son back in time to save him from a meteor strike that's going to destroy the planet, and in the past Al befriends a cab driver and a policewoman and wants to become a superhero. However, he decides that in order to be a proper superhero, he needs to understand the nature of morality and the meaning of life, so he uses the time machine to travel to the dawn of creation to meet God, who takes them on a journey through history to witness the dawn of life, meet talking dinosaurs, and then discover Wolverine was the first human being and a leader of primitive man. Along the way during this there's inexplicable celebrity cameos, {{Plot Hole}}s, philosophical and scientific discussions on what is happening that present absurd or incorrect answers to the questions being asked, and the things the characters are doing and their reasons for doing them change between issues.

* ConfirmationBias: [[in-universe]] The characters repeatedly insist that God had to have created everything, or at least set it in motion, because the conditions for life to evolve on Earth are just right. Mickey points out that across billions of gallons of water across the entire planet across millions of years, sooner or later the right chemical reaction to form the first biological life would happen due to random chance. But given she is being presented as a StrawCharacter, the characters insist this is just too perfect to be random chance, so it ''must'' be the work of God.

* ConfirmationBias: The characters repeatedly insist that God had to have created everything, or at least set it in motion, because the conditions for life to evolve on Earth are just right. Mickey points out that across billions of gallons of water across the entire planet across millions of years, sooner or later the right chemical reaction to form the first biological life would happen due to random chance. But given she is being presented as a StrawCharacter, the characters insist this is just too perfect to be random chance, so it ''must'' be the work of God.

* ToonPhysics: There are a few moments of this, such as a man karate-chopping flaming meteorites or Batman bashing someone's head in until their head. Considering the semi-realistic artstyle and traditional physics the series otherwise runs on, they're rather abrupt.

* AdaptationalVillainy: ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/IronMan, and ComicBook/BlackPanther are considerably more dickish than their main counterparts.

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Issue #4 makes the (debunked) claim that only humans kill members of their own species.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
** Apart from all the various inaccuracies about dinosaurs, Jemas continually refers to the Jurassic Period as "Literature/JurassicPark". This may be a joke... but it happens so often that Jemas may actually believe that's the real name.
** Hadrosaurs and velociraptors, aside from being drawn in an anatomically inaccurate way, are shown living at the same time as one another in the Jurassic period, which is untrue. Even more inaccurately, they are said to be inhabiting what will eventually become the northern United States, even though no dinosaurs were ever discovered to have inhabited that particular area. Furthermore, otters are shown living in the late Cretaceous period (in reality, they didn't show up until well after the dinosaurs went extinct), Al refers to pterosaurs as dinosaurs that live in the water, and Jack explains that dinosaurs can't be warm-blooded because of their spine movements.
** And to top it all off, '''''the dinosaurs can fucking talk.'''''
* AuthorFilibuster: Issues #3 to #5 are filled with this (and since they are nonsensical and don't seem like parodies at all, [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] described as "[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness a gaze into the eyes of madness]]").
* AuthorTract: Let's see: Creator/TedTurner is a doofus, Creator/SpikeLee is [[ComicBook/TheKingpin the Kingpin of Crime]], Rush Limbaugh is a fit superhero with tons of fans, intelligent design is real with the theory of evolution decried as short-sighted and stupid (not to mention Jack directly insults paleontologists), the original humans were white, there's lots of batshit insane pseudoscience to support the comic's ideas on evolution and intelligent design, and charity, racial sensitivity, vegetarianism, and political correctness are all mocked. Yeah, there's a certain political ideology being pushed here.
* BehindTheBlack: Issue #2 attempts this when the cast and ComicBook/SpiderMan track down the Kingpin's lair to an abandoned bowling alley. Lucy asks him if this is really the place, and the next panel pulls out to reveal a gigantic skyscraper behind the bowling alley with "KINGPIN ENTERPRISES" on the side. It had the ''potential'' to work, had the previous panel not showed the roof of the bowling alley and above, showing that there was nothing behind it until the next panel.

* CannotTellFictionFromReality: One of the characters implies that Franchise/{{Tarzan}} is based on ancestral [[GeneticMemory genetic memories]] of real events.
* CerebusSyndrome: It went from a "parody" of superhero comics with social satire, to a philosophical comic about life, the universe, and everything after the first two issues. Amusingly, in contrast to most examples of the trope, it results in the comic becoming [[DenserAndWackier even weirder]] and unintentionally funnier than when it was actually trying to be funny.

* ColonyDrop: It opens with a meteor shower on Earth. One of the stones is cut by Ted Turner with a Tomahawk Chop[[note]]The rallying cheer for the Atlanta Braves, which he owned at the time[[/note]].

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite what one might state about Al, there is no doubt he can handle himself in a fight.

* TheFool: Al. Where he thought he gained superpowers from traveling back in time, believing he could save people by just giving out money, and did not know the dinosaurs were killed off.

* GrandpaGod: Appears, and described as follows:
-->'''Lucy:''' God looks exactly like he does in the Bible.\\
'''Al:''' The Bible doesn't have any pictures.\\
'''Lucy:''' Look, I know a flowing white beard and a wise Caucasian brow when I see one.

* HeroesWantRedheads: If the opening recaps are to believed, Al has a thing for Mickey. None of this ever comes across in the actual comic.
* IdiotHero: Al. Special emphasis on the "idiot" part (and the "hero" part is pretty questionable as well).

** Issues #3-5 feature pseudoscience so absurd and stupid that even calling it pseudoscience is a stretch of the term.
*** The characters repeatedly insist that God had to have created everything, or at least set it in motion, because the conditions for life to evolve on Earth are just right. Mickey points out that across billions of gallons of water across the entire planet across millions of years, sooner or later the right chemical reaction to form the first biological life would happen due to random chance. But given she is being presented as a StrawCharacter, the characters insist this is just too perfect to be random chance, so it ''must'' be the work of God.
*** They watch a fish in a container of water evolve into an amphibian by spontaneously mutating feet from its fins. Putting aside how nonsensical that by itself is, the comic later uses this occurrence to argue in favor of intelligent design, because if evolution ''was'' like the scientists said and animals only mutated in ways to help them survive, the fish wouldn't have evolved feet before there was land, therefore the fact that it did evolve feet is proof that God had "preprogrammed" their DNA to eventually evolve them from aquatic to amphibious life.
*** Given that Jack is God, the characters ask if he could save the dinosaurs from the upcoming extinction event and the deep cold it will create by helping them to evolve to be warm-blooded, like mammals. Jack explains that mammal spines are designed to move vertically while dinosaur spines move horizontally, and this is necessary to provide the proper skeletal structure to support the organs necessary to maintain a warm-blooded metabolism.
*** Jack explains he took the three through their journey of creation because if he had just visited them in the future and explained all this to them, they would have dismissed it, but now that they're seeing it with their own eyes, they believe it for themselves. Jack explains that it isn't enough to just hear the words of a proposition, you have to see them happening to truly understand. Lucy responds by asking "so are you saying that the only true path to truth is reading comic books?" -- Jack confirms this is exactly what he meant.
*** Scientists are decried as "not being very scientific" because they've never actually ''seen'' evolution happen, they've only had a glimpse at a few hundred years of history before their time, and presumed their findings are applicable to all of Earth history.
*** Wolverine is the first human being, the first "mutant" in a sense. And he isn't immortal because of his healing factor, "that's just a metaphor", he's immortal because his status as the first human being means his genetic code lives on in all of humankind.
*** Mickey says that in anthropology class, they learned that in primitive human tribes, only the chiefs got to have wives. Jack replies that this doesn't make sense if you actually think about it, since it would mean the entire tribe sprang about from inbreeding. This would be correct, if one presumes the chief never gets replaced, his kids only breed with each other, and they don't leave to join other tribes and members of other tribes don't come to join them. Otherwise the tribe would be ''full'' of people not genetically related to the chief. Not to mention that Jack isn't even bringing up the ideas of impregnation and child-rearing happening without marriage.

** The comic tries to satirize Batman, Iron Man, and Black Panther by portraying them as a group of psychotic, murderous assholes who openly abuse the lower classes for fun - e.g., the exact opposite of their real selves. What's more, Batman here is a CaptainErsatz who is never named in-story, so he doesn't even have a name in common.

* {{Irony}}: Peter David is portrayed as a homeless bum in #2 and pretty much stating that his work was worthless, all while the comic he made for the contest against Bill Jemas sold twice as much as his did.

* LogicBomb: This comic tries to repeatedly state that there is no evolution... all while showing evolution happening around them. Portrayed incorrectly.

* MindScrew: Add haphazard storytelling when it tries being straightforward, showing downright insane scenes [[CerebusSyndrome once it attempts being serious]], and the weird "scientific" debate, and it's hard to make much sense out of the comic.
* MoodWhiplash: Often the attempts at seriousness are followed by attempts at comedy. Towards the end of the second issue, there was a confrontation between the cast and the Kingpin (hidden behind his chair). There is a big, serious speech about crime, then the Kingpin [[ChairReveal reveals himself]] as Creator/SpikeLee, declaring, "Now get your flabby white butts out of my space."

* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: Used verbatim, as, impressively, not even the most inaccurate thing ''in the sentence it was in''.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Actual celebrities appear, from the hero's parents being Ted Turner and Jane Fonda [[MindScrew in 5002]], to Spike Lee being the Kingpin, and cameos by Alan Greenspan and Rush Limbaugh (who is handsome and ''thin'').

* OneNationUnderCopyright: Ted Turner purchased Earth... and once AOL overtook it they renamed the planet "[=AOLon=]".

* PlotHole: You can't go more than three steps without falling into one. Increasingly as the series continues, basic logic and reason break down, and things just happen, or don't happen, without explanation. ''Some'' of this can be chalked up to RuleOfFunny, but the writing in the series is so bad it's difficult to tell.
** Throughout the comic, the art often does not match what the characters say. For one example, when God is described by Al as being "a dead ringer for Superman", we see a brunette man in a blue outfit with gold and a giant "J" on his chest -- a CaptainErsatz of Superman for sure, but not a "dead ringer".
** In the year 2002, the bank somehow recognizes and is able to read Al's bank card from the future, including that he has an account that won't be activated for 3000 years. The [=AoL=] trial disk Ted Turner gives Al also works on 2002 computers.

** To tell when they get to the Jurassic Age, they scoop up some water and take it into the time machine with them, and set the time machine to fast forward, and inside the time machine they watch the water as the microorganisms in it evolve into a fish, an amphibian, and then a duckbilled dinosaur. Aside from the fact evolution does not work this way, why would the microorganisms evolve ''inside'' the time machine, but its other occupants don't? Also, the duckbill can talk in perfect English, because duckbills have very elaborate voiceboxes. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext They're also Jewish.]]
** Twice in issue 4, a herd of dinosaurs appears from nowhere surrounding the protagonists, who apparently [[FailedASpotCheck did not see them even though they are in plain sight on all sides]].
** Wolverine recognizes the group when he meets them late in issue 5, but is confused when Al brings up that he doesn't age because of his HealingFactor and has no clue what he's talking about. How has Wolverine lived for tens of thousands of years without it clicking with him that he's immortal and he has a healing factor? The comic ''seems'' to imply that Wolverine is a LegacyCharacter who has been reincarnating through the years, since Jack claims Wolverine came to this tribe as a young man... but then how does he recognize the main characters?
* PoliceAreUseless: To an insulting degree. In Issue #2, when Mickey says to a couple of officers that their work can't involve just [[DonutMessWithACop eating donuts]], one of them says it pretty much does. He adds that all they do is take homeless people to shelters and [[TheCavalryArrivesLate show up at crime scenes after the criminals have gone]].

* PreHistoria: Issues #3 to #5 take place in a very messed-up iteration of prehistoric earth.
* RandomEventsPlot: A summary of the six issues goes as follows: Superman parody starring random pop-cultural figures; political satire starring superheroes and pop-cultural figures; the cast travels back to the dawn of creation to meet God and learn the meaning of life; the cast travels to the Jurassic age and meets talking, sapient dinosaurs; the cast discovers Wolverine is the first human being leading cave people in pre-historic times and is immortal because of his status as the first human; Al recaps the series in the framing device of pitching the story to a comic editor. Along the way, the reasons for characters doing things change constantly, even in the same issue, and the writer seems to forget plot points he made in previous issues.

* RecapEpisode[=/=]PostModernism:
** Issue #6 is Kal pitching the events of the earlier issues to an unnamed comic editor.
** Also at the beginning of each book, there are a few pages recapping what happened before. Often getting its own material wrong, such as claiming that Mickey and Al are in love (which is never shown in the comic), and when stating Al being sent back to the past, said picture is of Al ''receiving'' the time machine in the past.
* [[RichBitch Rich Jerk]]: ComicBook/IronMan, Franchise/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/BlackPanther cameo just to be portrayed as complete assholes; Batman is a violent psychopath who attacks poor people for fun, Iron Man is casually racist and cares nothing for his employees, and Black Panther [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad cares more about stopping bad language than violent actions]]. The protagonist of the series, Al, is a downplayed example, being more RichInDollarsPoorInSense.
* SavingTheWorldWithArt: In issue 6, Al is on a MissionFromGod to prevent World War III, and apparently the best way to do this is to get a comic book publisher to publish the previous 5 issues. So Al pitches the series, which is [[UnreliableNarrator presented in an inaccurate recap]], but ultimately gets turned down.
* ScienceIsWrong: The comic does this to an insulting degree, to the point that it pretty much states that if you believe in science, [[YouFool you are a moron]].

* SkinnyDipping: Issue #3 has everyone getting naked and going for a swim in ''prehistoric Earth''.
* StrawCharacter: Mickey turns into one in Issues #3-5. While Al and Lucy buy into Jack's talk and eagerly ask questions, Mickey tends to be the skeptic and argue against the explanations presented. She is almost always [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong proven wrong]] when events play out that show Jack's explanation is accurate, even though Jack's explanations only make sense in the InsaneTrollLogic world of the comic. On other occasions her counterarguments aren't refuted at all, they're just dropped. The only time she's shown to be correct in her beliefs is when they align with what Jack says.
* StayInTheKitchen: It's claimed that 'testosterone is God's vector'...That it is men who drive evolution.

* TakeThat
** Most of the digs at Creator/DCComics are rather mean-spirited, with certain characters just going on and on about how they suck without ever explaining ''why'' they supposedly suck.
** Scientists never do anything on purpose, anthropologists [[ADegreeInUseless can't find real jobs]]--and besides, their knowledge only extends a few hundred years, and everything before that is made up for the purpose of making scientists look smart.

** Police officers get the treatment in Issue #2. See under the PoliceAreUseless entry.
* TakeThatAudience:
** Kicks in as late as--get this--Issue #6. Worse, it's not as much as making fun of the audience, rather it's a savage indictment of American culture: the reasoning is that Al's pitch for "world peace" is rejected by the editor [[ArtistDisillusionment because audiences don't care about substance and just want more superhero comics]]. Eat your heart out, Creator/GrantMorrison. [[invoked]]
** The irony being that only those with the intellectual prowess to read Bill Jemas would even notice this accusation.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The comic as it progresses becomes a look at Bill Jemas' psyche and his, putting it mildly, bizarre outlook on science, religion, and the world.

* ToonPhysics: Attempted, but done badly. The comic primarily uses a semi-realistic art style with realistic physics, which makes moments such as a man karate-chopping flaming meteorites or Batman bashing someone's head in until their head sticks out of their chest look really, ''really'' awkward. Furthermore, the mediocrity of the art itself sometimes makes the "cartoony" moments difficult to decipher.

* WholePlotReference: Issue #3–#6 is essentially a Marvel version of ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'', as written by Bill Jemas.

* WorldWarIII: [[spoiler:It is revealed in #5 that the reason that they are traveling through time is because Jack wants to show them how war works and due to their popularity and wealth from "fighting" crime they will prevent the upcoming World War. However, we never actually see them do this -- make of that what you will. This becomes FridgeLogic almost immediately; despite Jack claiming the world is headed towards World War III, Al never mentions any war in the 3000 years between his time and the present, and very little suggests that there was any threat of war in the future either.]]

Kal-AOL Turner, son of UsefulNotes/TedTurner from the year 5002, is transported into the present day. Believing himself to be a superhero, Kal-AOL meets up with Mickey (who nicknames him "Al") and Lucy. And crosses paths with Creator/SpikeLee and Radio/RushLimbaugh. The first books are also filled with attempts at parody and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical topical humor]].

* AuthorTract: Let's see: Creator/TedTurner is a doofus, Creator/SpikeLee is [[ComicBook/TheKingpin the Kingpin of Crime]], Radio/RushLimbaugh is a fit superhero with tons of fans, intelligent design is real with the theory of evolution decried as short-sighted and stupid (not to mention Jack directly insults paleontologists), the original humans were white, there's lots of batshit insane pseudoscience to support the comic's ideas on evolution and intelligent design, and charity, racial sensitivity, vegetarianism, and political correctness are all mocked. Yeah, there's a certain political ideology being pushed here.

* CurbstompBattle: During Issue #2, Creator/RushLimbaugh shows up and zaps some {{Captain Ersatz}}es of ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/IronMan, and ComicBook/BlackPanther to smithereens.

** There's a jab aimed at Jemas' competitor Creator/PeterDavid in Issue #2, when the comic says David has ''no fans'' (while Radio/RushLimbaugh has ''tons'' of fans) and portrays him as a homeless bum.

%% EvolutionaryLevels: The "biological clock".

A parody comic created in 2002 by Creator/MarvelComics editor and president [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bill Jemas]], as a bet between him, Ron Zimmerman, and Creator/PeterDavid on who could make a better-selling comic, which was known as the "U-Decide" event.

A parody comic created in 2002 by Creator/MarvelComics editor and president [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bill Jemas]], as a bet between him, Ron Zimmerman, and Creator/PeterDavid on who could make a better-selling comic. Known as the "U-Decide" event, Zimmerman's six-issue ''ComicBook/UltimateAdventures'' took a year and a half to come out.

A notorious [[ShallowParody "parody"]] comic created in 2002 by Creator/MarvelComics editor and president [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bill Jemas]], as a bet between him, Ron Zimmerman, and Creator/PeterDavid on who could make a better-selling comic. Known as the "U-Decide" event, Zimmerman's six-issue ''ComicBook/UltimateAdventures'' took a year and a half to come out. David's ''[[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell Captain Marvel]]'' title went on for twenty-five issues and was well-regarded. As for ''Marville'', well...

Then it takes a turn for the weirdly philosophical when they all go back in time and meet God, who is actually a black man named Jack. After that, they watch the evolution of the world, and discover that dinosaurs talked with Jewish mannerisms, and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is the first human, evolved from an otter.

* AllThereInTheManual: Subverted, if it's even [[AchievementsInIgnorance possible to do]]. Despite the redundant number of "PreviouslyOn" prologues, they add nothing useful and frequently get things '''wrong''' about the story.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Marville #7 is... a submission guide for the then-upcoming Epic line of Marvel Comics. How anyone was supposed to know this is unclear, since the cover is graced by the same ''Marville'' logo, the same ''Marville'' cover chick, and "EPIC" showing on the ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' board.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Issue #4 makes the nonsensical claim that only humans kill members of their own species.
* ArtShift: Issue #3, that ditches thought balloons in lieu of text running in the borders of the comic. Then #5 eschews art of any kind and has ''text on a blue background for two pages.'' It is suggested this comic had NoBudget.

* ArtisticLicense - '''Everything''': This series, especially the third, fourth, and fifth issues, are so full of errors and stupidity that listing it all would take too long. Just check out CriticalResearchFailure on the YMMV page for the most egregious examples.

* CannotTellFictionFromReality: The deeper the reader goes into the story, the more obvious it becomes that Bill Jemas actually believes the science and religious arguments being presented, or he at least believes them enough to think they were worth publishing in a book that he genuinely thought would be seen as thought-provoking and insightful. This is despite the fact that, even limiting it to the latter half of the story where the series dives into the philosophy lecturing, we have talking dinosaurs, Wolverine as the first human being, the Jurassic Age is constantly referred to as "Jurassic Park", and the characters imply Franchise/{{Tarzan}} is based on ancestral [[GeneticMemory genetic memories]] of real events.

* DontExplainTheJoke: Averted and ''in''verted. The first two issues open with an "Insider's Guide" page explaining who various celebrities and superheroes are, so as to ensure when those characters appear in the comic, the reader "gets" the jokes behind their antics. As you might expect, it doesn't work; even if the jokes ''were'' funny in the first place, the comic had explained them to you before the jokes even happened. [[UpToEleven And some of the information given is outright wrong!]]
* EvolutionaryLevels: The "biological clock".

* GoingCosmic: The first two issues are a ShallowParody of DC and Marvel comics and their creators. Issues #3-#5 are a bizarre philosophical journey through the history of life on Earth, with God as tour guide.

* HardOnSoftScience: Anthropologists and archaeologists are repeatedly mocked and ridiculed as know-it-all losers, their theories dismissed as baseless conjecture. Mind you, hard sciences like biology are also treated with hostility, but not nearly as much.

** Matt Murdock is a defense attorney in issue 2, even though he's supposed to be a prosecutor.

A notorious [[ShallowParody "parody"]] comic created in 2002 by Creator/MarvelComics editor and vice president [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bill Jemas]], as a bet between him, Ron Zimmerman, and Creator/PeterDavid on who could make a better-selling comic. Known as the "U-Decide" event, Zimmerman's six-issue ''ComicBook/UltimateAdventures'' took a year and a half to come out. David's ''[[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell Captain Marvel]]'' title went on for twenty-five issues and was well-regarded. As for ''Marville'', well...

** While Iron Man, Black Panther, Spider-Man, [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Punisher]], and [[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]] appear as themselves [in appearance at least] in Issue 2, we also get an ersatz Batman who is never referred to by name, has an all-black costume with a yellow bat-symbol, and has three spikes on his cowl instead of two.

** In issue 4, Al says they can't set the time machine to go to a specific date, just to go forward or backward in time. They did this in the first issue when Ted Turner sent Al back to 2002 in the first place.

*** Scientists are decried as "not being very scientific" because they've never seen evolution happen, they've only glimpsed as a few hundred years before their time and presumed their findings are applicable to all of history.
*** Wolverine is the first human being, the first "mutant" in a sense. And he is immortal because of his status as the first human being, thus his genetic code lives on in all of humankind.
*** Mickey says that in anthropology class, they learned that in primitive human tribes, only the chiefs got to have wives. Jack replies that this doesn't make sense if you actually think about it, since it would mean the entire tribe sprang about from inbreeding. This would be true, if the chief was never replaced by a new chief who makes new children with the wives, and if the chief's children all only had kids with each other and not the other members of the tribe who came from different parents. Or just other primitive humans from beyond the tribe they interact with.

* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Once Jack strips down to skinny dip, the women react that he's "like an African fertility God".

* BehindTheBlack: Issue #2 attempts this when the cast and ComicBook/SpiderMan track down the Kingpin of Crime's lair to an abandoned bowling alley. Lucy asks him if this is really the place, and the next panel pulls out to reveal a gigantic skyscraper behind the bowling alley with "KINGPIN ENTERPRISES" on the side. It had the ''potential'' to work, had the previous panel not showed the roof of the bowling alley and above, showing that there was nothing behind it until the next panel.

* [[LadyNotAppearingInThisGame Lady Not-Appearing-In-This-Comic]]: The scantily clad redhead who appears on the covers (aside from the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' parody alternate covers for issue 1, and the ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} alternate cover for issue 5). Though it's possible she's supposed to be Mickey, due to one of the covers featuring her in a taxi cab.

* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: Used verbatim, as, impressively, not even the most wrong thing ''in the sentence it was in''.

** Throughout the comic, the art often does not match what characters say. For one example, when God is described by Al as being "a dead ringer for Superman", we see a brunette man in a blue outfit with gold and a giant "J" on his chest -- a CaptainErsatz of Superman for sure, but not a "dead ringer".

** Twice in issue 4, a herd of dinosaurs appear from nowhere surrounding the protagonists, who apparently did not see them even though they are in plain sight on all sides.

* PoliceAreUseless: To an insulting degree. In Issue #2, when Mickey says to a couple of officers that their work can't involve just [[DonutMessWithACop eating donuts]], one of them says it pretty much does. He adds that all they do is take homeless people to shelters and show up at crime scenes after the criminals have gone.

* RandomEventsPlot: A summary of the six issues goes as follows: Superman parody starring random pop cultural figures; political satire starring superheroes and pop cultural figures; the cast travels back to the dawn of creation to meet God and learn the meaning of life; the cast travels to the Jurassic age and meets talking, sapient dinosaurs; the cast discovers Wolverine is the first human being leading cave people in pre-historic times and is immortal because of his status as the first human; Al recaps the series in the framing device of pitching the story to a comic editor. Along the way the reasons for characters doing things change constantly, even in the same issue, and the writer seems to forget plot points he made in previous issues.

** Also at the beginning of each book, there is a few pages recapping what happened before. Often getting its own material wrong, such as claiming that Mickey and Al are in love (which is never shown in the comic), and when stating Al being sent back to the past, said picture is of Al ''receiving'' the time machine in the past.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The comic as it progresses becomes a look at Bill Jemas' psyche and his, putting it mildly, bizarre outlook on science, religion and the world.