TVLine has two pictures from Sunday's episode of The Simpsons of Lucas Bortner, a competitive eater voiced by Zach Galifianakis. Update April 4 Youtube has a clip from the episode
In Sunday's episode of The Simpsons (Luca$) Zach Galifianakis will guest star as an aspiring competitive eater that Lisa will date. Her family will encourage her to look for other potential boyfriends.
Anime News Network has a list of 7 characters with insatiable appetites.
The Japanese manga "Gourmet Fighter" has been translated to an English e-book version with the title "Eat for Your Life". Ryu Sheng has a review.
Bob East has produced an animation of Tracy "Mmm Mmm" Goode.
Vulture.com has produced an animation of the Star Trek pie eating contest described in last night's episode of Breaking Bad.
The most recent issue of Batman: Li'l Gotham by DC Comics features a back-alley taco eating contest.
Joelk75 has uploaded some pictures from the latest Veronica comic book in which Jughead loses a burger eating contest to Kevin, a new homosexual character.
The planet Bismoll in the DC Comics universe
Joey Chestnut will compete in the final contest of this summer’s Pepto-Bismoll Challenge series at the Buffalo Wing Festival today against two teams of five amateurs, but he is not the biggest eater associated with the pink liquid. In the DC Comics Legion of Super Heroes series, all natives of the planet Bismoll can consume any amount of any organic or inorganic material. The name Bismoll is reportedly a pun on Pepto-Bismol.
The two most famous Bismollians are Matter-Eater Lad (first appearance 1963) and Calorie Queen (first appearance 1975), who has been modified so her strength increases in proportion with the amount of matter she consumes. Some panels from the comics:
Matter-Eater Lad / Calorie Queen links
- Major Spoilers Matter-Eater Lad history
- Cosmic Teams Matter-Eater Lad profile
- Comics Alliance ranks Calorie Queen as its favorite Legion of Super-Heroes member.
- Adam P Knave blog entry about Calorie Queen
ArchieComics.com has a preview of the new Veronica comic, which introduces Kevin Keller, a new homosexual character who defeats Jughead in a burger eating contest. (via comicbookresources)
CNN.com: A new gay character, Kevin Keller, will be introduced to readers of Archie Comics when he defeats Archie's friend Jughead, famed for his eating prowess, in a burger eating contest.
The Gormandizer: Competitive eating superhero from 1974
When Falls the Coliseum has a post about the Gormandizer, a competitive eating superhero appearing in three 1974 issues published by the Hues Corporation, who used its comic book business as a means to launder illegal drug money. The Gormandizer’s power and its origins are described:
The Gormandizer was Frankie Franklin, a competitive eating champion whose specialty was hot dogs. In the first issue, Frankie accidentally ingests hot dogs that have been irradiated by nuclear waste. Rather than dying of radiation poison, Frankie gets super powers, with the ability to eat anything at all, from nuclear waste to oil, to Twinkies.
The Gormandizer’s main rivals were an insane dentist called the Toothmaster and the Lunchlady, who had the following secret agenda:
The Lunchlady is the wife of a powerful political figure who has taken it upon herself to “reform school lunches,†by replacing the foods that kids like to eat with foods that have been treated with a chemical that turns them into mindless zombies. Her plan is to introduce this tainted food into our general food supply, so that, as is the case with most supervillains, she can take over the world.
Picasa gallery of the Gormandizer
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