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While most comic story lines revolve around and are predicated by the superhero's special powers and secret identity, Flaming Carrot had no special super powers was Flaming Carrot all the time. The formula here was that of a second-string, blue-collar, mill-town superhero. This angle was expanded with the introduction of THE MYSTERYMEN, a strange collection of oddball superheroes with character flaws, mediocre powers and downright goofy costumes.
The MYSTERYMEN were a spin-off and occasional back-up feature in Flaming Carrot Comics, first appearing in "I CLONED HITLER'S FEET", a two part story in Flaming Carrot #16 & 17 (available in Flaming Carrot's Greatest Hits Vol. 3). He is the comic book superhero of not only the blue-collar man, but the darling of the avant-garde. He is a one-man tour de force of Dali-esque surrealism, strange stunts, and totally outrageous behavior. A whimsical, picaresque and puckish character, his life itself is his art form and Hell follows with it. |
 Flaming Carrot haunts the eerie shadows of the night (much the same as Batman). But while Batman is a quick thinker with a sharp, deductive mind, Flaming Carrot is almost childlike in a state of Zen witlessness. In a tough spot he is more likely to blast his way out in a hail of gunfire than use some campy scheme. In his state of Zen Stupidity, he can convince you that the earth is flat or that a hundred pounds of lead is heavier than a hundred pounds of feathers. |
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