Riding up and down Broadway on my old stud Leroy

Two-thirds done, and I’m now officially on the Back Eight. Go, me.

I’ve referred to a dark period in the Crusader’s life when there was a “Crusader on Ice” show. The idea for it was very loosely taken from the Sea World DC Super Hero Waterski Show from the Seventies (and which I was lucky enough to see). The idea was to give the Crusader something cheesy in his past to be ashamed of.

During a Sequential Tart interview, I was asked if we’d ever see the ice show. I never intended to delve into it, but when I got the question, it sparked an idea. So, for reasons which you will see in this issue, Abby gets a DVD of said “Crusader on Ice.”

It’s a charity event, so I needed to reference a disease. I couldn’t make light of a real disease, as it would very much unfunnyify the joke. Instead, I used Sacks-Minnelli from the tremendously funny You Look Nice Today podcast. If you want to know more about the dreaded disease, check them out here.
Also, I pride myself on being a man who learns from history. In this scene you’ll get to hear some of the songs from “Crusader on Ice.” These were all written by the talented Mike Bokausek. I could have written them, but then when Mike saw the scene, he would have been inspired to write his own, and they would have been better than mine. So I just went ahead and asked him to write the lyrics straight-up.

I’ll post the full lyrics later. How he managed to write an imaginary song and got it stuck in my head, I’ll never know.

Speaking of songs, I'll post the answers to the lyrics game in the next couple of days, too.