Beware, The Pit Of Doom!

Comics superhero stories played strictly for laughs have for the most part proven to be hit-and-miss with me. On the one hand, I prefer to sit down with a comic that provides a level of tension and drama for the hero(es) of the book and draws me into an involved story that's successfully piqued my interest; and on the other, a story that's produced all in good fun comes as a complete surprise to me and can read like page after page of slapstick, and panel after panel of witticisms and one-liners.  Following a thirty- or sixty-day wait for a new story, something done in farce can be a letdown.

One character who has arguably become the poster child for such a story is the White Rabbit, the "Alice In Wonderland"-inspired criminal with delusions of grandeur who indulges in a life of crime as a lark in heists ranging from petty theft to grand extortion, and whose wealth (that's putting it mildly) affords her whatever resources she needs to avail herself of, whether it's weaponry, manpower, or equipment. Her first two outings drew the involvement of the Fabulous Frog-Man (descriptive nomenclature his own), offspring of the original Leap-Frog, who joined with Spider-Man to put an end to her plans; but when she captures and holds for ransom the Grizzly and the Gibbon, two costumed former criminals gone straight, she still finds it a struggle to be taken seriously, either by the Mayor of New York, or by this book's title character...