The Great Disaster (Song Filk)

by Gojirob

Set to the tune of 'The Great Pretender' by The Platters, later covered by Freddie Mercury. The World-To-Come didn't end so well, and wasn't always so well-defined as we might like. The bombs fell, the animals rose, and a lot of Kirby's stuff got remixed. So here's to how DC Comics' post-apocalypse looked in an era where two weeks underground was enough to survive the H-Bomb.

Oh-oh, No It's the Great Disaster
The tale of a world gone to Hell
It's scope is such; It includes too much
Just what happened no one can tell

Oh-oh, No It's the Great Disaster
Atomic Knights off on their own;
Hercules Unbound, went quick to ground
Kamandi a boy all alone

Kirby made this Planet Of The Apes pastiche
Later on, OMAC was retconned in, so you see

No, It's the Great Disaster
The Day After Doomsday and more
Animal Men walk the towns
Though they wear the crown
It seems they're all same as us

Too unreal is this picture of nuclear war
At the time, though it seemed, like an adventure, to be sure

No, It's the Great Disaster
Or was it all Gardner Grayle's dream?;
The Legion's not there
Life defines unfair
The concepts drill down in your head
Like a 70's Proto-Walking Dead

Oh-No, It's the Great Disaster
Grim but optimistic as well
The world keeps on; Even After Bombs
The Tale of a world gone to Hell;

And It Wouldn't Go Even That Well

( Not Go That Well )