Whatever happened to Slapstick?

I saw a few of these 'whatever happened to...' posts and decided as long as there's a few out there already...

So does anyone know what his current status is? He was a mutant with the powers of a cartoon (e.g. would be flattened after falling from a great height and could go back to normal with a snap) and i believe he carried a mallet around? Personally, i think this was a very cool idea for a superhero (and i know the Mask is kinda like this, but i think it's cool in the marvel universe). Any info is appreciated, thanks.

He's not actually a mutant, he was turned into Slapstick by Evil Clowns from Dimension X. He keeps the mallet in an extradimensional space inside his gloves, and he hasn't been seen since his own mini-series...

Having said that I'm with you 100% - I loved that mini and would love to see him back somewhere for two reasons;

Nobody else would say to Daredevil 'What's with that outfit? Are you blind or something' - and then try and save Ghost Rider by trying to put the fire on his head out with a bucket of water...

Gotta love Steve

I know I wrote Slapstick into a Marvel Comics Presents multi-part story featuring the New Warriors sometime in the mid-90's.

Hnads down, one of Len Kaminski's most inspired creations. James Fry and Len had enough superhero-abuse gags to fuel years' worth of stories.

He was basically forgotten about after his miniseries ended. I believe there was talk way-back-when for him to show up in New Warriors, but those rumors never ended up with any further Slapstick appearances.........well, anywhere...

Amen!

Yup, New Warriors and Slapstick against Dr Yesterday (For no readily apparent reason, one of my favourite character names)

Speedball and Slapstick, what a combo...

And I'd have kept right on buying it.... sigh.....

You did? Eeks, sorry Fabian...

Make you a deal - write something else with him and I promise I'll buy it. Scout's honour?

..i remember him having a great guest appearance in the Silver Surfer, trying to get Norrin to lighten up.

I remember that book! One of the first I ever bought (80p from Pat's Papers - ahh). I recently saw it in a 5 for a buck bundle and picked it up again ( the old one went 'missing'

IIRC, and I probably don't, he was dying of cancer and so had no future, so in rage he used time manipulation to recreate the past, like... dinosaurs... He was defeated when it was pointed out to him that he could travel into the future and find a cure there...

That was Madcap, not Slapstick....

I think the last time he appeared was in that New Warriors story in MCP back in 1994. An alternate-Earth version of him appeared in one of the last issues of MUTANT X (I think).

Andrew Kieswetter