I was going to comment on Ms. Marvel’s prominent features myself, Kieran, but I figure I’ve already made my quota in the naughty posts category, this week.
Holbo as Ranma 1/2 if Ranma 1/2 were the She-Ra to He-Man. Or something. If you ever get tired of the quotas at CT, John, drop by a WAAGNFNP open thread one of these Fridays through as long as we can make the weekend vibe last.
I’m right there with you, Constructivist. The first copies of the X-Men that I can remember getting in the mail were those post-#150 issues, where everyone was still moping about Jean Grey’s suicide from a year before, and Magneto had apparently begun his (first of several, I take it; I haven’t collected or read the comic in years) reformation(s). The Brood had a great initial run: Dave Cockrum’s cartoony art, Colossus and a 14-year-old Kitty Pryde almost doing the deed but then pulling back at the last moment, huge decaying space-whale corpses, a spaceship the size of the island of Manhattan appearing over Manhattan, an enormous space hanger that somehow takes something like five minutes for all the air to rush out of it once Carol Danvers blows a whole in its side…it was all awesome. Good times.
I’ve always disliked Claremont’s writing. I mean, I have nothing against overblown, pulpy writing, but when it’s entirely devoid of irony (a loaded word, I know) it just grates. I mean, I want my gloriously garish junk to keep its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, not to give me a smooch of true love.
So yay Mr. Monster . I don’t think he’s ever battled giant cicada critters, but he’d certainly regard them as falling within his purview.
In that vein, and by way of self-indulgent, trying-too-hard, aw-but-am-I-not-teh-funny thread-rotting digression, I’ll add that “serious” superhero flicks like “Batman begins” or “Spider-man 2” are utter pish. Give me trash like “Blade II” any day of the week.
I mean:
-Eurotrash vampires;
-Graf-Orlok-like skinhead monsters with vagina dentata mouths;
-one of the Bros twins as head honcho of the Graf-Orlok-like skinhead monsters;
-fucking wrestling moves.
I’m so sold on that shit.
So sold.
There’s that scene where they pin a vagina dentata mouth thing to a wall with a katana, like a butterfly…and then he pries himself loose, leaving half his bowels and the entirety of his crotch sticking to the wall ! ! !
The formatting is all messed up. Crooked Timber hates hyphenation.
Graf Orlok it is. You know, the guy from Murnau’s original “Nosferatu” film. The one with the bald pate and the fangs of mighty blood suction placed front and centre.
Graf Orlok rocks.
And since we’re talking about comic covers featuring the Brood and dodgy depictions of women:
ah, like Mr. M’s sidekick there, but my all-time faves are still Arthur (“not in the face!”) and Ambush Bug (although several of Dr. Who’s from my childhood PBS free-riding days are still up there, I must confess)….
{ 16 comments }
The Constructivist 05.22.07 at 7:57 am
Must avoid impulse to confess this was right when I started collecting X-Men. Mutants in spaaaaaace!
The Constructivist 05.22.07 at 7:58 am
Damn that post button. (And WordPress for telling me to slow down my commenting pace.)
Kieran Healy 05.22.07 at 8:29 am
“Featured is the superheroine Ms. Marvel fighting the Brood.”
Some pretty prominent featuring going on there, all right.
John Holbo 05.22.07 at 8:35 am
I was going to comment on Ms. Marvel’s prominent features myself, Kieran, but I figure I’ve already made my quota in the naughty posts category, this week.
George W 05.22.07 at 1:57 pm
Brings to mind this: http://www.maakies.com/archive/m617.html
Anderson 05.22.07 at 2:09 pm
Ass-baring suits are so comfortable for superheroines, one wonders how the superheroes have been able to deny them to themselves for so long.
Ken C. 05.22.07 at 2:53 pm
“one wonders how the superheroes have been able to deny them to themselves for so long.”
Is ass-clinging enound?
Steve 05.22.07 at 2:57 pm
Superheroes have different outfits, Anderson.
Richard 05.22.07 at 4:06 pm
That’s not John Holbo?
The Constructivist 05.22.07 at 6:25 pm
Holbo as Ranma 1/2 if Ranma 1/2 were the She-Ra to He-Man. Or something. If you ever get tired of the quotas at CT, John, drop by a WAAGNFNP open thread one of these Fridays through as long as we can make the weekend vibe last.
Kelly 05.22.07 at 6:43 pm
I see these posts and get the urge to go re-read my comic course curriculum. Instead of, y’know, working.
Russell Arben Fox 05.22.07 at 7:51 pm
I’m right there with you, Constructivist. The first copies of the X-Men that I can remember getting in the mail were those post-#150 issues, where everyone was still moping about Jean Grey’s suicide from a year before, and Magneto had apparently begun his (first of several, I take it; I haven’t collected or read the comic in years) reformation(s). The Brood had a great initial run: Dave Cockrum’s cartoony art, Colossus and a 14-year-old Kitty Pryde almost doing the deed but then pulling back at the last moment, huge decaying space-whale corpses, a spaceship the size of the island of Manhattan appearing over Manhattan, an enormous space hanger that somehow takes something like five minutes for all the air to rush out of it once Carol Danvers blows a whole in its side…it was all awesome. Good times.
Jon H 05.23.07 at 2:48 am
Mark me down as another one who started reading X-Men during the Brood story. That was awesome.
Glorious Godfrey 05.23.07 at 12:41 pm
I’ve always disliked Claremont’s writing. I mean, I have nothing against overblown, pulpy writing, but when it’s entirely devoid of irony (a loaded word, I know) it just grates. I mean, I want my gloriously garish junk to keep its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, not to give me a smooch of true love.
So yay Mr. Monster . I don’t think he’s ever battled giant cicada critters, but he’d certainly regard them as falling within his purview.
In that vein, and by way of self-indulgent, trying-too-hard, aw-but-am-I-not-teh-funny thread-rotting digression, I’ll add that “serious” superhero flicks like “Batman begins” or “Spider-man 2” are utter pish. Give me trash like “Blade II” any day of the week.
I mean:
-Eurotrash vampires;
-Graf-Orlok-like skinhead monsters with vagina dentata mouths;
-the guy from Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law as a bald vampire;
-one of the Bros twins as head honcho of the Graf-Orlok-like skinhead monsters;
-fucking wrestling moves.
I’m so sold on that shit.
So sold.
There’s that scene where they pin a vagina dentata mouth thing to a wall with a katana, like a butterfly…and then he pries himself loose, leaving half his bowels and the entirety of his crotch sticking to the wall ! ! !
Puts me in a romantic mood every time I watch it.
Glorious Godfrey 05.23.07 at 9:04 pm
The formatting is all messed up. Crooked Timber hates hyphenation.
Graf Orlok it is. You know, the guy from Murnau’s original “Nosferatu” film. The one with the bald pate and the fangs of mighty blood suction placed front and centre.
Graf Orlok rocks.
And since we’re talking about comic covers featuring the Brood and dodgy depictions of women:
Heroes for Hire #13, baby.
For hire, get it? Ha. Funny.
Conscientious superhero comic fans tend to be full of concern about their hobby’s pariah status.
Gotta love them, poor doomed Quixotic bastards.
The Constructivist 05.27.07 at 1:36 pm
ah, like Mr. M’s sidekick there, but my all-time faves are still Arthur (“not in the face!”) and Ambush Bug (although several of Dr. Who’s from my childhood PBS free-riding days are still up there, I must confess)….
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