Posts tagged nerdiness
Pete Tomasi and Patrick Gleason’s Batman and Robin was great, but I can’t wait to see what Scott Lobdell does with Damian’s death. I hear instead of a silent issue, it’s going to be made up entirely of text boxes.
Continuing with my series of lazy photoshop attempts at Marvel’s Next Big Villain, meet your new nightmare: Toastertron. A fiend so tough that no hero team can beat him. Beware!
To find out what inspired all of this, click here.
The feels would kill you before you could raise your hand against him. ^.^
Beware the might of when villains collide!
Inspiration for this lazy photoshop job was the reveal of the new Onslaught in Marvel’s Uncanny Avengers Number 4. For those who don’t know, it is the Red Skull’s head, in great need of some braces or something to fix that overbite, peeking his head out of Onslaught’s armor. I laughed for about 4 days when I first saw it. I still chuckle at it but was also inspired to create Marvel’s Next Big Villain. I hope you all will join me. Together, we can inspire the next great threat to the Marvel Universe.
FYI: I love Marvel comics and actually really enjoy the series and the characters of Uncanny Avengers. I just loving poke fun at them because I care. And Because this is just so funny looking, especially with empty headed Xavier out front. Why is he there. He is dead and his brains are scooped out. Are you keeping Trail Mix in there? Why is he standing there?
The Original for those who need it
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LOL! The Age of Fin Fang Modok has begun!
Age of Ultron #1 (2013) by Brian Michael Bendis & Bryan Hitch
One thing I really liked about the ‘90’s story arc Age of Apocalypse was that because the events were happening in an alternate reality, the writers could do whatever they wanted to the characters and get away with it. This allowed for bold choices, all-bets-are-off peril, and true and unexpected heroism in a hopeless situation. Since Age of Ultron is pretty obviously happening in issue #1 outside of current Marvel continuity, I think we can assume it’s an alternate universe. Having said that, I can’t wait to see what happens here as our alternate heroes fight a battle that’s already lost. I was so inspired by Hawkeye’s speech about heroes and going out with dignity and loyalty in your heart, even when the hounds of hell are at your doorstep. And the art is fantastic!
ONSLAUGHT IS BACK! Uncanny Avengers #4
I’m sorry, but I haven’t been able to stop giggling since I saw this image. I can’t get over Red Skull’s tiny head, overbite and all, peeking out from all that armor. Xavier with half his head missing only makes it look all the more ridiculous to me. It’s like they put a Hungry, Hungry Hippo on Onslaught’s face. ^.^
![Unpopular opinion time: Relena Peacecraft is my favorite character in Gundam Wing. By far. I like her better than the pilots, the villains, and her brother with the unusually long and glamorous hair for a soldier. I’ve been re-watching GW recently and my love for Relena’s character has only grown. There’s a lot of dislike for her out there, and I have to say I’m not entirely sure where it all comes from. Yes, it is a little ridiculous that someone with Relena’s young age and limited experience can fill all of the roles she inhabits in the series, but it’s also a bit odd that young teenagers are allowed to pilot multi-billion-dollar killing machines, so you have to suspend your disbelief somewhere. This is anime, after all.
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Relena does come off at first as a spoiled and sheltered rich girl, which makes sense since that’s who she is initially. But after her father’s assassination, Relena undergoes dramatic changes. She goes through a brief period of grief in which she makes some odd choices, but once she’s installed as the leader of the Sanc Kingdom, her inner strength really comes out.
Relena is playing a dangerous game. She is constantly at the mercy of men and women who have far more political experience and military might than she does, yet she remains uncompromising for the sake of protecting her friends and her nation. My favorite story arc in GW is likely the Sanc Kingdom just because of how often Relena shines. Taking in wounded rebel troops as refugees when powerful enemies are breathing down her neck. Fast talking to prevent OZ from attacking her nation in retribution for her brother’s actions in space. Giving up her own freedom to protect the people of her ruined country, despite the knowledge that this would make a convenient occasion for her to “disappear.” As “Queen” Relena, she realizes she has to walk a fine line in order to keep both herself and her friends safe. It must have been scary, a teen girl trapped in a capital teeming with savvy and ruthless politicians all bent on using her. But she copes.
And I sort of always knew she had it in her, from the moment that she met a mysterious teen assassin’s gaze over the loaded barrel of a gun, told him that he dare not shoot her in the midst of such a high-profile event, and then asked him to dance. Yes, this was still in her weird-choice era, but that took guts. At the beginning of the series, she draws strength from Heero. At the end of the series, it’s very clear that Heero is now drawing strength from her. He admires her quite openly, and it’s easy to see why. All hail the Queen.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/eb8b417495b083052792fe5a4a50a5b7/tumblr_miyw8u9tRA1qf2010o1_500.jpg)
Unpopular opinion time: Relena Peacecraft is my favorite character in Gundam Wing. By far. I like her better than the pilots, the villains, and her brother with the unusually long and glamorous hair for a soldier. I’ve been re-watching GW recently and my love for Relena’s character has only grown. There’s a lot of dislike for her out there, and I have to say I’m not entirely sure where it all comes from. Yes, it is a little ridiculous that someone with Relena’s young age and limited experience can fill all of the roles she inhabits in the series, but it’s also a bit odd that young teenagers are allowed to pilot multi-billion-dollar killing machines, so you have to suspend your disbelief somewhere. This is anime, after all.
Oh dang, these are great. Think the bottom row is my favorite.
Lovely Supergirl costumes. I would wear some of these.
I never said that was all you liked. Just a majority of the ones you like. Nor did I say that was a bad thing.I had a little misunderstanding in a previous post and wanted to clarify it. We actually have very similar tastes and trade comics a lot. :) You should follow his blog for Katy Perry music video riffing, Doctor Who-based fiction, and sundry geeky stuff. ^.^
My brother claims that I only like comics about strong women and teens rising to adult challenges with courage and wits. I have no problem agreeing with this statement.
So he’s commending your taste?
Ha, yes he is. We have a good laugh about my taste in comics not because of what I like (my brother appreciates both of these things very much as well), but because of how specific my tastes are. It is very easy to pinpoint what I probably will and won’t like. The tastes of some other superhero comic readers are a bit more broad, and also encompass stories mostly about people punching other people, which I don’t particularly get into as much as the emotional beats.
… Except when it comes to the new Aquaman. The new Aquaman is quite dashing.
My favorite program with my teens at the library is probably our weekly Anime Club. Not only does it expose new fans (myself included) to some really great shows and films, but it facilitates some really fun and interesting dialogue. We’ve recently been watching, among other things, Gundam Wing. I watched GW as a kid on Toonami and really enjoyed it, and it’s interesting to watch it again as an adult.
I have some updated thoughts on Treize Khushrenada, the main villain of the piece, and wanted to know if anyone else got this impression of him. There was a speech made by his subordinate Lady Une, who is not exactly a pillar of sanity herself that made me have some newly chilly feelings about Treize and put his other actions in a different light. Treize “fell in love with people” and fell in love “with the death of people.” Treize is an old-world noble who believes in all the worst parts of chivalry and also believes that humans are at their best when they are gloriously fighting for survival, namely in wars.
Treize has an authorized outlet for his feelings, since he has the power to send soldiers off to die in creepily human-looking killing machines. Yet I feel like if he couldn’t get his jollies watching men valiantly get blown up in the service of his organization, he’d be the target of a police manhunt as a serial killer, trying to prove how “glorious” humans are when they’re faced with death. I thought Treize was just sort of weird before; he’s chilling to me now.
More sane people in the show, like Sally Po, lament the fact that people die en masse in wars. Treize’s main lament about unmanned weapons is that the killing machines being destroyed en masse don’t have people dying in them. He’s a psychopath in a position of power, and the people he directly mentors (Zechs, Lady Une) seem to turn out the worse for wear until they can get away from him.
I think part of the teenage appeal of Gundam Wing is that you have five damaged but stable kids fighting for their lives in a world ruled by madmen who take pleasure in pulling the kids’ strings for their own ends. (See: Hunger Games and other dystopian YA classics.) Treize might be the creepiest madman of them all. He is the President Snow, roses and all, of Gundam Wing.
