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Namor also ran a movie studio so I need to go back and find out if it was the same one or if they were in some kind of surface proxy war through box office receipts.
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My favourite part of the "Namor buys a movie studio to make a Fantastic Four movie" (he bought it using treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon) story isn't even the "Namor buys a movie studio" part; the highlight for me is Reed Richards, the smartest man in the world, losing all the Fantastic Four's money because he made bad investments on the stock market.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:ha ha wtf? this minor namor villain at one point ran a movie studio, but the bibliography just talks about things other than his movie studio. I'm sure this is when Namor was the CEO of a major company for some reason.
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Wheat Loaf posted:My favourite part of the "Namor buys a movie studio to make a Fantastic Four movie" (he bought it using treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon) story isn't even the "Namor buys a movie studio" part; the highlight for me is Reed Richards, the smartest man in the world, losing all the Fantastic Four's money because he made bad investments on the stock market. It's not like the stock market behaves rationally. I bet even Mad Thinker routinely gets owned by its fluctuations.
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I could see Doom making a killing off stocks. It'd be a small part of a much more elaborate plan though, otherwise he wouldn't bother with something so trivially simple. 
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Ghostlight posted:It's Latin for "to see". I will never get tired of hamfisted introduction panels.
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I just love the idea that Skull-Face himself has no idea if he's actually the skeleton of a demon or not, so he goes around describing himself as the skeleton of an alleged demon.
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I just noticed that they give Skull-Face's origin as Mystic #6 when he's actually from Mystery Tales #6. I'll give him that he's trying to dress the part, but I think "casual skeleton" is a little more spooky.
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Nilbop posted:I just love the idea that Skull-Face himself has no idea if he's actually the skeleton of a demon or not, so he goes around describing himself as the skeleton of an alleged demon. So like...skeletons are separate beings? That have no awareness of what kind of being they were inside of? Whoa man.
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Nilbop posted:I just love the idea that Skull-Face himself has no idea if he's actually the skeleton of a demon or not, so he goes around describing himself as the skeleton of an alleged demon. I read it more as "It was alleged that I was a demon, which is why I was burned, but the allegations were false and I was in fact human. My living skeleton powers are unrelated.". Although either explanation is hilariously goofy.
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There really needs to be more media with casually dressed skeletons. They can't all just be either robed or exhibitionists! I'm hard pressed to figure out what the mystery of Skull-Face is, though. Is it the fact that they've got their own movie?
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The real mystery is why his movie poster features him rolling up his sleeve in preparation for delivering an rear end whipping.
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Day 58: I thought this was Skeletor from He-Man. I guess it's not though. It's a different blue and purple guy with a skeleton face.  
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It took four Mr Fears until one of them realised he could use pheromones to rape people instead of just making them anxious.
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Ghostlight posted:It took four Mr Fears until one of them realised he could use pheromones to rape people instead of just making them anxious. What I think you mean is it took four Mr. Fears until some author was tasteless enough to do that.
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Cabbit posted:What I think you mean is it took four Mr. Fears until some author was tasteless enough to do that. What he did to Matt's wife was fucken cold.
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Cabbit posted:What I think you mean is it took four Mr. Fears until some author was tasteless enough to do that.
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I knew Axe body spray was an evil plot.
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bobkatt013 posted:What he did to Matt's wife was fucken cold. Mr. Fear's master plan was one of the most hosed-up, twisted, hopelessness-inducing things I've ever read in a mainstream superhero comic. Leave it to Brubaker to really twist the knife into Daredevil AND the readers.
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Mr. Fear II would later go on to become the campy and sort of bugfuck insane Machinesmith, who's one of my favorite obscuros.
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When I was younger, I had this reference book called 500 Comic Book Villains by a British comics historian called Mike Conroy (he also wrote one called 500 Comic Book Heroes, which I didn't read, and co-wrote one with his wife called 500 Manga Heroes and Villains, which I did read but recall not being as good). It had short entries on most characters then these big double-page spreads for the likes of Doctor Octopus, Kingpin, the Violator from Spawn, the Dark Judges from 2000 AD and for some reason the Coda from WildC.A.T.S. (the biggest ones, like Dr Doom, Magneto, Luthor and the Joker, got four-page write-ups). Starr Saxon was one of those double-page spreads. I cannot imagine why such a minor character would get that much written about him. Still, that's how I know about some real weirdos, like Shrunken Bones, the Headmen, the Dung, the Forgotten Villains and Lord Weird Slough Feg.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Mr. Fear II would later go on to become the campy and sort of bugfuck insane Machinesmith, who's one of my favorite obscuros. I'd never seen him before til the recent Ant-Man, and immediately read him with the voice/personality of Jim Rash as Dean Pelton. Only makes it weirder now that I've just read his backstory. Remember all that horrible poo poo the Dean did to Daredevil? And they said the crossover with Community would never work.
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Other distinguishing features: Hank Hill rear end
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Diet Poison posted:I'd never seen him before til the recent Ant-Man, and immediately read him with the voice/personality of Jim Rash as Dean Pelton. Only makes it weirder now that I've just read his backstory. Remember all that horrible poo poo the Dean did to Daredevil? And they said the crossover with Community would never work. If you want to read his backstory in his own words, check out Captain America #368: 
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Diet Poison posted:I'd never seen him before til the recent Ant-Man, and immediately read him with the voice/personality of Jim Rash as Dean Pelton. Only makes it weirder now that I've just read his backstory. Remember all that horrible poo poo the Dean did to Daredevil? And they said the crossover with Community would never work. Mr. Fear III, Larry Cranston, was the one who ruined Daredevil's life. II became Machinesmith.
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Pastry of the Year posted:If you want to read his backstory in his own words, check out Captain America #368: You know, looking at that, a thought occurred to me of 'how the heck was this person not a character in Avengers A.I.?' The answer is that Avengers A.I. was ultimately a series cut short just as it got good, of course
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Pastry of the Year posted:If you want to read his backstory in his own words, check out Captain America #368: poo poo's getting weirder than usual at the Venture compound.
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Cabbit posted:poo poo's getting weirder than usual at the Venture compound. oh my god, Machinesmith as the perpetually aggrieved Paul Lynde-ish patriarch to a household full of B-through-D-list robots
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It's been a while, but I'm back. So let's kick it off with a relevant character to things that are happening right now! Day 59: Mantis Oh boy. What to say about Mantis. Mantis has the unfortunate pleasure of being a pet character to a writer, Steve Englehart, that literally could not let the character go. So much that he took the character to two other companies with him. Every story with Mantis by Englehart had to revolve about how great Mantis was. It was pretty over the top and really soured people on the character for a long time. She was rehabilitated during the Abnett and Lanning cosmic run so much that she's a part of the successful Guardians film franchise now though. One almost wonders what Englehart thinks of this.  
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X-O posted:It's been a while, but I'm back. So let's kick it off with a relevant character to things that are happening right now! This spurred me to do some reading and I learned that (a) Mantis' story is far more bonkers than I remembered and (b) there is an actual Celestial called the Celestial Madonna who, as far as I can tell, has absolutely no connection to Mantis and her status as the Celstial Madonna. I also learned that, for years, I'd been falsely thinking there was some connection between her, the Nexus of all Realities and Polaris' deal as a "nexus" during Muir Island.
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Note that she was married to a plant inhabiting a corpse.
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THIS ONE was/is literally the only person who was an Avengers from 1963-2000 or whatever that I can't defend as actually an interesting/potentially interesting character. In addition to a weird rewriting of history where secretly every successful film/TV show/anything is basically created by him, Steve Englehart's project-by-project history of how for SOME REASON editors kept complaining when he tried to turn the Avengers, Defenders, Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, JUSTICE LEAGUE, etc. books into Mantis-starring projects is pretty entertaining.
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Edge & Christian posted:THIS ONE was/is literally the only person who was an Avengers from 1963-2000 or whatever that I can't defend as actually an interesting/potentially interesting character. He's also made some very grody statements about how/why he wanted to treat Mantis' sexuality in her initial Avengers appearances.
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The only interesting thing Mantis ever did before being in Guardians was be part of Swordsman's character arc. And she wasn't even a good part of it. I don't know what it is with Steve Englehart and completely unlikeable psychic women.
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I think she was on a post-Annihilation, pre-GotG team with Starlord. It wasn't awful, I guess.
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HitTheTargets posted:I think she was on a post-Annihilation, pre-GotG team with Starlord. It wasn't awful, I guess. She was great in that. But she's basically an entirely different character at that point. gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i seem to recall that no one liked her She kept trying to gently caress Vision and he kept telling her to gently caress off.
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Endless Mike posted:It's me, I'm Marvel Boy. I enjoyed how Marvel Boy's multiple origins/appearances got streamlined and explained in Agents of Atlas, where that character is The Uranian/Bob now (idc what current Marvel is doing, Atlas will always be an active team to me dammit). Any entries on characters like Gorilla Man or the Human Robot in there?
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Lurdiak posted:The only interesting thing Mantis ever did before being in Guardians was be part of Swordsman's character arc. And she wasn't even a good part of it. Or how obsessed he was with her and wrote her in everything. She was also the greatest and best, and all the stories focused on her. She was the fucken worst.
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