scans_daily: The Immortals

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@ 2010-04-21 02:29 pm UTC

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char: amadeus cho, char: beta ray bill, char: hercules/marvel, char: namora/aquaria nautica neptunia, char: sif, char: venus, creator: ariel olivetti, creator: fred van lente, creator: greg pak, creator: kelly sue deconnick, creator: paul tobin, creator: reilly brown, creator: ryan stegman, publisher: marvel comics, title: incredible hercules

The Immortals

Four scans apiece from Hercules: Fall of an Avenger #2 and Sif #1.

In Fall of an Avenger, Athena and Apollo's champions (plus the champions of their allies) duke it out; Athena's people win, but both sides are annoyed by the bosses. Amadeus gets the help of Phobos to force Pluto to let him into Hades (by threatening Pluto with sickeningly cute visions):

Next day at Olympus Group, Athena finds that Amadeus has taken the job as CEO, and that he plans to use the Group's resources to try to find Hercules.

Meanwhile, in the second story, Venus and Namora continue their world tour of Hercules' holdings, and come across the Lethe Children's Hospital, which, it turns out, is an orphanage/hospital for the children of monsters. The hospital head explains the history of the place.

They obviously don't make any money doing this. They then visit the hospital ward, where all the terminally ill monster-kids live:

Venus decides to fudge the books on this place, and says she'll visit with the kids in his place, since she's immortal too.

Over in the one-shot Sif, written by Matt Fraction's wife Kelly DeConnick (also a writer/translator, apparently), Sif gets a visit from Beta Ray Bill and his new girlfriend/sole fellow Korbinite, Ti Asha Ra (lucky that the one Korbinite Galactus resurrected turned out to be someone he could get along with - otherwise it would have been like poor Ruebert from that old Dilbert comic strip). They need someone to help them reclaim their sentient spaceship from pirates who have taken it over and infected it with a bioweapon; Bill was looking for Thor, but Sif volunteers since he's not around. The villains are a Borg-esque collective who want to unify the whole universe, so their weapon is mind control, conveniently similar to Sif's recent experience with Loki. Here, she faces off with the head-villain:

She destroys their main generator-thing, and saves the day.

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	no subject phosfate 2010-04-21 07:05 pm UTC (link)
	No, no, my point is she's a centaur. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 11 comments) (Show 11 comments)

	no subject colonel_green 2010-04-21 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	I understand what you mean; I was just saying that calling her a "minotaur girl" presumably means her father was a minotaur. She does look more like a centaur, though, particularly the tail. Weird gene mixing, I guess? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 10 comments) (Show 10 comments)

	no subject suzene 2010-04-21 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	Or the artist getting his mythological 'taurs mixed up. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

Major Greek mythology geek ahoy!

kirke_novak
2010-04-21 07:17 pm UTC (link)

OMG! My own soap box!!! XD

Alas, on contrary to popular belief, Minotaur is not a race but a name of one individual, who got offed by Theseus, therefore, didn't have any children. There weren't many Minotaurs running around, just one. His mom sexed-up a bull, that doesn't happen as often as people suspect but more often then they hope for.

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	Re: Major Greek mythology geek ahoy! colonel_green 2010-04-21 07:19 pm UTC (link)
	I know that too; I was reading (somewhat bowdlerized) mythology books in Grade Four. Maybe making people have sex with bulls is something the gods do every so often in the MU? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	Re: Major Greek mythology geek ahoy! kirke_novak 2010-04-21 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	MU and RL it seems, they were a bunch of perverts. I mean, what animals weren't these poor women boning? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	Re: Major Greek mythology geek ahoy! kaileighblue 2010-04-21 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	And Perseus was born when Zeus came to his mother in a "golden shower." (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	Re: Major Greek mythology geek ahoy! kaileighblue 2010-04-21 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	Should be "as a golden shower." (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	Re: Major Greek mythology geek ahoy! kirke_novak 2010-04-21 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	Kinks - older than you think. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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icon_uk
2010-04-21 08:15 pm UTC (link)

To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen a popular belief that the Minotaur was a race (Even Wonder Woman's Ferdinand is noted as being a Kythotaur, since he's not from Minos)

But even then, why does getting killed by Theseus mean he didn't have kids beforehand? He had the Athenian maidens offerings every nine years after all.

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	Re: Major Greek mythology geek ahoy! 01d55 2010-04-23 12:41 am UTC (link)
	It was generally understood that the maidens were killed and eaten. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	Re: Major Greek mythology geek ahoy! cmdr_zoom 2010-04-22 04:15 am UTC (link)
	yes, and there's only one Pegasus (which is a proper noun), which does not stop lots of winged horses from existing in the collective imagination. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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