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Some spoilers for the Osborn series in which awesomeness prevails.

Starring, Father (nofirstnamementionedyet) Coulmier!!!

You know, this guy:

Fivescans from Osborn #2: in which we have a Normie fanboy

So to quickly recap: When Coulmier first appeared, he came off as a pretty nice guy, but not a pushover, though his patience was long and he talked to four psychopath, mostly inhuman inmates without showing any fear. From the facial expressions, he was nice.

And then near the end of the first Osborn comic, we find out he's got a Green Goblin tattoo right beneath the nape of his neck.

From this, we in the comm that talks of these things settled on one conclusion: He worships Norman Osborn.

Perhaps jumping the gun a little, but by the second issue, none of our guesses have yet been proven wrong.

Okay, so what really struck me here is how very convincing (though not long-lasting) his poker face is. From his behavior towards Norman, we once again concluded two things, both of which are very possible.

One, he is well-studied in psychology, so his all his actions and reactions are well-gauged to fit the situation to his advantage.
Two, he is well-studied in Norman Osborn.

Yup. This may be as bad as Coat from the Young Masters of Evil, but with less fan girl squeeing.

And it helps absolutely nothing that the first time I saw his worried face on the same page as the reveal of the Goblin tattoo, my first thought--without thinking of that particular word in a year now-- was "OH MY GOD HE'S AN UKE!"

I was.... an anime fangirl... and some of the faces in this art style (which is wonderful by the way--so expressive and charming and rough and absolutely gorgeous in the chaos pages) looked like those of anime that went by the name Haru Wo Daiteita.

Or maybe it was some other anime that I got mixed up with-- you know, never mind, we've strayed from the point.

MY POINT IS, I'd really like to see what DeConnick is planning with these characters. She's so good at writing every one, and of course, it's the somewhat good looking, subservient but not pathetic, all too human priest who catches my attention.

~~And just for the record, I totally had nothing to do with that priest kink meme prompt on marvelkinkv2. Nothing at all.~~

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k_red

Yeah, seriously, who is this artist? I like the anime/comic mash-up thing he/she's got going on (that's an official art style description, there). And you're right, that priest/not priest is pretty darned good looking.

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blackruzsa

Emma Rios for the win.

I find it cool that the artist and writer are both women since they're the movers and shakers of the story.

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pyynk

I like the fact that the artist actually understands that Norman has wavy hair, not weird lines or cornrows.

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misterbug

...Actually, as with anything Spider-related in today's comics, it's been done.

Back when Osborn went batshit after his brief takeover of the Daily Bugle, he recovered under the guise of the Scrier organisation, which he had taken over, in Paul Jenkins' "Revenge of the Green Goblin". As the Scriers had broken up into Osbornites and a smaller group following the original Scrier, Norman re-christened them 'The Order of the Goblin', and they religiously followed him, wearing Goblin masks under their cloaks.

So, yes. This has been done.

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blackruzsa

I am aware, but while the theme's been done, the execution's a whole new ballgame.

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hyperactivator

And here's hoping that this is just a revitalised remnent of that. Because two unrelated Norman Osborn cults would be stupid.

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icon_uk

Sigh, so this chap is a suffuiciently well vetted priest to be allowed apparently unfettered access to Norman Osborne, but apparently isn't a Catholic?

Who the hell runs the security checks in that place? Did this guy murder an actual priest and take his place?

Or were his seven years in seminary and other years in pastoral training before final ordination evidence of someone playing an absurdly long game? (Or maybe he went to same "Done in 6 months part time" seminary course that Kurt Wagner believed he been to was enough to qualify him as a priest.)

Did he presume that access to public enemy number one might not extend to a strip search? (Which might highlight the tattoo)

I like the notion, but the execution does not appear to be particularly well thought out.

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karunya

Easy answer: he's a high-church Episcopalian/Anglican. The kind of guy who's a Catholic wannabee, but too theologically/socially liberal. Does the whole shtick except for the Pope and the celibacy. And since I dated such a priest in my misspent university/seminary years, I can assure you that I'm telling the truth about no celibacy! So squee on, fangirls!

Bringing the crack since December 2003

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