glprime: (pic#365544)glprime ([personal profile] glprime) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily,
@ 2011-07-12 05:03 pm UTC
Entry tags:creator: art thibert, creator: gerard jones, creator: jeff matsuda, publisher: amalgam
We return to the mixed-up crazy crack of the Amalgam Universe with one of the most requested titles from our last go around.

Combining the preachiness and messiah complex of Max/Erik "Magnus" Eisenhardt/Lensherr and the eccentric scheming of Dr. Will "Balls Crazy" Magnus gets you...

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A lone mutant is being chased through the city streets by an unseen assailant (don't you hate when the fourth wall blocks your view?). Just when it seems she'll be obliterated, cue dramatic entrance of the Magnetic Men, Kool-Aid Man style, upon the scene. Cobalt (team leader, general-stick-in-the-mud), Nickel (super-fast, quick-talking joker), Antimony (the chick... really that's about it, though she's The '90s Chick), Bismuth (the stuttering toxic avenger- no, not that one), and Iron (crotchety brute strength).

They defend the young girl from her attacker, and from seeing he is a robot attacking a mutant, assume he is a "mere sentinel."

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Despite a valiant effort from Bismuth and Antimony, Magneto arrives after the Magnetic Men are defeated and pulls them back together.

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So, Erik Magnus is the brother of Will Magnus (as seen in the previous JLX entry), who is also Will Magnus combined instead with Bolivar Trask. Mags created the Magnetic Men by improving his brother's automatons (through ELECTROMAGNETISM somehow) and basing their personalities off mutants he'd formed into this universe's Brotherhood (who were killed by Sentinel attacks).

Back at base, Magneto takes previously seen Mr. X to task for his lack of useful assistance in the mutant cause...
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So, squishy-on-squishy is morally reprehensible, but a couple of tincans going at it is fine? Duly noted where the line of sentience and "living" is, Mags.

The Magnetic Men track down Sinistron (oh my god, just typing that name is fun; thank you, comics) to a Secret Base (TM) and find there's a whole slew of captured mutants in tanks lining the walls. Sin unleashes a few that have been brainwashed to fight...

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Really? Must it be based on ELECTROMAGNETISM? What if he's a wetware robot? Ah, he's probably right.

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Whoops. Looks like Will Magnus has fallen prey to the "Ivo Problem": building artificial intelligence too well.

Sinistron puts everybody in Screen Lock, but Cobalt seems to have "some extra ability of will" which somehow pulls a save out of the writer's ass. Magneto strategizes that if Science doesn't work... use more Science!

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Yeesh. No idea if that makes any damn sense at all, but the raw chutzpah of the moment seems to fry Sinistron's "logic circuits" and he beats a hasty wireless transmission retreat ala Brainiac.

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I love how Antimony is the only one not having any of the cheesy crap at the end there.

"Screw all of your senseless gravitas... I'm coming to grips with my own existential crisis!"

Next time, we see the fallout to Magneto realizing his evolving machines are more-than-meets-the-I-can't-I'm-Sorry-It's-Too-Soon-Goddamn-Michael-Bay...

Coming up... right now!



7 and 1/3 pages from 23 page Magneto and the Magnetic Men #1.

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[personal profile] kamino_neko
2011-07-13 01:11 am UTC (link)
Man, Sinestron looks like the Tangent Ultra-Humanite... (Who IS his DC half, come to that? Well...DC third, since he seems to have both Mr Sinister and Ultron.)

Man, I can't find my copies of the Amalgam books, so I can't check...are we given any info on those 5 mutants that Sinestron had? I can make a guess at one half of four of them (Juggernaut, Floronic Man (or Swamp Thing), Cyclops, Blink), but no idea on the other parts, or any part of the fifth guy (he could be composed of any number of characters, from both companies).

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[personal profile] glprime
2011-07-13 01:57 am UTC (link)
Nope. Seems to be just the artist's choice. Your guess is as good as any.

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[identity profile] djt2445.livejournal.com
2011-07-13 07:41 am UTC (link)
Psimon was the DC half, hence the brain-wiping.

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[identity profile] djt2445.livejournal.com
2011-07-13 08:03 am UTC (link)
Oddly, I just ran into this, trying to figure out the five, because I thought it was Psimon and his Fearsome Five, but ---

http://www.comicvine.com/sinistron/29-58838/

which suggests Sinestro, Brainiac, Ultron, and Mr. Sinister.

In which case, I got no suggestions on the five. :( (though I'm pretty reasonably sure the Cyclop-looking fellow is Mimic from the early X-Men.)

My thought was the Blink-looking one was an amalgam of Shimmer or Jinx / Blink.

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[personal profile] kd_the_movie
2011-07-13 01:57 am UTC (link)
I always liked Amalgam!Mags costume. It had a very royal feel to it. And I love energy projection characters so Cobalt was my favorite :)

And I never could figure out who Iron and Cobalt were supposed to based off of on the Marvel Side (Mystique? Mastermind?).

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[personal profile] nefrekeptah
2011-07-13 02:26 am UTC (link)
Hold on. A lot of what you're saying in the parts you couldn't post doesn't at all mesh up with what I remember.

Nickel is able to resist the controlling effects of the villain, leaving room for big boss, Magneto, to enter the fray.

Like this, for example. The way I remember it, Nickle doesn't do jack; Bismuth and Antimony are actually non-magnetic, in order to counter attacks just like the one Sinistron used, and wail on him for a bit before Sinistron shrugs them off, destroys them all, and leaves. That scene at the end is Magneto arriving to repair the Magnetic Men and vowing to fight at their side from now on.

Same with the other comment about Nickle resisting; from what I recall, Cobalt's the one who resisted, by "channeling the Master's will into power" and bombarding Sinistron with radiation, which frees the others. Also, I seem to remember that it was Iron, not Cobalt, who was barking out orders in the beginning.

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[personal profile] glprime
2011-07-13 02:51 am UTC (link)
Fixed.

Both call out orders, but there's not really any indication of a true leader, given they've only existed in two titles, but background material was trying to have Cobalt as the stoic leader with Iron as his Lancer.

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