Breakfast with supervillains

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

This is from Heroes for Hire v2 #7. It's written by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Zeb Wells, and illustrated by Al Rio.

Comments

[blake_reitz.insanejournal.com]

That Man-Ape dude is pretty chill for someone's who's face is in a face that's ALWAYS SCREAMING.

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

...damn, now I really want some egg hats.

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

What IS an egg-hat ?

[thokstar.insanejournal.com]

I want to know what an egg hat is. Wikipedia is unhelpful and google suggests something which doesn't match the art.

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

It might be an egg in the basket, which wikipedia says is also known as an egg in the hat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_egg#Variation_--_Egg_in_the_Basket

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

This (http://www.recipezaar.com/Eggs-with-Hats-on-Top-54677) is pretty much what I had in mind, though I agree it doesn't match the art here.

[sir_razorback.insanejournal.com]

Is it still fridging when it's a villaness that gets randomly cut down?

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

She's a very minor character (http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/saboteuriron.htm) and the same ish had Orka getting a hole blown through his chest by a Doombot.

[majingojira.insanejournal.com]

Disposable woman is disposable.

It's not a classic fridging. It's more "I kill a minion randomly to show how EVIL I am!" situation.

[tacobob.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, but before breakfast? That's just rude. If I remember this series, Grim gets the ever-loving snot kicked out of him by the good guys. They weren't updated on his current power levels, and thought they were facing him with his undead powers.

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

Frankly, I have a hard time caring about someone named "Saboteur" who's an explosives expert, but doesn't have her costume boobytrapped to blow up in the face of someone who kills her and/or lets a known psycho get within striking distance of her. That's just sloppy.

[bean_montag.insanejournal.com]

I don't get ape-guy. His body is furry, but why does he have a head within another head? Is that something cosmetic, like a hat that he just puts on in the morning? Or does he actually have two heads?

I don't get it.

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/manapembaku.htm

He's a normal human wearing the skin of a white gorilla.

[fungo_squiggly.insanejournal.com]

And in these scans, wearing a bathrobe over that.

Which is AWESOME.

[bean_montag.insanejournal.com]

Welllll

that's a bit creepy isn't it. And just think of all the care that must go into keeping a dead skin looking supple and alive, especially one with all that fur.

I am going to take your word for it. Thanks for the link but that article is a bit tealdeer and I didn't find the word "skin" in a search. :\

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

While cooking?

That's pretty stupid.

[arbre_rieur.insanejournal.com]

Okay, at the risk of sounding like a grump... I really get annoyed when writers treat the fact that a character is minor as license to write them however they please, without regards to their previous personalities or backstories. The Man-Ape is a native Wakandan and doesn't use phrases like "I dunno," and the Grim Reaper, whose motives for crime revolve around brother's death and revival, isn't the stone-cold sort who'd just kill someone for no good reason.

[arbre_rieur.insanejournal.com]

Then again, to be fair, I haven't read anything involving these characters in a long time, so maybe they've changed in the interim.

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

I don't know about Man-Ape (who the great Hudlin later made a joke before killing off), but the Grim Reaper has been through a lot of changes.

At one point he actually became a zombie who had to suck the life-force from others.
http://www.comicvine.com/grim-reaper/29-7227/all-images/108-211872/gr1/105-523157/

[stolisomancer.insanejournal.com]

That could probably be attributed to Priest's influence, which had a number of Wakandans feeling very comfortable speaking in modern English, complete with modern English argot. Priest's version of Erik Killpower sounded fairly American, and Man-Ape has spent a good long while at this point in America being a supervillain.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

What a random slaying...I've seen a lot of villains randomly offing partners and henchfolks, but that one stands out. I'm not sure why - it's a pretty typical example of the trope - Pissy Villain's pissy, HenchPartner tells him to chill, he offs them in a rage - but something about this one just feels MORE random.

Maybe it's Man-Ape's annoyance about the mess, I dunno...

[greenmask.insanejournal.com]

Because it's man-man-lady in a room, and the one to be casually offed is the lady? :/

[smarmyimp.insanejournal.com]

It's a pretty big burn when the completely amoral guys who consider killing one of their own the rough equivalent of stomping a cockroach are using you as a bad example.

[strangething.insanejournal.com]

Is anyone else reminded of Catman making omelets in Secret Six?

[smarmyimp.insanejournal.com]

This is Apeman making egghats. TOTALLY different thing!