Pet Avengers #3 preview

[sherkahn]

It's Friday, and it's time for some love before the weekend. I present the Pet Avenger's #3 preview, courtesy of CosmicBookNews. Why do I have to say anything more? One funny page of the preview behind the cut.



Purr the last issue (pun intended), the mystic animals of myth are coming back to Earth from their sanctuary, and the Pet Avengers are there to aide the unsuspecting humanity.

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Lockheed's of the Asian persuasion. And willing to take on any big challenge!

And Zabu's portrayal is giving me classic Logan vibes. Must be the scruff.

suggested tags:

group: Pet Avengers
character: Lockheed
character: Zabu


creator: Chris Eliopoulos
creator: Ig Guara

Comments

[ian_karkull]

Right on Lockheed! Chase the chunk!

[skalja]

Uh, what?

[jlroberson]

Is this the same artist from PRIDE OF BAGHDAD?

[queen_marshed]

Lockheed likes them big and beautiful~ :D

[crabby_lioness]

Kitty, the green dragon, this Chinese firecracker....

Yeah, I'd say he likes them big on a scale of at least 10:1. AT LEAST.

[icon_uk]

It's not like this is even his first giant dragon girlfriend...

[kirke_novak]

Lockheed likes big butts and he cannot lie?

[glprime]

You other dragons can't deny.

[cainofdreaming]

I've got some good new and some bad news for you, Mr. Lockheed. The bad ones? You've got the rice fever, and I'm sorry but the medical science knows no cure. The good news is that you will never want one.

[zemo]

Reminds me of one of the older Diskworld novels. Where one inept tiny dragon totally shags a broodmother.

[likeaminx]

Errol the Swamp Dragon! from Guards! Guards!

[outlawpoet]

dude, Errol wasn't inept, he was so inbred he developed SUPERPOWERS. Like a reverse mutant or something. He was tiny, but freaking rocket-powered.

[psychopathicus_rex]

I didn't get the impression that he was inbred - I think it was stated pretty specifically that Swamp Dragons were actually just the male versions of the much bigger type of dragon that took over the city. The females are gigantic and breath fire, the males are puny and... well, have fire coming out elsewhere.

[slim-summer.livejournal.com]

Nope. The bigger dragons were Thaumivore's (as in they ate/used magic). Because they ate magic they could do stuff such as fly while weighing tonnes and not have all the problems that Swamp dragons do. However when magic became more rare they started becoming rare and some went to "another place" where there was magic.

The Swamp Dragons though remained behind on the Discworld and because there was no magic had to face all the problems that they could use magic to solve before.

Errol was either in-bred or a mutant or just a very smart dragon who figured out that fire from mouth means burnt food but fire from a** means jet propulsion.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Oh - OK. It's been a while since I read the book; I was just going on memory.

[punishermax]

What's wrong with that guy's FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

[sherkahn]

His head is about to explode from the AWESOME!

[ravenous_raven]

Hey, Tinkerbell cameo!

[neuhallidae]

I know it's expected, Disney and all, but frankly, I would have laughed harder if it had been the Tink from Wisdom and MI-13.

[halloweenjack]

It ain't the meat, it's the motion.

[psychopathicus_rex]

I thought I knew my mythological beasts pretty well, but I have discovered a hole in my knowledge. Just what kind of creature is that lion-centauress? Is there a name for her, or did the artist just get bored and decide to get innovative?

[bluefall]

Offhand, given the suggestion of the avian to her human features, "sphinx" seems most likely. Sphinx-as-species has become a relatively common conceit these days - I want to blame D&D 3e or maybe Final Fantasy - and that's about how you usually see them. If she had wings I'd be sure of it (which is weird, cuz the Egyptians obviously didn't sculpt them that way, but it seems to have permeated the modern visual convention anyway).

[psychopathicus_rex]

I suppose it's possible, but if so, that's one hell of a weird sphinx. Every picture of a sphinx I'VE ever seen shows them with a human head (and, if female, human breasts) and a lion - or horse, or half-and-half - body, sometimes with wings. I've never seen one depicted as a lion-centaur.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Also, the Greek Sphinx, the one who asked Oedipus the riddle, usually IS shown with wings, as far as I know.

[bluefall]

Yeah, but I would be extremely surprised to learn that many people think of her first when they hear "sphinx." The average joe is probably vaguely aware that Oedipus is a guy who banged his mom, and that's mostly Freud's fault, little to do with any real knowledge of the myth.

Everybody knows about the statue with the broken nose, though.

[psychopathicus_rex]

True enough, although the part with the riddle IS quite famous. The whole 'four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, three in the evening' thing is probably one of the best-known riddles in the world at this point, even if they don't attach it to Oedipus.

[bluefall]

And some of those who do attach it, do so bizarrely. Myself, for example, who can never help but picture Oedipus running around like a loon bellowing "It's PEOPLE! PEOPLE!" at the Sphinx all Soylent Green style. I don't know why. I've never even actually seen the movie.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Oooooooooo-kay. You should see it, it's good (although there never really IS a scene like that - I think that was Saturday Night Live. There's plenty of good ol' Heston overacting in that flick, but the 'running around like a loon' part isn't there).