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Oct. 23rd, 2011
More Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Oct. 23rd, 2011 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sherkahnNormally I don't bring my politico viewpoints to the board, as we have enough in real life to deal with and this is my welcome refuge, but I will be headed over to the local Occupy gathering and offer my support later on this morning.
With that said, I will print out of few of these and share with my fellow common man/woman, hopefully get a chuckle out of a few who "get the joke".
Thank q99 for inspiring me this morning!
( Imagine how much simpler life would be if everyone where their respective colors. )
With that said, I will print out of few of these and share with my fellow common man/woman, hopefully get a chuckle out of a few who "get the joke".
Thank q99 for inspiring me this morning!
( Imagine how much simpler life would be if everyone where their respective colors. )
When the West Wind blows
Oct. 23rd, 2011 03:06 pmarbre_rieur
In the wake of the North Wind's death, the other three Cardinal Winds have blown into town to help iron out the matter of inheritance. If "help" can be the right word...
( Four pages from FABLES 110, Chapter 3 of 'Inherit the Wind'... )
icon_ukIt's not often I deliberately buy a comic to showcase it here, normally my recent purchases and longboxes are adequate, but this one appealed to me a lot, as it raises some interesting questions (notably about one of the oldest groups in the Marvel universe which I don't think have ever been asked before) but doesn't provide pat answers.
One of my earliest comic reading memories was of a subplot in an old Inhumans issue (With early George Perez art), where a woman, her hair withered and grey and her face and skin covered in all manner of boils, blotches and wrinkles, pleads with Black Bolt to be allowed to use the Mists. Despite some (Gorgon for one) objecting to such a request being made out of vanity, Black Bolt permitted it, perhaps out of sympathy with her plight. And she later emerged from the mists looking like this;
Now as a kid, I don't think I was vain, but I was aware that I was perhaps never going to be amongst the greatest looking people on Earth, so there was a certain element of wish fulfilment that there might be a magical process which would make me special somehow (but handsome to boot), but in retrospect, is it a "Looks ARE everything" message here? I don't know, but one likes to think it's a story of compassion leading to lessening the pain of an individual.
Now, taking that story in a slightly different direction, from: Uncanny X-Men: First Class #1 and #2(and republished in the UK as this years X-Men First Class Annual) I present approximately 14 pages from a 44 page story) where the X-Men discover....
( Refuge )
One of my earliest comic reading memories was of a subplot in an old Inhumans issue (With early George Perez art), where a woman, her hair withered and grey and her face and skin covered in all manner of boils, blotches and wrinkles, pleads with Black Bolt to be allowed to use the Mists. Despite some (Gorgon for one) objecting to such a request being made out of vanity, Black Bolt permitted it, perhaps out of sympathy with her plight. And she later emerged from the mists looking like this;
Now as a kid, I don't think I was vain, but I was aware that I was perhaps never going to be amongst the greatest looking people on Earth, so there was a certain element of wish fulfilment that there might be a magical process which would make me special somehow (but handsome to boot), but in retrospect, is it a "Looks ARE everything" message here? I don't know, but one likes to think it's a story of compassion leading to lessening the pain of an individual.
Now, taking that story in a slightly different direction, from: Uncanny X-Men: First Class #1 and #2(and republished in the UK as this years X-Men First Class Annual) I present approximately 14 pages from a 44 page story) where the X-Men discover....
( Refuge )
