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scans_dailyAfter the medical crime-fighter, but before that one's turn as Doctor Death and change to scientific adventurism, there was another of the same name.
"Say your prayers!" he hissed to Ant-Man and the Wasp on the cover of Marvel Feature #10. "You tangled once too often with DOCTOR NEMESIS!"
Exactly once it was at the time; they'd come across him in his trailer home/lab, thanks to a series of circumstances involving Spider-Man, the thickly accented drug lord M'sieu Tete, the introspective robot Para-Man, and Whirlwind as chauffeur.
Despite his Pymtech derivatives and kitty-aided capture of the two, he was defeated in short enough order, outdone at both size-changing and fisticuffs.
..which our heroes opened recapping on their current lot in life, a case of "the more things change.."
Once extra-dimensional refugees seeking to return to and liberate the Microverse from the malicious Baron Karza, they were now extra-dimensional refugees seeking to return to and liberate the Microverse from the malicious Force Commander.
While Arcturus Rann, Marionette, and Acroyear ponder the essentially unchanged states of their respective people, the *tik*ing Bug thinks..
..a bit about Janet van Dyne (biochemistry, folks!) across the way, who's throwing a heck of a party:
Yes, that's Doctor Nemesis, who looks like one of Tete's henchmen..in keeping with his own admitted backstory.
(Even still, they only really tangled the one time.)
His bald might be the reason he costumes as he does:
She's forlorn because Avengers #213 happened last November, you see.
Which ties a little into Nemesis's plan, and why he won't be dressing like a Metallo for the rest of this:
(how does he know about Hank's armor? Good question, and I bet shrinking's the answer.)
Outside the Micronauts make a plan to use their late foe Professor Prometheus's Pit that spans 'verses, located in Florida's H.E.L.L.
(Human Engineering Life Laboratories, which certainly lived up to its name.)
But then Bug's Insectovorid senses start to crackle something fierce, and he takes off; the others follow, to arrive at Jan taking a first-story fall:
(I was hoping the helm had Ant-Man functionality, but clearly those nubs are just so pointlessly decorative.)
Nemesis turns a shrinking blast on Jan:
(ITS power? I guess there's an undersheath, or something he's using in conjunction with his own abilities..)
Raising a question in Commander Rann's mind..
..and an answer in Bug's, who gets Jan out of the way.
Some introductions and a SPROING! on Bug's part later, the Wasp doubles back (wearing only a napkin) to get a spare costume while the Micronauts distract Doc Nemesis.
Who laughs: "Adamantium has defied Thor's hammer-- Iron Man's repulsor rays! You can't penetrate it to hurt me-- no matter how mighty you are!"
Nor can they figure out whether or not his shrinking abilities could help them:
(I get the feeling Hank designed this thing after watching a few, ah, budget movies..)
Marionette, however, is willing to risk it.
"No!" Arcturus shouts. "I love you!"
And exit her, courtesy of a more painful alternative to Pym particles; however does Nemesis stand it?
This buys Jan the time to don an older costume, wondering if "the Micronauts [had] finished him off without [her?]"
So exit Bug, whose fate incites our introspective hero to action: "It's time I lived up to my reputation."
(That's, um.. not TOO obvious, but still..)
.. the agent of a very awkward defeat..
The two blip out where the others went, and as Microtron puts it to everyone:
(I can see why Hank never picked this suit up again.)
We close the issue on Arcturus invoking the Enigma Force ever so dramatically.. and a letter page wondering when THIS Nemesis would show up!
(just guess what the reply was; might be half the reason they trotted out Doc Nemesis for this, instead of some other shrinking plot device.)
Nemesis turns up briefly next issue, shrinking too fast for the shrunken-by-his-hand Micronauts to take much notice of him.
He gets better though, then gets punched by Hank, and then punched by Bill Foster, and then he emails Elsa Bloodstone about Tim Boo Ba.
And to this day he's still out there, waiting for his next chance to do something with shrinking. Maybe he can figure out growing next.. or just have a science-off with Pym.
(As for the Micronauts? H.E.L.L. and Force Commander, featuring Computrex the Living Computer and his claymore wit: "You call yourself Devil?! Then burn in H.E.L.L.!")
"Say your prayers!" he hissed to Ant-Man and the Wasp on the cover of Marvel Feature #10. "You tangled once too often with DOCTOR NEMESIS!"
Exactly once it was at the time; they'd come across him in his trailer home/lab, thanks to a series of circumstances involving Spider-Man, the thickly accented drug lord M'sieu Tete, the introspective robot Para-Man, and Whirlwind as chauffeur.
Despite his Pymtech derivatives and kitty-aided capture of the two, he was defeated in short enough order, outdone at both size-changing and fisticuffs.
..which our heroes opened recapping on their current lot in life, a case of "the more things change.."
Once extra-dimensional refugees seeking to return to and liberate the Microverse from the malicious Baron Karza, they were now extra-dimensional refugees seeking to return to and liberate the Microverse from the malicious Force Commander.
While Arcturus Rann, Marionette, and Acroyear ponder the essentially unchanged states of their respective people, the *tik*ing Bug thinks..
..a bit about Janet van Dyne (biochemistry, folks!) across the way, who's throwing a heck of a party:
Yes, that's Doctor Nemesis, who looks like one of Tete's henchmen..in keeping with his own admitted backstory.
(Even still, they only really tangled the one time.)
His bald might be the reason he costumes as he does:
She's forlorn because Avengers #213 happened last November, you see.
Which ties a little into Nemesis's plan, and why he won't be dressing like a Metallo for the rest of this:
(how does he know about Hank's armor? Good question, and I bet shrinking's the answer.)
Outside the Micronauts make a plan to use their late foe Professor Prometheus's Pit that spans 'verses, located in Florida's H.E.L.L.
(Human Engineering Life Laboratories, which certainly lived up to its name.)
But then Bug's Insectovorid senses start to crackle something fierce, and he takes off; the others follow, to arrive at Jan taking a first-story fall:
(I was hoping the helm had Ant-Man functionality, but clearly those nubs are just so pointlessly decorative.)
Nemesis turns a shrinking blast on Jan:
(ITS power? I guess there's an undersheath, or something he's using in conjunction with his own abilities..)
Raising a question in Commander Rann's mind..
..and an answer in Bug's, who gets Jan out of the way.
Some introductions and a SPROING! on Bug's part later, the Wasp doubles back (wearing only a napkin) to get a spare costume while the Micronauts distract Doc Nemesis.
Who laughs: "Adamantium has defied Thor's hammer-- Iron Man's repulsor rays! You can't penetrate it to hurt me-- no matter how mighty you are!"
Nor can they figure out whether or not his shrinking abilities could help them:
(I get the feeling Hank designed this thing after watching a few, ah, budget movies..)
Marionette, however, is willing to risk it.
"No!" Arcturus shouts. "I love you!"
And exit her, courtesy of a more painful alternative to Pym particles; however does Nemesis stand it?
This buys Jan the time to don an older costume, wondering if "the Micronauts [had] finished him off without [her?]"
So exit Bug, whose fate incites our introspective hero to action: "It's time I lived up to my reputation."
(That's, um.. not TOO obvious, but still..)
.. the agent of a very awkward defeat..
The two blip out where the others went, and as Microtron puts it to everyone:
(I can see why Hank never picked this suit up again.)
We close the issue on Arcturus invoking the Enigma Force ever so dramatically.. and a letter page wondering when THIS Nemesis would show up!
(just guess what the reply was; might be half the reason they trotted out Doc Nemesis for this, instead of some other shrinking plot device.)
Nemesis turns up briefly next issue, shrinking too fast for the shrunken-by-his-hand Micronauts to take much notice of him.
He gets better though, then gets punched by Hank, and then punched by Bill Foster, and then he emails Elsa Bloodstone about Tim Boo Ba.
And to this day he's still out there, waiting for his next chance to do something with shrinking. Maybe he can figure out growing next.. or just have a science-off with Pym.
(As for the Micronauts? H.E.L.L. and Force Commander, featuring Computrex the Living Computer and his claymore wit: "You call yourself Devil?! Then burn in H.E.L.L.!")
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Date: 2011-03-02 04:50 am (UTC)That said, I loved Micronauts as a kid. Still do.
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Date: 2011-03-02 08:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-02 10:56 am (UTC)I have a friend who collects original Micronauts art, and he has some lovely stuff in his galleries.
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Date: 2011-03-02 12:39 pm (UTC)