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This is the commission I mentioned in an earlier post*. I was asked for the original Brotherhood line-up, drawn in the style I used for the "Red Skull und Zemo: strip I did for the Captain America Red, White and Blue book. Nutty!
*The Vanisher post, effendi! - Smilin' Stan
August 24 2009, 00:14:45 UTC 2 years ago
I blame Sarah, she sent me this file from her computer and said it was fine to post. Fine for drunks!
I'm leaving it for now because I don't really care and have no time to deal with it. Click on it if you want to see it without feeling dizzy.
August 24 2009, 06:04:44 UTC 2 years ago
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He must have had collar envy from the Vanisher.
August 24 2009, 00:54:01 UTC 2 years ago
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Anonymous
August 24 2009, 05:25:42 UTC 2 years ago
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August 24 2009, 16:24:29 UTC 2 years ago
Notice the Toad emanates jack shit.
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when it comes to personal appearance, the amount to slack Magneto gave his underlings always struck me as incredibly out of character. even Malcom X, Magneto's supposed inspiration, enforced grooming standards for his immediate posse. shit! even Professor X started out with a uniform policy!
but if had the power of being Obese and you wanted to wear a 1920 bathing suit and call it your costume, go ahead, Magneto doesn't care. no ones going to revoke your membership in the Brotherhood.
it makes me think the Brotherhood of evil mutants are less Malcolm X and the nation of Islam and more Ken Kesey and the merry pranksters.
August 24 2009, 23:32:14 UTC 2 years ago
August 25 2009, 00:26:19 UTC 2 years ago
As for The Blob, he just had the misfortune of being created before Kevin Smith redefined fat guy wear. Now he can wear a backwards baseball cap, baggy Juggalo shorts and a big hockey jersey that says MUTANTS on the back. That way no one can even tell his mutant power is being a disgusting fat slob who makes shitty movies. (That's Kevin Smith's mutant power, not The Blob's.)
August 25 2009, 04:17:01 UTC 2 years ago
Anonymous
August 26 2009, 13:12:05 UTC 2 years ago
someday i have to read these early x-men stories (or not), but i'll just be disappointed they ain't as crazy (in a good way) as this drawing!
August 26 2009, 14:53:18 UTC 2 years ago
Dude out-Claremonts Chris Claremont when it comes to too much dialogue and not letting the drawings speak for themselves.
August 26 2009, 16:55:12 UTC 2 years ago
Roy Thomas is one of the most overrated creators ever, imho. I know, the fans love him, at least the ones who grew up with him. "The Boy" to Stan "The Man". How on target that was, sums almost everything up. He took over at a key moment and ran with the Stan Lee-isms until it made Stan look restrained. He was a fan and his youthful energy ran rampant, as did his uber-geek tendencies to ref SF movie titles, ref DC comics, fill in the cracks of continuity that didn't need to be raked up in the first place, explain dumb comic book history stuff that were clearly just hacked out mistakes, marry the Golden and Silver ages as a pet project, and write, write, write hackneyed captions and copious redundant dialogue. A lot of his stuff was marred by a clunky pretentiousness, or a cloying cuteness. And he wrote himself and his wife and his friends into his comics, a nauseating, self-indulgent cheap bit of business I personally can't stand. Clearly he was having fun, which does count for a lot, and when I was a kid, THomas wasn't my favorite Marvel writer, but he didn't make me crazy. At some point in the 80's I couldn't read his comics anymore, and then he became a whiny veteran in the 90's, and his harangues and ego-fests in Alter Ego turned me off to him completely as a writer and as a person. Roy's still a Boy.
He also brought in the Geek Age of Comics, where the fans inherited everything and took it all way too seriously/personally. The suffocating, self-satisfied, trivia-based age of superhero comics. But if not him, it would have been someone else.
Yeah...ugh.
August 26 2009, 18:30:46 UTC 2 years ago
Anonymous
August 27 2009, 17:34:18 UTC 2 years ago
Joe S. Walker
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August 27 2009, 18:24:05 UTC 2 years ago
Though I can't stand Geoff Johns, who's basically doing the same today. Funny ol' world.
2 years ago
Anonymous
September 4 2009, 18:54:54 UTC 2 years ago
September 5 2009, 08:15:45 UTC 2 years ago
but Malcolm X was a black supremacist spoke about creating a separate nation for blacks only. Magneto is a mutant supremacist he wants mutants to rule the world ect ect... given the fact that X-Men was hit the stands in 1963 I have a hard time believing it's just coincidental. I'm not a civil rights historian, but I believe as New Yorkers in 63' Stan and Jack would have been well aware of Malcolm X, and frequently read about him in newspapers, MLK however, at the time it's possible they weren't that aware of him.
looking at the early comics Martin Luther King Professor X comparison doesn't really hold up the way Malcolm X/Magneto does.
Martin Luther King was a Reverend, and a activist who organized public marches and boycotts, and advocated a commitment to non violence. and he was Black. Professor X, white, strangely owns and operates an elite private school that only admits mutant students, and at the time only white mutants, and his mutants hide their mutant identity from the public while the train for battle against computer programed robots and obstacles.