Wednesday, January 08, 2014

"Attention grab, or Deadator."


Nightcrawler's referring to the Badoon, and the X-Men and Fantastic Four fought them back in X-Men Annual #5 back in 1981. Well, mostly the Invisible Girl fought them, actually. I think the rest of the FF was captured, along with smelly extra-dimensional barbarian Arkon; and a good chunk of that issue was Wolverine and Nightcrawler debating the pros and cons of killing a bunch of alien assholes.

A lot of times when they showed up, the Badoon used an invisibility screen, and a big robot monster called "the Monster of Badoon." Perhaps not an overly imaginative lot...The Badoon are pretty awful, less charming than even the Skrulls, and I do believe they were the bad guys in an old Lee/Buscema Silver Surfer and a good chunk of the old Guardians of the Galaxy stories. Of course, the gun used in X-Men Annual #5 to see them didn't look a thing like Shockwave there, but you make do.

4 comments:

Barbecue17 said...

OK, I'm not familiar with Satana; what line is that figure from? Or is it a custom?

googum said...

She's "Judith Chambers" from the Thunderbolts Marvel Legends box set! (Even as an exclusive, Hasbro probably thought better of putting "Satana" on the box...) I already had Crossbones, so I eBay'd her and didn't spring for the full set, but she's pretty good!

Mr. Morbid's House Of Fun said...

Hell yeah! Love to see more Kurt and 'Pool stuff like this, especially w/Satana. It's like three's company, w/o the dumb blonde. I guess that's 'Pool's role then?

Plus the Predator being surprised was classic.

Great stuff Goo.

SallyP said...

Hey, I've got that Badoon story! It was a hoot. As is this.

A hoot and a half.