Wednesday, June 08, 2022

"Ditch."

Why is Jack Russell wearing a lab coat...? Because he landed the coveted role of Dr. Canus, in a Kamandi strip that I apparently never got around to doing. Werewolf by Night, like the rest of his brethren from the Marvel Legends Monsters box set, has not received a new figure, putting him on the increasingly short-list of Toy Biz figures that have not been updated. (I did see some Universal-style monsters figures from Jada Toys in my search, though!) Jack is probably the third-best figure in his set: better than the Dracula, but not holding up as well as Frankenstein and the Zombie. The hips and shoulders are outdated, the neck doesn't have any range, and he falls victim to scale creep, since he's now shorter than Wolfsbane! 

We're not going to see whatever turned Cap into Capwolf--if we go down one more level of flashback, we're in Priest territory--but since Morbius was involved, it might've been the werewolf coup d'etat Kang mentioned last year! It was probably like Captain America #344, except werewolves instead of snakes.

The magically "radioactive" corpse may or may not be a thing in real Marvel continuity; but old Dr. Strange stories seemed pretty steadfast in the belief that magic was not for everybody, and you could get jacked up messing with things you should tamper with. I want to say there's a throwaway line in Marvel Comics Presents (possibly MCP #19, "Nightmare in Suburbia.") where radon poisonings were revealed to be less prevalent than was known; many of those deaths were actually amateur magicians summoning a demon and then having a heart attack on the spot.  

I've never been, so I thought Lake Minnetonka was going to be a small, isolated secret; but it's like the most popular lake in Minnesota! I'm more familiar with Dave Chappelle referencing it as Prince, since I didn't see Purple Rain until maybe last year. Chappelle has been kind of a jerk lately: it's not easy to apologize or admit you're wrong, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should double or triple down.  

What does any of this have to do with Moon Knight and Quasar? Oh, he's getting to it...

2 comments:

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

Ha, that Prince reference tho. I actually watched the movie on VH1 years before Dave Chappelle made him famous again with those hilarious skits. Not a bad movie, and hot damn was Apolonia not HAWT AF or what!?

Hasbro REALLY does need to get on the ball and remake all of those Marvel monsters like Werewolf By Night, Dracula, etc. figures don't they? It's beyond time!

Actually the whole amatuer dead magician bodies being toxic makes sense in a comic book-y sort of way though. Lots of story mileage there with that concept for sure.

Cap & Rahne, dear god it's like Havik & Rahne all over again, minus the part where they were forced into a shared romantic/mental bond.

H said...

I seem to remember seeing a Kamandi skit with an actual Canus figure while trolling through your archives at some point. Maybe he was just going to be a stand-in until you found the real figure?

But yeah, gotta agree with Cap on this one- he looks more like The Dude than a scientist in that coat.