But, back in high school I redrew (and badly translated) a chunk of that page, as part of dicking around in er, a completely serious project for a French class, changing the Washington Monument out with a shot of the Eiffel Tower in #200! I had all but forgotten the fight was actually in D.C. The French were going to be hopping mad at Blob, going as far as to ban sales of camembert, Roquefort, gruyere, and brie to him! Well, had to cut that. Pity, although now I'm wondering if the Blob would do more damage atop the Eiffel or the Monument...
EDIT: Had to revise panel 7! 
Wow, Kurt's so formal with Sat- did they break up at some point and I missed it?
ReplyDeleteHate to spoil your fun but *coughcough* panel 7 *coughcough*. Blob would definitely do more damage to the Eiffel Tower though- concrete is stronger than exposed steel (or whatever metal that thing's made of).
Blob has always pissed me off. I could never beat him in the arcade game, and he barely ever hit so I'd eventually get bored and let him hit me- took me years to find out what the next level was. Funny enough, I usually played as Nightcrawler in the game.
Ugh, I'll have to fix that in post. (That usually means, "never," but we'll see!)
ReplyDeleteIf I ever put together my Arcade 1Up X-Men game, I'll see if I remember how to beat Blob! You can tag in, but I'm totally hogging Nightcrawler, sorry!
Honestly little factoids, even if made up but sound totally feasible given what it might actually take to get someone like the Blob down from that height, is what adds to the overall experience & appeal of stories like that. I honestly can’t blame Kurt for thinking quickly to do that to Blobby. Kurt’s right I’m guessing Blob would be able to walk off dropping to that height, at least as far as comic book physics go. I’m pretty in the real world, especially because Blob’s powers might not work that way, the velocity from a fall from that height actually probably would mess him up pretty good. Too bad we never got a chance to Mythbusters that shit.
ReplyDeleteThat definitely is a damn fine Blob figure though. Hasbro really made a superior version of him compared to the last one.
I feel like Sat's making a joke when she says she wants to see the expression on Darkhawk's face, but hey! The White Rabbit's there, so you know it's a party!
ReplyDeleteYou know Val Cooper took the cost of all those workers out of Blob's paycheck, and with what working for the gov't pays, so he's probably still in hock to them.
How does Blob's mutant power work, exactly? You aren't supposed to be able to move him if he decides not to be moved, right? Which somehow also lets him take super-strength punches without getting hurt? So would that work if he just rolled off the Monument and tried to use the power the moment he touched the ground? Instant full cancelation of inertia or something? Moot point I guess, no way Blob's smart enough to think of that.
@CalvinPitt:
ReplyDeleteI actually had to google his exact powers to see if he'd be able to survive said fall & here's what I got:
Gravitational Mass allocation: Blob's main superhuman ability is to become virtually immovable at will as long as he is in contact with the ground. He does this by bonding himself to the earth beneath him by force or will, which, in effect, creates a mono-directional increase of gravity beneath him. This gravity field extends to about five feet in radius from his center of balance. Thus, if there is sufficient power to uproot him, it would take the ground beneath his feet in an area corresponding to the radius of the field. Through intense concentration, the Blob is able to extend the gravity field beneath him farther than five feet.
Superhuman Durability: The Blob's body possesses a high degree of resistance to injury. The fat tissues that comprise the Blob's epidermis are able to absorb the impact of rifle bullets, cannonballs, rocket propelled grenades, and even torpedoes. The larger of these projectiles recoil from his body at one-half the force of impact. The smaller projectiles embed themselves in his layers of fat tissue, enabling him to eject them by merely flexing his muscles. The Blob's nerve endings do not relay any tactile perception to his brain, which are near the threshold of pain. The fat tissues of his epidermis are resilient enough to revert to its normal shape within seconds after deformation caused by impact. It is virtually impervious to physical injury. The Blob's skin cannot be punctured or lacerated by most known materials, frostbitten, or ravaged by any skin disease, due in part to the skin's greatest elasticity and toughness and in part to the highly accelerated rate at which his skin cells grow and replace themselves. His skin is somewhat less resistant to burning.
So essentially, yes, he'd more than be able handle such a fall, he just didn't feel like it.
Fair enough- Nightcrawler's the best choice in that game, as far as I'm concerned.
ReplyDeleteIf you played the Simpsons arcade game, I think Blob was like the Krusty balloon (could never beat that one either). I remember reading somewhere that they built a lot of the Simpsons game on the X-Men programming.