Random Happenstance
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Going from the Little Mermaid to Humanoids from the Deep here.

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There was a stretch in Avengers when the Beast was a member, and he received significantly less hassle for being a mutant than some: seriou...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

"Predestination."

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I think it was still fairly new when Bishop did it, time-travelling on the old X-Men cartoon: Forge would send Bishop back in time, to st...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Not pictured: tufts of grey fur sticking out of a latex mask.

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There were a few go-to disguises in old Marvel comics, that in hindsight couldn't work. At all. Ever. Like Captain America wearing his ...
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Monday, April 10, 2017

I'm not even sure this was the first update to their origin...

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...but it wasn't the last, either. From 1983, Adventure Comics #495 , "Yesterday's Clues!" Written by Bob Rozakis, pencil...
Friday, April 07, 2017

Hey, it's not-Lego Nightcrawler, with his iconic...batwing death jetpack.

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As seen in...something or other, I'd imagine. If you search eBay for about ten seconds, you can find all kinds of faux-kinda-Lego min...
Thursday, April 06, 2017

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So, the other day there was some internet scuffling over some comments made by some at Marvel that diversity had hurt sales . (To that effec...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2017

"Arrow."

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I'm pretty sure Kurt pulls a DCUC Green Arrow arrow outta Pool's head there. Ah, close enough. In old Guardians of the Galaxy comi...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2017

I have just enough of these that it's become an issue. So to speak.

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Among the various sales and clearances I hit up, I've managed to get a few of the variant covers for Deadpool's Secret Comic Varian...
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Monday, April 03, 2017

That seems slightly more suggestive than I'd realized.

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I've never been big on " decompression " in comics: the trend of basically taking maybe two good issues worth of plot and str...
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Friday, March 31, 2017

If you have to move the entire moon to beat Mirror Master, I don't know what you'll do against Darkseid.

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My Wife keeps what she calls the "apocalypse closet," where she stocks emergency food like those freeze-dried bucket things. She...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Wow, automation does cost jobs.

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One Replicus takes the job of two mobsters, in today's book: from 1974, Marvel Spectacular #12 , reprinting Thor #141 , "The Wrath...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

"Spindle."

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For the time being anyway, this is the last strip with Misty Knight; partly because her wobbly knee made her a bit of trouble to shoot, par...
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