― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
and yeah, what huk said. when he first fought those monsters i figured it was a ghostbusters/slimer thing, the first ugly bad guy before the other stuff happens... but it was really just those cgi things.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
ie, just like the comic!
Huk, the criticism you're making has absolutely no bearing on the movie "Hellboy" (unless of course Hellboy has been a top-tier character since 1930 and I just didn't notice).
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
HULK CALL AGENT
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
HULK HAVE RANGE AND PATHOS
HULK HAVE AGENT CALL JOHN WOO
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amadeo (Amadeo G.), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 8 October 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link
(59 points)
http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pictures/wedge/uploaded_images/mek-712706.jpg
As with most Pat Mills characters, Mek-Quake is only really worth reading before about 1988. But his catalogue of golden moments before then makes him a worthy inclusion, and he's one of the most memorable characters in 2000AD. He started as the Ro-Busters' disaster squad's resident bulldozer, and has had a chequered career since as a demolition robot, a war droid, an ABC Warrior and even Tharg's personal hitman. Throughout Mek-Quake has been venal, stupid, and enormously violent. He's also been the perfect henchman, which is the key to his character - he has a simple, eager thuggishness which would be sinister if it wasn't played for laughs.
Greatest Moment: Nemesis the Warlock Book III, where Mek-Quake's gleeful brutality reaches an apex as he destroys the Gothic Empire's artificial moon, causing it to rain down on the planet while he gives his signature cry of "Big jobs!"
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1840237945/qid=1129064989/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-8309900-4870466?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
I think you'd love it, it's one of the most insane reads in comicdom.
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
(61 points)
http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pictures/wedge/uploaded_images/tharg-775930.jpg
(a rare photo of the Mighty One, from the pages of CRASH! magazine. See! He's real!!)
"I, Tharg, from my alien head, bring you THE FUTURE" proclaimed the second-best ever strapline on a 2000AD cover. And he did, this green alien from Betelgeuse, introducing every prog of 2000AD to this day, aside from a handful where the non-scrot human staff attempted to retire him before reader protest brought him back.
Very much a creature of the 1970s, when most British weeklies had a figurehead character as editor, Tharg has outlasted them all, and starred in many strips of his own - all credited to T.M.O. (The Mighty One). His best value though was always on the letters pages, praising Earthlets for donating progs to a children's ward, damning Earthlets whose behaviour was insufficiently thrill-powered and forever talking up the ghafflebette new series to be coming "in the Spring". A national galactic treasure.
Greatest Moment: Tharg has a temper tantrum and threatens to destroy the planet. A huge crowd, mindful of the danger, gets together and sings 'For he's a jolly good alien'. "They attempt to soothe my anger with flattery! And it works!" He then puts up a statue of himself to commemorate the day he saved Earth from his own wrath.
Also the time when he tries to write and draw a prog himself and they have to take it away in a lead-lined van. "One glimpse and your mind will explode! Don't look at it!" (Vic Fluro)
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I should search for the 2000AD threads, I think
― steviespitfire (steviespitfire), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
"Yes, Jimmy...a prank.....grrr-rrr-rrr"
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― steviespitfire (steviespitfire), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
42. Mona Lisa Ludacristits (ILC)
(62 points)
PICTURE URGENTLY REQUIRED.
Image Comics' finest hour, as I recall this character is the Mona Lisa with laserbeam tits. Possibly also with Ludacris' face. Appeared in Deathmate Puce.
I'll never forget the first time I saw Mona Lisa Ludacristits. It was one of those hologram-covered multi-publisher crossovers from the mid-90s. She was teamed up with Swamp Thing and Alpha Flight in a story that only Ron Marz and John Byrne could have created. Sentimentality be damned, I sold my 9.7 CGC'ed copy for $10K (Cdn) on eBay last fall. Figuratively speaking, I much the poorer for it. Literally speaking...not so much. (Huk-L)
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link