Ah, Deadpool. Always good for a dated reference.
Uncanny X-Force #2 (2010) by Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña
"One of these days Alice, straight to the Moon!" favored expression of Ralph Kramden, lead character of The Honeymooners, that ran from 1955 - 1956.
Deadjoke-o-meter:
2 out of 5 Deadpools. (Dated, but so dated that it's almost standard historical pop culture knowledge, as it's inspired countless homages from The Flintsones to Looney Tunes' The Honey-Mousers.)
from Uncanny X-Force #1 (2010) by Rick Remender, Jerome Opeña, and Dean White
No Doubt:
Ska band formed 1986
First Grammy nominations: 1996
First Grammy won: 2003
Group hiatus: 2004-2008
Return tour: 2009
Deadjoke-o-meter:
3 out of 5 Deadpools. (It looses points for being called a terrible ska band, when they are pretty cool, actually.)
Did you think yesterday's post was the most unique wall-related character in Marvel? Oh, no! Ahem. <Yoda speak> "There is another. </Yoda speak>
Behold-- THE WALL!
Gunther Gross was a political activist in Berlin, Germany. When part of the, well, the Wall fell on him, his mutant powers kicked in and he became like unto a wall himself!
Hey, wait a minute. This was the Wall's origin from Spidey Super Stories #8! Perhaps they are strange alternate universe versions of one another? Hey, wait another minute. Did I tell you *my* last name is Wall? Maybe I can turn into a wall, too! All I need is to be buried under a collapsed brick structure of some kind to find out.
By the way, the Wall here was a member of Euro-Trash, who were hired to forcibly take back the European celebrity Henrietta from her new team of X-Statix. It was all very meta-commentary-y and completely entertaining. Until the Wall got blasted by the acid from the Anarchist. But when a political activist who is the embodiment of a political structure goes up against the self-professed nihilism of a guy literally named Anarchist, what did you expect?
From X-Statix #13 (2003) by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred
Recently, I've been enjoying a great comics review podcast called Awesomed By Comics. The hosts, Aaron and Evie, are just fun to listen to and are really funny to boot. Inspired by their answers to which comic book creators/comics concepts they'd like to see mashed together, I took pencil in hand and whipped up this little sketch this week. It pairs up Mike Allred's artwork (such as from X-Force/X-Statix) with Rob Liefeld's Youngblood team.(Oops! Technically Aaron said it was Peter Milligan's writing style paired with Rob Liefeld's characters, but sometimes reality gets skewed in my head!)
I gotta say, I realize what hidden strengths lie in the seemingly simplistic art of Allred's. It's deceptively simple with lots of power behind it. On the other hand, it was frustrating to try to recreate or even simply break down Liefeld's art. Costume elements just didn't make sense and the awkward anatomy made it difficult to "translate." This little exercise has given me newfound appreciation of Allred's art and newfound disappointment in Liefeld's skills.
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