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The silliest thing you have ever seen

 
  

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adamswish
14:57 / 21.06.05
Browsing through the Marvel site just now I've come across this entry for a title starting in August.

Now I am shocked at the crassness of such a cash in; amaed that Hasbro hasn't come swinging in with lawyers blazing; yet slightly excited. Especially when I followed the search through to here and saw the second one down on the list.

If anyone finds this may I just mention that it's my birthday next Tuesday. No pressure...
 
 
The Falcon
15:11 / 21.06.05
Rage tank?

It's like everything I ever dreamed of.
 
 
adamswish
15:16 / 21.06.05
I was actually referring to the Ghost Rider one myself, but I can see where you're coming from...
 
 
doctorbeck
15:22 / 21.06.05
the hulk running around in a giant transforming robot exo-skeleton built by tony stark, who says comics are just for kids?


i am so there
 
 
Spaniel
15:40 / 21.06.05
Christ, that's amazing. God, I'm a child.

Anyone know if the writer is any good?
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
15:42 / 21.06.05
ugly as hell.

but if they want to cash in the toys - no problem with that - no plot is even required. they just had to put together a series of pin-ups with the robots posing and hitting each other by no other given reason.
 
 
The Falcon
16:18 / 21.06.05
McKeever gets pretty good press for his Waiting Place series, and he's done that M-Next series Gravity which looks okay.

I've only read his Inhumans #1, which was pretty boring.
 
 
The Falcon
16:19 / 21.06.05
But I cannot conceive how this could be so.
 
 
doyoufeelloved
16:22 / 21.06.05
McKeever is quite good; in fact, he's one of those writers where I am frankly jaw-droppingly stunned that he is writing this. Well, everyone loves money, I guess. And robots. Except me. Well, I do love money. I have no particular love for robots. I vastly prefer dinosaurs.(Since, you know, the two are interchangeable.) I'm sorry, the blinding absurdity of this comic has caused some kind of minor stroke in my language center. I'll be all right, maybe.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
17:52 / 21.06.05
This is the most insane thing I have seen in a while. The previous winner was the storyline in 1980 that explained that Thomas Wayne had a bat costume for a party, and ended up fighting some criminals in it afterwards, thus inspiring bruce to be Batman.

This though, transforming Ghost Rider robot. Jesus, its hurting my brain the way nitrous oxide does.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
18:10 / 21.06.05
This can all be explained if Tony Stark is back on the sauce.

"I know wwwhat... I'll gish the Hulk a tank... A fuckin' RAGE tank.. Shat'll show those fuckersh..."
 
 
Warewullf
19:07 / 21.06.05
AAAhahhahaahaaa!! Nice one! I would love to see that!
 
 
This Sunday
19:10 / 21.06.05
Hey, when Tony goes up against Hulk he's always breaking out that Hulkbuster armor, so it's only fair Hulk getting armor of his own.
If I could science-magick into a giant green fugue of childhood rage and call everybody by cute names, I too would choose to pilot a huge mech. To honor all the giant childhood-rage-fugue monsters who piloted mecha before my time.
This isn't nearly as bad as Water-rescue-Spider-Man or those bright orange and purple Batman figures... Flash's motorcycle, teen Vision of the Marvel Mangaverse (neatly decimating even the central conceits of the character, aside from just not making a whole lot of sense as to why anybody'd want to write that), or teen Tony, Peter Parker the Amazing Not-Sleeping-With-Gwen (my friend's mom has decided this is yet another aspect of what she calls 'spider impotence', one of his lesser known powers), never-killed-anybody-until-Bruce-Jones-wrote-him Hulk.
These things happen. Whether science wants to admit it or not, apparently people's brains can simply stop working for short periods of time, while their body goes on autopilot and invents things like oh, reasons why an elf is shooting people in 'The Defenders'.
At least Invisible Woman's bad-girl costume had a logic behind it; Ghost Rider lasersharked with giant mecha... will the new film please involve this?
 
 
matsya
23:27 / 21.06.05
Elijah, I believe that "my dad was batman" storyline was a 1950s storyline - I read a version of it with Dick Sprang artwork when I was wee.

Meanwhile, I am so hanging out for some transforming Ghost Rider robot love.

I've been on the action figure binge lately - always seems to happen when I'm working fulltime. Subconscious desire to resist the demands of 'grownup' life, maybe.

6h05T R1D3R R080T 15 t3h R0XX0R!

m.
 
 
penitentvandal
06:22 / 22.06.05
It may just be me, but I'm guessing the Hulk robot has a really simple OS. Y'know, like three buttons on the whole of the dashboard, and they're all REALLY FUCKING BIG...
 
 
penitentvandal
06:31 / 22.06.05
Also, what possible threat - that the Marvel U hasn't already faced a thousand times would necessitate Tony Stark breaking out the giant transforming robot suits he made for Cap, Spidey, Wolvey, Hulk and, er, Ghost Rider? I mean, how many times has Galactus attacked Earth and Stark hasn't ran and gotten out these things?
 
 
matsya
06:32 / 22.06.05
No, it's all run by these big fuck-off hulk hands that he wears like gloves and then just makes punching movements inside the cabin.

The angrier Rage Tank gets, the more likely it is that it will need extra coolant...

m.
 
 
penitentvandal
06:32 / 22.06.05
And also, it appears to be drawn by the Bruce Lee character from Mortal Kombat. Crikey.
 
 
penitentvandal
06:37 / 22.06.05
I thought maybe it could be voice operated. Imagine the programming...

10 Detect sound
20 If sound = 0 goto 10
30 If sound = 'HULK SMASH' goto 40
40 SMASH

(yes, it's a giantrobothulktank whose cpu is taken from a Commodore 64. I'm not a programmer, okay?)
 
 
lonely as a cloud...
07:30 / 22.06.05
Flyboy - now that's the comic they *should* be writing!
 
 
adamswish
07:51 / 22.06.05
Looking at the toy range it's a bit worrying that the only "baddie" that has a similar "vehicle" is Doc Ock. So did Tony create one for him (after a particularly bad night on the sauce) or are they treating the good doctor as a hero now.

And if he is the baddies then why him? Why not Doom or any of the other big hitters?
 
 
doctorbeck
10:24 / 22.06.05
because they are going to be too busy getting the hulk's battle armour back from him to fight with anyone else.
i hope they do a tie in with the new giffen-matteis defenders mini-series then fly off to do battle with the Zoids in the mother of all cross over events, hell why not make everyone in the MU a set of battle armour that turns into the vehicle that is most like them for a month or two, even aunt may?
 
 
Axolotl
12:08 / 22.06.05
That's what the storyline to "House of M" should have been. Reality is altered so every character has their very own transforming mecha.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
13:40 / 22.06.05
Looking forward to the script for this one.

CAP: Hey guys, downtown Manhattan is under attack from a really big threat!
SPIDER-MAN: Well, let's get over there and...
CAP: No, I mean... a really big threat. Really really big.
...
SPIDER-MAN: Sigh...
WOLVERINE: Well. I guess we'd better... Christ... get inside those giant robots that look just like us.
(GHOST RIDER can be heard quietly weeping in the background)
HULK: Hulk smash! After Hulk reads manual.
 
 
adamswish
14:20 / 22.06.05
HULK: Hulk smash! After Hulk reads manual.

Sure that shouldn't be:

HULK: Hulk smash manual!!
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
15:06 / 22.06.05
MEGA MORPHS #2

COVER BY: Lou Kang
WRITER: Sean McKeever
PENCILS: Lou Kang
INKS: Pat Davidson

THE STORY:It's only the team's second pulse pounding issue and already cracks are showing! With The Hulk's tank now reversing rapidly towards Utah and Spiderman tragically lost somewhere around his robot's pancreas, the group must face Ultron's giant robotic, robot-themed robot. How long will Stark International Tech Support keep Wolverine on hold?! Can the other team-members stomach the fact that Caps' is the only Mega-Morph with a jacuzzi? And will someone please turn off Ghost Rider's internal sprinkler system?!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
 
 
Nakkurusu
18:44 / 22.06.05
They don't combine to form one giant MegaMarvelMachine, do they?

...

I'm just giving them the bad ideas now, aren't I?
 
 
John Brown
21:19 / 22.06.05
Who from Barbelith is writing ad copy for Marvel now: "True Believer, this is the toy-tie-in comic other toy-tie-ins dream of being! "
 
 
matsya
23:35 / 22.06.05
Robots got pancreases?

m.
 
 
Triplets
23:49 / 22.06.05
You never got passed out of a walking mecha-fortresses ass in Metal Gear Solid 2, did you.
 
 
The Falcon
01:06 / 23.06.05
They don't combine to form one giant MegaMarvelMachine, do they?

Oh my fucking God. Yeah, and you could get a two heads that look like that picture of Stan Lee composed of all his heroes and one of Kirby. With like a cigar-cannon in its mouth.
 
 
matsya
03:16 / 23.06.05
You never got passed out of a walking mecha-fortresses ass in Metal Gear Solid 2, did you.

Um, no. Action figures, yes. Superhero funnybooks, yes. Videogames not so much. I'm kind of stuck in the 1980s with my C64 and SNES emulators.

Which is why transforming robot superheroes push my buttons so much. Any chance of getting Mr. T. or The Greatest American Hero one of these?

m.
 
 
matsya
03:23 / 23.06.05
I just discovered that the robots for wolverine and spiderman are called 'spidey-bot' and 'wolvy-bot'.

"You mean you want me to climb inside a gold robot called 'wolvy'? Stark, you and I have gotta talk..."

SNIKT!

And how come Iron Man doesn't get his own giant robot? He'd be the world's first crime-fighting Babushka Doll!

m.
 
 
Evil Scientist
11:23 / 07.07.05
Dear God this is real! I thought you people were joking!
 
 
Triplets
23:47 / 07.07.05
I want to see Spidey-bot crush an orphanage the first time he tries swinging across Manhattan. With chrome foil pop-up orphans.
 
  

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