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I'm Rick Jones, bitch

22:53 / 22.11.04

Weird, one of my internet friends is in #3 of that collection, with "Teen M.O.D.O.K"

06:15 / 23.11.04

M.O.D.O.K. Mishandles Marvel's Money? I knew someone was behind the lawsuit against City of Heroes.

12:01 / 23.11.04

put a cigarette in his head, squeeze said head remove cigarette and then squeeze head again
SMOKING MODODK

17:05 / 23.11.04

from the latest Marvel solicits:

Is anyone reading these? I can't imagine they're too good, they don't look very good when I skim them, but still, it's M.O.D.O.K., people!!

>> CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON #12

Written by PRIEST
Penciled by JOE BENNETT
Cover by TREVOR HAIRSINE
Brothers & Keepers (Adelphoite Phylaxes)"
Cap pursues a distraught and suicidal MODOK to Singapore, where Cap must come between MODOK and an enraged INCREDIBLE HULK. For, if Hulk kills MODOK, MODOK will unleash the deadly MODOK Virus, which threatens the entire planet! Meanwhile, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Ali Morales confronts Falcon on his recent odd behavior and forges an unlikely alliance. Part 5 (of 5).
32 PGS./Marvel PSR …$2.99

18:15 / 23.11.04

I sooo want to see a poor old "distraught" M.O.D.O.K cry.

I buying this. Immediately.

23:02 / 23.11.04

Go here

http://www.lastgasp.com/d/23811

for this:

JOURNAL OF MODOK STUDIES V1 #2 (ZINE)

17:11 / 06.12.04

from Lying in the Gutters this week:

>> EVERYONE'S MAD ABOUT MODOK

Two weeks ago, I linked to the Journal Of MODOK Studies and I'm told it resulted in a "LOT" of orders. So much so that the publisher has had to go back to print and tells me orders will be fulfilled by Last Gasp this week. Oh, and there's another issue out for Christmas.

And now back to non-Rich Johnston stuff - I skimmed one of the M.O.D.O.K. issues of Cap & The Falcon recently (the latest one), which features our big-headed boy flying around shooting at Cap, going "DESIGNED ONLY FOR KILLING / DESIGNED ONLY FOR KILLING / DESIGNED ONLY FOR KILLING" to sound like a badass. At one point Cap says to himself, "Hey, the real MODOK had more of a vocabulary than this! Maybe this isn't the real MODOK!" At the end, MODOK seemingly exchanges brains with some waiter dude or suddenly appears in the form a tall thin guy with a slightly bigger head than usual (less than Hulk's The Leader and more like the DC villian Psimon), saying while floating in mid-air, "DESIGNED ONLY FOR KILLING"

17:13 / 06.12.04

Christopher Priest's writing has kind of sucked (or at least been mediocre) ever since the end of his Black Panther run. And I say that as someone who absolutely *loved* his Black Panther right up until issue 50. Quantum & Woody was fun too, many moons ago.

Next issue of Cap & The Falcon apparently has the MODOK origin we've been promised.

Haus of Mystery

18:13 / 06.12.04

which features our big-headed boy flying around shooting at Cap, going "DESIGNED ONLY FOR KILLING / DESIGNED ONLY FOR KILLING / DESIGNED ONLY FOR KILLING" to sound like a badass. At one point Cap says to himself, "Hey, the real MODOK had more of a vocabulary than this! Maybe this isn't the real MODOK!"

Wow. They still write comics this bad, huh?

How can you fuck up a M.O.D.O.K. story?!

20:24 / 05.01.05

from Marvel's solicits:

>> THE STORY: "Brothers & Keepers (Adelphoite Phylaxes)"
Cap tracks MODOK to his secret lair but discovers the unexpected: MODOK doesn’t know him! Time’s running out! What’s happened to MODOK and, ethically, should Cap do anything about it? Meanwhile, the Falcon has gone AWOL in mid-mission, leaving Cap and the Anti-Cap to settle the score once and for all! Part 4 (of 5).

PRICE: $2.99
IN STORES: 01-05-2005

---

Priest's writing, which I used to love in the early Black Panther and Quantum & Woody days, has really gone downhill. Anti-Cap!??! Please. But there's MODOK for those of you who care.

20:26 / 05.01.05

sorry for my redundant comments on Priest - didn't look carefully at previous posts in this thread.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

00:56 / 06.01.05

I've really been digging Preist's CAP and FALCON, actually. And while the summary given sounds kind of lame, it's really much better executed. Cap is running around doing spy stuff while trying to deal with the Office of Naval Intelligence whose head created a new Cap (who looks a lot like Bucky) while Falcon is reverting back to his old banger/hustler personer.

Wow, that sounded lame too...

Errr.... it really is a lot better than it sounds.

12:46 / 03.05.05

http://www.shaftagents.com/newswire14.htm

have released news and a picture of AIMs new ultimate MODOK complete with a giant cloned einstein head

got to love those crazy SHAFT boys

19:38 / 14.07.05

The first teaser image of Ultimate Galactus was released at the San Diego con --

http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/Marvel/ultimate/ULTEXT001_cov.jpg

--and it looks suspiciously like a giant head with dozens of spindly feet.

You know what that means! RED HERRING! "Gah-Lak-Tus" is really space-alien-speak for "Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing!" Time to get excited!

20:26 / 14.07.05

15:32 / 15.07.05

weeeeeeeird.

09:27 / 19.07.05

what's the plural of galactus? galacti? cos i am sure there are a couple more coming out of the mist there

or is it the ultimate M.o.d.o.k family? kid modok, modok girl and, yes, modok dog if i am not mistaken.

11:48 / 19.07.05

in marvel boy there was a few of them, 'sink-gods' or something, basically retro planet-eating angryyoungmen sef-pitifully whingeing about the injustice of a universe where dinner means six billion dead.

i reckon those three are the machines that he uses, little more than cosmics saucepans really.

rabideyemovement

03:15 / 15.08.05

Anyone see the new M.O.D.O.C.s in Captain America "Winter Soldier" this month?

Military
Operatives
Designed
Only for
Combat

A bunch of faceless robot soldiers all wearing MODOK headbands. Cap makes short work of them before Bucky shows up.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

03:28 / 15.08.05

But did they have huge heads? If there are no oversized noggins they're not worthy of the M.O.D.O.C(K). moniker.

rabideyemovement

03:37 / 15.08.05

No, they have pitifully small heads and travel by walking rather than flying chairs. They're not true M.O.D.O.K.s.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

03:51 / 15.08.05

Blasphemy. I'm glad Cap gave 'em a good smiting. They were pretenders to the name of M.O.D.O.K.

13:14 / 15.08.05

Come to think of it, the M.O.D.O.C.s were suspiciously O.M.A.C.-like.

Which, by the way, stands for "Only Mohawks Are Cool." In case you were wondering.

Dark side of the Moonfrog1

12:48 / 09.09.05

If any body has younger siblings, children or neices/nephews who need convincing of the glory of M.O.D.O.K, buy them a copy of the latest UK Spectacular Spider-Man... (Go on, you know you want to...)

07:17 / 10.09.05

M.O.D.O.K.'s like an evil Humpty Dumpty.

14:59 / 10.09.05

I smell crossover! M.O.D.O.K. vs. Ultimate Humpty Dumpty. The walls will shake.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

15:06 / 10.09.05

We know where his right hand is. His left is suspiciously invisible behind the Black Widow's as...back. The Black Widow's back.

MODOK's got some Natasha in the oven, it seems.

Aside: Giant MODOK-Galactus head...is Ultimate Galactus not humanoid anymore?

22:27 / 07.10.05

23:21 / 15.10.05

We've never seen Ultimate Galactus.

Those MODOCs in Captain America weren't proper. They had normal sized heads, fer fuck's sake.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

17:52 / 16.10.05

Maybe they were

Midgets
Organizing
Deceptive
Oddly-sized
Killings?

I mean...Mini-MODOK!

21:41 / 16.10.05

They were MODOCs with a "c".

23:21 / 16.10.05

Yeah the 'm' was for multiple. One mind, lotsa bodies.

I got excited when I read the word MODOC, but thereafter it was a big letdown.

Has anyone mentioned Micah 'Soldier' Wright's proposal for 'Joe A.I.M.' here? He was gonna have the guy bottle-feeding baby MODOKs iirc. Sounded alright.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

03:50 / 17.10.05

They're like hungry crying basketballs with psychic powers. How cute.

Keith, like a scientist

00:00 / 03.11.05

First of all, this thread defies the Barbelith search function. very odd.

Second, Wizard has a nice Grant interview this month, where it's basically GM getting the interviewer progressively more drunk and tired, and hanging around being wacky. It's a good read, but the salient quote is:

"Where's the new? demands Morrison as he pours his third tall glass of Red Bull and Vodka. "Where are the new characters? Where's the new M.O.D.O.K.? Creating something as cool as M.O.D.O.K. - that's something to accomplish. That what I want to do. Now that movies are doing comics, comics should do comics, only bigger and more fantastic."

15:21 / 03.11.05

Does the interview with Grant cover anything specific? Is it promoting his big DC book, like 52*?

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