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Raw Norton

01:54 / 09.04.03

Maybe this is funny: my best idea pits MODOK against IMODOK (IMmobile Organism...), an equally big head w/o the benefit of puny arms and legs or rocket boosters. Through a clever series of harassing phone calls (he has a specially designed speakerphone that he operates via death rays) IMODOK lures unwitting victims into the range of said death rays. These death rays, mind you, are really only lethal in the vicinity of IMODOK's living room.
When S.H.I.E.L.D. learns of a sinister plot to lure several world leaders into IMODOK's Cleveland apartment, they take a desperate measure: contract MODOK to take out IMODOK.

videodrome

03:31 / 09.04.03

I, MODOK
by Isaac Asimov

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of MODOK behavior that we know as the Three Laws of MODOK. Here are stories of MODOK gone mad, mind-reading MODOK, MODOK with a sense of humor, a MODOK politician, and (of course) MODOK, who secretly runs the world, all told with Asimov's trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction.

I used to love this book when I was a kid.

makeitbleed

01:56 / 18.06.03

Sorry to bump this up, i know this thread's dead, but maybe M.O.D.O.K. isn't ...

Micah Wright's "Joe/A.I.M." pitch to EPIC that was apparently ignored:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/micahwright/messages?msg=1924.7

Excerpt from the message:
"Yeah, I can totally see why they couldn't be bothered to read this. How Weak this would be! I mean, I only had Garth Ennis in stitches at a bar in NYC telling him pieces of the story (like my favorite section where Joe tries to get his wife to breastfeed the new MODOK baby which has decided that Joe is its Father and won't let anyone else near it without blasting them dead with Mental Rays)."

Wright's history of AIM:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/micahwright/messages?msg=1924.1

Enjoy.

Spaniel

15:31 / 26.03.04

Thanks to fridgemagnet for bringing the this to my attention.

It turns out that M.O.D.O.K. is a clone of Donald Trump.

Mr Tricks

15:44 / 26.03.04

Don't know if it's been mentioned here but M.O.D.O.K. makes an appearance in the New She Hulk #1

just thought you should know . . .

FinderWolf

15:45 / 26.03.04

I heard about this - how was it? Was it played for laughs? Is it a modern visual reworking of M.O.D.O.K.?

Spaniel

09:05 / 27.03.04

Is it a modern visual reworking of M.O.D.O.K.?

I fucking hope not.

Gary Lactus

11:33 / 27.03.04

Unless they've made his head bigger and his limbs smaller.

Gary Lactus

11:37 / 27.03.04

Or they reworked him as a master of disguise with a little moustache, sometimes a pipe, glasses and different little hats. Like a giant, deadly, floating Mr Potato Head.

Spaniel

11:44 / 27.03.04

The modern artist does not see the beauty, the necessity, of big headedness. He would never increase the size of the head or decrease the size of the limbs.

I thought you'd fucked off for the weekend.

Mr Tricks

20:04 / 30.03.04

M.O.D.O.K. looked pretty good... somewhat Modern but no major makeover...

He was in the comic for all of 2-3 pages so I while there where some laughs it was played from She-Hulk's own unique perspective. The writter basicly droped the final 2-3 pages of an Avengers style battle into the middle of She-Hulk's week...

If i get around to it I'll scann those pages and post 'em online.

Lord Morgue

10:41 / 12.04.04

Anyone remember M.O.D.O.M.? You know, the female M.O.D.O.K.? Mental Organism Designed Only for Murder? Story goes she was Hank Pym's first wife, but her head got all fat, so he ran off with his lab-rat Janet (man, doesn't everyone want a girlfriend who lets you EXPERIMENT on her? "Now just hold still, honey, I'm going to implant wasp wings and antennae into your back and forehead, and irradiate you with subatomic particles that will shrink you to the size of a real wasp." If I told my wife that, she'd break her foot off in my ass faster than you could say ASSHOLES ASSEMBLE!).
I can see Mental Organism Romance, followed by lots of little Mini-M.O.D.O.K.s running around. Now THAT I'd like to pitch to Marvel.

Mr Tricks

22:53 / 12.04.04

would that me

M.M.O.D.O.S.

Minni Mental Organisms Designed Only for Shitting?

ot how abuout...

M O D O K
Offspring
Diaper
Obliterating
Kids

Spaniel

09:05 / 13.04.04

Morgue, we have indeed heard of M.O.D.A.M!

So then, what about those scans?

FinderWolf

20:29 / 21.05.04

I found this on the Bendis board, which is mostly silly crap now but there are usually good news stories on there that show up there before anywhere else...

another Modok lover out there -- he's got MODOK bursting through a wall like the Kool-Aid Man!!!

Cowboy Scientist

04:39 / 23.05.04

Hey, didn't a living MODOK-skull apper on that 3d drawn Warmachine series?

Anyway, if I had to do a MODOK comic, I would do something similar to a cheesy monster flick from the 50's, it would be called something like "Fear the MODOK!" and I would feature classic 50's-monster-movie stereotypes as main characters, as square-jawed-hero-guy, sharp-scream-girl, and white-coated-cientist-that-hero-guy-calls-doc. They have to stop MODOK from MODOKising (that is, transforming everyone into a zombie-like MODOK drone) the entire country; to do this hero-guy uses shotguns, flameshooters, etc. and weird retro-looking rayguns invented by Doc. It would be drawn in the style of EC's horror comics. It will always take place in small towns, to give it a "Night of the Living Dead" feel. The series would end with the sharp-scream-girl falling in love with MODOK, then he desists every hostile action, because, you know, MODOK just needs a bit of love.

Mr Tricks

18:25 / 29.07.04

Guess who's coming back for Halloween!!!

Spaniel

19:27 / 29.07.04

Such an important image.

FinderWolf

19:34 / 29.07.04

Aahh, the twisted, fucked-up eyes of Modok....(wipes tear from eye)

gridley

19:57 / 29.07.04

Is Captain America's shirt covered in sequins? Feathers? Scales? And is that Bucky in his arms?

Lord Morgue

08:30 / 30.07.04

Woah... M.O.D.O.K. has Kermit the Frog eyes...

Mobile Oganism Derived Of Kermit?

FinderWolf

15:39 / 30.07.04

Ever since John Cassaday (or more correctly, Kevin Maguire's Cap: Year One-type miniseries a while ago, when they showed that you could show Cap's upper body costume as a kind of chain mail type armor instead of spandex with little squiggles here and there to indicate it's armor-ness), they've had most of the Marvel artists drawing it as more chain-mail-y.

The figure he's holding is the bad-ass-sort-of-evil Captain America - probably John Walker, I think, sort of the Republican Captain America in Christopher Priest's very mediocre storyline for CAP & THE FALCON (a shame, cause although I used to love Priest's writing, it's recently gone very downhill).

MODOK is in the hOUSE!!!!

Mr Tricks

16:23 / 30.07.04

That chain mail tends to look more like scale mail to me...

Lord Morgue

07:00 / 31.07.04

M.O.D.O.K. is going to pluck all the little scales off Cap's costume until he cries.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:16 / 31.07.04

That chin-guard thing. Is M.O.D.O.K. hiding a secret beard?

Lord Morgue

08:48 / 01.08.04

It's goatee-wearing, guitar-strumming, Chris Cornell wanna-be ULTIMATE MODOK!

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

09:45 / 01.08.04

Giant muties, repressed homosexuality - that may be my favourate cover, ever.

FinderWolf

18:36 / 02.08.04

Scale mail it is, Mr. Tricks -- good catch. And just to keep this on threadpoint -- I LOVE HOW WACKY MODOK IS!!!

Lord Morgue

09:16 / 03.08.04

I've always loved MODOK's bowl cut. Considering his arms don't reach his hair, I imagine a team of yellow-beekeeper-suited specialist A.I.M. stylists on a wheeled scaffolding each morning, carefully grooming him with giant combs.
And brushing his teeth, too. Three or four of them working a giant toothbrush like a logging saw. And another team to squeeze the giant toothpaste tube.

FinderWolf

13:45 / 03.08.04

That's brilliant, Lord Morque.

>> Considering his arms don't reach his hair,

Like a tyrannosaurus rex's little arms.. If t-rexes had hair.

gridley

14:19 / 03.08.04

The six most horrifying words in the English language:

"Go give MODOK his sponge bath."

Gary Lactus

14:41 / 04.08.04

An awesome picture, true; but does anyone else feel that his hands are a little too big. They look like they could actually do some damage. MODOK should have limp little arms like Mr. Burns.

FinderWolf

14:03 / 10.08.04

Just to let y'all know, Bendis mentioned M.O.D.O.K. in the first part of his Black Widow story arc over in DAREDEVIL a few months back. Madame Hydra/Viper is sitting in a cafe in Bulgaria or someplace like that and Capt. America shows up to bust her. He says something like "Modok won't be meeting you today."

And the image of Modok sauntering (or jet-packing, whatever that wacko propulsion/flying system he has to move around with) into a stylish little sidewalk cafe in Europe, out in broad daylight, is just too priceless. I wonder if Bendis really thought about that when he wrote that line.

Mr Tricks

16:57 / 22.11.04

...and speaking of M.O.D.O.K.

The Journal of MODOK Studies is dedicated to the greatest comic character ever created, Marvel Comics' MODOK. In this issue: "Introduction," "MODOK's Day Out," "MODOK Mismanages Marvel's Money," "MODOK," "Don't Waste Your Money," "MODOK the Menace," "MODOK," MODOK Centerfold," "MODOK, The Hulk, Dinosaurs and Boats," and "Proof That Joe Quesada Has No Idea Who MODOK Is."

FinderWolf

19:46 / 22.11.04

Beautiful.

So who read M.O.D.O.K.'s new/updated origin in the recent issues of Captain America & The Falcon, written by Christopher Priest? I skimmed 'em but don't remember any details about our big-headed pal.

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