A Weirdoes Wednesday with Paul Pelletier !

I guess June is officially MARVEL COMICS MONTH since this post has no connections whatsoever to George Perez. In fact this post has more to do with our INDEPENDENT / CROSSGEN COMICS month since I mentioned Dan Slott's and Paul Pelletier's four issue miniseries about the GREAT LAKES AVENGERS but didn't have the time to do a full post on them back then.

And I was mentioning the series more for the art by Paul Pelletier than for the writing by Dan Slott. As longtime followers of TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN know there are a few aspects of Dan Slott's writing that got me deeply disturbed going back to his stint on THE SHE - HULK where he implied a lot of weird things like if you prefer to be the best version of yourself there has to be something wrong with you and that you should remain the ugly duckling and don't try to live your best life. Know your goddamn place, bitch. Or that you should not use any special abilities to score with the opposite sex ( unless it is something like having a cool car, being rich, famous, incredibly handsome or any combination thereof than it's okay to shamelessly use that to your advantage ) going to such lengths as to turn a longtime Avengers member of unquestionable morals and high standing like Starfox into a serial rapist. Which says more about what a man Dan Slott is than what a person Starfox is. But above all of this let's not forget the longwinded and complicated explication that Dan Slott came up with that women from parallel universes took control of She - Hulk's mind and body to negate the fact that Jennifer did ye olde Wham - Bam - Thank - You - Mam mambo with the Juggernaut.

Likewise there are some negative things that I feel I have to mention in regards to Dan Slott's GREAT LAKES AVENGERS series, not to dis the man but as a warning to those readers who might get this series because of this very feature and then go " Man, I came here for the glorious Paul Pelletier art but what is all of this Monkey Joe breaking the fourth wall crap ? If I want to get insulted I talk with my Mama. " and rightfully so.

Now I have never met Dan Slott so the following is just my unqualified conjunction but the way he uses the character of Monkey Joe - one of Squirrel Girl's squirrel sidekicks - to insult not only all the comicbook readers but also his fellow comicbook creators, the entire comicbook industry plus every male on the planet with his constant not so funny jabs paint him like a deeply disturbed, embittered, cynical guy who does not enjoy anything which leads to some pretty dark stuff in the story.

Granted, we have some dark stuff since the inception of this group by John Byrne as one of the member's special power is literally coming back from the death so for this super power to work he first has to die. But there is a fine line between including dark stuff in your comic and still being funny or at least tongue in cheek and going totally overboard with it and failing in making it humorous. And for my money Dan Slott falls into the category of writers who have and idea but fail at the execution.

Last but not least there is always the trap of the successful failure. What I mean with that is that there is this idea of a ragtag band of misfits who band together since nobody else would have them but who come to save the world at the end of the day. Everybody likes that kind of story but not everybody can write that story. Let me rephrase that. Everybody can write that story but not everybody knows how to believably write losers.

And you can tell when such a story is written by somebody who has been amongst the downtrodden, the marginalised, the misfits and shunned of society and when it's written by someone who doesn't know the feeling of not fitting in first hand. It's not only something that is apparent in comics but also movies and tv shows. And the Great Lakes Avengers are such a band of losers but unlike the Guardians of the Galaxy in the MCU they just return to their status quo that they had at the beginning of the story - sans all members Dan Slott killed off to make who knows what statement - when they saved the entire freaking universe and should not take any bs from anyone anymore. Which a great writer could use to great comedic effect - like the Great Lake Avengers being very proud of themselves and the other Avengers going along with it since they think they are all delusional - but again, we are talking about Dan Slott here.

With all that said the GREAT LAKES AVENGERS is like they say " worth the price of admission " solely based on the artwork by Paul Pelletier so you should be able to enjoy it despite Dan Slott's shortcomings as a writer.

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MVP Monday : Ron Lim's Infinity Gauntlet !

A new month, a new topic but we are still straggling the George Perez / Marvel Comics month duality since THE INFINITY GAUNTLET written by Jim Starlin started out with George Perez on pencils but by the end of issue 4 Ron Lim had to come in to finish not only this series but he did also the two follow up series INFINITY WAR and THE INFINITY CRUSADE.

Longtime followers may remember that it has been almost three years since I wrote the second part which was mostly George Perez art but which already featured some pages by Ron Lim. And since I mentioned his HEAVY HITTERS series DRAGON LINES for Epic Comics in my spotlight for Peter David's and George Perez SACHS & VIOLENS series I thought it's about time to feature this very underrated artist again. Now the way I go about including original art is I try to avoid posting stuff I have already posted but since I can't keep too much stuff on the laptop it is hard to know what I have already used and what not. I do however go over my old posts to eliminate any redundancies. Except if I find a new version in better quality. In this case there were quite a few pages where that rule would have applied but I really wanted to avoid anything I had already posted in part one and two and go on with the Ron Lim art. Also I don't think those pages would have added something crucial to this spotlight.

So it's going to be all Ron Lim art in this post - from issues 4 and 5 - and that is going to be confusing enough because some of these pages come before the ones I included in the second part while others come after.

Don't worry, you will figure it out.

For my next part I thought we could wrap up THE INFINITY GAUNTLET and the sequels in one go but I found so many new pages that those will be at least two posts so I will probably throw in THANOS QUEST pages.

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Now when I first came upon the following video I thought it was from a time when people would be actually excited to see Brie Larson play a Marvel character like the Dazzler but no, after watching the video I realized that this was AFTER she had appeared in Captain Marvel and in Avengers : Endgame and this was Disney's way of doing damage control.

Reading all the news about how Disney makes one big box office flop after another you might get the impression they are not aware why they fail but there seem to be short moments where they realize something is wrong and try to fix it. Of course we are not talking about drastic things like writing a script that is actually good, fleshing out the characters and give them an important story arc - as we could see with Captain Marvel.

It seems in this case somebody said " Brie,honey, we have to change the way we present you to the audience or you won't have a movie career anymore. " and Brie went " I'm up for anything. What do you have in mind ? " and then the other person went " Well, I don't know if you can follow me but the other day I was reading some of the comments on the internet and it seems there are people out there who think you are hot.

And somebody told me that people - especially guys - like boobs, you know, but not only do they like boobs they also turn into drooling idiots when they see them and it shuts down their higher brain functions. "

And then Brie goes " Okay, but what does that have to do with me ? " to which the other person replied " Well, I don't know if you have noticed but you do have a pretty impressive pair of puppies so I thought we could just have you guest hosting some show - like the Jimmy Kimmel Show - and we put you in a dress with a cleavage down to your whazoo and you make sure to shake those big moneymakers into the camera.

And if you play your cards right everybody will be so mesmerized by your huge hooters that they will forget about your awful acting in the Marvel movies and automatically start to like you again. " and then Brie went " Do you really think it will work ? Men can't be that easy. " and the other person said " Believe me. They are and this will definitely work. "

And that's how Brie Larson - and her bonerinducing porn cleavage - guest hosting The Jimmy Kimmel Show came about. And Jimmy Kimmel also seems like the kind of guy to pull such a cheap publicity stunt. Or not.

Who knows how much Disney paid him ? Now I am not saying that Jimmy Fallon would not have done the same. As it is we will never know. But I always had the impression that Jimmy Fallon at least is genuinely happy for his guests while with Jimmy Kimmel I always felt there is something sinister behind his eyes like he is envious of the success of his guests.

In any case, you can't deny that Brie Larson does have a pornstar body and yep, those are some real all natural 38Fs guns she is sporting here.

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