tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596622866235692809.post4232751962169794362..comments2023-10-25T07:46:37.969-04:00Comments on Random Longbox: Comic Book Review: Avengers #138TomO.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08944846588700304555noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596622866235692809.post-79558844787232194372009-09-23T12:23:56.585-04:002009-09-23T12:23:56.585-04:00Hey Murray! Thanks for the extra color commentary...Hey Murray! Thanks for the extra color commentary.<br /><br />I always hated the image inducers when it came to mutants. It always seemed like "having your cake and eating it too". Why set up a mutant with a rather obvious mutation, only to hide it and not deal with it out in the open.<br /><br />Isn't that kind of the point of creating that character in the first place?<br /><br />I think I'd much rather see mutants adopt the Beast's strategy of just carrying rubber masks of 40's noir film stars in their back pockets.TomO.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08944846588700304555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596622866235692809.post-59840182716101084342009-09-21T21:24:44.735-04:002009-09-21T21:24:44.735-04:00Two bits of trivial correction:
1) If memory ser...Two bits of trivial correction:<br /><br />1) If memory serves, this was long before the time every oddball mutant hero had an image-inducer in their pocket. Hank McCoy had only recently become the hairy beastial Beast. He hid his fur behind latex and makeup skills. In this rather feeble plot, Hank slipped around the corner and somehow donned the full EG Robinson latex mask in moments. True, he had the costume-disguise created earlier as a gag introduction to his Avengers' try out, but that is some fast makeup artistry.<br /><br />The Toad, on the other hand, did have an image inducer.<br /><br />2) The Toad didn't invent any of that super-de-dooper stuff. The real Stranger had collected Magneto and assorted Evil Brotherhood Mutants. Magneto and the cool kids escaped, abandoning Toad. Toad had enough patience and mental wherewithal to steal and employ some of the Stranger's gizmos.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14146990252809323077noreply@blogger.com