Friday, May 11, 2007

Four Syllable Sound Effect!

{I'm guessing you read those Simonson Thors?} Yup! {And?} They were neat! Thor was cool when that big dragon swallowed him and then Thor smashed its teeth with his hammer, and Sif fought trolls, and punched bad people, and Loki's head got cut off, and then he picked it up and put it back on! And Thor beat up rats as a frog! Did he ever get turned into a panda? {No, I think Thor as a panda would have been too much for humans to handle. Marvel's entire fanbase would have died from exposure to that level of magnificence.} Oh, okay. Maybe someday. {Want to talk about this week's comics?} Yeah!

Applause - "Mayday" Parker, because she worried more about Sara than her secret identity, and now Sara has someone who can help her adjust. And I think all of May's friends will help out too, because they all seemed worried about Sara. {Except Gene Thompson. He was more worried about him self.}

Hug - Sara Hingle. I haven't been to school yet, so I've never been teased or called a freak, so I don't know what that's like, but it couldn't have felt good. So here's a hug to cheer you up, and remember that you've got your parents and May to help you.

Bonk - Duane Hingle. You're her dad, you should be worried about how she feels, not what people are saying about you. She's still your daughter, if she has powers or not. Why do people do that? {Sometimes we're scared, selfish creatures. Just not something we've moved past yet.}

Applause - Spider-Man. You found the person who shot Aunt May, and he won't ever shoot anyone again. And you know who sent him now. So now you can go get him. {Are you advocating lethal force?} The Kingpin attacked Spidey's family! That's not the way you attack your enemies! But no, I don't think Spidey should kill Kingpin. Just beat him up a little. {Good, you're too young to be taking the Punisher route.} Is that what the Punisher does? Is that why you don't let me read the comic? {Yes.}

Bonk - Spider-Man. That was really risking of you attacking Aunt May's shooter in the middle of a train station like that. There were innocent people all over the place, and he had a gun! He didn't hit you, but what if he hit some other person! Couldn't you have been a little more careful? {I'm with ABP on this. Didn't that Sin-Eater story teach you that ordinary people don't dodge bullets as easily as you?}

Applause - Iron Fist. Can you teach me the Golden Star Gouge? And the Burning Dove Chop? I can teach you the, um, Flying Panda Splash! {There's no such attack!} Is too! {Well then, you don't know it yet!} I could learn! I want to know more fighting styles! {You lack focus!}

Hug - Luke Cage, Colleen Wing, Misty Knight. Misty and Colleen are registered and Luke isn't, right? {Correct.} But when somebody from Danny' company needs help, they still teamed up. {Looks like.} I think that's swell. Politics shouldn't get in the way of friendship. {I am in total agreement with that statement.}

Bonk - Orson Randall. All the trouble Danny is in, with Davos, and HYDRA, and the "immortal weapons", and his company being forced to build a railway in China through blackmail, it's all because Orson wouldn't fight, then when he decided to fight, he killed someone and ran off? {Well, I'm not sure that's connected to the railway thing yet, but the Davos and immortal weapons things are related.} Well then, he deserves this bonk, because he got Danny in a lot trouble, because of personal issues. {Trench warfare changes a man, at least, that's what movies, books, and television have taught me.} Hmph.

Applause - Nova. He didn't back down around Iron Man, and he didn't do anything rash. He didn't start fighting when SHIELD showed up at his parents' house, and he wanted time to think about joining the Initiative. So he's being a grown-up about stuff. {Yup.} You don't think he'll join the Intiative do you? {No. The universe needs the Nova Force a lot more than Earth.}

Hug - Penance. That's Speedball right? {Uh-huh.} He was a happy character once? {I remember him that way.} Well, it makes me sad to see him dressed like. Maybe if I hug him, he'll be happy again. {I'm not sure that's a good idea.} Why not? Don't you want him to be happy again? {Yes, but your hug might hurt him, and trigger his powers. Plus, he has crazy teammates. They might think you're attacking and blast you.} Blast me? {Hey, most of the Thunderbolts are crazy, evil people, I wouldn't put it past them.}

Bonk - Charles Rider. You're worse than Duane Hingle! You haven't seen your son in months, he just found out some of his friends died, and you said mean things about him! Why aren't you being more understanding? Shouldn't you be happy that he's back and mostly okay!? {Don't worry ABP, not all dads in the Marvel U. are bad.} Who isn't? {Uh, Scott Lang really cared about his daughter. Of course, he's dead now, stupid Bendis. Norman Osborn actually used to be a concerned father.} Really? {Sometimes.}

{So, that take care of everything?} Yeah, there were some pretty cool people this week. {That's good. Your next reading assignment is this Agents of Atlas hardcover. Enjoy.}

4 comments:

Marc Burkhardt said...

That was a great issue of Nova. Although I hope ABP gives Tony a permanent bonk for being such a tool ... sounded like he didn't even take the notion of an outer space war all that seriously.

CalvinPitt said...

fortress keeper: Yeah, Tony did have the air of someone who couldn't quite wrap his head around the concept that there was more important stuff going on in space than the malarkey he's been wrapped up in on Earth.

SallyP said...

A bonk to Tony Stark! No, a smack with a really big stick to Tony Stark! *huff huff* What, there's more going on than my little vendetta against my former best friends? Impossible!

A hug for Guy Gardner. He's being framed for murder, and chased by the spectre of his dead evil father. He could probably really use one.

A hug for Dr. Doom. It must be depressing that he's not the best villain anymore (Tony Stark is a jerk!) Besides, it's probably all Richard's fault.

CalvinPitt said...

sallyp: I think ABP is starting to lose hope for Tony Stark. Nothing seems to be getting through to him.

I think Doom will be OK. As long as Iron man doesn't start wearing a cape and referring to himself in the third person.

Guy's father, huh? Yikes. Hugs away!