#Moloids

[chernobog13]

The Fantastic Four battle the Mole Man and his subterranean hordes, by Geoff Darrow.

[sebeth]

You Did Not Tell Me Sue Storm Would Be Here!

[batcavescolony]

@paljordan

[frogoat]

A blog about comic books and geek culture in general and Spider-Girl and the MC2 universe in particular.

[heckcareoxytwit]

A short story of Kaine fighting a monster in the sewer

(And I hate Greg Land's traced "art")

Web of Spider-Man v3 #1, 2024

I still want Aracely back.....

[shadowwingtronix]

"Yesterday's" Comic> Incredible Hulk (2011) #1

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Incredible Hulk (2011) #1

“Hulk learn fingerpainting.” The Incredible Hulk #1 (again) Marvel Comics (December, 2011) “Hulk Asunder” part 1 WRITER: Jason Aaron PENCILERS: Marc Silvestri & Michael Brossard INKERS: Joe Weems V, Rick Basaldua, & Sal Regla COLORIST: Sunny Gho LETTERER: Ed Dukeshire ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jake Thomas EDITOR: Mark Paniccia Continue reading Untitled

[parkerharker]

There’s some stuff in Fantastic Four that has kinda gotten left behind that I really miss. I very much miss the Future Foundation supporting cast. What a fun set of diverse characters that have so much potential!! I totally get the want to just tell stories about the core four and their kids but maaannnnnn I miss the Moloids :/

[nitpickrider]

Kitty, you don't have to be objectively correct all over the place. X Men Unlimited Infinity 62

[venom-ass-daily]

From Venom vol 3 #155

[akbuttonsandbookmarks]

What does this panel look like out of context? Well OBVIOUSLY Dardevil was fucking a female moloid and she squirted so hard it launched her into the sky!

[traincat]

Wait, what IS Moleman’s problem slash obsession with Johnny???

Honestly I wish I knew. I feel like it's one of those things that comes up enough that there's a definite pattern here, but one that Fantastic Four doesn't really explore outside of the immediate instances in which it happens. The exception being Unstable Molecules, which reframes Johnny and the Mole Man as two teenage friends, both heckled with homophobic comments by the popular boys, with the Mole Man yearning to retain a stagnant situation where Johnny is all his in face of Johnny's burgeoning sexuality and yearning to escape their small town.

Unstable Molecules is not 616 canon, for the record. It's an extremely good, extremely meta comic about the fictional "real people" who inspired the Fantastic Four.

For an actual 616 example, let's look at one of the most Comics comics of all time: Fantastic Four #296.

This is an extreme transitional period in the Fantastic Four. John Byrne just left the book at a critical moment right before the 300th issue. Sue and Johnny are in their matching hairstyles era. Johnny's just proposed to "Alicia," who will be retconned as Lyja in like 60 issues. And Ben is handling it SUPER normally by joining the Mole Man's underground kingdom of freaks.

Fashion icon. I'm obsessed with the little moloid butler.

The Mole Man decides that, since Johnny is the cause of Ben's suffering, he should get revenge on Johnny, a thing that will definitely make Ben feel better.

Also Alilyja is here in another stunning example of how they pulled the "Alicia was a Skrull all along" retcon off perfectly by not writing Alicia remotely in character for about a hundred issues. Go girl give us nothing.

So anyway the Mole Man kidnaps Johnny and disfigures him and this is totally about Ben and not at all about the Mole Man and Johnny's beauty. Fascinating stuff going on here viz a viz goodness = physical beauty in superhero comics, but eh. I'm just here for the Johnny whump.

This of course snaps Ben out of his "Johnny's marrying my girl (who I dumped) (and was about to dump again)" funk and straight back into "I love Johnny" territory. Classic. I'm sure he'll be normal about the Alicia stuff now.

No. See the cover of the very next issue:

Buddy, again, you dumped her.

Anyway, Ben stays behind to use one of the Mole Man's machines to restore Johnny's beautiful face.

What's the Mole Man doing while his kingdom is collapsing? Oh, nothing. Normal stuff. Partying in his secret room filled with holographic beautiful men and women. Like I said. Normal. No reason to connect that with wanting to punish Johnny by stripping away his beauty at all.

Another example, and one I find less interesting, but I may as well include it.

Fantastic Four: 1, 2, 3, 4 -- YMMV with this one in general. Gorgeous art. The writing, well. It's one of those books that I find tangentially interesting but don't really incorporate into my personal characterization because it's not great at it. Readers be warned about an extremely 2002 comment on autism with regards to Reed. In it, the Mole Man captures Alicia (the real one this time) and Johnny and tries to get Alicia to maim Johnny with a pair of scissors.

Again, it's just interesting thematically to think about this, especially when Unstable Molecules reframed it the way it did.

[chernobog13]

The Fantastic Four versus the Mole-Man and his horde of monstrous minions, by Geoff Darrow.

[artbyblastweave]

I'm not saying Old man Logan was a masterpiece but... c'mon it was very engaging for most of the run... right?

Oh, don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite Millar comics. An elsworld before elseworlds totally ate the space, or alternatively an imaginary story 40 years too late. "Keep Making Noises" lives rent free in my head as The Hawkeye Line of all time. Venom T-Rex, Thor's hammer as a site of post-apocalyptic messianic pilgrimage, Dead Giant-Man as part of the landscape, Moloid apocalypse, brutal biker gangs clad in the aesthetics of 90s antiheroes with no understanding of what drove those people. SHEILD as the gestapo after the regime change. It's full of incredibly potent imagery and ideas.

But. If you write a comic that involves cannibal incest hulk and a woman called "Spider-Bitch" you are not beating the "trashy fun" allegations, sorry!

[lolbree]

I wanna see how you draw MOloid (My fanloid)

Sure!! I love the design. ^_^

[thevindicativevordan]

Following up on my question about the world as remade by the Maker, do you feel like the worldbuilding of the new Ultimate Universe is a bit… odd? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the North American Union was dissolved and anexed by three different territorries and there is no apparent political repercussion on the streets. In Ultimates #1, the moloids seem to be a persecuted species, but in Spider-Man #8 we found out that the Mole Man works for the Kingpin, who ultimately works for the Maker. I don't know, but sometimes it also feels like the Maker changed the world but not by that much? Like, it seems similar to ours but the narrative sells it as an all different world, with the heroes (initially) wanting to go back to how things should be. What do you think?

They want to have their cake and eat it. As you say, on one hand it's a world that has a widely divergent history from ours, but also it's recognizable as similar to what life is like for us. Yes it's a bit disappointing that there hasn't been a lot of Krakoa style data pages from Hickman to flesh out what life is like, but you would have to make that the focus of an entire book to do it justice. Besides, Hickman knows that the people who rushed to get USM are more interested in character relationships than the political dynamics of the North American Union. I think Camp is doing a good job showing us what life is like on Earth 6160, but I do wish we had gotten a book focused on the Council. If we had, that would have been the best place to explain how exactly this government system Maker created works in terms of how exactly do you split up North America between foreign powers without people rebelling.

[cinematicendevaourz]

Shudder has plenty of hit or misses in their catalogue and "Azrael" plays the middle namely because of it's pacing which makes the film asţ much a a slog to get through as IFC's "In A Violent Nature" which released earlier this year. The mute premise was also handled better by John Woo with "Silent Night", but the gore and the "Baby Driver" earphones-in fight scene was a plus. A pregnant woman with a meat cleaver? That was dope. The cult like summoning of Moloid-like mud people using qi-gong breathing techniques? That was unique. But putting this film in the forest, just wasn't the move and gave "Azrael" too much of that "In A Violent Nature" taste. If only the cars at the beginning of the film with the kidnapping would have drove off into a city instead of deeper into the brush, then I would barely have an issue with "Azrael". But still, all those problems aren't enough to make me not watch "Azrael" over and over again. But then again any flick with a preganant woman and a bunch of gore is going to be a draw for me. I recognize my bias, knowing that there is a better movie in here if the setting was switched and if it would have been a "talkie", but I'll still try and catch "Azrael" as much as I can before it vacates it's limited run in U.S. theaters. -

C.V.R. The Bard

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