#M’Koy

[anerdynerd]

hits them with the species swap beam

I’ve been working on a McSpirk species swap AU :D

more details below the cut if anyone’s interested to hear more about them:

Spock

-human appearance (still half human half Vulcan though ofc)

-> round ears, only slightly Vulcan-looking eyebrows, short haircut

-generally somewhat collected, still a bit emotionally closed off, maybe has been told off one too many times during his attempts to explain things in-depth 

-but gets EXCITED when he does get to talk about the things he finds fascinating (which is actually quite a lot, I think he’d be broadly interested in a lot of sciences, hence Starfleet lol, probably especially interested in maths, astronomy and physics, maybe philosophy too)

-people don’t actually know that his dad is the Vulcan ambassador growing up cause in typical Spock fashion he just never mentioned that part, so people generally only really find out about his Vulcan heritage if it relevantly comes up somehow or if somebody else mentions it (or if they saw it in his file), he’s not embarrassed or anything, he’s actually quite intrigued by it and does get Vulcan pointers from Sarek while growing up, he does actually bring up being half Vulcan way more than his father (or brother and sister etc), as that is relevant more often, for example to explain his super strength or to explain why he is the way he is™️

-very expressive, can’t hide a thought for anything, his eyebrow is already lethal imagine what would happen if he were to use his whole face

-> still a relatively steady and normal voice usually?

-very curious person

-due to less/almost no social pressure to behave like a true Vulcan, since they’re on Earth: has logical thinking for human standards, but also has human values embedded in his personality 

Kirek 

-one of the few Vulcans with a lighter shade of brown hair

-> has a bowl cut when first leaving Vulcan but starts challenging the standards for how a Vulcan should look while in Starfleet, resulting in his side bangs, as always just inside the lines but deviating from the standard enough to be noticed (in addition to the what values he’s already challenged internally)

-keeps finding ways to challenge the logic that’s the norm in a way that absolutely looks for loopholes and “technicalities” for his creative approaches to things

-> great at practicing logic but he’d do it in his own way that’s just within the lines + he’d argue well enough for it to be convincing enough for no one to be able to say anything against it 

    -> his superiors would still keep an eye on him and be skeptical even if he  “technically still acts within the lines of logic” and he does that just well enough  not to be declared a V’tosh ka’tur

-finds logic important and acts based on it as it is often the best way to do things, but sees the flaws as well as the benefits of it 

-> well aware of logic��s impact all around

-> therefore keeps an eye on whether there are approaches that would make  more sense than classic logic might suggest in some cases

-doesn’t make as many friends on Vulcan as human Jim would on Earth with this kind of demeanor

-finds a way to argue for pretty much anything and everything to be important to an extend, never completely dismissing something

M’Koy

-joined Starfleet to share the advanced Vulcan medical knowledge effectively, since his expertise is more useful to a big organization such as this one helping all sorts of species’ in various corners of the universe, rather than exclusively on Vulcan

-never really had a sense of belonging on Vulcan for that reason, since there is an alternative where he can follow his goal more effectively, does not practice that cultural duty to his people, because he refuses to get stuck on one singular planet helping only his own people (he’s tried and it did not sit right with him)

-> that plays a huge point in his parting from Jocelyn and their daughter

-is satisfied with how much he can help on the Enterprise

-does get increasingly frustrated with logic and order not sliding as smoothly and as in accord as he’s used to though

-> finds it more comfortable (some might even say comforting) to be around Spock as someone who also favors order and practices it well enough, as well as Kirek, who does not seem to need order as much as him, but who does actually bring some order onto this ship in the way he practices his authority 

-does not talk as much as Kirek because he is afraid to  does not desire to slip up on his Vulcan form of calmness 

-> therefore might get especially quiet when he’s angry because he learned early on that that only gets him patronized by other Vulcans and with that even more frustrated

Friendships

Kirek & M’Koy

-respect eachother and get a sense of being understood by the other without much judgement, as they both rejected parts of the Vulcan way in their own way

-McCoy finds comfort in having another Vulcan around, almost like a little piece of his home, while he was aiming to leave his whole life, he is now finding himself missing certain structures of his home, he never favored Vulcan culture to that extend, but he had never known anything else

Kirek & Spock

-Kirk actually listens to Spock’s rants and often proves that he has considered all the information provided by him by mentioning them or even using them on the search for a solution 

-engages in lively discussions

-finds Spock’s nature intriguing

-Spock asks a lot of questions about Vulcans in an attempt to learn more about his culture through people who have lived it

M’Koy & Spock

-irritated by the amount of over information Spock practices

-> might try to subtly cut him off to bring the conversation further, but this could lead to Spock often having something to add on that he would’ve gotten to if he hadn’t been cut off

-also finds him intriguing though, you don’t see a Vulcan-human-hybrid everyday, let alone be friends with them

-> might attempt to subtly study him to better understand how the two species’ have mixed within him

-Spock asks a lot of questions about Vulcans in an attempt to learn more about his culture through people who have lived it

-M’Koy finds comfort in being around him because he is much more orderly than most of the humans he has to work with everyday

[taffystake]

Major X #1 Review

Written and Penciled by: The Ghost of 90s Past (Rob Liefeld)

Inks by: Rob Liefeld, Adelso Corona, and Dan Fraga

Colors by: Romulo Fajardo Jr.

So, here it is Rob Liefeld’s triumphant return to the X-Men brand with his own creation that aims to place itself entirely within the 90s era X-Men. Which is fair, since the current X-Men storyline really makes it hard to do much else besides be in the past if you want to use half of the notable X-Men. 

Our story starts with Major X, having already beaten the rest of X-Force, standing on Cable and demanding information like what year it is and where are the X-Men. Some Beast-lookalike asks what he can do, but then Cable escapes to fight Major X again. Cable questions if Stryfe sent him while Major X is basically dancing around Cable and beating him up. One laser blast from Cable to the Major later, now Cable is electrocuting the Beast-lookalike before getting his hand cut off by Major X. Major X tries to explain how he needs Cable to save his very existence and when Cable makes another attempt to get rid of the Major, the Major judo chops him into unconsciousness.

After 4 pages of monologue in a flashback that can essentially be summed as “This place is the X-Sitence. I am a soldier for it. Its dying”, Major X gets a call that the X-sitence is collapsing. And then the Beast-lookalike jumps out of nowhere, saying the X-ential sent him bring back Major X. Except the X-ential is missing, as Major X’s caller informed him. So now the X-ential must have sent Beast-lookalike to him for safety. Sure. After a legitimately cool race against the collapsing environment as they get Major X’s bike ready to jump through reality, we go back to the present where Wolverine is about to attack Major X.

Wolvie scores a good hit that knocks over the Major, but then he is assailed by Beast-lookalike (Whose name is M’koy). While he is confused by the scent being similar to Beast’s, Berserker Wolverine gets thrown into a wall by M’koy and then Major X defends his........friend? with an adamantium sword that Major X proclaims to be made from Wolverine’s bones, in the future. Finally, Cable shoots Major X in the back of the head to keep him down for a moment.

Now, after all of this fighting and his repeated attempts to send Major X away via bodyslide, does Cable decide to ask who he is and how he arrived in the Danger Room. One quick rehash of his speech to Cable earlier for why hes there alter, an explosion scatters the two to reveal....Dreadpool. Who looks like the result of putting Cable and Deadpool in a pneumatic press. And Dreadpool is there to kill Cable, because Cable will save the X-sistence and his employers don’t want that.

After Dreadpool squashes Cannonball and Domino, Cable and Dreadpool begin exchanging punches. With Dreadpool demanding Cable just lay down and die before going into the rest of “Dont Fear the Reaper”. After he had been this serious assassin type for the last......3 pages. After Dreadpool finishes by squashing Wolverine and M’koy, Major X and Dreadpool fight for a moment before Major X’s motorcycle drives into the scene.

Driven by Deadpool.

Because the glut of Xs wasn’t making this hard enough.

So after Deadpool hits Dreadpool with the motorcycle, the pair exchanges blow while Deadpool spends the whole page...being Deadpool. Then Dreadpool teleports away with a threat towards Cable. And after ALL THAT, we finally hear what the X-istence is. It is apparently a haven for mutants that is in a parallel dimension. And the X-ential was the guy who kept the dimension alive. After more explanation about how vital his mission is, Cable apparently knows who Major X is. And that is...his son, Alex.

Holy crap did that go on for a while.

Now then....the art. The art is decent on a model level. The characters look good, they have dynamic expressions at times that are usually very fitting and add to the scene, and yes Rob can draw feet. The major criticisms in the art come from the paneling. Namely, half of this comic is composed of splash pages, stylized outside-of-panel art that requires no background, and panels that intensely focus on character masks and helmets. Half the art in the panels lack any decent background, instead giving bland single color backgrounds or the occasional mild stylized color background. And the action has no sense of motion to it. It just feels like mashing action figures together and taking a picture of that which, when the entirety of your comic is fight scenes, makes it all exceptionally lazy.

Meanwhile, the writing has pacing like a car with a brick on the gas pedal. Despite the comic having room for this all to breath slightly, it instead feels the need to cram more action in that essentially amounts to “one hero beats the other hero, but they maybe get one shot in before getting bludgeoned to the ground like your average mook”. Overall, this comic is just an absolute drag and I have no idea what the next issues will be besides a glut of action with a dump of information at the end. Repeat ad nauseum till the miniseries end.

[biggoonie]

MAJOR X TPB

Written by ROB LIEFELD Penciled by ROB LIEFELD, BRENT PEEPLES & WHILCE PORTACIO Cover by ROB LIEFELD A mysterious new player enters the Marvel Universe! Major X’s home dimension, the X-istence, and the thousands of mutants who dwell there are facing complete destruction. Now, Major X and the man-beast called M’Koy must travel to the Marvel Universe to stop those responsible and locate the one man who can save their world! But when they find themselves thrown back in time to the early days of X-Force, Major X forges a desperate alliance with the man called Cable. But what is the stunning connection between these two time-traveling warriors? And can they untangle a conspiracy involving rogue Atlanteans, the sadistic Watchtower group and the evil (yet familiar-looking) assassin known as Dreadpool? Comics legend Rob Liefeld introduces a new wrinkle to the saga of Marvel’s mightiest mutants! Collecting MAJOR X #1-6. 144 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99 ISBN: 978-1-302-91741-8