#robot parade

[davisexplainableart]

All-Ages Show RECAP

Thanks to all who came to see us yesterday!

As we said in that show, our next concert will once again be at Royce Hall in Los Angeles on June 20th, and that it will be centered around TMBG songs from the 2000s.

Additionally, our show at First Avenue on July 11th will feature every song from The Spine.

Before we begin, here is a sort of key to explain certain things in the text below…

This means that I sang a song and no one else.

This means that Footi sang a song and no one else.

This means that Chao sang a song and no one else.

This means that I sang a song with Footi on backing vocals.

This means that Footi sang a song with me on backing vocals.

This means that Footi sang a song with Chao on backing vocals.

This means that Chao sang a song with me on backing vocals.

This means that I sang a song with Footi and Chao on backing vocals.

This means that I sang a song with Footi and Ash on backing vocals.

This means that Footi sang a song with me and Chao on backing vocals.

This means that Chao sang a song with me and Footi on backing vocals.

This means that Blip sang a song with me and Footi on backing vocals.

This means that more than 3 Mixels performed vocals for a song. Their names will be listed in the notes.

When “->” is shown right before a song’s name, it means that we went right into that song, with little to no banter.

Alright, here was the show's setlist (with some notes for a few songs):

(began with Wake Up Call over the PA)

1. Alphabet Of Nations

Technically this was Footi on lead, with me on backing, but it could also be vice versa (you could go either way, really).

W/ Ash on keyboard.

We performed the extended version ("GUATEMALAAAAAA").

Any songs with a music video like this one would have the music video played on a huge screen.

2. No!

Before the song started, we mentioned that this concert was in honor of the anniversary of No! (the album) being the following week.

3. Triops Has Three Eyes

4. Four Of Two

For the record, I am never singing the demo lyrics (I'd rather not sing about suicide).

5. E Eats Everything

I shouted the letters as Footi sang the individual letters.

6. Kids Go!

7. Seven

Footi and Ash did the talking parts.

8. Particle Man

W/ Chandelier during the breakdown.

9. Fibber Island

We introduced the song as "the place we go to stop making sense."

10. Older

Just like TMBG, the space between "time... is still marching on" was interrupted by a phone call. In this case, it was Footi pretending to be the ghost of Thomas Edison. He claimed that he was upset we didn't play The Edison Museum for our Half-O-Weens how.

Unlike TMBG, we "made up for it" by playing the song (just Chao on accordion and me on vocals), with me singing in a weird voice (which sounded like my impression of Kaput from Kaput & Zösky).

After the song and call ended, we went right back to Older (the audience erupted with laughter when that happened).

11. C Is For Conifers

W/ Footi on Tiple.

12. Doctor Worm

13. Robot Parade

Performed in G Major (no, not that G Major).

14. Fake-Believe

We played a custom extended version of the song (after the outro, we switched to the verses from Type B).

15. Speed And Velocity

With Blip on lead vocals, and me, Footi and Chao on backing vocals.

16. -> Alphabet Lost And Found

17. Infinity

18. Flying V

19. Where Do They Make Balloons?

20. One Dozen Monkeys

Performed in C Major.

Despite technically being ageless like all Mixels, Chao sang this for the opening part...

I am a girl, 23 years old

That's one more than 22

And one less than 24 (Two dozen)

We were planning to also perform Electric Car, but our touring manager suggested we not do it. He felt concerned with how the talk of electric cars has gone from "Wow, the future of cars!" to "Elon's stupid-looking monstrosity".

21. Nine Bowls Of Soup

All lights were turned off so the viewers could see the screen better.

Performed with just vocals, as the full instrumental was played as a backing track.

22. I Am A Paleontologist

23. 813 Mile Car Trip

24. I Am Not Your Broom

25. Stalk of Wheat

26. What Is A Shooting Star?

27. D & W

I dedicated this song to me and Wesley (my twin brother).

For the ending part, Footi voiced W, and I voiced D.

28. Z Y X

We extended the song to have Footi re-introduce the band (which he had done earlier in the show), replaying the opening instrumental.

This was followed by me singing the lyrics all over again (with the ending part this time).

29. -> Goodnight My Friends

Turns out, the song sounds pretty good when the singer isn't doing a weird voice.

(Encore #1)

30. I Can Add

The only reason we played this song was so we could dedicate it to a celebrity creature known as the "16-Monster", who appears in the music video. He got his name from the fact that he has a giant "16" on his stomach.

31. Fingertips:

Everything Is Catching On Fire

Fingertips (#1)

I Hear The Wind Blow

Hey Now Everybody

Who Is That Standing Out The Window

I Found A New Friend Underneath My Pillow

Come On And Wreck My Car

Aren’t You The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye?

Please Pass The Milk

Leave Me Alone

Who’s Knocking On The Wall?

All Alone, All By Myself

What’s That Blue Thing Doing Here?

Something Grabbed Ahold Of My Hand

I Don’t Understand You

I Heard A Sound

Mysterious Whisper (we asked the crowd to sway their arms around during this part)

The Day That Love Came To Play

I’m Having A Heart Attack

Fingertips (#2)

I Walk Along Darkened Corridors

(Encore #2)

32. Can You Find It?

Since our only reference was a shortened version of the song, our performance of the song was also shorter.

Because of this, after "...which isn't fair" we immediately switched to "there are letters everywhere..."

For lyrics, I replaced "sorry to say" with "sorry to share" to rhyme it with "everywhere" and "fair".

Because of the shortened performance, I replaced "The aforementioned W" with "Could there be a W?"

33. Why Does The Sun Shine?

For the "nuclear reaction..." part, Footi listed "solar energy, a metal called tungsten, a bunch of glass surrounding the tungsten, and okay, I'm just talking about our own sun, which is a lightbulb!"

34. -> Why Does The Sun Really Shine?

35. Clap Your Hands

(Aw, schmixel) Clap your hands -> stomp your feet -> jump in the air -> EVERYBODY SCREAM! -> EVERYBODY SCREAM AGAIN! -> EVERYBODY, STOP SCREAMING!

36. Birdhouse In Your Soul

Played in its original key.

Also played at a tempo similar to the Tonight Show performance from 1990 (except without the horn section).

[pechebeche]

i gotta say, learning to program and work with computers has really taken the thrust out of the "technology is a form of divine" poetry aesthetic. you think this thing is an angel?? depending on how you talk to it, it cant add 2 to 2.0 unless you whisper special instructions. all it does is math. it is a glorified mathematician. and it cant always add. this things an idiot

[artroidsart]

I REALLY need to draw my OC's more often! I have fallen off!!!

One of these days, I HAVE to start working on Minidroid's story. I plan on reworking my Cosmic Rangers storyline, but I just haven't felt motivate to sit down and write something. One day I want to draw her, the next I want to make crochet plushies. My creativity has a mind of its own.

Anyway, I was able to make this pretty quickly! It helps that I had some Vocaloid and FNF music playing. Something about fast music gets me motivated. I think this is a VAST improvement from the last time I made Pride art for Minidroid. Not just the new character design, but the outfit is MUCH better. I was inspired by the Sunset Dress from Hello Kitty Island Adventure. The game is having a Pride event right now called Paper Parade, and you should have seen my face when I found out you can dye the dress into different Pride colors!

[chernobog13]

Mechani-Kong, under the control of the dastardly Dr. Who (no, not THAT guy), battles Gorosaurus!

[daylesspax]

Three out of four OG Rescue Bots done!

Heatwave was super fun to do (I definitely went overboard with the colors… even if you can’t see some of them, it’s the thought that counts 😅

It has come to my attention that it is exceptionally hard to put flag colors on a none-white surface and be able to tell what they are, especially with the lighting I chose (I’ll adjust it later so you can actually see the colors and know what flags they represent)

Anyway, time for the list of flags!:

Demi-AroAce on the big flag and on his left shoulder

Bisexual flag on his left shoulder and right foot (this applies to him and Kade)

Pansexual flag on his helmet and left arm-tire

Apagender/Inersgender flag on his windshield, the upper party banner on his ladder, and his right leg-tire (I think… can’t exactly see it bc of the blending mode making it look white, but I think that’s what I put there, I could be wrong, I have bad memory… 😅) btw, apagender just means ‘gender apathy’ or literally not caring abt your gender and how others perceive your gender regardless of if you’re trans or not

Genderqueer flag on his right arm, right leg-tire, and the lower party banner on his ladder

Demiromantic flag on his right arm-wheel thingy (sorry no technical terms today-)

Demisexual flag on his left arm-wheel thingy

Polyamorous flag on his left shoulder (the newer version I’ve seen pop up, mainly because the design is easier to replicate due to the lack of literal Pi symbol. I was originally meant to put it on the big flag, but I was unsure and decided against it)

Finally, the Rainbows: the side of his helmet, his left leg, his right arm-tire, and his windshield

I used quite a few flags on this, huh? I love Heatwave and am mostly projecting my own, personal identities on him, but I do want to be inclusive to as much of the community as possible! I don’t want to come off as disingenuous by throwing flags around for the sake of representation, so just let me know if you find this in any way offensive or hurtful or if you want to let me know if a flag I’ve used is controversial, etc!

I’m always open to criticism, and once more, headcanons for Boulder and the others so I may add on!

[paxesoterica]

Married mecha wives will lead people places they wouldn't go with a Gun(dam), ie., I can't wait to see how many people who would normally never consider playing a mecha anime crossover strategy rpg end up trying out Super Robot Wars Y ^_^

[ive-lost-my-trash-can]

Overheard at robotics build session part five:

“It’s the iphone of military takeovers.”

“I love bearings that crunch, the sign of truly healthy bearings.”

“They’re crayons, you delinquents.”

“Safety isn’t as important as the wall of shame.”

“Here you go, if it’s a carcinogen do it outside.”

“A long time ago in the galaxy far far away that is robotics 2013…”

“What do you want from me, you foul creature?!!! I’m in hell!!! Hey, what do you put in for sine theta here?”

“I don’t know how it works, therefore it doesn’t exist.”

“Is that a reference to the hit natural sleep schedule, fuck you industrialization?”

“Worst case scenario only one of us dies. There’s not enough electricity in the world. I don’t fear electricity, electricity fears me. That’s why I’ve never been shocked more than three times in a day.”

“I went to the ER for stomach pains and left with a half a cast on my arm.”

On today’s agenda: how many safety violations can my team commit in one sitting

(Additional quote insanity)

[woobie-wan]

All the debates about why the US Army can't march worth a damn are giving me life. I'm on team malicious compliance, but it's also possible that they just don't do it very often.

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: Avengers West Coast #68: California Screaming!

March, 1991

The Reaper and the Robot Part Four ROBOT HOLOCAUST!

Is that Robby the Robot's silhouette?

Don't do a whole burning, Robby the Robot. Be good.

Also, ay yi yi, not a good time to cover a comic titled California Screaming but when will be?

At least, I can respect the wordplay.

Last times in Avengers West Coast: Grim Reaper came back to life thanks to his voodoo girlfriend and now he stabs people to death to extend his own life. Wonder Man has taken his brother's resurrection hard and believes that the blood of Reaper's victims is on his hands for not being able to stop him.

Wonder Man fucked off from the team for a bit to search for Grim Reaper on his own, mad that the Avengers were prioritizing something else.

The something else was a mysterious crop dusting helicopter coming out at night and also robot farmers. By investigating an abandoned subway tunnel, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and Tigra discover that Ultron is behind it. Both the crop dusting and the farmers being a plan to turn humanity into robot drones, subservient to Ultron.

The three Avengers were captured and turned into robots which were sent to preemptively stop Dr Pym. The other Avengers managed to stop the Robovengers, with the help of Wonder Man. Dr Pym and Iron Man were able to mostly deroboticize the Robovengers, with a little hex help from Wanda, whose powers have maybe returned.

Also, Grim Reaper joined Ultron.

A lot going on.

But we pick up with the Avengers busting into Ultron's hidden subway lair.

Eh. It's no "we would have words with thee" but then, what is?

Anyway, Ultron isn't here right now. So it's good the Avengers didn't waste a better intro.

All that's in the base is a bunch of the Andrones, the android drones that Ultron turns people into with his roboticizing compound.

And that's why the Avengers are carrying ropes. They don't want to hurt innocent people that have been turned into robots.

(Although, Wonder Man is being unnecessarily rough because he's still preoccupied with his murder brother)

Tigra distracts a group of Andrones by doing a sweet flip overhead and then Quicksilver runs around them and ties them up.

And the other Andrones get similar treatment.

In a particularly cruel twist, Ultron has turned a small child into an Androne, specifically to lull a compassionate person into a trap.

And US Agent is that poor sap that's decided to show his heart only to get kicked in it.

Wonder Man saves him by prying the robo-child off Agent and scolds him for assuming that the Andrones couldn't talk just because they hadn't.

(For example, he should have remembered that the robot farmers talked. Although, I don't remember if they were Andrones or original robots.)

In the robo-child confusion, the Avengers miss one Androne who starts the secret subway base's secret self-destruct sequence, despite Iron Man blasting the control panel as soon as he noticed.

Iron Man orders everyone to grab the tied-up Andrones and gtfo.

US Agent: "You know what I like about the way you give orders, Iron Man? Not a blasted thing!"

Weird time to be a contrary for the sake of contrariness but at least he does grab an Androne and gtfo.

AND OF ALL THINGS, the Avengers find a cop outside the subway tunnel, about to put a parking ticket on the Avengers Quinjet like it's just standard procedure.

Random cop to Quicksilver: "This vehicle yours, sir? 'Cause if it is, so's this ticket. Don't you know this is a restricted area -- especially since last summer's tunnel explosion?"

Do you run into a lot of illegally parked jets, officer?

I mean, this is a superhero universe so the answer very well could be yes.

I actually love the idea of a cop trying to give a parking ticket to the Avengers. Sadly, the goof isn't really given space to land because the situation is too serious for the Avengers to play into the gag.

Anyway, the Avengers West Coast all rush out of the tunnel, right before it explodes. All except Wonder Man. But he's nigh-invulnerable and he doesn't even have to be blastin'. So the Avengers aren't worried about him.

Belatedly, the cop realizes that the random Quinjet belongs to the Avengers.

The Avengers are a little too distracted to pay much attention to this comic relief moment and take off in their jet without even bothering to see how this parking ticket thing is going to shake out.

In FAIRNESS, there's an Ultron on the loose and Andrones to do something with.

Within the exploded secret subway base, Wonder Man stayed behind on purpose and let himself get blown up and buried in rubble on purpose. Because he knew Grim Reaper was hanging around. And he wanted to talk to him without the Avengers butting in.

Like Wonder Man suspected, Grim Reaper went looking for Ultron after their last conversation. And Grim Reaper says he joined Ultron and said he'd watch his base.

Of course, Grim Reaper was lying. He and Ultron are mutually planning on betraying each other. Ultron was going to let the Reaper serve him for a while and then get rid of him. And the Grim Reaper is planning on betraying him before that.

Villains, amirite. Aside from groups that actually like each other like the Wrecking Crew, they just can't play nice.

That's why stuff like Acts of Vengeance was doomed to fail and why the Old Man Logan universe is merely the stuff of twisted fantasy.

Wonder Man asks why Grim Reaper even pretended to join team Ultron if he just wanted to kill him. And Grim Reaper explains it.

The explanation is fucking nonsense. But it is an explanation and in a superhero universe we must accept the fucking nonsense.

Grim Reaper: "While he's been 'robotizing' people, there's been a subtle feedback into his own system. In a nutshell, he's been absorbing human energy -- humanity itself -- in the process. That, in turn, leaves him increasingly vulnerable to my scythe. Otherwise, I could never have damaged his adamantium body, like I did last night."

... Sure!

That makes no sense at all! But we must accept it.

Grim Reaper also explains his angle. He knows what Ultron's plans are. He's going to turn a whole hell of a lot of people to Andrones all in one swell foop.

A lot more people than Grim Reaper would eat in years.

So his proposal is a needs of the many/lesser evil argument.

He'll tell Wonder Man where Ultron is planning to strike. In exchange, Wonder Man must swear to stop getting in Grim Reaper's way. And Grim Reaper will only eat one person a day.

Lives saved in the long run! All of humanity saved in the long run!

Grim Reaper: "Now, what could be fairer than that?"

Wonder Man protests that would be a monstrous bargain. But Grim Reaper is hard carrying a villain card right now so it being sick and twisted is why he's in favor. Wonder Man also objects that how can he be sure that the Reaper will stick to just one delicious human life a day. And the undead menace says that if he did eat more people, Wonder Man would find out.

It's not like Grim Reaper's feedings can be mistaken as normal deaths!

Grim Reaper: "Now, don't be bitter, little brother. After all, when you save all those people, you'll be an even greater hero than you are now. And no one but you and I will ever know that all it cost the world -- is a paltry 365 human lives a year. One more in leap years, of course... !"

Wow, you are loving this, Grim Reaper.

You're kind of a dick.

Anyway, back at the Avengers West Coast Compound, Hawkeye is reverting.

The infrared cure last issue didn't fully derobotize him. He was still left with some metal parts. And it seems that remaining metal means he's still susceptible to Ultron's influence.

Semi-Androne Hawkeye starts shooting off arrows and trying to blow up the infrared bombarder that Hank Pym is building to cure people affected by the robotizing.

Wasp tzaps Hawkeye but since he's part metal her stings aren't having any effect.

Sigh. Remember when Wasp's stings had evolved to the point where she could blow up a house?

Byrne hard reset her to ineffectual nuisance and Hank's ego fluffer. And the Thomas run isn't bringing her back to her cool Shooter/Stern heights.

SIIIIIIGH.

Hank tries to shrink Hawkeye because shrinking his problems usually makes his problems smaller! Like when he shrank Tigra and then forgot about her and the problem resolved itself!

grumble.

But the Pym Particles aren't working on Hawkeye. Which confuses Hank. Pym Particles worked on the robot farmers. They made them explode.

Wait. Were you trying to explode Hawkeye, Hank??

Scarlet Witch decides that since her powers maybe worked last time, that means her powers are fully back and reliable, so she tries using them on Hawkeye but instead it maybe causes a huge piece of equipment start to fall over on Hank Pym.

Hank is able to shrink THAT so he doesn't get the squish. But I wonder if Wanda has been reset back to when her hex power was as likely to screw the Avengers over as their opponents.

Fuckin

can any of the ladies keep their sweet gains??

Anyway, Hawkeye nearly escapes out the open hanger door but then he collapses.

A random comment that Wasp makes has Hank realize that it wasn't the Pym Particles that made the robot farmers explode! It was vibrations of Rover's engines! And Rover and the Quinjet have similar engines!

So is the weakness of the robotizing infrared or sound vibrations? Pick a thing.

Anyway, Wonder Man signals the team that he needs them so they all take off to meet him.

To Pasadena! Where the Rose Parade is being held! With a very sci-fi 'world of tomorrow' theme to it in this modern year of 1991.

Wonder Man and Grim Reaper are already there. With Wonder Man having secretly signaled the Avengers as soon as Grim Reaper revealed where Ultron was going to strike. Pretty sneaky, Simon!

Grim Reaper explains that Ultron is hiding in one of the blimps that's flying over the parade - one branded with a big SEANKAI, which the parade announcers don't recognize.

A blimp isn't Ultron's usual choice of vehicles but Reaper explains that it will let the robot get near thousands of potential Androne recruits without anyone expecting it.

Wonder Man's doubtful reaction to learning the location does prove Grim Reaper's point that the Avengers wouldn't have suspected Ultron could possibly be in a blimp.

A security guard appears to yell at Grim Reaper and Wonder Man for being in a prohibited area.

To Grim Reaper's delight. He'd hoped for some breakfast before the fight with Ultron!

Seriously. He calls the security guard breakfast.

Wonder Man grabs Grim Reaper and flies out of the building, scolding him no advance payment on the deal before defeating Ultron.

The security guard is just left confused by the whole thing. Reporting in that Wonder Man and some guy with a sickle hand were looking for food.

Womp womp!

Wonder Man flies towards the big SEANKAI dirigible with Grim Reaper. He's spotted by the parade announcers but since the parade has a sci-fi theme, they dismiss the sighting as probably just part of the parade.

Hilariously ironically, the announcers also say that the sophisticated modern person knows that robots are nothing like the menacing monsters of old sci-fi.

IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE.

Which has Ultron and the Sentinels and more. Robots are exactly like the menacing monsters of old sci-fi because that's what they were inspired by.

Sometimes, comic universe are a little too world outside your window and not enough world outside their window. The average Marvel citizen lives in a confusing fantasy sci-fi spec fic kitchen sink world.

Anyway.

Wonder Man OH YEAHs through the side of the blimp and reveals its no blimp dirigible, it's a hi-tech anti-gravity airship disguised as a blimp! Pretty sneaky, Ultron!

Ultron: "I should never have trusted you, Grim Reaper. But actually, in point of fact -- I never really did. I simply do not deign you worth fearing."

Ya burnt, Eric.

But Ultron better start deigning because he's very surprised when Grim Reaper stabs him and starts draining energy out of him. The human life force that Ultron has somehow absorbed by turning people into robots even though the roboticization process is not being directly by Ultron but by a chemical process. Human energy is still ending up in the big bad Mr Roboto and Grim Reaper is still slurping it up like a delicious milkshake!

Even Ultron doesn't really understand exactly how what he was doing resulted in absorbing life energy. He's willing to roll with the concept and operate off that basis now that it's been made clear that is what the story is going with. But he doesn't understand it either.

Meanwhile, down in the parade, the robots decorating all the sci-fi floats come to life.

I also don't know why this is happening.

One can assume Ultron rigged them up to menace. And that they were accidentally activated with Grim Reaper throwing Ultron into so many computer panels. But either way they're menacing the parade and it gives the newly arriving Avengers West something to contribute in this issue while Wonder Man is having a personal arc play out.

One of the marching band ladies trips so she can be menaced by Gort et al. Making the cover an actual true and accurate representation of a moment from the comic!

Except she's dressed in green, not red.

Dangit, cover, you were SO close!

Iron Man tackles Gort and ties him up in a lamppost. Quicksilver runs around and around Robot the robot, accomplishing nothing. Then Scarlet Witch gestures and Robot falls over.

(These announcers have approximate knowledge of many things.)

Meanwhile, US Agent, Dr Pym, and Wasp tackle Robby the Robot. Hank shrinks him down with Pym Particles, instantly winning the fight. Because with Hank Pym, if he can shrink you, he probably wins.

Meanwhile, Grim Reaper has absorbed a whole hell of a lot of energy and seemingly defeated Ultron. And he gloats about it.

But surprise, Wonder Man reneges on the deal.

He's not an honor before reason type. He promised he'd let Grim Reaper eat a person a day only so he could find and stop Ultron. And now that Ultron is stopped, he's going to try to stop Grim Reaper too.

Good on you for lying, Wonder Man.

And Grim Reaper is perversely proud of him for it, too. Simon is finally growing up and whatnot.

Not that it will stop Reaper from beating Wonder Man to death with his bare hand.

Because his scythe doesn't work well on him, see? But his bare fist shouldn't either. Wonder Man is vaguely in Thor's weight class. Grim Reaper isn't. Although Reaper did just slurp a whole bunch of energy out of Ultron. So, eh, fair enough.

Wonder Man proclaims that Grim Reaper isn't really the brother he knew because that brother wanted to protect him. In a really fucked up possessive delusional way that sometimes involved putting him in a giant blender. But Wonder Man can tell that Grim Reaper is really trying to kill him.

Grim Reaper: "You got that right, at least? Why should you go on living, while I'm -- the way I am? Answer: you shouldn't. Answer... you won't!"

This is the first hint that we've got that Grim Reaper actually resents his undead condition. Huh. Depth.

Ultron isn't quite dead, because he had battery backups, and he gets back up to get Reaper back for getting him got.

And then Hawkeye flies through the blimp hole and rams into Grim Reaper.

Being partially roboticized meant he had a homing instinct toward Ultron. That's how he found them. Neat.

Also, he's got his own agency back. Also neat.

But Grim Reaper deflects the arrow Hawkeye shoots at him. Then slices his bow up.

Then Ultron starts shooting MIND CONTROL CIRCLES at Hawkeye, trying to subvert his will and turn him into a weapon. While Grim Reaper stabs Hawkeye and tries to drain his life energy.

And both attempts are cancelling each other out. But also fucking up Hawkeye.

Wonder Man tackles Hawkeye out of the crossfire, which leaves Ultron and Grim Reaper to bonk torsos and knock each other out.

The rest of the Avengers West show up to find Wonder Man and Hawkeye in bad condition and Ultron and Grim Reaper out cold.

Not sure why both lurched forward like that but dammit, we needed a resolution!

Hawkeye: "Just m-my luck, ain't it? I get turned practically... into a freakin' metal robot... and I still get knocked around...!"

Yeah, but in the future people will love you for what a trash fire you are. So, it kind of balances out.

Iron Man: "We're going to do everything that's humanly possible to cure you, once and for all, Avenger... emphasis on the 'humanly'!"

Iron Man flies Hawkeye out of the notblimp, to get him medical attention.

Even as banged up as Wonder Man is, he tries to go help the unconscious Grim Reaper.

Wonder Man: "G-got to help Eric, Wanda... don't you see? He may be... walking dead... even a murderer... But... he's s-still... my brotherr*"

And he passes the fuck out, with the Avengers deciding he's earned a long snooze after everything that's happened.

Tigra: "So -- Happy New Year, everybody!" Wasp: "Yeah. Right."

Ugh. Things almost lined up where this issue would have posted on New Years Day! But it didn't because of the weeks I'd missed. It doesn't matter but wouldn't it have been neat?

Anyway.

The Reaper and the Robot arc. Hmm...

Well, Reaper coming back as a zombie and needing to eat people to live gave him a new motivation that wasn't his obsession with Simon. Eating people. It flipped the script and made Wonder Man the one obsessively chasing after his brother.

We got some good drama out of it. And it interrupted the attempts to ship Wanda and Simon together. Which are attempts I do not care for.

And on the robot side of things, Ultron's new scheme is also new sinister ground for him. He's going to turn all of humanity into robots. But robot extensions of himself.

The two villains, erstwhile allies, have radically opposed motivations so they inevitably clash. With Wonder Man in the middle.

The ending gets a little weird with Ultron being a pinata of human energy. Granted, that's just the kind of nonsense that one needs to expect from comic books.

And this is such a Wonder Man story that the obvious emotional hook for Hank Pym just isn't there. Ultron is his worst invention. Which is now attempting to transform and enslave all of humanity. The last time he faced Ultron, there was a good Ultron who had turned over a new leaf but which got killed by an evil Ultron who hadn't gone through that character development. Hank should feel more dialed into the plot but he's firmly operating as the Brains and the Leader (the role, not the gamma guy) and Wonder Man is taking up all the drama so Hank just kinda exists and makes good decisions.

But, whatever.

Anyway. Speaking of bonkers conclusions, the bonkers conclusion to the Avengers arc with the Tetrarchs of Entropy next week. And next next week, issue 69 of Avengers West Coast.

That is one of the funny numbers.

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[frnkiebby]

congratulations you're the latest winner of zero really needs a trusted masculine adult, i already have 3 dads on tumblr so you're my grandpa now, lets enjoy robots and rock music together

hmm now what would be my grandpa name?

we have uncle bhob

father/rad dad frnkiebby

i’m partial to grampy frnkiebby bc of my grampy and how much of an icon he is and how i take after him, but it doesn’t roll well

hmm~🎃

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

couple more doodles idk i cant get them out of my brain this is a problem

[somethingsgottasaveyou]

Mayday Parade // Even Robots Need Blankets

[towered]

Right at the end of the year Twenty Twenty-Four, the humble man completes his Animal Crossing New Horizons museums by obtaining every insect, fish, and sea creature. This accomplishment is proof of his ecological fitness and will be celebrated for several minutes.

[kakushusband]

oh the character i see as very aromantic has a love interest? and it was a "love at first sight" type deal you say?

haha oh thats so funny and cute. no its fine. im fine.

[glictsartdumpblog]

HAPPY BELATED VALENTINES DAY

Kasumi belongs to @hirosakamura