Avatar Woes

Shhhh. Do you hear that? No? Try listening a little harder and should be able to hear something akin to this:

“BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!”

The new Doombot?

Before I start, I’d like to say just a few words about this man right here. You see, not only can he pull off some mean cruise control speak (which is talking in caps for you kiddies who don’t get the reference), but he’s also a narcissist and a technological genius. So much so on the last two that, in his free time between being holier than thou and having a strangely heterosexual obsession with a man who goes by the name of Richards, he likes to build these things called Doombots. The thing about Doombots is how they look and act exactly like their creator. This can cause a few problems, such as not knowing when you’ve fought the real Doom and when Doom won’t own up to a loss (we all know Squirrel Girl didn’t fight a Doombot, Doom). So whenever something happens with Doom at the center he always has something to fall back on.

Random superhero: “Hey man, you blew up my home and mercilessly slaughtered my family!”
Dr. Doom: “Lol, wut? Wasn’t me man. It was a Doombot. Sorry about that though.”

Spawn: Your creator is still with you.

Todd McFarlane is a genius. No, not in the writer sense; but in the artist, the creator, the visionary sense.

About a week ago I headed towards a local comic store (Anime Hurricane which carries a great comic selection along with some assorted weeaboo stuff) to pick up a copy of Omega: The Unknown #1. I had missed out on it the previous week and asked them to order it for me. They told me I had to wait another week which was fine with me. I Got my weekly purchases and chatted it up with other customers. I got into a conversation with one of them about Spawn.

Besides obviously mentioning Alan Moore’s AMAZING Spawn #8 (pick it up, very easy to find), we talked about the very best of the series and how McFarlane had influenced comics since his debut. He recommended Spawn #10 to me. I didn’t pick it up that week since I needed the cash I had left, but I did yesterday. It is one of the best issues of any series I’ve ever read. For those that don’t know, Spawn #10 was written by Cerebus creator Dave Sim, who collaborated on the issue with Todd McFarlane. Basically, all you need to know is that Cerebus shows up (anything else would ruin the issue for you) but there is one line in it that spoke to me.