State Your Opinion on a Character - Part 1

[Wesley Dodds]

Alfred E. Neuman

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

come on! Alfred E. Neuman and his periodicals are just the most awesomeness. it was like the playboy to nerds back in the day. especially when you folded the back pages together!
hehe Looooove Al!

 

[Anubis]

That is one ugly dude.

What me worry?

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Never read a Mad. It's not a thing here. having said that the Neuman character has become pretty ubiquitous.

In summation: Meh.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The icon of Mad magazine has a name? And stories?
Un-freakin-believable

 

[Wesley Dodds]

The Marquis

 

[Wesley Dodds]

From Wiki:

"The Marquis takes place in Venisalle, a fictional land resembling France during the mid-18th century, complete with stratified society and Church dominance of everyday affairs. The story revolves around Vol de Galle, a former Inquisitor of The Faith who has the ability to see demons, many of which have infiltrated society disguised in human form. De Galle combats these entities with his sabre and a pair of specially built, anachronistic machine guns.

While ostensibly a horror-action comic, The Marquis analyses personal and religious issues through the conflicted character of de Galle, and has been received well by critics and comics professionals including Mike Mignola and Stan Sakai for both its content and Davis's detailed and disturbing artwork"

 

[Duke]

Alfred E. Neuman

Always have loved his stories & spoofs Mad does on movies, television, cartoon, media, & even politics. I ALWAYS get a kick out of the zany covers they do for every issue.

 

[Anubis]

From Wiki:

"The Marquis takes place in Venisalle, a fictional land resembling France during the mid-18th century, complete with stratified society and Church dominance of everyday affairs. The story revolves around Vol de Galle, a former Inquisitor of The Faith who has the ability to see demons, many of which have infiltrated society disguised in human form. De Galle combats these entities with his sabre and a pair of specially built, anachronistic machine guns.

While ostensibly a horror-action comic, The Marquis analyses personal and religious issues through the conflicted character of de Galle, and has been received well by critics and comics professionals including Mike Mignola and Stan Sakai for both its content and Davis's detailed and disturbing artwork"

I think I wanna read that s**t.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I think I wanna read that s**t.

Totally. It's been on my To-Read list forever. Plus, it's Guy Davis.
Guy Davis, Anubis!

 

[Anubis]

Inside out roach monsters?!?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I think I saw a French movie with this guy in it before
Or something like it

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Megatron

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Not a big Transformers guy but I like his look. He transforms into a gun, right?

 

[The Question]

I liked the origin story he had in that one comic book mini series where it turns out that originally he was a humble working class miner who, through a series of tragedies, turned into a labor rights activist and later terrorist, and originally the Autobots were the super wealthy and super corrupt majority and the Decepticons were shat upon minorities. I mean, ultimately it hasn't had a huge impact on Transformers' mythology, but I liked the concept. Made Megatron seem more like a person. I like the idea that he started off as someone trying to make Cybertron a better place, and that ultimately his motivation is that he really believes that a political system that boils down to a form of National Socialism is really the way to go, but when fighting his rebellion he came to discover that he got a thrill out of fighting and war and conquest.

Kind of thinks that makes him more interesting as Optimus' enemy, too. Like, Optimus believes in freedom and democracy and the right to choose, but because of that he ends up being faced with a lot of tough moral decisions and is sometimes burdened by doubt, because the biggest downside to having the freedom to choose is indecision, and while he's a very skilled warrior and general he's also very weary of war. On the flip side, Megatron is fueled by an unwavering conviction in his belief of a strictly ordered society where the righteous are rewarded and the wicked are punished and corruption is countered by everyone's actions being strictly regulated, and his years of fighting has given him an appetite for violence that causes him to stray from the righteousness of his cause. That's interesting to me. It's not all that complex or anything new, but it's more than just to enormous toys punching each other.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I liked the origin story he had in that one comic book mini series where it turns out that originally he was a humble working class miner who, through a series of tragedies, turned into a labor rights activist and later terrorist, and originally the Autobots were the super wealthy and super corrupt majority and the Decepticons were shat upon minorities. I mean, ultimately it hasn't had a huge impact on Transformers' mythology, but I liked the concept. Made Megatron seem more like a person. I like the idea that he started off as someone trying to make Cybertron a better place, and that ultimately his motivation is that he really believes that a political system that boils down to a form of National Socialism is really the way to go, but when fighting his rebellion he came to discover that he got a thrill out of fighting and war and conquest.

Kind of thinks that makes him more interesting as Optimus' enemy, too. Like, Optimus believes in freedom and democracy and the right to choose, but because of that he ends up being faced with a lot of tough moral decisions and is sometimes burdened by guilt, and while he's a very skilled warrior and general he's also very weary of war. On the flip side, Megatron is fueled by an unwavering conviction in his belief of a strictly ordered society where the righteous are rewarded and the wicked are punished and corruption is countered by everyone's actions being strictly regulated, and his years of fighting has given him an appetite for violence that causes him to stray from the righteousness of his cause. That's interesting to me.

I had no idea he was that multi-faceted. I love villains with back stories like that. One of the reasons I love Sinestro so much.

 

[Duke]

Megatron

Enemy number one of the Autobots & a truly evil one at that. Always hell bent on conquering anything & everything he sees & lust for power, excellent villain.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Megatron is the %^& as far as vilians go! That dude is bad ass! Killing optimus in the 80's motion picture was his coup de grace and him being voiced by the great frank welker was the best ever!

 

[ShredderX]

Enemy number one of the Autobots & a truly evil one at that. Always hell bent on conquering anything & everything he sees & lust for power, excellent villain.

One of the baddest MF ever !!! Definately in my top ten favorite villians list. The Bay movies did him no Justice. Love Megatron !!!

 

[ShredderX]

I liked the origin story he had in that one comic book mini series where it turns out that originally he was a humble working class miner who, through a series of tragedies, turned into a labor rights activist and later terrorist, and originally the Autobots were the super wealthy and super corrupt majority and the Decepticons were shat upon minorities. I mean, ultimately it hasn't had a huge impact on Transformers' mythology, but I liked the concept. Made Megatron seem more like a person. I like the idea that he started off as someone trying to make Cybertron a better place, and that ultimately his motivation is that he really believes that a political system that boils down to a form of National Socialism is really the way to go, but when fighting his rebellion he came to discover that he got a thrill out of fighting and war and conquest.

Kind of thinks that makes him more interesting as Optimus' enemy, too. Like, Optimus believes in freedom and democracy and the right to choose, but because of that he ends up being faced with a lot of tough moral decisions and is sometimes burdened by doubt, because the biggest downside to having the freedom to choose is indecision, and while he's a very skilled warrior and general he's also very weary of war. On the flip side, Megatron is fueled by an unwavering conviction in his belief of a strictly ordered society where the righteous are rewarded and the wicked are punished and corruption is countered by everyone's actions being strictly regulated, and his years of fighting has given him an appetite for violence that causes him to stray from the righteousness of his cause. That's interesting to me. It's not all that complex or anything new, but it's more than just to enormous toys punching each other.

Yep. I got that graphic novel, I think it was called " All Hail Megatron". Megatron is such a bad-ass, I have one comic where Starscream successful stages a mutiny against him and finally takes over as leader of the Decepticons, even sending Devastator to destroy him. Megatron not only survives Devastator's attack ( He actually almost lifts Devastator off of his feet !!! ), put towards the end of the story-arch, even Starscream admits that he will never match Megatron in leadership. Megatron is just to badd-ass for words or pictures. I hate how Bay portrayed him and movies. And no one could voice him like Frank Welker could.

 

[Anubis]

I remember seeing one comic where the Predicons were like, going on strike or being all but hurt or something in the Jungle, and Megatron walked on in, and like half an hour later had dragged out each and every one of they assess out all battered and bruised from the ass whippin' he gave em.

Truly Optimus' opposite number.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Oh and what made Megs cool also is the toy! ( I had got to the age where I started digging something else by then.. GIRLS!) But I saw kids playing with him!( that sounds wrong!haha)dude turned into a GUN!!you would see kids everywhere with a gun in their hands! Haha and if your mom didn't like it you could turn it back and hear them say" oh little jimmy is just playing with his robot man!" How cool is that!!...hmmm no wonder americans love guns so much. We grow up playing with them!

 

[ShredderX]

Oh and what made Megs cool also is the toy! ( I had got to the age where I started digging something else by then.. GIRLS!) But I saw kids playing with him!( that sounds wrong!haha)dude turned into a GUN!!you would see kids everywhere with a gun in their hands! Haha and if your mom didn't like it you could turn it back and hear them say" oh little jimmy is just playing with his robot man!" How cool is that!!...hmmm no wonder americans love guns so much. We grow up playing with them!

Ahh the good 'ol days. I truly miss them. Thank God was a kid in the 80's, and a teen in the 90's.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Not a big Transformers guy

Same here

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Same here

Having said that though, I think this Transformer is seriously badass:

Unicron