July 5, 2007 

Not Sure What Issue This is From.

I forgot to note the issue when I saved the file. Sorry.

Um, yeah, that’s not what a “magnetic personality” means, Stan.

Saw Transformers yesterday. Not bad. Only two real “What Were They THINKING?!” moments. I’d post them here but don’t know how to make text invisible-but-highlightable.


  • http://comixbearbarecomix.blogspot.com/ Comixbear

    I don’t know about YOU, but I’m sure as heck gonna turn away when that freaky eyeball pops out of it’s socket!

    http://comixbearbarecomix.blogspot.com/

  • Dave D

    David Bowie – Mutant Master of Magetism!

  • http://www.melissagay.com Melissa Gay

    Uncanny X-Men #8, I believe.

    That was the issue where Magneto apparently has a human cloning machine and uses it on Bobby Drake’s parents. Science in the early days of the Marvel Universe is, um, bad. =)

  • Jen

    Change the font color to white. font color=”white”

  • Matt Algren

    Looks like this is from THE X-MEN #18.

    The early pages of the story are filled with pseudo-scientific gobbledygook. Magneto uses “magnetic attraction” to hypnotize the Angel’s visiting parents. He uses his “matchless power” to build a mutant-making machine, to analyze and duplicate the Worthingtons’ cells, and to start creating mutants to do his bidding and conquer the world. No more seeking out real mutants for him. Free will is such a bother, don’t you know?

  • km

    The little detail of turning his eye green to indicate the Matchless Magnetic Gaze is endlessly amusing to me as a pointer to comic priorities generally. The heck with science! It looks *cool*, damnit!

  • Maker

    Magnetism is green? I thought it appeared visually as colorless lightning bolts.

  • km

    Magnetism may not be green…but Matchless Gazes definitely are. I think it’s in the club manual.

  • Dierna

    So if you look into his eye what happens? You turn to stone?

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