Salkafar

Strange thing I just noticed (I noticed it because I finally received volume 32): The newest chapter is not in it. Also two interesting new Zoanoids got no files or even names. That happened before though. It's as annoying now as it was before.

Initially I didn't realize what I was looking at. It took me re-reading it to get the perspective and it hit me that it wasn't just that Zoanoids were capable of surviving nuclear weapons, there was a monster the size of a skyscraper out there.

Well... not all Zoanoids are bulletproof, not against rifle bullets, I should think. The heavier calibre machine guns should be able to injure most Zoanoids less invulnerable than Gregole.

Physically merging with an alien??? That is so unclean it can't even be described. That's Tyranid territory.

Man. The concept of a Guyver would make Imperials freak out, but Chaos warriors would LOVE it.

That's all, really. <Elf Be it with family, friends or just by yourself, may you have a great Yuletide.

If he could drain Goku, maybe for once there'll be a fight not decided by just getting stronger and stronger.

Hmm. I loved the Crisis. I remember, the first time I ever read it. I had bought the deluxe edition, hardcover, slipcase, dust cover illustrated by Alex Ross. Twelve issues, over 350 pages. I had only ever caught snippets. That night, in bed, I read all of it. And it was amazing. The Crisis was the capping stone to the Silver (and Bronze) age. For the longest time, capecomics were chronologically divided 'Pre-Crisis' and 'Post-Crisis'. It was written to celebrate 50 years of DC, and also served to streamline their superhero titles, bring all the heroes and villains into one universe and get rid of some worn-out concepts. There has, in truth, never been anything like it, nor could there ever be, because it did what had never been done; everything that came after could merely be imitation. The villain was the purest evil, the stakes, absolute. Heroes and villains died. Reality was changed for good. They will never be able to do it justice.

...That didn't even occur to me. That would be very cool.

In the comics, Kree are not supposed to show emotion. Naturally, they are belligerent savages, but their culture harnesses this in enforced rationality. Like Klingons living like Vulcans. Especially in their early appearances, they viewed human emotions as the detrimental signs of an inferior species. Captain Mar-Vell even said "Our children never smile". So maybe that's why, and as Carol rediscovers her humanity, she will show more and more emotion.

Funny. If anything, Apocalypse looks like Mobius, who, according to the New 52 reading of the story, is the identity of the Anti-Monitor before he was mutated by the Anti-Life Equation.

Hehehehe. Fury, green as he is in this movie, is already not buying this whole "Noble warrior heroes versus evil Skrulls" bs.

Hmmm. So the Monitor is the bad guy in this?

Farewell, father of heroes.

Abject nonsense. It's an art error. That simple. Gregole can't lift fifty tons. Think: if Gregole is that strong, yet a Guyver can make mincemeat of one: how strong is a Guyver? There has never been any indication anywhere else that Zoanoids and Guyvers are that strong. There has never been any indication ever at all that human beings are superhumanly strong in the Guyver universe, either. Perhaps a processed human has some enhanced strength, but three tons? Ridiculous. Gregole has the equivalent strength of fifteen average, non-processed human beings with normal human strength, giving him the ability to lift one and a half to maybe two tons, ie, about ten to fourteen times his own body weight.

Unless those heavy metals change shape when the Zoalord transforms, the answer is 'no'. Guyot is almost one-and-a-half times as tall when he changes. Also, would those heavy metals involve his skull? Then again, his head in Zoalord form is pretty small.

Well, no. Thing is, they're still organic. And organic compounds, be they carbon- or silicon-based, just outright can't be so dense that a two-meter-tall man weighs 450 kilograms. Drawing some heat energy from the environment wouldn't cut it, either. E=MC2 means that to gain one kilogram of mass, you'd have to convert the equivalent of a 20 megaton nuclear explosive to matter. I think you'd probably cause a new Ice Age if you turned into a Zoanoid that way.

I wish I spoke Spanish. So much more sunny and vivid than my mothertongue - it's a comparison between Sangria and North sea water.

I think that's more likely. We know their mass increases as they change shape. Guyot doesn't weigh 450 kilograms when he's just a 6'4" guy.

It's an art mistake. Not for the first time it's painfully clear Takaya does not have a head for mass and weight: his weight number for Cabral in brain mode yields a density of about 0.019, which is about two-and-a-half times as light as styrofoam. He should really weigh 35 metric tons. This is about the most egregious example I know, but it's pretty much across the board.

I just hope they'll have Supremor in it...

They retconned it so they could bring her back.

Well, that was the original story. It made sense in the context of the old idea about mutants. When X-Men started, the cultural perception of 'mutants' was not the biological sense, but 'The future superhumans who will take over the world with their mysterious, superior abilities'. Like Nietzsche, who expected his Übermensch to naturally emerge from humanity, in what I guess is a misunderstanding of Darwinian evolution. Early on, the X-Men didn't just have their special power, they were innately superior to ordinary humans - like a +1 in every area. It was actually a holdover from a slightly earlier age in science fiction, viz. Frank N. Robinson's "The Power". I'll spoil it for you: the protagonist of that novel discovers he is being drawn into a conflict between superhumans with mysterious powers, who gradually destroy his life while he runs from them; in a final confrontation with the most dangerous superhuman, he realizes the reason they are after him is that he is a superhuman himself; he defeats and destroys his opponent and immediately abandons his own humanity, instantly losing all sympathy for ordinary humans. That is of course the fear: if a future human race emerges, why would they view us as anything better than apes? And how do we treat apes? Anyway, Jean was always the girl of the team in more ways than one; her power made her physically the least qualified to engage (Cyclops had his powerful, destructive eye beam; Beast had the strength and agility of an urangutan; Iceman could freeze anything by touch, and Angel could fly under his own power) because it was telekinesis, and not very powerful telekinesis. Revealing she was on the team not to be a fighter, but to keep an eye on her after professor X psychically restrained her power is minor genius: the weak member of the term turns out to be terrifyingly powerful, the team more serving too keep her 'grounded' and in touch with her humanity. The ultimate failure to do that is excellent drama. Didn't they already make that film, however?

The reviews are in, and oh boy, the critics are not loving it. The audience seems to like it, though.