Villians week: Mr. Gone

Well, as we wrap up villains week here at Monkey Knife Fight. I thought I'd close the week with my favorite non DC or Marvel villain. So, today we'll be talking about...

Mr. Gone


Mr. Gone was the main villain in the comic from Image called The Maxx (as well as the MTV series). The coolest thing about this character is his control over the Isz. The Isz are weird little creatures that if they wear a certain type of clothing they will apear to the outside world to resemble the type of person that would wear that sort of thing. One of my favorite things in The Maxx is where the Isz are dressed up like old ladies and fighting The Maxx at a conveinence store and the people watching the fight think that the Maxx is fighting a group of old ladies. Of course, the reason Mr. Gone makes the list is because if not for him I would not view serial killers as the pathetic losers that they really are, every since I got into The Maxx. Whenever I here about someone like that BTK loser, I imagine them as being just as impotent and pathetic as Mr. Gone was when he had Julie tied up in his apartment.
So, there you have it. I hope you've enjoyed villains week as much as I have and I hope everyone has a good weekend and a Happy Easter. See you again on Monday

Villians week: Darkseid

Well, now that villain;s week is getting close to the end here at Monkey Knife Fight. I thought i would talk about the villain that probably has given Superman and and the rest of the DCU the most problems. A villain so awesome only Jack Kirby himself could have created him...That's right...I'm talking about...

Darkseid


Seriously, of all the villains from either Marvel or DC comics Darkseid is my favorite. From terrorizing Mr. Miracle and the New Gods to become one of Superman's most terrifying foes. Darkseid is just plain awesome. Either, because of or in spite of the fact that he is fated to fail in his life's goal of making everyone in the universe bow to his might.As he quest to uncover the Anti-Life Equation and destroy the New Gods. He is both terrifying and comical in his verbose mannerisms.The in the
DC universe there is one villain as deadly, scary or, evil as... Darkseid.

Villains Week: Mr. Sinister

It's hump day, which means we're 3/5 through with villains week here at Monkey Knife Fight. And today we've got a really special villain...

Mr. Sinister



That's right my favorite X-Men villain isn't the moral ambigous Magneto. It's Dr. Nathaniel Essex. First off he has a great look.It's also interesting his obsession with Cyclops and his brood and how long he has been watching the Summers clan and directing the actions. Then there's all the manipulations he's done on Apocaplyse's be half and how he manipulated Gambit. But, most of the reason I like Mr. Sinister is (a) he has a really cool name and (b) He looks really cool. The Diamond shaped gem in his forehead is quite sharp, as a fashion statement.

Villains Week: Dr. Doom

Continuing with this weeks theme of awesome villains. I thought today I would talk about my favorite marvel villain...

Dr. Victor Von Doom



That's right Dr.Doom. Right off the bat his has one of the coolest names ever and honestly with the surname of Von Doom did he really have a choice in whether to become a bad guy,I think not. He also has such an awesome character George Lucas had to steal his costume design in order to make Darth Vader the baddest m*****f****r in the galaxy. Of course, he started out as the Fantastic Four's chief villain. Since, then though he has become a pain in the neck for pretty much all of the heroes in the Marvel universe. My favorites stories with him are him fighting Spider-man and the X-Men rather than the FF. Though, I also enjoy his hatred of Dr. Richards (whom he blames for everything including bad weather and the Mets losing). Doom is just plain awesome. From the intonation his given in the books to his misanthropic nature. best of all the guy is a king (which gives him diplomatic immunity, here in the states). He's a sorcerer and a scientist and most of all he is... DOOM!

Villians week: The Joker

Since, I can't think of anything else for this week. I'm gonna spend this week looking at my 5 favorite villains in comic books. Now, just to be clear this won't be a ranking of these five villains. It's just the ones I really dig, in no particular order. We begin with...

The Joker



What's not to love about the clown prince of crime. He is chaos incarnate, as Denny O'Neil has said on many occasions, The Joker is just as likely to kill you because he doesn't like your shoes as he is to give you $1,000 because he doesn't like your shoes. For the Joker all the rules and laws society has created are just one big joke on the poor saps that buy in to them. For me the best none comic interpretation of this character is Mark Hamill's portrayal of The Joker in Batman: TAS. As, good as Heath Ledger was as The Joker in The Dark Knight. I still hear Mark Hamill's voice when I read a comic with The Joker in it. He is the villain that all the other villains hate. Especially, villains like Darkseid and Lex Luthor. He isn't in it for the money or for power. He's in it for the shear fun of it (in his own deranged way). He has no moral compass or shame or sense of desencey. All he wants out of life is to kill Batman, a few Robins and maybe make a couple bucks along the way. which is the reason why he is such a fun villain. I think he's actually a bit funner when he takes on other heroes in the DCU rather than Batman, especially heroes like Superman.

Plot Batman (but don't forget the standard deviation)

So, I thought it would be fun to write out the main plot writers have used in Batman for the last 20 years. So, today I thought I'd do the plot to Batman stories involving the Bat-Family and 2moro I'll do the solo Batman plot. So, let's get started.

Act One

Batman has been acting like more of a jerkass than usually and one of his rogue's decides to take adventage of this situation. Which creates the problem that will take the story to it's conclusion.

Act Two

The Bat-Family sees that Batman is in over his head and that he needs their help.
The try to lend him their help and he rebuffs them. So, that help him out without his knowledge.

Act Three

BAtman tells the Bat-Family to mind their one business and stay out of his way. The Bat-Fam tells him he needs their help and he's gonna like it or lump it. So, he grudgingly let's them help.

Act Four

Combining their efforts Batman and the Bat-Fam, capture the villian and restore order and Batman promises he will never treat them as poorly again. THE END

There you have it the plot to every Bat-Family crossover.

Thought on the Final, Final (for now) Crisis

Hmmm... I don't really have a post for today. So, I thought I would do some rambling on the whole Final Crisis fiasco. First off, I haven't read Final Crisis. Becuase I'm against buying crossover books. So, all of this comes from secondhand knowledge. But, from what I've heard and seen about the book on other blogs. It sounded pretty lame from the beginning. I should also mention as I wrote here: http://jaysbadfuse.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-dont-care-if-its-literature-i-just.html I'm not a big fan of Grant Morrison. Anyways, I think the biggest problem with books like this one is the whole Earth Shattering Event Thing. For one these things usually after a couple of years make your head hurt trying to explain the continuity of it all. Then there is the problem of getting new people into comics which is very hard to do when you have to give lectures on Earth - 1 and Earth - 2 Superman and who Superman Prime is and all the other useless junk about continuity that even hardcore fans shrug their shoulders at. The problem with "events" like this one is they do absolutely nothing to engage potential new readers, heck they don't even do that good of a job at engaging long term fans like myself. The biggest problem in the comic book industry these days is that they aren't adding many new readers. Of course, one of the reasons for this is making continuity dense works like Final Crisis where in order just to know who all the characters are you have to have been reading comics for the last 10 or 20 years. Well, that's my 2 cents anyways.

The Web of Spider-Man

One of my favorite aspects of the Spider-Man concept. Is how his villans come to be in his rogues gallery. Unlike batman's where the villans in his books tend to be people becoming psychologically bent on revenge for some slight against them and Batman stops then and then goes on to the next mugger or master theif or whatever. Now, one of the aspects of Spidey that creates his villans.Is something alot of writers either mis or forget (especially, in the movies). To Peter Parker on of the small joys in his life ( no matter how horrible the get). Is webslinging. There is no greater joy in Peter's life (well,besides perhaps a quiet night at home with the mrs.) is webslinging through the canyons of the New York skyline and usually as he's swinging around and monologueing he notices someone commiting some sort of crime. So,he swoops in makes fun of the mugger, two bit hood, would be world conquerers with severe megomania or whatever. After all he's just enjoying the most fun way to travel webslinging. So,he see someone doing something they shouldn't he swings in and taunts them as jumps around like a squirrel monkey on speed. Well,as you can imagine this pisses the villan off. Take for example Dr.Doom in his appearence in the Spidey books. Dr.Doom (thinking he's a goon because of the stories in the Daily Bugle) tries to recruite Spider-Man into destorying the Fantastic Four. Well,naturally Spidey doesn't go for it. So,then Doom tries to kill him.Spidey jumps on to the wall and begins insulting and taunting Victor Von Doom. Of course this only pisses Vic off even more and be the time he has to flee or face some not so good consquences. He vows he will kill Spider-Man, teases his aunt and kick his dog and tell girls he has a social disease. Dr.Doom is becomes so obsessed with Spidey he actually forgets about his wanting to kill Reed Richards (four like four pages, but,hey for Doom that's along time). This is almost identical to almost all of Spidey's other villans, as well. Honestly if it wasn't for Spidey's constant questioning of the legitamacy of their parentage or making guesses as to the noctural habits of their mothers or imaginative ways in which said mother might fornacate with various objects. He would have a lot less villans and a quite small rogues gallery and this is why I really dig this aspect of Spidey's personality (as written in the Marvel Comics). Plus, it also is a great shorthand to create new villans and threats. Spidey jumps in makes fun of villan.He the beats the tar out of said villan and webs him up on a street light with the note; "TO: The police a gift from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. The villan then goes to jail and begins to fester a boiling hatred of Spider-Man (especially because of the way he was caught and the taunts of other inmates for the way he was caught). He finally either escapes or is released from jail (because Spidey is such a prick sometimes happens when someone is in county jail ,not just prison) and voila` new Spidey villan = }