#proteus
you seem to be a free thinker who might imagine a world where scienceand superstition walk hand in hand.
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my men think today is a good day to talk about how proteus has told us the means to pass over the teaming ocean and finish our journey back to Sparta. Wrong. Today we are honoring my Brother who just was killed in the bathtub
“From the darkness of the cloak, a skeletal hand with razor-edged talons darts out” (Dave De Leuw, from “The Mines of Malagus” by Viki Llundsbrand, Proteus 2, early 1985)
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Construction Simulator 2015/Timber Man/The Beginner’s Guide/PROTEUS
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X-Men vol 1 128 (1979)
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The Action of the Tiger!
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Written by Chris Claremont and John Byrne
Penciled by John Byrne
Inked by Terry Austin
Colors by Glynis Wein
Lettered by Tom Orzechowski
Edited by Roger Stern
Cover by George Perez, Terry Austin and Danny Crespi
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The X-Men had their final showdown with Proteus…
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#xmen #marvel #wolverine #cyclops #nightcrawler #70s #moiramactaggert #colossus #banshee #havok #polaris #phoenix #georgeperez #terryaustin #johnbyrne #proteus #storm
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X-Men vol 1 127 (1979)
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The Quality of Hatred
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Written by Chris Claremont and John Byrne
Penciled by John Byrne
Inked by Terry Austin
Colors by Glynis Wein
Lettered by Tom Orzechowski
Edited by Roger Stern
Cover by John Byrne, Terry Austin and Danny Crespi
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The X-Men continued to fight Proteus, a mutant that could bend reality…
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#xmen #johnbyrne #phoenix #proteus #cyclops #wolverine #colossus #nightcrawler #70s #terryaustin #chrisclaremont #banshee #moiramactaggert #havok #polaris #storm
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X-Men vol 1 126 (1979)
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How Sharper Than A Serpent’s Tooth
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Written by Chris Claremont
Penciled by John Byrne
Inked by Terry Austin
Colors by Glynis Wein
Lettered by Tom Orzechowski
Edited by Roger Stern
Cover by Dave Cockrum, Terry Austin and Danny Crespi
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The X-Men came to Muir Island and helped investigate the murders on the island…
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#xmen #johnbyrne #70s #proteus #terryaustin #davecockrum #wolverine #colossus #storm #multipleman #cyclops #nightcrawler #banshee #phoenix #moiramactaggert #havok
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Ψαμαθη
Psamathewas one of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris, the Nereids. She was the Nereid goddess of sand and sand beaches and the wife of Proteus, herder of seals.
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social skills level: couldn’t tell my father that I like a girl and now I’m going to live in a different city to avoid the conversation altogether
Scott’s plan to let the Proteus problem fix itself by convincing Proteus to commit suicide works, and suprise, suprise, one of the only voices of dissent is Scott’s abandoned bastard kid Cable. Proteus’s own mothers don’t even give a shit, although based on that disembodied head there maybe we’re supposed to assume that the Shadow King is still influencing Moira. I don’t fucking know, but what I do know is that Piecemeal is fucking dead, and I’m pretty god damn sure he had no intention of committing suicide at the start of this story. He seemed like he was wanting to be relieved of the pain that was being inflicted on him throughout this entire train wreck of a crossover. And guys . . . guys … get this. Want to know who the “Kings of Pain” end up being? It’s one of those Rob Liefeld characters whose name you will never remember, and Toad.
Toad! Toad was the chessmaster! Fucking Mortimer Toynbee himself! This guy!This rube! I don’t fucking believe it. I’m starting to remember why I quit reading X-Men for a couple of decades there after Claremont left. (X-Factor Annual #6 – 1991)
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Scotland blew up in the last issue when Proteus was resurrected, and out of the all the superheroes on Earth, they send in X-Factor to investigate. Not the Avengers, not local superhero team Excalibur, not even the People’s Protectorate (who in the fuck are the People’s Protectorate??). No, we send in X-Factor, a the bunch of entitled, elitist, New York snobs who I’m sure would rather be at some expensive restaurant pretentiously talking about how much better they are than everyone else. I’m sure they’re going to take their time and find a real compassionate solution to this humanitarian issue. (Yeah right). Anyway, as they get closer to Edinburgh, we find that Proteus has transformed the entire geographic area into something that looks like a computer program, and the rest of this comic basically looks like it takes place in Tron. Which is not nearly as awesome as it sounds.
Unfortunately, this really isn’t the bloodthirsty,sociopathic Proteus that the X-Men tangled with all those years ago. He’s not turning everyone inside out and melting the skin of helpless bystanders and plucking everyone’s eyeballs out of their heads. If the original Proteus was a horror movie, this one isn’t even PG-13. He’s just very conveniently hanging out and holding everyone prisoner in his computer jail, and it’s not long before all the superheroes find each other and are conveniently given enough time to hatch a plan.
Well why are you just sitting around! What have you been doing! What a bunch of complete boners. I can’t wait to see what these assholes come up with. (X-Factor Annual #6 – 1991)
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This … is an amazing plan. In order to stop Harness from using Piecemeal to continue to syphon mystical energy out of the air, Moira has Multiple Man make a bunch of copies of himself to hold Piecemeal down with sumo holds and then she runs out there with those little paddles and she tries to drain his energy. As you can imagine, this doesn’t work.
Honestly! That’s like trying putting out a house fire with a spray bottle of Windex! Isn’t Moira supposed to be a scientific genius? This was the best plan she could come up with?? Honestly. Then, when Warpath punches Harness in the face and knocks her helmet off revealing she’s a woman, she INSTANTLY goes from being a verbally and physically abusive thug to a caring mother.
Do you writers seriously think I haven’t read the last 100 pages of this story??? I can remember that she was acting totally different five minutes ago!! Fuck’s sake.
And then this leads to Proteus being reborn because Piecemeal had been consuming the energy that got spread out all over the world when the X-Men defeated Proteus way back in Uncanny X-Men #128. All of this mealy-mouthed storytelling just leaves me with tedious questions. Like, why was this mother torturing her kid?? And why did she seem to be enjoying it so much?? And do you seriously think we forgot about that because it just happened in the last god damned issue!! (X-Men Annual #15 – 1991)
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Geez look at how draw right up everyone’s buttholes in these comics (including Nova). Anyway, once everyone gets together on Muir Island and stops fighting, we get a recap on the old Proteus story from Uncanny X-Men #125-128 which is good for people like me because I read those comics like five years ago and I completely forget how all that went down.
Imagine if you were reading all these comics when they were published and it had been like 12 years since you read that story! Who could possibly remember! Reagan came and went in that time!! Nine seasons of the Facts of Life had concluded!! No one was the same after that! (X-Men Annual #15 – 1991)
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FromKnights of X #001, “Hated and Feared” (½)
Art by Bob Quinn and Erick Arciniega
Written by Tini Howard
