#the blob
Imagine doing the projector operator in his booth while Daughter of Horror’s playing. The Blob apparently liked your performance was satisfying, because he leaves you two alone before continuing its rampage.
Note:Repost from old blog.
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Via @francisrage
Hello my kittens! =^.^=Finally got all my concept art together into a half decent rendered picture of this place.
So this is the city of Cobargo, once quite a nice place the enchantment has long since started its decay turning it into a Biohazard ☣️ location that creates horrific birth defects and is inhabited by monsters from your darkest nightmares. The landscape is coated in micro organisms (Viruses) waiting for a change to invade any organic creature that enters its radius of effect, these diseases can be carried out of the city and infect residents of any location they are brought too thus why its illegal to come anywhere near this place.
The further you enter into the center of the city the darker it gets until the enchantment blocks out even torchlight leaving you in pitch black surrounded by hungry monsters waiting for their chance to devour you.
Its rumored that in the heart of Cobargo lays a treasure, so many travelers ignoring the signs sneak into this place and never come out.
Haha anyway AJ being Mechanic is not effected by this enchantment, he’s in doing population checks on the thriving community of monsters. I… I umm think mother would like her kitten back now AJ She looks a bit concerned.
ENJOY <3
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Ok, how is this Operation Desert Storm bloodbath going to end? First, you’ll be relieved to know that Crimson Commando didn’t get his legs blown off, despite what the coloring in the first panel here would have you believe:
He’s practically fucking dead though, and he did indeed have half his face blown clean off, and the hesitation in Avalanche’s demeanor to possibly give a shit is absolutely delicious, so there’s still that. Next, the Blob and Pyro get desperate and start straight up murdering bitches, proven here when Veil gets incinerated in just about the most brutal fashion possible.
“Barbequed.” “Babe.” JFC. Avalanche manages to get Crimson Commando to the extraction point and then ruthlessly makes the decision to leave everyone else behind.
And he doesn’t sugar coat it at all because … they aren’t worth it. “Hey sorry guys! We’re going to fuck off on out of here! Maybe try the embassy! Or the underground resistance? I dunno. Good luck!” And that’s how this story ends. With Crimson Commando’s face falling off, Avalanche fist fucking his teammates, and the Blob and Pyro getting captured as prisoners of war.
You gotta be shitting me! What happens after this!! Do the Blob and Pyro get waterboarded?? Guys, one time in college a friend got his car stuck on the highway during a really bad snow storm and a bunch of us went out to help him but we couldn’t all fit in the car headed out there and one guy who was with us who really didn’t want to go in the first place was like “shit I guess there’s no room, well anyway, I’ll take a roast beef and a curly fry from Arbys.” That’s what this is like! Except they’re in Iraq and they’re probably going to be executed!! What was the point of this story?? Do they follow up on this? I’ll be watching for it. (X-Factor Annual #6 – 1991)
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Whew, this rando backup annual story got off to a real bang in the last issue. In what I can only classify as, “an adult, R-rated experience,” we saw Freedom Force get uncharacteristically slaughtered by a mysterious group of villains of various Mid-Eastern origins. And when I say uncharacteristically slaughtered, I mean uncharacteristic for Freedom Force as a group of characters, and uncharacteristic for a fucking a comic book from the 1990s that was sold to children. Super Sabre got decapitated!! Crimson Commando got dismembered!! Avalanche got impaled and Pyro got fucking incinerated by his own flames!! And they showed all of it in graphic detail! Who the heck are these villains!!
Ooof I don’t know what I was expecting from an American writer in the early 1990s attempting to depict an alliance of super villains from the Middle East during the height of the first Iraq war, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’d rather just get distracted with how poorly this follows the events of the previous chapter where we clearly saw Pyro and Avalanche get murdered but they seem mostly ok now.
No way! I refuse to believe that a character who is so intimately familiar with serenity is actually fostering a torture soul. That’s bullshit, comic! I was worried that this comic was going to gloss over the extreme brutality of the last issue, because where in the fuck did that come from anyway, but then it kicks back up again. When faced with the possibility of their target being recaptured by their enemies, the Blob and Pyro flat out murder this poor physicist who they were supposed to rescue, in order to prevent him from falling back into enemy hands.
And then, holy shit look a this … and keep in mind that Crimson Commando already got his arm chopped of, which they’ve been keeping subtly concealed in this comic.
I think they blew his legs off!! And half his god damned face!! I don’t know who came up with this story, and I don’t, quite frankly, care for the stereotypes, but give me more of this insane violence!! It comes out of nowhere!! Most of the other back up stories in the annuals from this year are about Artie and Leech having a crush on their teacher! How is this going to end! (X-Men Annual #15 – 1991)
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Color me a little annoyed that these back up stories from the 1990s Marvel annuals never seem to be included in any of the collected editions or digital restorations online and I have to track down whatever discolored dark web version I can get my hands on. Some of these stories are good! I mean, they’re not all good … the second back up story in New Mutants Annual #7 is about Artie and Leech finding a new grandmother, so I’m not doing any posts on that one, but this first story is about Freedom Force attacking Iraq during Desert Storm! Also, color me a little surprised to see Avalanche here. Didn’t he get killed by the the Reavers?
These new writers just aren’t going to give a shit about the continuity, are they. Anyway, I wonder what goes on in this comic.
SWEET LOUISE SUPER SABRE JUST GOT FULL ON DECAPITATED. Look at his head laying there! I can’t believe that just happened! I can’t believe Cable and Rob Liefeld tried to do this a few issues ago and failed, and now it happens again for real!! Ladies and gentlemen, this seems too good to be true, but I think this backup story in an X-Men annual is actually about your favorite asshole super villain team getting horrifically murdered. I hope. I HOPE that’s what this comic is about. Because this is awesome.
I’ve never liked these old assholes, but I sure I do like seeing them get dismembered. Wow! Even Pyro gets it.
This came out of nowhere and was leagues was better than the main story in this annual! What a god damned masterpiece!! Bring on the next chapter! (New Mutants Annual #7 - 1991)
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Chuck Russell has had an… interesting film directing career. The man gave us both the Cuban Pete dance scene from the Mask, and a moment with Erika Eleniak in The Blob that traumatised all the boys in my school in Saggart village!
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If y’all thought I was finished with X-men stuff you were wrong lmaooo here’s an animatic I’m working on involving Fred and Cassie !!
this is the visual i have in my head whenever i listen to closer by nine inch nails
The Blob
I found the 1988 iteration of this classic monster story particularly horrifying as a kid. Back in the days before IMDB, it wasn’t a rare thing for kids to happen upon classics like this on VHS and gleefully dive into the unexpected and wildly age-inappropriate bloodbaths within. So good.
And it really didn’t get much scarier than a thing made from god-knows-what roaming around a small town because of ?? doing ?!!! to unsuspecting victims. For a kid knowing next-to-nothing about the world anyway, a story that deprives you of much needed information that could later save your life from the exact thing being explained is incredibly scarring, especially when that thing can know where you are in your house and pull you into its digestive mass through a slop sink drain pipe.
*shudder*
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- Andrew
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