Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Wait, What?


This is weird. A while ago Marvel released some comics which showcased some stories which readers could vote on and recieve a full one-shot of. There was two, but I only saw one, and that included stories involving Luke Cage vs. Politics, some girl who fights monsters and a story about the Daughter of Galactus. Being the most absurd of the three, Galacta: Daughter of Galactus, won.

Basically she s like the complete opposite of her father. While she does hunger to devour our planet, she instead decides to help protect us from the things that would destroy us regardless of what the superheroes did, and consume evil alien energies and lifeforms. She ends up with a 'cosmic tapeworm' and must ask her father for help so that she does not give into her hunger and destroy us. The book is repetetive, constantly having her repeat how much unlike her father she is in her narration, as well as how insanley hungry she is, and you will get a little tired of all the text, nevertheless it's funny enough to call a good read. And even when the Cosmic G (The Big G being Godzilla you see) he has a dominating presence regardless of the humour cast upon him throughout the rest of the story. Plus we get to see snippets of Galacta's Facebook, so that's funny. You can even visit her Twitter page.

But here's the strange bit. At one point she gets the ingenius idea to take Wolverine's healing factory and augment it into a whole planet (sort of like Ego, the Living Planet) so that she and her father can consume it for millenia and millenia without harming any one. However, this dosn't work out due to cosmic genetics or some other technobabble. The weird bit? The planet looks like Wolverine and even has the same hair and sideburns. She proceeds to christen it Sideburn, the Regenerating Planet (I think). Okay, the shorter version of my moniker is simply Sideburns or Sideburn, which is weird, and I have two female characters who are big eaters, and here we have a colossal woman who want to eat a planet named Sideburn. That is like the biggest coincedence I have ever seen! I mean, damn! I've considered myself prone to coincedence, but that's a bit of a stretch, don't you think? There is no way this is not coming up in my future work. It wouldn't really be that big of a deal if one of those big eaters wasn't Captain Mental's girlfriend.

Next, we just need a character to be named Ned, and have him dress in hoodies and have trouble finishing what he starts. Or have a guy named Robert whose incredibly sarcastic, cynical, and is physically incapable of continuing his novel. Okay, those wouldn't be as funny, but you get the idea.

Also, it's kinda funny to hear how delicious she thinks characters like Thor would be. And apparently Galactus is a pretty good guy, as when Richards was threatening the Cosmic G with the Ultimate Nullifier, the safety was on.

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