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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-27 23:28:00

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char: tesla strong, char: tom strong, creator: alan moore, creator: chris sprouse, title: tom strong

Tesla Strong and Val Var Garm: An Interspecies Romance

Tracing Tesla Strong and Val Var Garm's relationship over the course of the Tom Strong series...

Tesla first meets Val Var Garm and his race when she's investigating a volcano that's inexplicably gone active.

They don't meet again until seven issues later, when Val kidnaps Tesla.

Tesla's folks have come to rescue her.

Tom gets into a big, prolonged fight with Val Var Garm.

So Val goes to live in the Stronghold with them. Tom and Solomon give him a room three floors removed from Tesla's.

Tom doesn't take well to Val living in his home, as becomes abundantly clear when the police call him in about a situation.

Later, when the Strongs are preparing to face an alien invasion, Tesla asks Val if he can get his people to help out.

After Val helps them destroy the aliens, Tom and Val start to get along

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	box_in_the_box 2009-07-28 08:40 am UTC (link)
	Dhalua Strong = MILF. Oh, and Tesla is pretty fine, too. (Reply to this)

	box_in_the_box 2009-07-28 08:41 am UTC (link)
	And Tom's feelings toward Val take on a whole new significance when you read the story where his teenage self from the past falls in love with Tesla. Yeah. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	freivolk 2009-07-28 10:24 am UTC (link)
	Scans? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	greenmask 2009-07-28 01:00 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, that's cute. That's very cute. And I must say, if I were a teenager looking for a possessive creepy freak-man, I would not be going "oh sparkly stalker vampire no-sex", but I might be going "oh burning lava kidnapper romantic horndog". (Reply to this)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-07-28 02:12 pm UTC (link)
	"Buddy? That thing you can feel, restin' against your privates there? That's my gun." "Hmm." looks down "That... that's not a gun." "I like to call it my 'gun.'" (Reply to this)

	hyperactivator 2009-07-28 02:18 pm UTC (link)
	I love this. The idea that if she can't be his he must be hers is refreshing to say the least. (Reply to this)

	halloweenjack 2009-07-28 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	I loved the bit where Tesla mentions that she's in her sixties. I had the idea once, when Nova and Namorita were still an item in the New Warriors, that she'd casually drop the fact that she was forty-seven (although I don't know if that matches up with canon). Sadly, not an option any more... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-07-28 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	She certainly doesn't act like someone in her sixties (one of the things about her that always bugged me). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

halloweenjack
2009-07-28 07:02 pm UTC (link)

I've wondered about that. One theory of mine is that she isn't more emotionally mature because she has lived this sort of dream life with talking gorillas and steampunk robots and extraterrestrial/dimensional adventures. Also, it's kind of hard to tell when some of her adventures happened, since they could have taken place at almost any time between the Sixties and now. (It would be funny to have a reunion of the interdimensional League of Teslas and half of them have grey hair and are talking about their grandkids, and the aged and unaged are all looking at each other with a mixture of pity and regret.)

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	aaron_bourque 2009-07-28 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	If it's not apparent, Val has the power to control heat, amplifying or suppressing. And I think a lot of Tom's "acceptance" of Val comes from the fact that, during their little adventure against the aliens, Val manages to manipulate the heat of the SUN. Don't fuck with Val Var Garm (Reply to this)

	juliansinger 2009-07-28 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	Heh. The sound effect when she hits him is SWALK. Heh. ("Sealed With A Loving Kiss," sometimes used as an /actual/ sign off in Victorian era letters and/or a thing on the envelope.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	red_cyclone 2009-07-28 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	How did I not notice that? I love Tesla, she's awesome, though the silent story with her in Terrific Tales will always be my favourite, it's just perfect. (Reply to this) (Parent)