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Tweak says, "You got me on my knees, Layla"

zegas (zegas) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-22 12:10:00

Entry tags:

in-joke: context is for the weak, in-joke: wtf, nsfw: gore, publisher: marvel comics

Destroyer
"Destroyer" was a 4 issue mini series published by Marvel back in 1991. The only reason I picked them up is because they sported awesome Walt Simonson covers. Thank God I picked the second issue up; I would've missed the comic page that has it all! Written by Will Murray, penciled by Dan Lawlis and inked by Fred Fredericks, this one scene has everything a comic page should: alcoholism, racism, and decapitation...

Dan Lawlis drew this issue of Destroyer, but he may have lost his will to live before doing so. That didn't stop him from producing this inspired gem.

xoxoFiffe

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	(Anonymous) 2009-03-22 12:08 pm UTC (link)
	You would think that there would be more karate chops through the neck like that. That was awesome! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zegas 2009-03-22 01:28 pm UTC (link)
	I think this is the only time I've seen such a thing. I need more of it, though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-03-22 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	It reminds me of the ad in Karate Kid, about the martial artist who used karate chops to cut down trees. Surely, this proves it could be done. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nevermore999 2009-03-22 12:20 pm UTC (link)
	I like how the head gasps as it is being seperated from it's body. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zegas 2009-03-22 01:26 pm UTC (link)
	Apparently, the sound it makes is "chuck". CHUCK!! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-03-22 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	He is just so surprised that something so implausible happened. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blake_reitz 2009-03-22 12:24 pm UTC (link)
	That man got his head chopped off. THAT MAN GOT HIS HEAD CHOPPED OFF. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zegas 2009-03-22 01:28 pm UTC (link)
	He did him a favor after all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blake_reitz 2009-03-22 02:57 pm UTC (link)
	He did him no favors! Nor anyone else! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-03-22 12:50 pm UTC (link)
	Did he just impale the doctor's severed head on his own bottle of hooch? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-03-22 01:28 pm UTC (link)
	Oh man, he did. That's awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zegas 2009-03-22 01:30 pm UTC (link)
	I think that's what turns this page into poetry. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gwalla.livejournal.com 2009-03-22 02:32 pm UTC (link)
	Remo Williams! (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2009-03-22 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	Is that ... is that suppose to be Chiun in those last two panels? THAT is suppose to be the Master of Sinanju, the sun source of all the martial arts? Dan Lawlis will be chucked for this insult! (Reply to this)

	psychop_rex 2009-03-23 01:05 am UTC (link)
	Wait a minute - where's the racism? You said 'alcoholism, racism and decapitation' - I get the first and last ones, but where's the racism? I mean, he calls him a white man - that's not racist; he IS a white man. If he'd said 'I am death, come for you, you honky cracker', that would be racist, but what's racist about calling a white man a white man? I don't get it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zegas 2009-03-23 07:13 am UTC (link)
	You're right, he didn't say "honky cracker", but the tone of his voice when he said "white" was a little hateful, as opposed to neutrally observant. Also, my description was a joke. (Reply to this) (Parent)