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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-08 21:37:00

Entry tags:

char: magog/david reid, creator: howard porter, creator: keith giffen, publisher: dc comics, title: magog

Magog #3

More intrigue with the Sunderland Corporation and Flashpoint company...

The villain is Mark Sunderland, a man who made billions through Ponzi schemes before getting busted by Lois Lane. Afterwards, he purchased mind-controlling airborne nanites from Flashpoint, a company that deals in illegal wonder-tech. He hoped to use the technology to wipe away his crimes, but it was experimental and there were side effects; now he has to wear that gas mask all the time.

After some ranting, he orders Magog to stop breathing.

Some more ranting later, and Sunderland goes one further and orders Magog to die. And Magog does... for a while.

Sunderland's been attacking Flashpoint as vengeance for selling him defective technology. Flashpoint's decided to strike back.

Their Customer Relations dept. in action:

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	earthelemental 2009-11-09 07:09 am UTC (link)
	Sunderland Corporation? Where does this leave Connie Sunderland (last seen in Un-Men)? How many kids did General Sunderland have, anyway? (Reply to this)

psychop_rex
2009-11-09 07:32 am UTC (link)

This is interesting, but the artwork is distracting me. I mean, it's good enough artwork, but there's one little detail that keeps springing out at me - Magog's horns. They're kinda, well... stubby. They're gestural horns. They're not fully developed horns. Compare them to the full-fledged curly ram's horns that he has in Kingdom Come, and you really start wondering if this is the same guy.

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	jlbarnett 2009-11-10 12:07 am UTC (link)
	I don't think it is. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-11-10 01:12 am UTC (link)
	Ah - well, maybe that explains it. Perhaps his horns have some growing to do. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	khamelea 2009-11-09 08:11 am UTC (link)
	I know that they say that there's no such thing as a bad character, but I've not seen one take on Magog that has made me care about this character and/or stopped me from just rooting for the supposed villains. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jamspread 2009-11-09 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	I wish they'd just turn him into a villian already so I can root for whoever kicks his ass. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sd_mouser 2009-11-10 01:21 am UTC (link)
	I agree that I don't like the character or most of the writing, but there were bits above (like him letting them bash each other) that I kinda liked. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	geoffsebesta 2009-11-09 09:30 am UTC (link)
	Giffen's finally writing good dialogue! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-11-09 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	As far as I'm concerned, he already proved he could with the latest Blue Beetle series. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	geoffsebesta 2009-11-09 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	I missed it. Maybe I should check it out. I mostly remember the 90s. :( (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	superboyprime 2009-11-09 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	Avoid it. The dialogue was fine, but the stories were pretty bad, and Jaime Reyes (the new Blue Beetle) never rose above being a bland, generic teen hero. Think Poochie from the Simpsons. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	scottyquick 2009-11-11 04:03 am UTC (link)
	You'll note that the person who told you to avoid Blue Beetle was called "Superboyprime". Blue Beetle was one of the best superhero comics, simply put, although that was mostly thanks to John Rogers. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	damar148 2009-11-09 09:33 am UTC (link)
	Sunderland looks like the Scarecrow from the Batman Arkham Asylum game. (Reply to this)

	daningram 2009-11-09 12:01 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, Magog's a real genius there, not listening to the villain's rant. They try so hard to depict the character as a professional, so what would he need intel for? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	starwolf_oakley 2009-11-09 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	Magog is smart, but he's not one for using "Shut up, Hannibal" or "And then what?" against a bad guy. He's more of a "Where do I hit them?" and "How hard?" when it comes it intel. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blakeyrat 2009-11-09 02:30 pm UTC (link)
	I'm imagining the conversation he has on a cellphone while wearing that helmet. "Think you could dig something up for me?" -- "What?" -- "You'll have to speak up." -- "No the signal is good, but I got this..." -- "What?" -- "No I got this helmet thing on..." -- "Come again?" (Reply to this)

	foxhack 2009-11-09 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	No Silent Hill references? (Reply to this)

	volksjager 2009-11-09 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	He pruned his horns... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	comicoz 2009-11-09 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	The horns vary wildly from scene to scene, it drives me batty for some reason. I forget what preview I read last week, but in it his horns ran a good foot out to the side and arced down to land on his shoulder. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-11-09 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	In general I would say his specs (artwork) are all over the map. Including the anatomy. I was catching up on my "Spiderwoman agent of sword" and I noticed that Spiderwoman's accent was just as wild all over the place , from low-end southern to posh Londoner... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	naebler 2009-11-09 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	Skrull. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	geoffsebesta 2009-11-09 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	They're like Spawn's cape. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	earthelemental 2009-11-10 01:25 am UTC (link)
	"Magog? Satana Hellstrom called. She wants her old helmet with the pruned horns back, and if you spray-painted it gold-chrome like your old helmet? Well, there's going to be hell to pay. And I mean Hell. Axel, out." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	afewboltsloose 2009-11-09 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	Wasn't Sunderland Corporation one of the big bads of Swamp Thing back in the early 90's? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bruinsfan 2009-11-10 12:14 am UTC (link)
	I think I recall them being the ones who froze him and gave him to Jason Woodrue to study. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	earthelemental 2009-11-10 12:46 am UTC (link)
	General Sunderland. Saga of The Swamp Thing #1-21 (1982-1983) Alan Windsor. Firestorm The Nuclear Man #87-96 (1989-1990) Alan Windsor. Hawkworld #13-29, Annual #2 (1991-1992) Constance Sunderland. Swamp Thing #121-138 (1992-1993) Constance Sunderland. The Un-Men #10-13 (2008) Mark Sunderland. Magog #1-3 (2009) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jamspread 2009-11-09 10:34 pm UTC (link)
	...I think I'd like to hear what the villian has to say if all Magog's going to do is blah blah blah. SHUT UP MAGOG. SHUT UP. (Reply to this)

	ghosty732 2009-11-10 12:32 am UTC (link)
	It concerns me when superheroes who do not wear shirts as part of their costume do not have nipples. (Reply to this)

	retro_nouveau 2009-11-10 02:13 am UTC (link)
	Whoa, the artist is obviously a different one. "Axel. It's me." is the worst panel there, yikes, what an ugly human. (Reply to this)