thanekos (thanekos) wrote in scans_daily, @ 2009-07-10 23:16:00 |
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The Man and the Machine: Jason Macendale vs. Aaron Stack
or: Jack O'Lantern was kinda sorta weird in his first apperance.
Know why?
He started out as a Machine Man foe.
but he's up there.
take a look at his head as he drops exposition, for example.
" I am an ex-government freak! " I believe the word you're looking for is spook, but eh.
anyhow, Jack's plan of evil is simple: raid a super-embassy and kidnap its delegates for money, or something.
(yes, I said super-embassy. it's a really protected embassy aaron's insurance company is prototyping... basically, think blast doors and ventilation systems that can churn out mad sleeping gas, and you've got the idea. ah, olden-days superhuman threat security.
said prototyping will be... a halloween party. for foreign dignitaries. yes, I'm not kidding.)
so, anyhow, aaron stack goes to investigate the embassy in his facility as insurance investigator, and tails a shady fellow...
it takes a page for machine man to clean their clocks, during which time he mentions " You're sure lucky Spider-Man's not fighting you. " or something like it. How prophetic.
so now it's jack's turn at bat:
yeah, Jack's wrist blasters just knocked a robot through a wall.
man's good. and a mercenary. and he takes pride in his work, what with the " matchless master of mayhem " bit. did i mention mercenary?
so jason cuts and runs to the super-embassy halloween party, wherein he enters the facilities using a most cunning ruse: buying another country's delegate's tickets, and walking right in the front door with his big flaming head outfit.
yeah.
so anyhow, machine man confronts jack for a round two after jack uses his saboteur skills to cripple the super-embassy:
and once again, jack racks up a nice alliterative multiplier.
so did you know he was a mercenary? I didn't.
also, lad? LAD? come on, man. come on.
yeah. so, anyhow, jack pulls a grenade, threatening to hurl it into the crowd...
and machine man does this.
and that's how jack was defeated!
well, then he'd go to a hospital for his bomb injuries, turn out to be faking some of those, have his thugs take over the hospital he's in, only for spider-man to stop him, mock his pogo-platform, one-punch him... and then have aunt may guilt trip him about not coming to her side to give her emotional support because nathan lubensky was one of jack's hostages and she was all worried.
so the moral of the story is: you can defeat jack o'lantern, but you'll have to deal with a bit of angst after the fact. it happened to machine man, it happened to spider-man, it can happen to you.
bonus: deathstroke, ravager (the one that is grant), and black beetle walking off after killing the titans of the past. (all part of black beetle's DESTROY THE JLA plan)
face down in the pool. what a way to go, booster.
also, I love deathstroke's attitude. beetle and ravager are all " GOAL GET " and deathstroke's all " yeah, sure... say, how come I've never heard of you and your technology that lets you do shit with chronal energy that keeps ravager over there from ' withering and burning out '? "