FangsFirst

22630 pts · September 3, 2012


I write comments. On occasion.

It's often class-based and regional (both of which can easily be mistaken for race). All of the well-done folks I know personally are white.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

(To be fair, Severin later drew it from Hydra's perspective a mere few issues later, though). Dunno when limb → "myth appropriate head"

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The "tentacles reaching out over the world" was actually a S.H.I.E.L.D. deal originally, *describing* Hydra:

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Lotta folks talkin' Nazis, but the original Hydra was a pretty arbitrary "terrorist organization" to start with. →

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They did this pose (I prefer Severin, below, to Kirby, above--don't tell nobody) to emphasize the "limb" bit

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

→ They didn't have that *motto*. Their first one, of course, doesn't even match with "hydra":

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Aight, folks: That logo's from much later iterations of Hydra. Earliest appearances (Strange Tales 135-8) not only didn't have this logo →

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

→ references the cult 1980 Bill Lustig/Joe Spinell movie of the same name, but rather Shandi Sinnamon track "He's a Dream". Thank you.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

→ (something that the rest of the crew apparently found rather peculiar). It's set not to the Michael Sembello song "Maniac", which oddly →

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

→ is the first scene in Mawby's Bar, filled with director Adrian Lyne's stylistic choices and desire to involve water in a dance scene →

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

→ Donald Peterman, alone (except for her dog Grunt) in her former-warehouse apartment—whereas the dance that involves water, which →

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

→ which is not, in fact "Maniac"—she practices to that song in an extraordinarily suggestive way behind the lens of cinematographer →

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hi, I'd just like to comment as someone who recently watched Flashdance. Clearly this video references the first dance that Alex performs →

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just what do you have against the crouching lady holding the cat's leash??

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

And if you utterly *loathe* Guardians, it may well be your favorite television show of all time! (Source: me)

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Who literally asks for "a toyota"? "I just want a car of this make. I don't care about the model, but it HAS to be this make"

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Well. They've now *retconned* him into the worst. Boring.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile, comic Thanos? Not the worst.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile, comic Thanos? Not the worst.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ah, what these movies did to the character of Gamora...them and Bendis. BENDIS, YOU FUCKER....

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What caused you to fill your drawers, exactly?

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Because Brian Michael Bendis.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Brian Michael Bendis.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Hades isn't in hell, though, literally speaking...

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

"analogous" means there is a common thread in usage in this context, not a direct relationship saying they apply to the same regions, etc.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Analogous" doesn't imply a direct relationship...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It is more specific for sure, but it also has a lot of history to it, and plenty of it not good.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The word stopped being used for people, and now we're saying we stopped using it for people before because we don't use it for people now...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is fascinating, as that was a later change in usage, but it's now being used to retroactively explain itself...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep--few things are *inherently* racist. It's for historical reasons, sounds weird now because the word has fallen out of favour in general.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0