if Bucky doesn’t get to meet Rocket in Infinity War then the whole film is pointless and may as well not be made
i’m not sure if this is supposed to be sad because they were both brutally experimented on and can share trauma stories and trust issues, or funny because you know full well that rocket is going to try and take bucky’s arm
I just wanted Bucky, who was baffled by Peter Parker in a Lycra onesie, to meet a talking raccoon, why you gotta do me like that
Shortpacked!: Bill Mantlo
Bill Mantlo suffered a near-fatal hit-and-run car accident many years ago and remains in need of ongoing medical support. If you dig Rocket Raccoon, consider donating to his care!
5000 candles in the wind
Anonymous asked:
spankzilla85 answered:
That is…horrible.
Saying he “should die” as some sort of retribution would be the most narratively tone-deaf thing I could think of.
If you watch the movie, you can tell that Rocket is emotionally devastated by leaving his friends behind. He knows he has to get the rest of the crew off-planet, but he leaves Yondu all he has left: a rocket pack and an oxygen field. He only has one of each. The planet is literally falling apart and he needs to save Groot and get the ship moving to save everyone else. Yondu knows this, and he and Rocket are sympatico on this point. It breaks Rocket’s heart to essentially hand his newfound friend a death sentence, but therein lies the tragedy.
The batteries thing is just a catalyst for his emotional growth. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone did some noble self-sacrificing in Infinity War but it ain’t coming from the incredibly marketable Rocket Racoon. Nor should it. He needs to grow more, as do the rest of the Guardians.
Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VulkN5OLEM
matt why do you always get these questions from some sort of Worstest Take machine
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
On November 9th, we wish a Happy Birthday to Bill Mantlo, the stalwart Marvel writer who plotted the first two issues of the original Transformers comic! Bill is also well known for creating Rocket Raccoon, and for his work on other 1980s toy properties Rom and Micronauts, both returning to comics through IDW Publishing in the near future!
In 1992, Mantlo was the victim of a hit-and-run accident and sustained injuries that placed him in institutional care, in which he still lives today. On his birthday, please consider showing your thanks for his contribution to our favourite franchise by donating to the Bill Mantlo Support Fund.
Oh Dinobot, if only there were someone who loved you
Bugs Bunny could singlehandedly defeat Thanos by dressing up as a TSA agent and setting up a metal detector in the middle of the battlefield saying that all metal objects must be removed if you want to pass on through now stick around for my 2,000 word essay on just how effectively he would convince The Mad Titan to comply
“For shame, doc! Dontcha know we got other folks waiting?”
(Thanos looks behind him and sees dozens of Bugs Bunnies dressed as angry yelling travelers with huge bags of luggage. Thanos rubs his neck guiltily and begins sliding off the gauntlet)
I felt compelled
Panels from “Broken Glass!” (Marvel Transformers: Headmasters #2)
Oh, Headmasters. Never change.
In the Marvel UK, they “fixed” this some wite out and by giving “Cyclonus” a new made-up name pulled from somebody’s ass, Krunix! Since not-Cylonus was based on the model sheet of his Targetmaster weapon partner, we sort of got a toy of him later…
(Krunix is awesome.)
And then there was that time GRANT MORRISON wrote Zoids stories for Marvel UK (and Geoff Senior drew them).
Scans made by a friend from the 31st issue of Marvel UK’s Spider-Man and Zoids comic. That series remains one of the strangest joint titles I’ve ever heard of - and that’s before considering that it also ran Star Wars reprints.
Defenders of the Earth was a Marvel Productions cartoon of the ’80s that brought together characters from three King Features Syndicate comic strips - Lee Falk’s The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, plus Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon - to create a “brand new” group of world-saving, alien-beating adventurers. A friend once described it as a show that teamed “your grandpa’s favorite superheroes” together; not only is this an apt description for a cartoon that starred characters who first collectively hit newspaper comic pages in the 1930s, but the observation might explain Stan Lee’s apparent enthusiasm for the project. Lee, at the time part of Marvel Productions out in California, not only wrote the first issue of Marvel’s DotE tie-in comic, but the (admittedly quite catchy) lyrics to the show’s themesong.
One thing that always struck me about Defenders of the Earth - aside from the somewhat random decision to make Ming the Merciless green - was a note that I spotted in the credits, which is reproduced above. “(This is 27th Phantom)”. For those who don’t know, the Phantom is a lineage-based adventure hero, with the mantle passed on from generation to generation to create the illusion of the Phantom being immortal. The note made me wonder: since DotE took place in the (nebulously established) future, did someone on the production staff sit down and work out the chronology of Phantoms-yet-to-come? Did Lee Falk, who was still alive at the time, make the call from on high?
The most fascinating thing about this note, though, came to me with hindsight. See, I was a regular watcher of another animated take on the Phantom franchise, Phantom 2040, which was produced in the ’90s. Phantom 2040 starred the 24th Phantom… which, I deduced, made the Phantom of Defenders of the Earth the grandson or great-grandson of the Phantom from Phantom 2040. This meant that I was watching a character whose descendant’s adventures were chronicled years before his own show was ever on the air.
With that, I had blown my own mind.
zeromayhem
siphersaysstuff
Who is your dad, now?
I WILL reblog this video every damn time I see it because this kids is A GENIUS
