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marchionessofmustacheI woke up early today like YEAH GREAT MORE TIME TO SPEND ON THE COMPUTER lmfao. But there's a glare in the mornings that makes it hard to do stuff like games or watch videos. So I'm reading comics because I can kinda move around as I read to avoid glare XD
Before the sun got high enough, though, I watched Hello!Station and the first episode of Juice=Juice's Budokan drama. H!S was cool, Country Girls's new video is greeaaatttt I can't wait for the full version! I will have to share it when it comes out XD It's another American-retro boogie-woogie style thing. I really like that CG's theme is retro stuff?
C-ute had their last H!P group concert before they disband; they sang Ganbacchae and between verses, they swapped out which group they were dancing/singing with and there was lots of crying; they also danced and sang with just Momoko.
Later Camellia Factory was shown with their surprise reveal that they will have their major debut in January... I guess their current MVs are indie, which makes their poor quality more excusable XD Or is that going to be the major debut single...........? I don't know -- I'm still struggling to find them interesting but watching everyone cry made me like them more, and I like the look of a couple members at least XD I'm sure they will grow on me eventually.
Anyway, to the comics!! (Heyyy they're working on the roof now, my favorite~~)
BTW if you saw the photo albums on facebook, these are the same, just with more comments/words, and crappy plot summaries of the episodes.
Woooo ToS #39!! The debut of Tony Stark and Iron Man XD I've read this maybe 50000000 times because every time I decide to read Iron Man again I start from here but hardly even make it to when Iron Man got his own mag.
Anyway, it's 60s comics so everything is very AMERICANNNNNN and somewhat racist, though a lot of the messages are fairly progressive for their time in Marvel comics... it's just that people had no fucking clue how not to be racist back then it seems (this is back when people thought fish and birds were not animals).
Comics were like Star Trek -- at the time it was very groundbreakingly progressive and liberal and showed women and people of color in positive ways and, in at least what it seemed like at the time, equal roles to their white male peers. Of course, looking back on it today, you see the rampant sexism and racism of the era. But I also watch/read these things without really looking at much else from the 60s, so usually it's not as apparent just how progressive this stuff was.
Anyway, Tales of Suspense does not illustrate this very well as Tony's origin story is literally that he was making weapons to kill Vietnamese people. When a bad bad ching chong kidnapped him and 'tricked' him into building weapons lmfao.
Anyway, the episode starts out establishing Tony's character as pretty much the ultimate marty stu -- he's the ultimate genius who can do anything ever, and he's also rich, and every girl loves him ever. He's about to become the "most tragic figure on Earth!" though... because he's going to create a superweapon for himself that makes him even more powerful, but a yellow-faced communist made him do it, so it's ~tragic.~
I really do love Tony, though, I promise LOL But 60s comics were also not so much about developing complex and human characters, but rather about creating powerful idol characters. Tony doesn't get interesting for a while XD
But for now, he's at least sexy as all hell! UMMMMMN
Tony's power at this point is that... he makes... "transistors." In this universe, a transistor is a magical machine that can do literally anything ever.
After introducing our billionaire ladies' man perfection, the story begins in Vietnam where, for who knows why, Tony is hand-delivering weapons to troops. But oh no! Evil tyrant guerilla chief war-monger WONG-CHU who is largely unexplained but DEFINITELY an evil Asian person, can barely speak English (except when they forget to write it that way) and wants to do BADDD things. He's just BEATING UP CIVILIANS BY HAND even! Despite being fat and old like all evil people are. Also they are literally painted yellow X_X
(Wong-Chu is really hot here tho?????)
Tony steps on a booby trap and gets blown up. Shrapnel is slowly closing in on his heart. I don't really understand this like... the shrapnel is like... moving? Toward his heart? And somehow they know that it will take entire days to reach his heart before he ... dies because it gets there? Isn't it causing any other kind of death-inducing damage like... I don't know, tearing apart his major blood vessels? I don't really know if this is based on some kind of real thing that can happen, but it doesn't sound very realistic to me.
Anyway, Wong Chu tells Tony he'll give him surgery if he creates a weapon for him, since everyone in the world knows he is the smartest man ever and can create all weapons you could ever imagine. But!!! Secretly Wong Chu is LYING and won't actually heal him!!!!! But Tony guesses is right away and goes to his dungeon to build a weapon. But Tony was lying too!!!!! He's gonna build the weapon for HIMSELF!!!!
Honestly it's a really stupid origin story but the movies made it pretty cool at least XD
Then, on Day #2 of Tony's imprisonment, Wong Chu... just... finds? A supposedly-dead researcher Professor Yinsen and dumps him in the lab-dungeon with Tony, and they work together to build the Iron Man, a giant wearable armor suit that ALSO keeps shrapnel out of your heart.
LOOK AT SWEATY TONY THO
Wong Chu approaches after Tony has put on the suit but before it can revitalize him (??) and to save him the seconds he needs to boot up, Yinsen runs around the hallways as a distraction and they kill him lol....
So now, motivated by his martyr and the POWER of the AMERICAN SPIRIT, Tony Stark becomes Iron Man to go kill somecommunists Asian people Wong Chu.
Pretty much the following pages are just Iron Man chasing Wong Chu around and replying to every problem with "TRANSISTORS!" that suddenly turn his Iron Man suit into whatever Inspector Gadget thingy he needs it to become.
It's full of all kinds of hilarity... here a giant clanky metal suit is blasting with jet shoe things literally feet above these people and they just DON'T NOTICE.
Like instead of busting down a wooden door with his hulking iron body a billion times stronger than a person, transistorrrssss turn his finger into a a tiny saw that's like... 500 saws in one or something. And he cuts out some weird panel from the door that I guess he's going to stick his hand through and unlock the door from the other side????? Because it's not big enough to climb through and he's not cutting through the lock LOL. No wonder Wong Chu keeps getting away; Tony is spending way too much time showing off transistors!!
Wong Chu also throws a filing cabinet at Tony, which, for some reason, is full of rocks. You know, every Asian warlord keeps a filing cabinet full of rocks just in case an all-powerful billionaire scientist builds a giant transistor suit that can overcome every obstacle. Except a filing cabinet full of rocks. Also Wong Chu is easily able to toss it down the stairs, but Tony's TRANSISTORRRRSSSS struggle to push it off of him.
Then Wong Chu goes to kill all his prisoners because... that's what you do when you're fleeing for your life.
Then Tony blows up the ammo dump, which kills Wong Chu who was running by it. But he has to recharge his batteries (which takes whatever the most convenient amount of time for the narrative is depending on the episode -- in this issue, it only takes seconds, because it's just to establish that he has to do this (this is his weakness -- he has to charge his batteries now and then or the shrapnel hits his heart and he dies. Plus the suit doesn't function without a charge); he had already saved? the day? by now).
A b-side story in this issue is that the sun is burning out and everyone is leaving on rocketships to go live on some other planet, but this man and woman decide they don't want to go, and the entire population of the planet leaves except them. Then minutes later, a new star appears and it's a new sun!!!!!!!!!! So this couple decide to start a new civilization here, and it's revealed they are Adam and Eve LOLOLOLOL. Generally the side stories are all this stupid XD Actually, the first 38 issues of TOS were nothing but these stories so IDK how it even got this far LOL
Well, on to TOS40. Iron Man's adventures continue!
So, this episode starts with a little recap of who Tony is. First, the billionaire scientific TRANSISTOR genius.
He's such a genius, he made MAGIC TRANSISTOR ROLLER SKATES for the army!!!!!!
But don't forget, he also has sex with every woman in the world. Well, rich and conventionally attractive ones, at least.
But in secret, he is really Iron Man! All the time! Actually, he probably doesn't get laid any more because he literally has to wear this giant iron torso 24/7 because it keeps him alive. How do the other people not notice??? Like he was dancing with that girl, was she not like "hey uh why is your torso huge and metallic????" like... did he have to get an all new wardrobe of custom-tailored suits to fit the big metal torso???
We get this little side-story about the circus so we can see how Tony turns into Iron Man. Look how handsome and lovely Tony is though~~~~
His TRANSISTORRRRR technology has gone from small (where they fit in the palm of your hand) to microscopic in like... one issue. Though it seems like it's been at least a few weeks now since the first issue? Maybe a month to coincide with the release of the mag? And he did design the old suit's transistor's in Wong Chu's basement.
Anyway, Tony literally unfolds the suit and puts it on like regular clothing lmfao, which is a thing that stays canon for quite a while. For now, he puts it on over his clothes (I guess he has a second, BIGGER torso for this form?) but later on he actually strips down to his undies to put the suit on, so we get to see stripping naked Tony sometimes :D
This little side-story also exists to show that women and children instinctively FEAR Iron Man because he is SCARY. Only women and children though. ALL men are just like "eh, whatever, giant hulking suit of armor smashing everything around me, I'm cool"
So, Tony's date says that if only Iron Man were painted GOLD, no one would be afraid ever! Because it'd definitely the color that is scaring people, right? XDDD
Also are Tony's eyes closed in the last panel or did they just not color the whites?? Either way his eyes look really freaking awkward. He's still beautiful though. I love you, Tony.
So Tony literally spraypaints his suit XD
Anyway, for a while it's just a bunch of action of Iron Man going to fight this big man thing, which ends up being controlled by aliens who were mind-controlling people to build statues of the big man thing. IDK.
Iron Man saves the day and then meets up with his date, and they share a corny joke. Well, rather, Tony thinks a joke to the audience.
A side story this time has cute mustache guy attacking cute beard guy... so he will teach him how to paint? Then beard guy... paints the mustache guy??? Because that's supposed to teach him, but he's actually a sorcerer who seals mustache guy into the painting by painting him IDK LOLLLLLL the point is they were both cute. Also I only skim these stories because they're so awful XD The second one was like... this alien? Was doing some bad stuff idk but could disguise as human but it ends up that like the President or something was also an alien but a good one and caught him?? I paid even less attention to that one because there were no fuzzy faces.
TOS41 starts out with... yet another introduction to Tony, showing off his triple lives. Here we see him macking on the ladies again. This issue is... not well-drawn LOL. The art is very inconsistent and Tony looks creepy a lot. Everyone looks creepy a lot.
Here's bad art and bad jokes combined!
After we get over the philanthropist ladykiller intro, we are reminded of Tony's unreasonably unrealistic magic science stuff.
And then, of course, that he's Iron Man. He does a show for the "hospital kids" in which he juggles cars with magic and catches a cannonball and eats it.
Anyway, this issue is actually the first appearance of Dr Strange... or at least a character with the same name and a somewhat similar appearance, though the actual Dr Strange is introduced in a another mag later, and that's usually credited as his first appearance. So maybe this is someone else. I don't know. It doesn't really explain much except he was struck by lightning and imprisoned for doing bad science or something. But he can like... control electronics with his mind????? lol so yeah not really like the 'real' Dr Strange I guess, but...
His plot is to control Iron Man with his mind and make him come bust him out of jail.
Somehow, mind controlling the suit also mind-controls Tony. Don't ask.
Then he retreats to an island that he covers with a forcefield, but Iron Man like... digs under it and worries about rust because he's in the water lolololol.
Dr Strange reveals that he's trying to conquer the entire world to give it to his daughter, who doesn't care and hates him because he's evil now (but she's sad because she used to not hate him). Dr Strange drains Iron Man of his power, and then gets rid of all the electronics and electricity on the island, so he can't do anything... but Carla (the daughter) literally like... feeds Iron Man some batteries????????????? from a flashlight and then he's A-OK and stops Dr Strange, who escapes.
Honestly I don't have much to say about this story because it's... not that amazing? And all these old stories are pretty ridic but the only funny thing in this one was eating the batteries, and we didn't have any kind of hot Tony pics because of the iffy art, so... here you go!!!
The side-stories were not very good, either... I don't even remember them. In one, this guy makes another person into a toy soldier, and ... yeah IDK. They are bad LOL
Before the sun got high enough, though, I watched Hello!Station and the first episode of Juice=Juice's Budokan drama. H!S was cool, Country Girls's new video is greeaaatttt I can't wait for the full version! I will have to share it when it comes out XD It's another American-retro boogie-woogie style thing. I really like that CG's theme is retro stuff?
C-ute had their last H!P group concert before they disband; they sang Ganbacchae and between verses, they swapped out which group they were dancing/singing with and there was lots of crying; they also danced and sang with just Momoko.
Later Camellia Factory was shown with their surprise reveal that they will have their major debut in January... I guess their current MVs are indie, which makes their poor quality more excusable XD Or is that going to be the major debut single...........? I don't know -- I'm still struggling to find them interesting but watching everyone cry made me like them more, and I like the look of a couple members at least XD I'm sure they will grow on me eventually.
Anyway, to the comics!! (Heyyy they're working on the roof now, my favorite~~)
BTW if you saw the photo albums on facebook, these are the same, just with more comments/words, and crappy plot summaries of the episodes.
Woooo ToS #39!! The debut of Tony Stark and Iron Man XD I've read this maybe 50000000 times because every time I decide to read Iron Man again I start from here but hardly even make it to when Iron Man got his own mag.
Anyway, it's 60s comics so everything is very AMERICANNNNNN and somewhat racist, though a lot of the messages are fairly progressive for their time in Marvel comics... it's just that people had no fucking clue how not to be racist back then it seems (this is back when people thought fish and birds were not animals).
Comics were like Star Trek -- at the time it was very groundbreakingly progressive and liberal and showed women and people of color in positive ways and, in at least what it seemed like at the time, equal roles to their white male peers. Of course, looking back on it today, you see the rampant sexism and racism of the era. But I also watch/read these things without really looking at much else from the 60s, so usually it's not as apparent just how progressive this stuff was.
Anyway, Tales of Suspense does not illustrate this very well as Tony's origin story is literally that he was making weapons to kill Vietnamese people. When a bad bad ching chong kidnapped him and 'tricked' him into building weapons lmfao.
Anyway, the episode starts out establishing Tony's character as pretty much the ultimate marty stu -- he's the ultimate genius who can do anything ever, and he's also rich, and every girl loves him ever. He's about to become the "most tragic figure on Earth!" though... because he's going to create a superweapon for himself that makes him even more powerful, but a yellow-faced communist made him do it, so it's ~tragic.~
I really do love Tony, though, I promise LOL But 60s comics were also not so much about developing complex and human characters, but rather about creating powerful idol characters. Tony doesn't get interesting for a while XD
But for now, he's at least sexy as all hell! UMMMMMN
Tony's power at this point is that... he makes... "transistors." In this universe, a transistor is a magical machine that can do literally anything ever.
After introducing our billionaire ladies' man perfection, the story begins in Vietnam where, for who knows why, Tony is hand-delivering weapons to troops. But oh no! Evil tyrant guerilla chief war-monger WONG-CHU who is largely unexplained but DEFINITELY an evil Asian person, can barely speak English (except when they forget to write it that way) and wants to do BADDD things. He's just BEATING UP CIVILIANS BY HAND even! Despite being fat and old like all evil people are. Also they are literally painted yellow X_X
(Wong-Chu is really hot here tho?????)
Tony steps on a booby trap and gets blown up. Shrapnel is slowly closing in on his heart. I don't really understand this like... the shrapnel is like... moving? Toward his heart? And somehow they know that it will take entire days to reach his heart before he ... dies because it gets there? Isn't it causing any other kind of death-inducing damage like... I don't know, tearing apart his major blood vessels? I don't really know if this is based on some kind of real thing that can happen, but it doesn't sound very realistic to me.
Anyway, Wong Chu tells Tony he'll give him surgery if he creates a weapon for him, since everyone in the world knows he is the smartest man ever and can create all weapons you could ever imagine. But!!! Secretly Wong Chu is LYING and won't actually heal him!!!!! But Tony guesses is right away and goes to his dungeon to build a weapon. But Tony was lying too!!!!! He's gonna build the weapon for HIMSELF!!!!
Honestly it's a really stupid origin story but the movies made it pretty cool at least XD
Then, on Day #2 of Tony's imprisonment, Wong Chu... just... finds? A supposedly-dead researcher Professor Yinsen and dumps him in the lab-dungeon with Tony, and they work together to build the Iron Man, a giant wearable armor suit that ALSO keeps shrapnel out of your heart.
LOOK AT SWEATY TONY THO
Wong Chu approaches after Tony has put on the suit but before it can revitalize him (??) and to save him the seconds he needs to boot up, Yinsen runs around the hallways as a distraction and they kill him lol....
So now, motivated by his martyr and the POWER of the AMERICAN SPIRIT, Tony Stark becomes Iron Man to go kill some
Pretty much the following pages are just Iron Man chasing Wong Chu around and replying to every problem with "TRANSISTORS!" that suddenly turn his Iron Man suit into whatever Inspector Gadget thingy he needs it to become.
It's full of all kinds of hilarity... here a giant clanky metal suit is blasting with jet shoe things literally feet above these people and they just DON'T NOTICE.
Like instead of busting down a wooden door with his hulking iron body a billion times stronger than a person, transistorrrssss turn his finger into a a tiny saw that's like... 500 saws in one or something. And he cuts out some weird panel from the door that I guess he's going to stick his hand through and unlock the door from the other side????? Because it's not big enough to climb through and he's not cutting through the lock LOL. No wonder Wong Chu keeps getting away; Tony is spending way too much time showing off transistors!!
Wong Chu also throws a filing cabinet at Tony, which, for some reason, is full of rocks. You know, every Asian warlord keeps a filing cabinet full of rocks just in case an all-powerful billionaire scientist builds a giant transistor suit that can overcome every obstacle. Except a filing cabinet full of rocks. Also Wong Chu is easily able to toss it down the stairs, but Tony's TRANSISTORRRRSSSS struggle to push it off of him.
Then Wong Chu goes to kill all his prisoners because... that's what you do when you're fleeing for your life.
Then Tony blows up the ammo dump, which kills Wong Chu who was running by it. But he has to recharge his batteries (which takes whatever the most convenient amount of time for the narrative is depending on the episode -- in this issue, it only takes seconds, because it's just to establish that he has to do this (this is his weakness -- he has to charge his batteries now and then or the shrapnel hits his heart and he dies. Plus the suit doesn't function without a charge); he had already saved? the day? by now).
A b-side story in this issue is that the sun is burning out and everyone is leaving on rocketships to go live on some other planet, but this man and woman decide they don't want to go, and the entire population of the planet leaves except them. Then minutes later, a new star appears and it's a new sun!!!!!!!!!! So this couple decide to start a new civilization here, and it's revealed they are Adam and Eve LOLOLOLOL. Generally the side stories are all this stupid XD Actually, the first 38 issues of TOS were nothing but these stories so IDK how it even got this far LOL
Well, on to TOS40. Iron Man's adventures continue!
So, this episode starts with a little recap of who Tony is. First, the billionaire scientific TRANSISTOR genius.
He's such a genius, he made MAGIC TRANSISTOR ROLLER SKATES for the army!!!!!!
But don't forget, he also has sex with every woman in the world. Well, rich and conventionally attractive ones, at least.
But in secret, he is really Iron Man! All the time! Actually, he probably doesn't get laid any more because he literally has to wear this giant iron torso 24/7 because it keeps him alive. How do the other people not notice??? Like he was dancing with that girl, was she not like "hey uh why is your torso huge and metallic????" like... did he have to get an all new wardrobe of custom-tailored suits to fit the big metal torso???
We get this little side-story about the circus so we can see how Tony turns into Iron Man. Look how handsome and lovely Tony is though~~~~
His TRANSISTORRRRR technology has gone from small (where they fit in the palm of your hand) to microscopic in like... one issue. Though it seems like it's been at least a few weeks now since the first issue? Maybe a month to coincide with the release of the mag? And he did design the old suit's transistor's in Wong Chu's basement.
Anyway, Tony literally unfolds the suit and puts it on like regular clothing lmfao, which is a thing that stays canon for quite a while. For now, he puts it on over his clothes (I guess he has a second, BIGGER torso for this form?) but later on he actually strips down to his undies to put the suit on, so we get to see stripping naked Tony sometimes :D
This little side-story also exists to show that women and children instinctively FEAR Iron Man because he is SCARY. Only women and children though. ALL men are just like "eh, whatever, giant hulking suit of armor smashing everything around me, I'm cool"
So, Tony's date says that if only Iron Man were painted GOLD, no one would be afraid ever! Because it'd definitely the color that is scaring people, right? XDDD
Also are Tony's eyes closed in the last panel or did they just not color the whites?? Either way his eyes look really freaking awkward. He's still beautiful though. I love you, Tony.
So Tony literally spraypaints his suit XD
Anyway, for a while it's just a bunch of action of Iron Man going to fight this big man thing, which ends up being controlled by aliens who were mind-controlling people to build statues of the big man thing. IDK.
Iron Man saves the day and then meets up with his date, and they share a corny joke. Well, rather, Tony thinks a joke to the audience.
A side story this time has cute mustache guy attacking cute beard guy... so he will teach him how to paint? Then beard guy... paints the mustache guy??? Because that's supposed to teach him, but he's actually a sorcerer who seals mustache guy into the painting by painting him IDK LOLLLLLL the point is they were both cute. Also I only skim these stories because they're so awful XD The second one was like... this alien? Was doing some bad stuff idk but could disguise as human but it ends up that like the President or something was also an alien but a good one and caught him?? I paid even less attention to that one because there were no fuzzy faces.
TOS41 starts out with... yet another introduction to Tony, showing off his triple lives. Here we see him macking on the ladies again. This issue is... not well-drawn LOL. The art is very inconsistent and Tony looks creepy a lot. Everyone looks creepy a lot.
Here's bad art and bad jokes combined!
After we get over the philanthropist ladykiller intro, we are reminded of Tony's unreasonably unrealistic magic science stuff.
And then, of course, that he's Iron Man. He does a show for the "hospital kids" in which he juggles cars with magic and catches a cannonball and eats it.
Anyway, this issue is actually the first appearance of Dr Strange... or at least a character with the same name and a somewhat similar appearance, though the actual Dr Strange is introduced in a another mag later, and that's usually credited as his first appearance. So maybe this is someone else. I don't know. It doesn't really explain much except he was struck by lightning and imprisoned for doing bad science or something. But he can like... control electronics with his mind????? lol so yeah not really like the 'real' Dr Strange I guess, but...
His plot is to control Iron Man with his mind and make him come bust him out of jail.
Somehow, mind controlling the suit also mind-controls Tony. Don't ask.
Then he retreats to an island that he covers with a forcefield, but Iron Man like... digs under it and worries about rust because he's in the water lolololol.
Dr Strange reveals that he's trying to conquer the entire world to give it to his daughter, who doesn't care and hates him because he's evil now (but she's sad because she used to not hate him). Dr Strange drains Iron Man of his power, and then gets rid of all the electronics and electricity on the island, so he can't do anything... but Carla (the daughter) literally like... feeds Iron Man some batteries????????????? from a flashlight and then he's A-OK and stops Dr Strange, who escapes.
Honestly I don't have much to say about this story because it's... not that amazing? And all these old stories are pretty ridic but the only funny thing in this one was eating the batteries, and we didn't have any kind of hot Tony pics because of the iffy art, so... here you go!!!
The side-stories were not very good, either... I don't even remember them. In one, this guy makes another person into a toy soldier, and ... yeah IDK. They are bad LOL
