...flew, taking them along--Signing off.
Showing posts with label nagraj. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nagraj. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Very Short And Ugly Career of Missileman
Who, you may be asking, is Missileman?
A very short-lived supervillain. His career lasted for all of two pages.
In all seriousness, this guy makes the Human Flame's career look downright glamorous. And that's before Final Crisis.
Let's take a look at the dude and see his costume.
A very short-lived supervillain. His career lasted for all of two pages.
In all seriousness, this guy makes the Human Flame's career look downright glamorous. And that's before Final Crisis.
Let's take a look at the dude and see his costume.
Pretty ugly fella. (Also, "uff?" Seriously, Supes, are you tripping or something?)
So what are Missileman's accomplishments? Well, he destroyed a bridge "before the very eyes of Superman." He also blew up a car and damaged some buildings. (I considered doing one of the little random filler posts I've been doing with a panel from that page, where Superman proclaims "Today I won't leave you Missileman!" but that's a little too out of context bad even for me.)
So Supes flies over and grabs at him, but Missileman boldly proclaims that "nothing can stop me today, Superman!"
Then Superman throws him into an erupting volcano.
The end.
No, seriously-the end. That's all she wrote-guy's dead.
See, whoever the heck wrote this weird little story wanted to have a villain for Superman to fight. And since, in Nagraj comics, they apparently don't take prisoners unless the dude's immortal, the guy had to make someone up, because he was certainly not allowed to kill off even the least important of Superman villains.
So, yeah. Really, this is a very elegant demonstration of why Superman needs to be such a nice guy, isn't it? His comics would just fall apart if he wasn't.
-Signing off.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Shakoora...
...is this dwarf mad magician Shakoora, who wishes to rule the whole world.-Signing off.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
"the longest-living Indian action comic superhero"
Does anyone reading this blog remember me mentioning a comic which featured Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and some guy I'd never heard of in a crossover? A comic which featured such well-distilled insanity I wrote 22 bullet points about details and hadn't plumbed into its depths?
I need to start looking stuff up before I post stuff here.
Behold: A Wikipedia page.
Yes, that character, Nagraj, can "arguably be termed as" the longest running star of an Asian Indian comic. And, in keeping with the hilarity of the Nagraj comic I've previously examined, the Wikipedia article itself is a source of great entertainment.
Nagraj was originally conceived as an enemy of international terrorism. Interestingly, in his debut, Nagraj was unleashed as an international terror weapon by the evil scientist Professor Nagmani. Nagraj in this first mission was tasked to steal golden statue of a Goddess from a temple protected by tribal devotes, snakes & by a mysterious more than 300 years old Sadhu named Baba Gorakhnath.Nagraj succeeded in his task but upon confrontation with Gorakhnath & his mystic Black Mongoose Shikangi was defeated. Gorakhnath read his mind & found out that Professor Nagmani had implanted a mind controlling device in form of a capsule in Nagraj's head to keep him under his control. Gorakhnath operated & removed the capsule from Nagraj's head setting Nagraj free who became his disciple & vowed to eliminate crime & terror from the Earth. Since then Nagraj has thrice toured the World & defeated many villains & terrorists.
This is nuts. Note the heavy and unconventional ampersand (&) usage, and the run-on sentences and incomprehensible grammar, not to mention some just plain wrongness. For instance, let's examine the first two sentences closely:
Nagraj was originally conceived as an enemy of international terrorism.
Interestingly, in his debut, Nagraj was unleashed as an international terror weapon by the evil scientist Professor Nagmani.
Wait, what? An "enemy of international terrorism" is "unleashed as an international terror weapon" by a mad scientist guy? I think that what the writer of the article was trying to say was lost in this nonsequitur. Nagraj becomes a terrorist-fighting agent after his origin story, apparently.
Also, "Presently Nagraj lives as Raj in a fictional Metropolitan City Mahanagar as an empolyee [employee] in a TV Channel secretly owned by himself."
HAHAHAHA.
Conveniently, the article is modelled after the format of Western comic book characters, and thus has a "Powers and Abilities" section. Let's see what some of them are.
Nagraj has the power to vaporize himself into minute particles and become invisible but he can remain in an invisible state only for three seconds.
He can vaporize himself to become invisible! Woo! But he can only be invisible for three seconds. I suppose that is kind of impressive-most people who get vaporized stay invisible forever.
His body is a container of millions of "micro-snakes"(sukshma-sarpa) which he can release at will from his wrists to grow and carry out a variety of tasks.
My sister's first reaction was "So, he's like a cutter or something?" Sadly, I had to say "No, I think they just kinda pop out." Incidentally, it mentions earlier in the article, although not in the Powers and Abilities section, that Nagraj's body contains no white blood cells because it's got snakes instead. That's hardcore.
He can form ropes out of groups of snakes, for use for swinging on or lassoing objects.
Hmm... Sounds familiar somehow.
His bizarre ability to contain snakes means he is home to a number of allies, whom he can release to carry out independent actions using their own abilities.
Yes, Nagraj is a snake container. And, if you don't know what kind of abilities such "allies" might grant him, here's a hint.
His only vulnerability is the situation when someone is successful in cutting off his body part completely, after which he cannot regain that part and also looses [loses] blood which in turn means the loss of snakes and his powers.
Um, how do we know that he can't regain "that part?" Looks like he's got all his fingers and stuff to me.
Another funny feature of the article is the "list of Nagraj's major alive enemies who can be expected to make a comeback in his future issues." My favorites are "Tutan Khamen," the ancient Egyptian mummy "whose main power-source, his mask, was snatched away by Nagraj," and "See-Through," "an invisible soul which thieved a big share of Nagraj's shape-shifting power & still wants more." Sadly, the list doesn't mention Shakoora, the villain of the comic I've looked at, who apparently was slated to be Nagraj's archnemesis in a Nagraj cartoon(!), which was apparently yanked before it aired.
Also, there is apparently an ongoing "crossover event" which is running long. That also sounds familiar. The crossover is primarily with another character from the same company named Super Commando Dhruva. (Dhruva has an enemy named Grand Master Robo, who "has extra-ordinary physical abilities. His body is immune to the poison of Mamba snake. On his left eye, he has a metallic eye, through which he shoots powerful laser beam." Hehehe.)
I'm sure I could say more (lots more), but that's enough for now.
-Signing off.
I need to start looking stuff up before I post stuff here.
Behold: A Wikipedia page.
Yes, that character, Nagraj, can "arguably be termed as" the longest running star of an Asian Indian comic. And, in keeping with the hilarity of the Nagraj comic I've previously examined, the Wikipedia article itself is a source of great entertainment.
Nagraj was originally conceived as an enemy of international terrorism. Interestingly, in his debut, Nagraj was unleashed as an international terror weapon by the evil scientist Professor Nagmani. Nagraj in this first mission was tasked to steal golden statue of a Goddess from a temple protected by tribal devotes, snakes & by a mysterious more than 300 years old Sadhu named Baba Gorakhnath.Nagraj succeeded in his task but upon confrontation with Gorakhnath & his mystic Black Mongoose Shikangi was defeated. Gorakhnath read his mind & found out that Professor Nagmani had implanted a mind controlling device in form of a capsule in Nagraj's head to keep him under his control. Gorakhnath operated & removed the capsule from Nagraj's head setting Nagraj free who became his disciple & vowed to eliminate crime & terror from the Earth. Since then Nagraj has thrice toured the World & defeated many villains & terrorists.
This is nuts. Note the heavy and unconventional ampersand (&) usage, and the run-on sentences and incomprehensible grammar, not to mention some just plain wrongness. For instance, let's examine the first two sentences closely:
Nagraj was originally conceived as an enemy of international terrorism.
Interestingly, in his debut, Nagraj was unleashed as an international terror weapon by the evil scientist Professor Nagmani.
Wait, what? An "enemy of international terrorism" is "unleashed as an international terror weapon" by a mad scientist guy? I think that what the writer of the article was trying to say was lost in this nonsequitur. Nagraj becomes a terrorist-fighting agent after his origin story, apparently.
Also, "Presently Nagraj lives as Raj in a fictional Metropolitan City Mahanagar as an empolyee [employee] in a TV Channel secretly owned by himself."
HAHAHAHA.
Conveniently, the article is modelled after the format of Western comic book characters, and thus has a "Powers and Abilities" section. Let's see what some of them are.
Nagraj has the power to vaporize himself into minute particles and become invisible but he can remain in an invisible state only for three seconds.
He can vaporize himself to become invisible! Woo! But he can only be invisible for three seconds. I suppose that is kind of impressive-most people who get vaporized stay invisible forever.
His body is a container of millions of "micro-snakes"(sukshma-sarpa) which he can release at will from his wrists to grow and carry out a variety of tasks.
My sister's first reaction was "So, he's like a cutter or something?" Sadly, I had to say "No, I think they just kinda pop out." Incidentally, it mentions earlier in the article, although not in the Powers and Abilities section, that Nagraj's body contains no white blood cells because it's got snakes instead. That's hardcore.
He can form ropes out of groups of snakes, for use for swinging on or lassoing objects.
Hmm... Sounds familiar somehow.
His bizarre ability to contain snakes means he is home to a number of allies, whom he can release to carry out independent actions using their own abilities.
Yes, Nagraj is a snake container. And, if you don't know what kind of abilities such "allies" might grant him, here's a hint.
His only vulnerability is the situation when someone is successful in cutting off his body part completely, after which he cannot regain that part and also looses [loses] blood which in turn means the loss of snakes and his powers.
Um, how do we know that he can't regain "that part?" Looks like he's got all his fingers and stuff to me.
Another funny feature of the article is the "list of Nagraj's major alive enemies who can be expected to make a comeback in his future issues." My favorites are "Tutan Khamen," the ancient Egyptian mummy "whose main power-source, his mask, was snatched away by Nagraj," and "See-Through," "an invisible soul which thieved a big share of Nagraj's shape-shifting power & still wants more." Sadly, the list doesn't mention Shakoora, the villain of the comic I've looked at, who apparently was slated to be Nagraj's archnemesis in a Nagraj cartoon(!), which was apparently yanked before it aired.
Also, there is apparently an ongoing "crossover event" which is running long. That also sounds familiar. The crossover is primarily with another character from the same company named Super Commando Dhruva. (Dhruva has an enemy named Grand Master Robo, who "has extra-ordinary physical abilities. His body is immune to the poison of Mamba snake. On his left eye, he has a metallic eye, through which he shoots powerful laser beam." Hehehe.)
I'm sure I could say more (lots more), but that's enough for now.
-Signing off.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
This Comic Shocked Me-No, Really
Every now again in my journeys through this vast wasteland called the Internet, I find something that shocks, even disturbs me. Case in point:
Argh.
Anyway, I was going through my rounds the other day, and was directed to a very bizarre comic by Major Spoilers. Very bizarre.
Behold the madness.
I don't know the exact context of this comic, but I do know that it was published in India. That much is pretty clear. Beyond that is anyone's guess, as the person who posted this stuff doesn't have any commentary or even a link to it on his front page. Anyway, I would do some really in-depth commentary, but don't have time at the moment. (College is back in.) So, instead, I'll point out a few of the hilarious things about this. (And yes, this is just a few.)
Argh.
Anyway, I was going through my rounds the other day, and was directed to a very bizarre comic by Major Spoilers. Very bizarre.
Behold the madness.
I don't know the exact context of this comic, but I do know that it was published in India. That much is pretty clear. Beyond that is anyone's guess, as the person who posted this stuff doesn't have any commentary or even a link to it on his front page. Anyway, I would do some really in-depth commentary, but don't have time at the moment. (College is back in.) So, instead, I'll point out a few of the hilarious things about this. (And yes, this is just a few.)
- Batman talks kinda like a lolcat.
- Superman is so dumb, he tells the immortal alien magician who just fell from the sky in a diamond everything he knows about Earth's great heroes.
- Spiderman (WHAT IS HE DOING IN THE SAME COMIC AS SUPERMAN AND BATMAN) is in Paris, France, disarming a bomb on the Eiffel tower. (Also, he is the MIGHTIEST.)
- Spiderman was stung by a spider.
- Shakoora, the evil immortal alien magician, defeats these guys with ease, and then goes to fight some guy that American comic readers have never heard of. (Though Superman knew about him, of course.)
- Nagraj, India's home-grown hero, is a sexist pig. ("I don't like this dress, Nagraj." "Shuddup, you'll get used to it." That is nearly an exact quote.)
- When Shakoora proves to be too much for Nagraj, he prays to his god to come help him.
- Nagraj's god comes and helps him.
- Nagraj's god looks like he's supposed to be the Judeo-Christian God, but clearly isn't.
- When Nagraj's god totally owns the heck out of Shakoora, Shakoora, in a desperate, last-ditch measure, turns Nagraj's buddy into a mustachio'd evil giant.
- Superman is helpless against the giant, who "made him flew."
- Batman and Spiderman use "spider webs and rope webs" (I am not making this up) to no better success than Superman.
- Superman grabs a giant knife and cuts the giant's cheek.
- Spiderman takes the bomb he was "disarming" earlier and sets it off in the giant's face.
- Nagraj, Mr. Much-Tougher-Than-Your-Heroes, leaps up on the giant and BITES HIM.
- Since his teeth aren't tough enough to defeat the giant through his invulnerable giant skin, he magically summons snakes from his fingers, which go down the giant's throat and kill him.
- That giant totally used to be Nagraj's buddy, who saved his life like five minutes ago.
- The snakes come back out and go back into Nagraj's fingers.
- The heroes all laugh, and totally aren't broken up by the fact that Nagraj just killed his buddy.
- Nagraj's god is RIGHT THERE and he does nothing to help Nagraj's dead buddy.
Seriously, what a heck?!
Also, yay me-I set a personal bullet point record.
This makes me wonder about other Indian comics. What other cases of licensing gone horribly wrong are out there?
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