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Darkestthicket
10-16-2007, 08:03 PM
I couldn't remember which post had the discussion about ninja's made up of bees but I was reading Runaways and came across this guy, he's not quite a ninja but kind of fits the bill:

http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2007Images/Runaways%20Volume%205.jpg
Mike Taylor
10-16-2007, 08:57 PM
Yeah, that's Swarm. He's one of Spidey's old foes.
RazorJAK
10-16-2007, 10:08 PM
<comicbook geeking>

Actually, he was originally a CHAMPIONS foe. I remember his first appearance because even when I was a lil kid it seemed to me like Marvel was cashing in on the "african killer bees" mania which had started sweeping the western states during the end of the 70s.

I remember how he was defeated. Hercules punched a friggin hole through the giant queen bee that Swarm was holding hostage in order to control the bees which were his body. He then tossed her out to sea. Whereas the bees sped away, leaving only Swarm's skeleton and one single bee hiding in the eye socket.

IS IT SAD THAT i REMEMBER THAT ALMOST 30 YEARS AFTER FIRST READING IT?
Crazeyal
10-16-2007, 10:32 PM
Actually.. yer BOTH right...

Swarm's bio (http://www.marvel.com/universe/Swarm)

Buffs knuckles over UBERgeek skill..


oh.. right... :d(:
Ecchi_Kitty
10-16-2007, 11:49 PM
Think I was the one who mentioned it....

And at the time, was referancing The_Guy_Made_Of_Bees (http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Guy_Made_Of_Bees). The ninja part was just spur of the moment...
Fount
10-19-2007, 02:28 AM
Anyone else flashback to the Spiderman & his Amazing Friends cartoon and Firestar & Iceman as bee-people? Now all I can hear in my head is SWARM SWARM SWARM from that episode...
RazorJAK
10-19-2007, 05:30 AM
Anyone else flashback to the Spiderman & his Amazing Friends cartoon and Firestar & Iceman as bee-people? Now all I can hear in my head is SWARM SWARM SWARM from that episode...

Actually, that episode is pretty much what made me realize that cartoons from comic books will always suck. I was still a bit young before then.
Mike Taylor
10-19-2007, 06:25 AM
I'll agree that most kids cartoons back then were written really badly. When Batman premiered on Fox Kids, things started to turn around, though.
RazorJAK
10-19-2007, 09:33 AM
You're right. I forgot to qualify that. Any cartoon based a MARVEL title or character will suck pustulant goat cock.

DC and others have come out with some decent ones. But I can't think of a single Marvel title which wasn't horrid on either screen.
Plunder Down-Under
10-19-2007, 10:10 AM
I liked spiderman 1 and 2. 3 on the other hand... were the cameramen drunk!? The only thing I can remember from that movie was spider man webing around buildings and the camera moving like an old video game, left up left up left up.
Ecchi_Kitty
10-19-2007, 02:58 PM
I liked them too. That doesn't mean they weren't horrible.
greyloch
10-19-2007, 03:08 PM
Yeah, I agree that most Marvel characters don't translate well to cartoons for some odd reason. Probably Ari Avad's fault or something.

But I will say this, the little scene of Kitty Pryde and Rogue dancing together (guuuhhh... :drool:) in X-Men: Evolution made me think impure and hentai-type thoughts. :dgrin:

No tentacles were harmed in the making of my fantasy.
RazorJAK
10-19-2007, 04:21 PM
But I will say this, the little scene of Kitty Pryde and Rogue dancing together (guuuhhh... :drool:) in X-Men: Evolution made me think impure and hentai-type thoughts. :dgrin:


Seconded. At least with Evolution you had a reasoning for some of the original x-men being the same age as some of the second, third and new mutant/x-force generations.

I never could parse the movies. They fucked up so much canon that the only way they make sense is if they're meant to be yet an other alternate futurepast created by Apokalypse or something.
Mike Taylor
10-19-2007, 04:49 PM
I liked spiderman 1 and 2. 3 on the other hand... were the cameramen drunk!? The only thing I can remember from that movie was spider man webing around buildings and the camera moving like an old video game, left up left up left up.

Three was certainly the weakest one. I have a sneaking feeling there was a lot of cut footage that could have made that movie make a lot more sense.
RazorJAK
10-19-2007, 04:51 PM
That and how Raimi didn't want to bring Venom into the mix yet. But was pressured by the studios to do so since that would mean even more action figure sales.
Jauntx
10-19-2007, 09:19 PM
Seconded. At least with Evolution you had a reasoning for some of the original x-men being the same age as some of the second, third and new mutant/x-force generations.

I never could parse the movies. They fucked up so much canon that the only way they make sense is if they're meant to be yet an other alternate futurepast created by Apokalypse or something.

Well I went to the movies FULLY expecting them to NOT be canon...I mean we're talking decades of comic history there, there was no way in hell. Thu, not expecting canon, I enjoyed the movies for what they were. Entertainment using characters I'm familiar with.
Jauntx
10-19-2007, 09:20 PM
Three was certainly the weakest one. I have a sneaking feeling there was a lot of cut footage that could have made that movie make a lot more sense.

I actually haven't seen 3 yet, and it had alot to do with Topher Grace being Venom...um...ugh
RazorJAK
10-20-2007, 01:23 AM
Well I went to the movies FULLY expecting them to NOT be canon...I mean we're talking decades of comic history there, there was no way in hell. Thu, not expecting canon, I enjoyed the movies for what they were. Entertainment using characters I'm familiar with.

Oh I know. There's no way to be canon in most of the big M's line of comics since they go back to the sixties. But there's not being canon and then there's slaying the spirit of a character, raping it's corpses, scouring out everything and laying parasitic seeds of jackassery.

Admittedly, the X-men franchise wasn't as bad as say, Fantastic Four or Blade. But what they did to Lady Deathstrike and Sabretooth was enough to make me hate them all.
Death Dragon2
10-20-2007, 03:18 AM
Well, I liked the other, newer Spider-Man cartoon. The Batman cartoons have usually been pretty good. Anybody remember the Spider-Man live-action TV Series?
Crazeyal
10-20-2007, 03:41 AM
Yup... The Japanese counterpart as well!
Mike Taylor
10-20-2007, 04:35 AM
Yup... The Japanese counterpart as well!

Who knew Spidey was a Masked Rider? Hehehehehehe.

Yeah, I was a regular watcher of the late seventies live action show, along with the Incredible Hulk and she which awakened my male hormones... Linda Carter as Wonder Woman.
Jauntx
10-20-2007, 02:51 PM
Oh I know. There's no way to be canon in most of the big M's line of comics since they go back to the sixties. But there's not being canon and then there's slaying the spirit of a character, raping it's corpses, scouring out everything and laying parasitic seeds of jackassery.

Admittedly, the X-men franchise wasn't as bad as say, Fantastic Four or Blade. But what they did to Lady Deathstrike and Sabretooth was enough to make me hate them all.

I was not happy with Lady D either