A ski mask vigilante. Banshee’s daughter. Shape-shifting aliens. A slippery thief. A Kymellian spaceship. Aliens out of Lewis Carroll. Which are Hot? Which are Not? Find out, as the Hot Squad continues its coverage of OHOTMU’s 12th issue and reveals how datable its characters are.
Featuring permanent panelists Elyse, Nathalie, Josée, and Amelie.
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Sin Eater – I have no experience with this character, and I can’t say I’m disappointed. The shotgun does look like it’s sawed off, as the butt (pause for female giggles) and the barrel wouldn’t be that close to the same size on a full sized version.
Siryn – I know of her existence but I don’t think I’ve ever read a comic with her in it. She’s a cute redhead with an Irish accent, but I can’t echo the Squad’s “Hot” since she is a minor.
Skrulls – Ah, an entry I’m actually familiar with. I’m a little confused by the male & female images, though. I don’t recall any skrulls that look like bobbleheads in the comics. Heck, even in the other images in the entry they’re shown as have human proportions. I am glad that the writers revisited the horror story in the making that was the skrull cows.
Slyde – How in the world does he turn or stop? No friction means no control. I don’t think the knee/elbow pads would do enough, especially if he was moving at any speed. (Yes, I know too much about physics to enjoy this character.)
Friday – The kids needed something to do exposition in the Power Pack comic, and Friday was a great way to do that. I’m sure we’d have some great time’s bantering and saving Chris Pine. 🙂
Snarks – My knees hurt just looking at these images, but the “It makes more sense without clothes” comment was worth the pain. 😀
Since it was requested, here’s a really good map of the Marvel 616 Earth: https://www.deviantart.com/fjana/art/Marvel-s-Earth-616-839225758
Another fun episode which had me chuckling as I drove to work.
Sin Eater – to me he looks mostly like the generic bad guy henchmen in the 80s video game Rolling Thunder. It would make more sense if he did a ‘punishment fit the crime’ retribution. But every minor sinner eating a shotgun blast seems a bit one-note. What did Jeanne DeWolfe do??
Siryn – I know her mostly in her ‘mid-20s’ version in the X-Force so she is without a doubt HOT. She deserves the name Banshee more than Banshee (given that the name is based on an Irish female legend) so her adapting Siryn (a play on the greek siren) is interesting.
Skrulls – I have a great fondness for Skrulls, mostly for my fandom of the Super-Skrull. The pics are odd, making them seem like bobble heads. But their powers and ability to infiltrate is cool. Pretty sure in Secret Invasion, they used some magic or other stuff to let the agents duplicate heroes’ powers as well. After all, they can only take someone’s shape.
Loving the end of episode stories. Me and Siryn at a concert. The gang must have intuited that I am a loud shower/car singer!
Peter David’s second Sin-Eater storyline in Spectacular Spider-Man revealed the reason why he targeted Jean DeWollf (since she had never been soft on crime and didn’t fit his m.o. of going after people he viewed as abetting criminals). Stan Carter was in a romantic relationship with Jean, and his Sin-Eater side viewed that relationship as an obstacle to his mission.
Cock-blocked by your own vigilante split personality? Harsh.
A great episode. I’ve been a fan of Fire and Water for years but this was my first episode of oHOTmu or NOT–this might be my favorite Fire and Water podcast! The vibe reminds me of Mystery Science Theatre: ruthlessly silly, but you also give kudos where kudos are due. I can’t believe I waited this long–I know the Deluxe Handbook backwards and forwards, so I could picture exactly the images you were discussing because they are burned into my mind’s eye due to endless re-reads, thus I could enjoy this episode (so much) while driving. For some reason, the freak-outs at the Snark’s legs had me giggling…wait, I think the reason is because you are all frickin’ hilarious! Thanks for doing this, it made my day and it made a long drive into a super-pleasurable experience!! I can’t wait to get on the road again with you.
That’s great!
Also great is finding a podcast you like and discovering there are more than a hundred episodes in the back catalog!
Skrulls: The first (and for a long time, the ONLY) female Skrull we saw was Princess Annelle, introduced in Fantastic Four #37, and in her first few appearances, she looked quite unlike the male Skrulls we’d seen; she didn’t have the ridged chin, and her hair concealed her ears, so we couldn’t see that they were pointed (and they had to have been much smaller than the ears on all the male Skrulls, or they would have poked through). Essentially, she looked like an attractive human woman, with the only difference being her green skin. I think John Byrne was the first artist to draw Annelle and other female Skrulls with actual “Skrullish” features.
– Skrulls: Since they are shapeshifters and can freely alter their size and sex (cows being much larger than a 6’4″ human), it has always been my head canon that they take the smaller forms when travelling to minimize resource consumption and maximize comfort in confined spaces. In regard to the proportions, maybe it’s their pre-adolescent form?
– Smartship Friday: The design is a bit weird though knowing your panelists, perhaps a picture featuring his/her/whatever the kids eventually decided using those weird extendo-arms might have won them over.
– Snarks: The legs are weird, but they’re also exceptionally poorly drawn in those pictures. They still look like a sort of Segway/grasshopper hybrid, but it makes more sense in better other drawings – I recommend the baby snarks in Power Pack: Day One though it might just be the proportion…
At a minimum, I’m showing the Girls the Day One cover that has Katie bottle-feeding baby Snarks.
I feel like with the Girls’ endorsement, Slyde could be the next great, obscure character who goes from nobody to superstar. The next Rocket Racoon, if you will.
I recently watched the entire Night Gallery TV series, and there was an episode about a sin eater, in the historical, religious sense. He was portrayed by a pre-“Jon Boy Walton” Richard Thomas, and his performance was so incredibly over the top, it’s hard to forget (and not really in a good way). But I recall when those Sin Eater stories were running in Spectacular Spider-Man. They were quite gritty and shocking for the time. Another late 80s example of comics getting more “mature” even if that didn’t really suit the character.
The horrible Secret Invasion Disney Plus series totally ruined me on Skrulls. I never want to even hear them mentioned again. I’ve already de-canonized that series in my head, and I hope the MCU does the same one day. P-U.