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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The Name Says it All...
Spin Doctors revamp Boomerang.
This week’s fashion offender is Boomerang. You know, Boomerang, the guy with the, ummm … boomerangs. You might remember him from … well actually you might not remember him at all. Our zero is a disgraced professional baseball pitcher turned professional assassin. Apparently the prospect of kangaroo boxing for tourists in Australian outback caused him to turn to a life of crime. So what does he do? Get cybernetic implants? No. Expose himself to super-power inducing radiation? Nope. Create a highly advanced hero stomping body armor? Not exactly. He whips up handy dandy explosive boomerangs. I assume he made them himself because if he actually bought them from some super-villain super store then he’s lamer than I thought. Now equipped with the latest in homemade weapons of mass destruction he heads of to battle the Hulk. That’s right the freaking Incredible Hulk. Was Howard the Duck unavailable? Hell if I was a Vegas odds-maker I would give Rick Jones 3:1 on this guy to knock in him out in the first round. Oh well, like the commercial says, ‘This is your brain on drugs.” He would go on to later get his clock cleaned by Iron Man, the Defenders, and Spider-Man (on numerous occasions). So there you have it, a villain so lame that Stilt-Man chuckles when he walks by. This week’s art team must hate me for giving them this one. It just so happens that the foursome of Jesse Griffin, Israel Cruz, Skott Ray, and Mike Hartigan (collectively know as Elite Art Studios) hail from down under. Well not all of them, two of the four do but they all like shrimp-on-the-barbie and Kylie Minogue (but heck who doesn’t). Erick: On paper their skills seem quite similar but what separate a chump like Boomerang from a grade A villain like Bullseye? Jesse: Bullseye is deadly with anything and not to mention he’s slightly crazy Boomerang just has well…boomerangs which is only kind of scary if you’re a small mammal but not a superhero. I think if they amped him up and gave him that mean streak like Bullseye he could pull it off or he could just hang around with Wolverine and sponge off his popularity and get on the cover of Wizard. Israel: In this case, success. If ya can't beat your nemesis at least once, give it up, it's not in the cards. And with that costume, he had no choice BUT to win. Skott: Ummm ... I dunno. The costumes I guess. Mike: Bullseye's costume was a lot better first of all. Also I think he's a lot more psychotic - and in the end, isn't that what we all want in a villain - a psycho with a nice costume? Erick: How do you think he got those boomerangs to stick to his costume? Masking tape? Super glue? Unstable molecules? Skott: I would have to say super glue. Mike: It’s Marvel we're talking about so no doubt its unstable molecules, probably stolen from Reed Richards. Israel: Are you kidding me? Masking tape, man! That was the Velcro of the seventies. Hell, it's even popular now, look at Tobey Maguire's glasses in Spiderman 2. Jesse: Some weird bushman secret formula of XXXX beer and mucus from the pouch of a kangaroo. Erick: Give us the scoop on your redesigns. Jesse: I think I subconsciously stole this idea from Mike (thanks buddy). He started out as more of stereotypical Aussie Crocodile Dundee character with the black wife beater and hat with corks hanging off it, with a bit of the gyro copter guy from Mad Max thrown in there. Then I thought if he's going to be the greatest boomerang thrower around he should be Aboriginal since they invented them. Skott: To be honest with you, I didn't put much thought into my design. I just started to draw it. I knew I wanted to put in tattoos and the boomerang necklace. From there I just drew whatever popped in my head. Afterwards someone told me he looked like a surfer, so I went with it. Israel: My design is the daughter of an archaeologist who happened to be in Australia on an expedition. Sorry, but my Boomerangs' daddy didn't have the dominant gene. She also is very talented with explosives and can pinpoint her explosive boomerangs to go off on contact or signal. She now is a merc for hire. Oh, and she loves Fosters’. Mike: Well for mine I took the route of updating over redesigning, sort of going with an “Ultimate Boomerang” look. I didn’t like the idea of all the boomerangs on his costume so I tried to cut it down. His mask is shaped like a boomerang, and he has a logo on his chest and gloves that represent his namesake. He carries one traditional boomerang and the rest are self building nano-tech housed in the capsules on his belt. Erick: Who wins in a steel cage death match: Boomerang or The Crocodile Hunter? Israel: What??? The Croc Hunter would get bitch-slapped all over that ring. No contest. Jesse: Boomerang, because old Steve would be too busy dangling Bindi Sue and little Bob over the mouth of the Lizard to see him coming. Skott: Crocodile hunter, cause he's a crazy bastard. Mike: Crikey! I’d have to say Boomerang. Steve can dangle his baby in front of Boomerang all he wants, but a new improved psycho Boomerang isn’t gonna care. Irwin goes down in one flick of the wrist, cementing Boomerangs new status. Check out the revamped Boomerang, courtesy of Jesse Griffin, Israel Cruz, Skott Ray, and Mike Hartigan:
 
 
--Erick Hogan
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