#the eel

[wolflikesmp100]

Maybe instead of snorting it they should MELT ITS FACCEEEEE

make better choices

[zeebreezin]

I was asked to put my long daughter up on Art Fight, so here’s a quick & dirty ref sheet of the Uttermost Companion, Nigel Marmalade :)

[yourstrulynameless]

For @atomic-potato-salad

I don’t actually know too much abt this feller but I like eels :]

[final-smashey]

❤️🖤

[616mattfoggymoments]

Daredevil (1964) #6 | Stan Lee & Wally Wood

[mysterious-corpse]

sometimes you just have to rewatch hannibal and giggle at mason vergers death scene

[wanderingmind867]

A bunch of old obscure villains are getting the spotlight again. Plantman, the Porcupine and the Eel. Nobody talks about these three nowadays, but it's always cool to see some love for the c-list villians! Plus, Luke Cage is coming back! (Defenders #36):

[comicsiswild]

Daredevil (1964) #6

[evilhorse]

Captain America #159

[nickmarino]

[keepsmagnetoaway]

X-Men 22 (July 1966)

Roy Thomas/Jay Gavin

It's Issue 22 and we open - after a fairly pointless eight pages of Danger Room stuff, yeesh - with some civilian-clothes hilarity. Lol! Lmao!

The Scott/Jean thing gets another slightly desultory reapparance here, through the medium of a vague "love triangle with Angel" gesture. This is sort of something that has been established before, but only sort of - like, Warren thinks Jean is hot, but he doesn't seem to have a particular thing for her. They just don't know how to get the Scott/Jean story really moving, so they do stuff like this every few issues.

Meanwhile, about halfway through the issue, the plot begins. Unfortunately. The gimmick for this issue is Terrible Villains: specifically, second- and third-string villains from other Marvel comics have formed a team, led by Count Nefaria (an Iron Man villain, I believe) to capture the X-Men and ??? profit. When I tell you that Count Nefaria is the least silly of them...

No, seriously. The gang then gets captured individually, each by a different villain, starting with...Plantman.

The idea that the world will cringe at the merest mention of Plantman is your first clue that the writers of this issue are themselves unable to take any of this seriously. Was there, like, a bet at the office to see what villains you could get into a new issue? What possible other explanation could there be for this?

Here's Angel being taken out by Scarecrow (Not the Batman One, TM). Oh and yes also they're all in the Mafia Maggia. Beast, meanwhile, gets got by The Porcupine...

...and Iceman by The Eel. I wish I was making this up.

The worst is saved for last: Cyclops goes toe to toe with The Unicorn and his mighty Power Horn. I'm providing pictures just to prove this isn't some hallucination I'm having.

And that's...it. That's the issue. It ends with a look at all of them together, so we can truly bask in the ridiculousness and await the reveal of Nefaria's plan next issue. Comics: there really is nothing like them.

[marvelousmrm]

Defenders #37 (Gerber/Buscema, July 1976). The team puts Luke on retainer while Kyle recovers from brain surgery. No one’s figured out that Val’s in jail yet.

[cinematic-explorations]

[final-smashey]

THE EEL

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

Eddie Lavell’s been a lot of things in her time. A struggling marine biologist, a self made mutate, a supervillain, an inmate, but these days she’s the comfortably retired owner of a successful aquarium. As much as she loved the life, after her formerly distant brother Jordan Dixon followed in her footsteps as The Viper died in the line of duty, she hasn’t been able to take up the eel mantle again.

But that’s fine, because she’s found someone else to take it up for her.

Every family has its fail son. Leopold Stryker is the fail son of the Stryker family. But he’s scuba certified so it wasn’t like Eddie had much of a choice.