Q and A(rrow) Session

I left out the mentioning of the Ragman, but you guys get the point. I've heard that there have been hints thrown out there that the Question is active around Star City, but he hasn't shown up yet. Hopefully he will, and they'll do him justice like they did back in the day with the JLU.

So, Who Would Win?: The Scarecrow(DC) VS. Mr. Fear

TGIT!!!!!

Welcome to another edition of So,Who Would Win? I'm your host Chuck Woolery, uh I mean Mr. Morbid of course;)

Today in honor of Halloween horror month,  I'm pitting two masters of fear in their respective universes, life-long Bat-Villain, The Scarecrow against life-long Daredevil foe, Mr. Fear.

Both primarily use fear, be it through chemicals, gases and potions like the Scarecrow, or....the same, plus intimidation and extortion for Mr. Fear. Hmm. Okay, I guess both of them pretty use the same methods to achieve their goals, although Mr. Fear doesn't go running around looking like a cracked-out farm effigy.

The main difference between the two, is really how they're treated by the writers and creative teams at the time.



The Scarecrow, despite his high jobber status, is usually treated and regarded pretty well as a key member of Batman's infamous rogue's gallery.




Mr. Fear on the other hand, despite having the bigger aspirations of the two of being a major crime boss, usually doesn't fare well against his respective foe Daredevil, nor does he benefit all that much from over 60 years of publicity and notoriety.

Seriously, who's more well-known of the two? The Scarecrow of course.
He's well-known for his many appearances in animated cartoons, and hell, he even made it into the Bat-movies, while Mr. Fear has never made a TV or cinematic appearance ever. Not even as a cartoon character.

He'd be a pretty good villain-of-the-week for the Arrow show, and the Netflix Daredevil series, but we'll really have to wait and see on that, as his stock isn't high enough at the moment I think, to be noticed by the show's writers.

That could change of course, but if he did, we all good and damn well he won't be sporting his usual costumed look.
Plus there's been a few Mr. Fears running around since he first showed up in 1965.

I guess if I had to, I'd pick the 3rd one, Larry Cranston. He was the ex-law student that blamed Matt Murdock for getting kicked out of law school, and has haunted him ever since.
I think he works better as the evil opposite to DD because, duh! the whole law thing and how they both use fear( in a ways) to their advantage.

Anyways, back to the match up at hand.

My scenario is that both self-proclaimed masters of fear have heard of each other alright, and plan on showing the other who's the true master of fear.

-They both come from intelligent and professional backgrounds (Cranston a law graduate; Crane a Professor)

-Both are similar in physicality, although Crane's somehow mastered his own form of Fear-Fu(he really did) and while Cranston's no Jackie Chan, obviously he can hold his own in a fight, even if short-term.

The other main deciding factor, is that the Scarecrow's immune to nerve gas, which is basically Mr. Fear's weapon of choice ,albeit I'm sure his fear gas is way different that the kind the Scarecrow uses.

So,


The Scarecrow

VS.

Mr. Fear

Who Wins and Why?
Don't be afraid to weigh in here folks. Google and Wikipedia really are your friends if you need them;)

On the SWAG column, I just received the Wal-Greens exclusive Daredevil figure I ordered online. Sure he's supposed to show up in stores, but patience has never ever been a virtue of mine, so I went ahead and ordered him off Amazon.

And hot damn does he look good!

As a bonus of the new head/neck pegs in the ML line, I can easily swap the alternative Matt head onto my other recent DD ML figure, or pop him onto my Chameleon figure's body, to make Matt Murdock, attorney at law! Oh the skits brah, the skits!!!!

Earlier yesterday I bought another figure, the DC Collectibles NU52 Batman from the Greg Capullo artist series.


I know, I know, I already have a DC Classics NU52 Batman, but after a chance sighting at a local Gamestop on an unrelated errand, I looked a plenty of reviews until I sold myself on him, and I'm definitely glad I bought him.

 He's very well-articulated, and looks all shades of awesome standing next to the other Batmen in my collection, especially his brother, the 1st Appearance Batman from the Year Zero story arc.

Tomorrow,  the new ML Scarlet Spider figure I ordered comes in, as I've been waiting for a good while to finish building that sweet, sweet Rhino BAF.

Watched the season premieres of Arrow and AHS last night.

Arrow was pretty good, and it briefly filled us in what Ollie and Felicity have been up to, Ollie's been trying to find the right time to propose to Felicity, but then gets asked back to Star City(they changed the name from Starling in honor of Ray Palmer who they think is dead, but really isn't. He'll just be on another show) to help out with the latest all-consuming threat. The big bad of this season is Damien Dark, the same guy mentioned last season by Ra's.
So far Mr. Dark has shown to have mystic abilities as well as being a member, and maybe the leader(?) of the villainous group the H.I.V.E.

Very interesting to see how this all goes, especially with the fast-forwarding to 6 months later where Ollie's standing in front of a headstone.

Maybe Felicity dies, because it's heavily implied.  I guess we'll all see what the hell's going on throughout the season.



AHS: Hotel's first episode was pretty good. This is the season centered around Lady Gaga(and while I could give two shits about her) the show's creators and writers sure have done a good job so far of making her look every bit important to the main over-arching story as has been shown and teased.

Lots of easter eggs and movie homages here of course, especially with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. I expect a shit-ton more of them and of other classic hotel horror movies throughout the season.


That's me for this week. Have a good one folks....

Fantasy Team-Up: Thanos and the Black Hand

TGIT!!!!

So how about that Arrow season finale huh?

Damn.

Everything seemed to get wrapped up nicely at the end, and we all saw where the various members of Team Arrow will be positioned come season 4 in the fall.

*SPOILERS*


So, on the plane ride to dump the Omega Virus on Starling City, Ollie turns on Ra's and after they fight, is able to(with the help of Nyssa) land the plane.
Anybody else watching those scenes think about that tme back in the mid-90's when Ollie "lost his life" trying to divert a bomb in a plane from hitting Metroplolis in Green Arrow(Vol.1)#100? I know I did.

Anyhoo, back ot Team Arrow, who were exposed to the Omega Virus by Ollie and left for dead.
They wake up wondering why that is when <erlyin reveals that He secretly innoculated them using Ollie's already vaccinated blood..

WHAAAA!?

when the fuck did this happen? I thought for sure they were dosed with sleeping gas, not the real virus.
Damn Ollie, that's fucking cold brah. No wonder Diggle doesn't just up and forgive so easily this time. I know I'd be damn hesitant to after that.

The Flash shows up long enough to bail everyone out before going back to his season finale.
Nice of you to stop by Barry.

From there, its a race to stop Ra's from once again trying to poison the city.
Thea shows up in Roy's not-that-old outfit to save Diggle's ass, and it all leads to the final showdown between Ra's and Ollie.


It was a pretty decent fight, but really anti-climatic since you knew Ollie would win...and he does by killing Ra's.
Ra's give his Ra's ring, meanining despite what he just did, Ollie's still the next Ra's.

By the way, we saw Ra's get killed, but what about his body? It just seemed to skip everybody's mind I guess. I mean, this is fucking Ra's Al Guhl we're talking about. Properly disposing his body and makiing sure he'll never be dipped in the Lazurus Pits should've been high on the list of priorties after everything was aid and done. Batman sure as hell would've sure he was dead and buried.....

Felicity does get her big moment though, as she saves Ollie after he gets shot by a SCPD sniper.
She flies in right in the nick of time as he's about to fall into the water supply, wearing Ray's A.T.O.M. suit.

And the Iron Man parallels keep coming....

After the city's saved, Ollie and Team Arrow debrief and celebrate their hard-earned victory.
Diggle's still pissed at Ollie and walks off. They talk and then Diggle heads back to his family.

Reading the various comments about the episode there's talk of  Diggle making it offical and getting his own costume. I know he probably needs one if he's going to keep running around with these guys, but still....it's going t be really weird if he does. Personally I think this should have been his exit from the show for awhile.

I'm not saying he's not vital to the team or the show, but the guy's got a wife and kid to worry about. He really should consider semi-retiring, and just focus on them. Probably not, be he should.

And how can he after the happy ending Ollie and Felicity got?
Ollie decides that since he can't be the Arrow anymore, he'll make a run at being a regualr guy with a hot IT chick as his girlfriend. As sweet and well-deserved as this break from superheroing is for both Ollie and Felicity, it felt like more of a Series finale than a season one with this set-up.
Obviously Ollie will be the Arrow again sometime next season, but will it require a tragedy to do that? As in maybe next season Felicity gets fridged? We'll see I guess.

Oh, and isn't he and Nyssa married? Or is that whole thing going to be quietly swept under the rug? I guess he can always get an annulment off-panel, but still......

Speaking of Nyssa, we see her back at Nanda Parbat....with Merlyn.....as the new Ra's.

WHAAAA!?

Seems he and Ollie made a deal, and so Merlyin gets to be the new Ra's, which is hell of a development.
why give a guy like Merlyin, who already has a good degree of power and influence, MORE power and influence, but on a Ra's Al Guhl scale? Man is this going to bite Ollie and Team Arrow in the ass one day....

Thea's now Red Arrow, or Speedy if you believe Ollie, and Laurel's graduated as fully competeant and capable fighter. Good for her. I hope this means she won't be so fucking whiny now.

Ray makes his exit from the show with a bang. He's seen working on trying to make the suit to shrink, when a huge explosion goes off. We all know he's not dead since he'll be staring in the new Brave and the Bold-like team-up spinoff show, "Legends of Tommorow". I'm sure by then, he'll have ditched the IM-like suit, and we'll be able to shrink just like the Atom in the comics.

And that's how season 3 ended.

Things were set up nicely for season 4, and I'm curious how they'll top this season.
Seriously, after all we saw and witnessed the whole cast endure, what's there to accomplish?

I guess the next big bad is Damien Dark, who Ra's was also looking for in Starling City.
I've read rumors about H.I.V.E. finally showing up after being teased in season 2, so they could be part of the next wave of foes for Team Arrow. We'll see,

Alright, now onto a new feature I've decided to try out.
Much like So, Who Would Win?, I'll pick two seemingly random indviduals or teams that have never teamed up together, be it because they're in separate comic universes, or they just neve r seem to graviate to each other's social circle. Whichever the case, that won't be a factor now.

For the inaugural edition of Fantasy Team-Up, I chose two guys that have one main thing in common:
They both love Death.

I'm talking about Thanos and the Black Hand.



And really, when you think about it, it's really a no-brainer.

Thanos worships and adores Death, stopping at nothing to gain her love and favor.
The Black Hand has ben re-written by Geoff Johns to also love death, in the sense that it brings him peace and pleasure.

Hell, back during the Blackest Night crossover event back in 2009, Ol' Blackie pretty played the Silver Surfer to Nekron's Galactus.

They're both sick as fuck, and probably guilty of more counts of necrophilia than any other beings in any known universe, real or imagined. and that's why to me, a team-up between these two is again, a no-brainer.

What would be fun to see though, is the dynamics of their relationship. Thanos sees no other being in the universe as equal to him, so any type of partnership he'd have is temporary at best, and never 50/50.

Black Hand might just feel the same way, as he prefers the company of corpses to live people, even if they too worship Death like he does.

In fact, the already inherenit issue between these two is just that, Death.

What if she shows favortism towards BH since's such a loyal servant of death?
Now Thanos sees a rival for her affections, and there's no way in hell he's leting that shit fly!

Whoever they face is going to be able to exploit that when the moment arrives, its all just a matter of when, not if.

But for now, I can't think of a more natural pairing than Thanos and the Black Hand.
At least for this week;)

Let me know what you think of this pairing and who they'd face, in the comments' section.

Have a good/great weekend everybody.

"Me And My Arrow"

The End

Based this off an old Harry Nilsson song of the same name.

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