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The Lost Marvel Episode V: Go Home and be a Freckles Marvel!

Freckles Marvel was a part of Captain Marvel history, and not a once off oddity either: During the height of Captain Marvel's fame, at which point, need I remind you, he was easily more recognizable than Superman, she graced several covers. She had a town for her to inhabit, supporting characters to her, and even a nifty apellation. And seemingly overnight, she banished off the face of the earth, never to be tarted up, or gritted up, or killed off. Just oblivion.

But she won't stay forgotten for long, because, I'm covering all her adventures in my series The Lost Marvel.

Sexism. Now that I have your attention, I think it's high time we talked about gender politics in this series. One of the character IS a...dumb ugly young woman, to be blunt. And yet, the character's positive aspects keep getting played up. For example, in this story, which starts with Mary Batson visiting her friend Freckles Dudley, just as she's winning the swimming medal the first of 3 sporting events during somekind of ecclectic thriatlon. She shows them the team. One of them is immediatly a sexist asshole.

And...and...and my penis is huge! You whore!

Down one Man going His Own Way, Freckles immediately drafts Mary Batson into the team, and everone abides because remember; we are in Marveltown. The second event is soapbox car races. But when the team is getting there, Curly is sabotaging the car. They scare him off and drive. What's the worst that could happen?

She's one step closer to the edge, yet not about to brake.

The Lost Marvel Episode IV: Eef AH JUST SPREAD MY WIIIINGS!

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But she won't stay forgotten for long, because, I'm covering all her adventures in my series The Lost Marvel.

So now you see that Freckles Marvel is not a one trick pony. One the one hand, she's an insane, delusional, clumsy violent sociopath with no self-preservation skills. On the other, she's fairly clever, posthumanly kind, and actually able to kick some ass every once in a while. Am I reading too much into it? Ha! Jokes on you, I'm never not reading too much into it.

Once again, Mary Batson is visiting her friend Mary Dudley, who is never again adressed as Mary even by her parents. Keep in mind, last time she got here it was by train, Clearly Mary Batson has taken a liking to her. Is it too early to ship em? Sadly nothing's happening.

Well, I always come in to check in case you've choked on your own tongue.

Nothing except the town inventor visiting Mary D's father to sell him a future flight enabled backpack called a Birmobile. The idea of just a door to door jetpack salesman is not even that amazing to them.

Look at this money! You were going to a good University before I stepped into your life!

The device works fine, with the odd, immediate, potentially fatal technical glitch.

Sometimes I forget that "Holey Moley"is not the magic phrase!

World exclusive look at Alpha Danger Squad behind-the-scene

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Here in BGE, I pride myself in bringing up obscure things that no one else is blogging about. And what could be more exclusive than a videogame that only exists in my mind. Here's a quick look at a little something I've worked up for Alpha Danger Squad, the only videogame starring public domain superheroes. Err, Mortal Kombat vs Dc Universe and Injustice notwithstanding.

It's missing the creepy music, though. I'm also happy to announce I'm advancing enough that I have the confidence to announce a proof of concept game for this summer. Called Alpha Danger Squad: Karno's Perfect Game, I will use it as a platform for my crowdfunding campaign. I wanted to call it Karno's Revenge, but I got legal cold feet.

So, more on that front soon.

The Lost Marvel Episode III: 2 for the Money, 2 for the Freckles

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But she won't stay forgotten for long, because, I'm covering all her adventures in my series The Lost Marvel.

In this episode we see a very different side of Mary Dudely/Freckles Marvel. Like all good stories, it starts with the protagonist finding out she's rich.

Or, you know...maybe he was really good at crime.

Naturally, we've seen this story a million times. Frecks gets a million dollars from some offscreen dead relative and goes money crazy and conceited and forgets everyone she knew, until she loses it, and finds out the real treasure is family/friendship. That's when the writer of this story shyamalans you.

I mean, wouldn't that be the oldest friggin cliche in the book!

Scolding Review:Birth of a Nation

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By my calculations, you should be paying 600 dollars per horse.

Award season is finally over, and we can finally put it behind us that movies people actually enjoy can hardly ever win. As fans of the scifi, adventure, and horror genres, we geeks feel this sting the most, as we must watch tepid, overdramatic pieces be recognized over the time Hulk slammed Loki into submission.

But it wasn't always like this. In fact, the very first Academy Awards show gave quite a few prizes to one of the genre pioneers, Birth of a Nation.

I had heard of this movie in passing, and thought I'd give it a review. After all, it's not every day you see a silent film with Zombies and masked Vigilantes by D.W. Wright, surely the Michael Bay of his time, but probably not as racist or at least with a better handle on history. I tried to avoid all spoilers, including not looking at Wikipedia and not reading the subtitles. After all, I think the drama can sell itsel well enought. Are you ready for an epic story full of Superheroes fighting Zombies? Well, it's after the jump!

The Lost Marvel Episode II: Civil War

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But she won't stay forgotten for long, because, I'm covering all her adventures in my series The Lost Marvel.

In this episode, we get to meet Mary Dudely in her hometown of Skunkville, where she's bragging to the local kids about her adventures with Mary Marvel. Even accountling for embelishment, I don't know if she's talking about her first apearance in Wow Comics.

That's right! I completely fuck it up!

The subject of her being an asset to Skunkville comes up, and she puts in her disgust for the town's name. That's when shit starts to go down.

"Dïsney would never buy the rights to Skunkville!"

Just off panel, 3 New Estonia supperters are killed.

A few adults come to stop the fight, trying to bring the kids to their senses and sanity prevails. Or...maybe the fight escalates.

Which side is that dog?

This is the moment Mary Batson arrives, to find, well a crazy freaking riot. She transfroms into Mary Marvel, and uses her heroic clout and godlike authority to convince the unruly citizens to settle down. Or...

The dry cleaners are all Marveltown supperters.

Mary Marvel finds Freckles in the thickest fighting, and tries to get a sense of the situation. Aware that this this kind of matter that doesn't get solved by mobs, she flies them both to the mayor, who reveals this isn't entirely Freckle's fault, and that it was a sensitive issue that was bound to explode sooner or later.

They say the name...stinks...

This is where Mary Dudely lives. A town where people will kill their neightbors over the concept of naming the city after a stink spreading rodent or a Superhero. Just something to think about when she's being overtly violent or dumb.

The Mayor tries to get policemen and firefighters to stop the riot but they are also rioting. Naturally, in the middle of Namemania, therer's still some sane people. Criminals, who don't have a faction and just want to get theirs. Mary and Freckles split up. Mary busts ass. Freckles...

"Hey...Karash is a good name!

However, she has a good comeback.

"I mean, yeah, you screwd up, but I missed the details!

And to prove herself capable, she uses a skunk to route out the hidden criminal, which brings to light the town is named after a LIVING stink spreading rodent. It's not even a tradition! Then the mayor jumps in to reveal the fight is over and the town has been renamed Marveltown.

"Mayor Embezzles Marveltown emergency fund sounds a lot better.

Presumably all the Skunktown loyalists where soundly killed offscreen. Glory to the Marveltown Spring! Halallalallala Shazam!

I'm glad this was resolved without, you know, us having to do anything.

This Freckles Marvel...just when you think she's a dumb comic relief character she demonstrates she's somewhat capable and intelligent. And she's evolved into less of a bratty girl who wants to be a Superhero and into more of a Mary Marvel Superfan, and more-further, a person Mary Marvel would willingly visit. But it's time we get a superlative, isn't it? Oh, we will...soon enough.

Concept art from Ultra Crush Siblings

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Here's some concept art from Ultra Crush Siblings, my highly comatose project. Ironically what held me back from working on it was my lack of knoweledge on how to make it, but now that I have it, I also know better than to put the kind of effort it would take on something that would at least gain me no money and at most cost me a lawsuit. I'm not fully giving up on it, but I'm focused on Alpha Danger Squad now, which is going very good. But enough talk. Here's the things.