Who remembers Scorpio?
My brand-spankin' new Comics You Should Own column features The Defenders #46-50 from 1977, the fantabulous Scorpio storyline. Go check it out and find out why these issues are glorious comic book goodness cranked up to eleven!
posted by Greg at 4/10/2006 12:44:00 PM
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This is why Marvel needs to hurry up and churn out "Essential Defenders" volumes 2 and 3 RIGHT NOW!
NOW!
WANNIT WANNIT WANNIT WANNIT!
Hank Scorpio?
Shoot. I thought this post was about Scipio.
(Seriously, I agree: I loves me some seventies Marvels, and want more more more!)
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Wow. On-subject, but yet still spam.
Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, you left out one major aspect of Scorpio in that story -- his bizarre Judy Garland fixation. I remember reading it at the time and wondering "Are they trying to tell us Scorpio is gay?"
For that matter, his romantic interest in building a "Virgo" -- an eternally youthful LMD who by definition could only ever stay virginal -- and her subsequent tragic "death" both seem to fit into that same idea...
RAB: He mentions Judy Garland a few times, but I didn't get the sense that he was fixated on her. Shoot, now I'll have to go look. That's a good point about Virgo, though.
I always figured the suggestion was that Scorpio was gay or at least bi, though that doesn't entirely square with his plan to create the Virgo android as a sex toy. (Read between the CCA-approved lines.)
But the Judy Garland thing, plus his line about having "unpleasant experiences" in the Army...I dunno. I wonder what the implication was really meant to be.
These were the comics that got me into comics, though. The idea of a super-villain having a mid-life crisis because all his plans have gone to crap is an excellent one.
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