| MCP #137-142 Rumble in the Jungle (1993); Doc Samson and Wolverine Team Up | |
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| Gabriel Zero | Jun 22 2009, 06:02 AM Post #1 |
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Rumble in the Jungle parts One Through Six    Did anyone else read this horrible horrible story arc? Logan is still on vacation from the previous story arc, he also runs into another damsel in distress. Only this time he is too late to save her from the giant blue possessed gorilla who snap's her neck. That's right. Giant. Blue. Gorilla. Apparently all of the natives, tourists, and even Doc Samson and his archaeology crew were possessed by some nameless alien who is never fully explained. All we do know about them is they talk like this : "Bzztt" , "Zeekkt" , "Fzzeet" Very interesting huh? The unnamed alien bugs couldn't get through a portal, so they brainwashed those within it's reach. I guess they killed all of those who they couldn't brain wash. For whatever reason they put Logan in a battle arena of sorts, to fight the Giant Blue gorilla. I must add that the whole scene served no real purpose, other then to have Logan find out that Doc Samson was brainwashed. Conveniently the bugs are now strong enough to go through the portal on their own, but thank goodness Logan is now here to stop them! Doc Samson also regains control of his senses in perfect timing, thanks to Logan calling him by his name. The two bring down the entire alien bug base, but unfortunately all the brainwashed natives and archaeological crew were killed in the process. The story ends with a pointless final battle between Logan and the blue gorilla, in which of course Logan wins and says something random to Doc Samson. I'm not joking when I say this was a bad bad book, the story served absolutely no real purpose and no explanations were given for anything. One thing I realized though. Marvel Comic Presents was the equivalent of Spider-Man's Marvel Team-Up. It kind of introduced Logan to a lot of team-up's with various other popular Marvel characters. |
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| Gabriel Zero | Jun 22 2009, 06:40 AM Post #2 |
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 Interesting Fact, the guy who runs the marvunapp site gave the alien bugs a name : GIGER I chose the name "Giger" because in some way they are just a techno-organic version of the Alien race that is generally known from the famous Alien Quadrilogy (and the comics and the video games and 2004 summer "blockbuster" Alien VS Predator) and the guy who designed the look of these famous Aliens was none other than Hans Rüdi Giger. The characters under the control of the "Giger" spoke in insect language. Krrrztk rakkt! Really annoying to read. Durability and strength of the pawns were enhanced because they were mind controlled and felt no pain. Small info on the gorilla. He wore keys as earrings. Nifty! The island where the whole story took place was never named, but at the introduction page of MCP#137 this was stated: "Not a moments rest for Wolverine on his island vacation". This story plays probably directly after his run-in with the Coven on Koma Koi which means that this story happened on Koma Koi too or that it happened on some island near Koma Koi. Problem is that Koma Koi isn't on my map. Otherwise I could come up with some possible islands. |
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| Gabriel Zero | Jun 22 2009, 06:44 AM Post #3 |
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"Giger" Portal This was the portal of the "Giger". It was built by their pawns on Earth. The "Giger" only sent weapons through the portal until the fine tuning of the portal was finished. The portal in the dimension of the "Giger" was destroyed by Wolverine and the portal on Earth exploded because of the feedback. "Blue Gorilla"  The gorilla originally escaped from a freighter that carried specimens for the London Zoological Society. It fell under the influence of the "Giger" and became their special enforcer. It killed the woman Wolverine saved from the warriors, and later was the opponent of Wolverine in an arena fight, armed with a giant axe and a shield. It missed Wolverine with the axe and got his shield and the arm holding it sliced up. The gorilla next attacked Wolverine without a weapon and got skewered, but was taken care of and survived the injuries. It was the last to remain under the control of the "Giger" when the portal was destroyed. The gorilla armed itself with some big guns and followed the heroes to the place of Mr. Williams. It attacked them, but they were too powerful for it and it fled into the ancient temple nearby after one of it's weapons detonated. The heroes survived the explosion and Wolverine followed the gorilla into the temple. The gorilla once again tried to fight Wolverine, but in the end it was buried under the temple which was blown up using Mr William's dynamite. "Warriors"  They were originally natives of the island and scientists. Some of them were finished by Wolverine when he tried to free a woman from their clutches. Others watched the fight and were ordered to help Samson by their "Princess". They also helped her to recapture Wolverine and brought him to the portal where more of them were storing the weapons that came through the portal. They weren't happy when the first "Giger" that came through the portal got his arm cut off. They all died when the portal on Earth exploded. "Princess"  It is not known what the "Princess" was before she came under the control of the "Giger". She was the female leader of the pawns of the "Giger". She gave all the orders and together with her prince Samson she watched the fight between Wolverine and the gorilla. She didn't stop Samson when he attacked Wolverine after the defeat of the gorilla, but when he was also overpowered she sent the warriors in to help him. She followed Wolverine with a couple of warriors into the jungle after his escape and captured him again. She ordered the warriors to bring Wolverine to the portal and tried to bring Wolverine under the control of the "Giger", but this plan failed. She defeated Wolverine when he attacked her. Samson saved him from her wrath and defeated her on Earth while Wolverine fought the "Giger" in their dimension. The "Princess" seemingly didn't survive the explosion of the portal. |
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| Templedog | Jun 22 2009, 09:59 AM Post #4 |
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I know that I have thought of lame characters in the past, but as an professional author how does one come up with a "blue gorilla"? |
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| jrpbsp | Jun 22 2009, 10:13 AM Post #5 |
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Well it's better then pink, fluffy gorilla. |
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| Templedog | Jun 22 2009, 10:36 AM Post #6 |
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yeah, blue gorillas are so much better. |
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| Gorvar | Jun 22 2009, 01:40 PM Post #7 |
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I had a giant blue gorilla once! We had a lot of fun. we played games together, had slumber parties, played on the snes! We were best friends...untill he bite me. I send him to some tropical island somewhere since i was to cheap to hire a vet to put him down. Wonder what happend to him... Edited by Gorvar, Jun 23 2009, 01:54 AM.
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