Showing posts with label The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Show all posts

Wednesday, 8 April 2009

Solo

This is Solo...
(drawn by Erik Larsen, incidentally)

According to the Marvel Handbook, "Solo constantly employs an arsenal of portable conventional weaponry, including sub-machine guns, automatic rifles, automatic pistols, hand grenades, combat knives, etc., which he secures in various pouches lining his costume."

Employing all that weaponry constantly? Must be a nightmare to live with: "Solo, stop firing that machine gun I'm trying to watch the telly!".

Perhaps that's why he's called Solo.

Anyway, multiple weapons. Numerous pouches. Plenty o' knives. This has to be the 90s, right? Nope; Solo (catchphrase: "While I live, terror dies") first appeared in 1985 in the pages of Web of Spider-Man #19. He's a proto 90s man. Perhaps THE proto 90s man.

Apparently, his sole purpose in life is to kill terrorists. Handily, he can teleport, so he has no trouble infiltrating secret bases and stuff. I'd never heard of him before, but I find the fact that he was around before pouches and guns became de rigueur interesting. But then, I'm a saddo.

Monday, 23 April 2007

The campest man in the Marvel Universe

Not that I'm obsessed with comic book lookalikes or anything, but from the 1985 Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition Handbook here's Forge as Freddie Mercury...


That's definitely a Mercury pose, although the jacket with no shirt and skimpy shorts might have been too camp a look even for Freddie.