This is the kind of oddball pairing that really gets me interested. They are two of my favorite C-List heroes with almost nothing in common besides their pursuit of justice. Add in artwork by the legendary Steve Ditko to tie the whole tale together, and you have a done-in-one comic that would be tough to pass up - well, for me anyway!
One can never go wrong with a Ditko mashup!!! Thank you, Ross!
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it, Reg!
ReplyDeleteToo bad Creeper can't use a web-line to help him. Great cover though.
ReplyDeleteTerrific cover and pairing, Ross. There is a real odd couple vibe to these two based on their original comic personalities. Of course, if Machine Man had his Nextwave personality, it would be much closer to two peas in a pod.
ReplyDeleteI must--reluctantly--admit that I've never heard of Ion before. I mean, for the first couple seconds, I thought Vapor of the U-Foes had said "Hello, Dali!" to Johnny Storm's artistic antagonist Wilhelm Von Vile!*
ReplyDeleteAs to the rest of your analysis, Ross? I agree, whole-heartedly.
Thanks for sharing this with us. :-)
*Alias "The Painter." His only other time-at-bat, as a super-villain, was as the leader of a criminal trio that crossed paths with Spidey; the Avant Gard. Talk about two-dimensional losers!
ReplyDeleteIf you were make these two heroes into a regular team, they would certainly be a pair to keep an Ion. #BadPunNoCookie
ReplyDeleteOnly Ion (from comics) that I knew of, prior to this, was the other alias that Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern) used for a short while near the beginning of the new millennium.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah! I'd pick this up in a hot minute! This kind of stuff puts the fun back in funny books. 👍 Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Daniel, Cary, Christopher and Tobor!
ReplyDelete@Carycomic: this is Ion from her pre-Femizon-of-Superia debut in Machine Man's original series back in the Eighties.
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