Monday, August 29, 2022

The Bondsmen in: "Operation: Doomfall!"

 

This cover marks the fifth appearance of The Bondsmen.  Their live action movie was featured in STF #3170, They found themselves in a beastly situation in STF #3050, They had to temporarily replace one of their own in STF #880 and were first introduced in STF #564...

It took a bit of cleaning up of Latveria before I could add in our heroes on this cover.  Here's a peek at the process: 



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7 comments:

  1. Detective ToborAugust 29, 2022 at 7:00 AM

    Good thing you have a LOT of patience Ross. That looks like it took a while to erase alone.

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  2. CarycomicAugust 29, 2022 at 8:27 AM

    If I didn't know better, I would guess that Doom sent the FF and everybody else to the Phantom Zone. And when the Bondsmen came to investigate...he shrank them!

    I know; I know. He wouldn't be so callous as to send innocent Latverian by-standers to another dimension with the superheroes! He does consider his people to be his children, after all. Which makes me wonder if that was really Doom; or one of his robot doubles gone rogue?

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  3. Bob GreenwadeAugust 29, 2022 at 9:37 AM

    Nicely done, Ross! I think I would've put James himself in the front (where you put Fury), but I wouldn't change anything else.

    Though I'm betting that Doc and Fury are taking special satisfaction from whatever they just did to Doom.

    PS: Some time you really should send these guys in search of Carmen Sandiego.

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  4. AnonymousAugust 29, 2022 at 9:40 AM

    Oooh! Oooh! Or Carmen Sandiego vs. Lupin III!

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  5. SimreeveAugust 29, 2022 at 4:11 PM

    Another great cover! And my congratulations to Ross on having the patience to do all of that clean-up.

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    Seeing the Batman appearing here reminds me of a thought that crossed my mind a week or so ago_

    In this universe, anybody can meet anybody: Right?
    It's a meme that Batman, with enough prep time, can come up with a plan to defeat anybody: Right?
    So...
    How does he stop the Juggernaut?

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  6. SimreeveAugust 29, 2022 at 4:20 PM

    Afterthought: The Bondsmen story in #3050, 'Beast Mode', would actually fit as an earlier chapter of today's story. The architecture there looks similar enough, and I expect that Latveria's fauna includes Bears. Can't you just envisage Doom deciding that guard-bears are more impressive than guard-dogs?

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2022 at 10:40 AM

    It would appear that Doom regards ameboid monsters, disguised as blue trees, as being even more impressive than guard bears.

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