Saturday, June 7, 2025

Hawk & Dove and The Beast

 


I liked the fact that after their transformations into non-human forms, characters like Hank McCoy and Ben Grimm decided to lean into it and just wear trunks as their entire costume - they weren't hiding thier new appearances from the world!  It's too bad the movies aren't following suit, with Hank in his lab coat and now a fully suited Thing in Fantastic Four: First Steps.  Even The Hulk is completely dressed these days!

9 comments:

AirDave said...

Ha! Ya don't really notice that the "costume" is just purple pants, or basically underwear until live action... and somebody sez, Hey, wait a minute...

Detective Tobor said...

let them try getting away with that for the women and see what is said. it's just cheaper (?) for management to make trunks the standard if you don't need to do fight scenes. it shows they are still "" civilized" even in their condition.
About a request... a Bizarro form of some of the massive magic villians or demons. What would the heroes do with them??

Carycomic said...

All I know for certain is that the Beast's further mutation is evidently what allowed him to persuade Catwoman to release him from captivity, three issues back. Because, along with all the excess body hair, he also got those narco-hypnotic pheromones that made him so popular with the ladies (a la Mandrill).

Carycomic said...

Re: today's cover? I have to wonder if the Chaos Stone is responding to Hawk's personality. Because, that's what he and Dove were supposed to represent circa the Marv Wolfman era of NEW TEEN TITANS, right? Embodiments of order and chaos!

Carycomic said...

Banish them to the Germworld counterpart on Htrae?

Anonymous said...

This was always my favorite form of Beast. I liked his early days in human form and despised his more cat-like features later on but this was his coolest rendition for me. Great cover.

Ken Roskos said...

Wicked cover! With the infamous MacGuffin as the catalyst for trouble. But to AirDave's point, the artists, and later on, the filmmakers had to have a sense of style and taste that connected to their audiences. Starting in the Golden Age, most superhero costumes were based on old circus outfits, and even some burlesque costumes. However, the ol' spandex just never worked well on the big screen. But in the comics, the trunks continue to say "Yeah, I'm not normal, but I'm still a pro. Deal with it." (Heck, even Fin Fang Foom was given a sense of modesty.) Maybe Edna Mode should have a have a say in this.

Anonymous said...

It's certainly up Mode's alley. ;-D

Anonymous said...

As in, "easy as pie." ;-D

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