Spiffy comics part 1: DEATH's HEAD II

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This is the begining of a series of posts where I recommend some underrated, & unknown comic books.
I'd like to go with one of my childhood favorites for my first post. (I plan to post some manga as well such as MBQ, Worst, etc.)

Death's Head II

Try to imagine the Terminator, with the ability to absorb powers, a durability, & healing factor on par with the Wolverine, the sheer size, & hunting prowess of the Predators & a sad case of multiple personality disorder. The main personality being the original Death's Head who had a wild British sense of humour.
Add in a sexy side kick named Tuck, bucket loads of gore, & T&A galore.
What you're left with is a comic that bears some resemblance to the adventures of Conan.


The story is about an advanced cyborg called Minion.
He was created by Doctor Necker.
Minion was in the process of assimilating instincts, & traits from the world's top personalities. He kills his targets & enhances his own abilities when he assimilates the victim's prime individual characteristics into his own consciousness.

However the Minion project went haywire when he decided to assimilate the robotic bounty hunter Death's Head.

Death's Head's persona was so dominant that the Minion project begun to act erratically. This was due to a psychological battle that was being fought inside Minion's head.
Death's Head & Minion were fighting over as to whom would become the dominant persona.
Death's Head's personality usurped Minion's programming with the help of Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four.
This then gave birth to Death's Head II. Minion's body, and the original Deaths Head's personality.

Enough about that. While DH II's background story kicks ass. The plot of the comic itself isn't that great, nor memorable. What I love about this series is the witty dialogue , & the badass art.
You would never guess that this guy has a keen sense of humour just from looking at him.
DH II is one of the most overpowered characters in the marvel universe. (He's the original Death's Head, Wolverine, Megaman, the Terminator, & the Predator all rolled into one.)
It's makes me wonder why they don't bother to use him much.
















Yes I'm aware of DH III. However it needs to be said, Death's Head 3.0 sucks.!

He looks cool, but that's about it. He's just some badass robot. BORING!
The problem here is that DH 3.0 was created by the original creator of Death's Head.

I'm a hardcore fan of DH II, because of his personality, & Liam Sharp. (The main artist of the DH II series.)
This man tells it like it is about what made DH II so fucking awesome.

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Brahma: Feb 25, 2009, 6:48:01 AM Death's Head II has always by far been my favourite character in the whole Marvel universe. It's such a crying shame we don't see him anymore. DH2 had more personality than 90% of Marvel characters put together. What I liked the most about the character was that DH2 was in a strange way one of the most believable character in the MU. Disregarding the fact that he was a hitech-cyborg, that thing that made the character believable was that DH2 was not clearly a hero or a willain, but made his moral choices on case-to-case basis.

DH II didn't really have any villains either. The closest DH II had to an arch enemy were Dr. Necker, & Wolverine. DH II's relationship with Wolverine is just some kind of friendly competitive rivalry.

Dr. Necker is some kind of love & hate relationship.
Sometimes she's an ally, most of the time she's an enemy.
You could never really tell with her.
(This is why I think it's a travesty that Dr. Necker came back in Ultimate Marvel just to get pimp slapped around by costumed superhero freaks. The real Dr. Necker would've made mince meat out of them just for disrespecting her.)

Then again DH II's is the same way. Sometimes he's a hero. Other times he acts like a villain.

I'd also like to add that DH II had an amazing cast of supporting characters.
Mainly Tuck, & Dr. Evelyn Necker.
The banter between the three is hilarious.

These are the key traits that are missing from the original DH, & DH 3.0.
They don't have the "character" that DH II had.

Another thing that makes DH II untouchable is that he's basically a cyborg Conan.

Over the top gore, gratuitous Tits & Ass, hilariously abundant dark humour. DH II had everything that Conan had, but in a futuristic medieval setting.


Liam's art style had a cyberpunkish fantasy medieval tone to it that is noticeably absent from the other Deaths Head's.
This cover is by Simon Bisley, but they have a similar art style. The main difference is that Liam draws prettier woman. Both artists seem to be heavily influenced by Frank Frazetta.
While the original run of DH II had quite an abundant amount of T&A.

At least DH II was consistent. Both men & women have their clothes ripped off in this series. It's almost an unwritten rule in most comics that only the women get their clothes ripped or burned off.

I think DH II's biggest downfall is that he's a marvel character. (DH II would probably still be around today had he been an independently owned character from Image, or Darkhorse.)
Marvel superheroes suck.
This blog sums it up best.
http://itcamefromdarkmoor.blogspot.com/2008/08/icfd-cover-of-week-17th-aug-2008.html

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It's a collaborative effort between the immense talents of Mr Liam Sharp and Mr Simon Bisley. Now THAT'S a pairing! And it's exactly the kind of reason that I started doing this feature. Overkill had so many great covers and possessed a tone which we certainly felt here in the UK, but I'm not sure translated entirely to American readers. It was grittier over here. Dirtier. But in the most enjoyable sense. I find myself missing Death's Head and Tuck more and more by the year. I find it hard to believe that Marvel would opt for the reinvented Death's Head 3.0 in favour of this guy. He had so much more to offer. And offer it he would, for the right price...

Marvel UK comics generally had a darker, more mature tone.
Typically most comics only get the gore & T&A right, but leave the sophistication & complexity at the door.
I loved DH II, because they felt like they came straight out of the Heavy Metal (The Euro erotic comics.) universe.

DH II was one of the few Marvel superheroes to have a personality that was actually "human".
Heads will fly, and panties will drop. This is the cybernetic Conan. Otherwise known as
DEATH'S HEAD II.


DH II Scans





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This panel sums up my thoughts about DH II.

How much longer do I need to wait for a Death's Head revival? DHII ended prematurely way back, because Marvel UK went belly up.
DH II's comicvine page

Yoga Flame! Miku's calves of steel.

Now back to them Indian bastards.
Nah fuck it.
Join us in the next post. As the
The "Hawtness" Takayama

presents to you the bubblebath of divine sexiness, Miku Hoshino.

OKStupid.com

I was looking through some of my old profiles from a couple years back. You see I'm an idiot.
I unknowingly registered to many different online dating services in the past. Even my account on myspace was a mistake. (I registered on myspace back in '05 to join a video game group to advertise my site. I had no idea it was a match maker site.)
Okcupid is one of the many that I registered for. Why? I was simply filling out stupid ass quizzes.
I applied for membership simply to see the completely irrelevant results.

Well anyway fuck that. I checked out that piece of shit site the other day, and I noticed that I had a couple of "quivers" I don't know what the fuck it is, but I'm assuming that quivers are people who are enticed by your profile. Oh shit, these girls are a bunch of fucking freaks. Are you sure that's not a man in drag?

Ah shit, Girl looks like she came straight out of Total Recall. No that's cousin IT. It's a giant mutated thumb from Silent hill.
Is this some kind of joke? The bitch is fat. No fat chicks allowed. I'd rather take my chances with the chick with a dick.
Yeah I know I'm a shallow ass bitch, and what of it? At least I admit as such.


I mean fuck.
I actually look more feminine than these women, and I'm not exactly girly looking to begin with. That's something that I'll never understand about internet. Why the fuck am I always approached by the freaks?

I get hot chicks interacting with I most of the time in real life. Yet I'm nerd fodder on internet. Hah hah most of my peepz have Misa Campo added on their myspaces. I don't, because she didn't fucking add me back. (Not surprising. Not even my own relatives who are also models or were at one time don't add me back either.)

That's how much bad luck I have with women on internet. I should thank goodness that my net life is nothing like my real life. (Women are interested in me for some reason when they see I in real life, but I'm treated like a piece of shit online.)
I'm thinking this partly has to do with I being Asian.

You see the only people who are actually attracted to Asians are fetishists, and impotent nerds with no social skills. Now the funny thing is. I don't exactly look "Asian" when it comes to the common American perception of the term. To most Americans when we think of Asian men. We usually think of cats like him.

You know someone who looks weak, childish, easy to dominate. Hell Masi Oka is so small that even the Veronica Mars hottie towers over him in both stature & body mass. (Kristin is only 5'1.)
Alright that's enough of I ripping on him. The basic point that I'm trying to illustrate is that if your Asian. People expect you to either be feminine or at least have a feminine passive like personality. The only reason why Masi is so accepted by mainstream America is because he's a fetish. He's what women go for when they want something that's a bit out of the norm.
How this applies to me is that since I'm Asian. People assume feminine, & zen like qualities into my well being. Regardless of the fact that I'm really just your everyday stuck up snobby ass American who happens to be born a certain ethnicity.

It's my opinion that I would actually attain better online results had I listed myself as either Middle Eastern, or Latin Hispanic. (I technically am partially Hispanic, because I come from a bloodline that's intermixed with Spaniard nobles. I still classify myself as Asian anyway, because both of my parents are Asian.)

I've noticed through out my life experiences that I'm often treated with much more respect when people assume I to be of Latin origin. Not only that, individuals also assume typical Latin stereotypes into my personality such as the dreaded "Latin lover", or the "exotic foreigner".
However I'm just classified as one weird rapist passive aggressive motherfucker whenever people find out that I'm an Asian.
(I hardly ever tell anybody what I ethnicity I am. I let them find out for themselves.)
As such people tend to attribute all these weird ass Masi Oka like qualities into me. Simply, because I'm the same blood stock as he. Which is madness, because I look nothing like him.
Not only that I don't even act passive aggressive to begin with. I'm a blunt stuck up bastard.

It irritates the hell out of me, because some women expect I to have a personality similar to that of a stereotypical Asian. (A follower personality. Someone who kisses up to others, & stays in the background.)
I'm like fuck no. Sure I guess I am somewhat stereotypical.
I'm an asshole chauvinist like a typical East Asian Indian man.
Speaking about the Indians. Shit, some of these fools look like they're kicking some mad game.



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They kinda have reason to be chauvinistic. I don't even know how I could compete with these fools.
They're way too attractive. (& that's I saying that as a straight hetero sexual man.)
I should just be thankful that most Indians seem to only be attracted to other Indians.
Just look at that mothafucka in the suit. He's all like "Make mah sammich, Bitch!"

Now where the fuck was I? You know what fuck it. I'm changing the subject.
I'll conclude this current post in three, or four sentences, & then start a new post about them damn Indians.
Men who are classified as Asian have are likely to attract nerdy ass freaks who lack social skills. Regardless of how the Asian man appears, or acts. Preconceived Asian stereotypes have a tendency to overlap the individuality of the person in question.
(At least when it comes to online match making.)