The Grim Adventures of... The Avengers?



I have a copy of The Last Avengers Story. (henceforth "TLAS") [The Avengers is a comic book super hero group, with a roster that includes or included the Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America.] It's in two parts, but I only have the first issue. I got it at a bargain from a Booksale stand, I think, and I have since looked for the second issue, but haven't found one. So I continued looking for it, in digital form now, however, and on the 'Net. This morning I did so again. And I stumbled upon a website summarizing the story.

[This reminds me... I'm waiting for the next Marvel movies: on Thor and Captain America. Initially, although I was expecting that Marvel is setting things up for one of the biggest -- if not THE biggest -- movie event in human history (more on this later), I didn't see the pattern; but I've now realized that they're really setting up the stage for The Avengers on the silver screen. Hopefully it would be on IMAX 3D. Wow. with the right crew, it would truly be historical. Of Star Wars and Matrix standards]


[see Avengers on Wikipedia; see Avengers on their official Marvel website]


Now, I also watch the Cartoon Network, and one of my favorites was The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It's a story of "Happy-go lucky Billy and cynical Mandy [who] become best friends with the Grim Reaper after winning an otherworldly limbo contest against the messenger of Death."


Now, what's with this blog entry? Well, I learned through Jay's Notes on the TLAS summary I've mentioned earlier that "The Grim Reaper is actually Billy, the other twin of the Scarlet Witch and Vision.**"
In TLAS, the Grim Reaper is a main villain. That certain Billy in the Marvel Universe is William "Billy" Kaplan, a.k.a. Wiccan, twin brother of Thomas Shepherd, son of separated Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) and Vision.

Billy the Grim Reaper. Hmmm...?



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*all images, characters and logos trademark and copyright their respective owners.
**Scarlet Witch and Vision = take note that there are three versions of Scarlet Witch and two versions of Vision based on my research on the Marvel website. See here: Marvel Universe characters list Q-R (for "Scarlet Witch") and U-W (for "Vision")



5 comments:

silent storm said...

Ei, get a blogroll or something.. I should comment on yer post I know but I havent watched 'em and I'm not sure I want to and I'm thinking you really ought to have my site linked to yours since I just got myself my own domain : http://www.psycheanalyzed.com/

and how about a shoutbox too???

ayt!? :P

Lorgen Shadoufang said...

Hi! Great to have a visit from you!
You're waaay better at this blogging thing and remember how stumped I was when you were talking about RSSs and Atoms and such? I've still got as much knowledge on 'em as I have about how women choose their shoes or lipsticks.
Show me? hehehe ;'p
Thanks... and I'm commenting on one of your posts now =')
Great site organization, btw. Why the heck can't I do that?!

Anonymous said...

Very shorts, simple and easy to understand, bet some more comments from your side would be great

Lorgen Shadoufang said...

Hi "Anonymous"... oh, yes, I'm guilty of that.
Thank you for reminding me.
I hope you'd visit from time to time and, introduce yourself. I hope you learn/ed something or at least enjoy/ed your time here =')
Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

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