Showing posts with label Rocket Raccoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rocket Raccoon. Show all posts

Friday, September 07, 2012

I Think Thanos is going to get away with it...

Rocket Raccoon could have secured the Cosmic Cube if it weren't for people keeping their garbage in unsecured containers!!!  Another victory for Thanos!!!

Just having fun.  Drew this on my iPad.  Not the easiest device to do art on, but was doodling away while watching DNC political speeches on TV.  Thought I would share.
Rocket Raccoon and the Guardians of the Galaxy 2012!!!!  Evolved mammals of the galaxy unite!  And lock those trash cans, damn it!  *-)
--Jay

Got the idea from VindicaSean and Topless Robot. "Rocket Raccoon was going to stop Thanos last week, but he got distracted by someone's trash can not being properly covered."

Monday, June 18, 2012

Enter the Raccoon

Whoo Hoo!  A bit of unbridled joy is in order.
Rocket Raccoon just made a big entrance on the last page of Avengers Assemble #4
Oh yes he did, and the Guardians of the Galaxy, including Peter Quill, aka Star Lord, who was kind of dead last time we saw him.  But this Avengers title doesn't seem to fall within "normal Marvel continuity", if there is such a thing.
Oh well, I don't care.  I'm just glad to see my gun-toting evolved mammal back on the pages and out of Comic Character Purgatory, even though the Big S Guy might be sad to see him go.
I just got a stack of 70s and 80s back issues including a couple of old Star Lord books.  Corny Crap of the Best Kind!
 Meanwhile: Waiting for next month's Avengers Assemble.  Bring on the Racconiverse!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Thanos Glimpse Via Avengers Leads to Raccoon

In recent Marvel Comics history, if Thanos was being thwarted, that meant the Guardians of the Galaxy and one tiny raccoon with really big guns: Rocket Raccoon!!  I don't know why I find the little guy so appealing, but when it comes to the Raccoon I can only say, "I am Groot!"

So when Thanos was spotted for two seconds at the end of the Avengers Movie, my hope was kindled that the Guardians might be making a comeback after a couple of years of comic book cancellation purgatory.
Last week the cartoon, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, had the Guardians, complete with Groot and Rocket, show up for a cameo then split into space again.  That was fun, but I miss my regular Guardian cosmic fix.
But now Marvel is teasing us with Raccoon possibilities on the cover of Avengers Assemble #6, which won't be out until August.  And spilling the beans that Zodiac (the Avengers' current bad guys in the series) is being controlled by Thanos himself.

Sounds like a job for the Guardians, except that Peter Quill and Richard Rider were all busy getting dead that last time we saw them at the end of The Thanos Imperitive.  But if their foe Thanos made it out (and into the movies), maybe Starlord and Nova will make a return as well.

Don't know what the hell I'm talking about?  Go read the Guardian comics (the 2008 - 2010 ones, not the horrible 1970's Guardians) written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (two of the best writers in comics).

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Not Everyone is Happy with The Avengers Movie

I loved the Avengers Movie.
I loved seeing all these Marvel Heroes come to life.
It was not "high art" by any measure, but it was a great action movie, and a very good adaptation of the comic book Avengers.  I have seen it twice already!
But not everyone is happy with the film:
At the end of the film the defeated alien overlord is groveling before a mighty throne out in space.
We get only a brief view of the crinkly chin of the being who apparently was secretly pulling the strings of the Chitauri aliens who were pulling the strings of Loki.  You would be excused for not knowing who that purple chin belongs to.  I thought it was a standard Skrull chin at first.  But the second time I watched the film I noticed it was purple, and Skrulls aren't purple, they're green (unless of course it was a Skrull shape shifting to look like someone with a purple chin).
So that means the chin most likely belongs to Thanos, the Mad Titan.
Does that mean we get Thanos in Iron Man 3 or Thor 2?
Where Thanos treads the Silver Surfer, Nova and Captain Marvel are usually to be found.  That would be cool.  But then Marvel needs to do a full out Guardians of the Galaxy Movie with Rocket Raccoon in it.
More likely would be some as yet unannounced Avengers sequel?
Who knows?
But I would watch any and all of the above mentioned movies.

I bet Thanos is not pleased with his scant screen time in Avengers.  And Thanos does nasty things when he is in a good mood!  So watch out Marvel Movie Universe.

And what the heck is Shawarma anyway?

Monday, September 19, 2011

Rocket Raccoon knows Thunder when he hears it

That's not Thunder, Little Buddy, that's Thunder Echo!

Read my new Annihilators HC over the weekend.
I miss the Guardians of the Galaxy, personally.
But it is good to see Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning writing dialog for some of the most cosmic characters in the Marvel Universe.
But I really looking forward to the Rocket Raccoon and Groot reunion.
And it was definitely the most fun part of the book.
Rocket has gone mainstream and is working in the mail room of some huge corporation.
His best friend in the place is a shipping computer that looks a lot like the barcode scanners I work with every day.
He has some typical, BIG GUN MOMENTS!
But the best fun is when he is navigating the cubicles of Timely Corp and the unlikely rebels of the Forest Underground (talking mushrooms everybody).

I liked it, but I hope DnA find something more interesting for Rocket and Groot to do in the near future.

I give it a B

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Annihilators HC: Written by DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING Penciled by TAN ENG HUAT & TIMOTHY GREEN II Covers by ALEX GARNER & SKOTTIE YOUNG

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Thanos Imperative

I'm in the middle of reading Marvel's The Thanos Imperative because it has The Guardians of the Galaxy in it.  And I'm not sure which is cooler, that Cancerverse Hulk is a Tiefling.
 Or that when The Vision shows up saying, "I come in peace," that Rocket Raccoon responds in typical Raccooniverse fashion:
"That's great, but you don't mind me aiming my unfeasibly large gun at you, do you?"

Saturday, April 09, 2011

Welcome to the Raccooniverse


Yes, Raccooniverse.
Rocket Raccoon initiating some bad guys into the Raccooniverse.
and inventing a new word.
That's one raccool raccoon...

Monday, March 07, 2011

Glad to know I'm not the only Rocket Raccoon Fan

At the Marvel Panel at Emerald City Comicon 2011, Marvel Big Wig Brian Michael Bendis took a moment for our favorite evolved mammal and member of the Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon

In response to a fan request to see Rocket Raccoon in the future, Bendis replied, "I wouldn't be surprised if Rocket Raccoon turned up in the 'Ultimate Spiderman' cartoon -- that's the level of nerdiness that we're at."


Echoes:
Quote from CBR
Pic from Guardians of the Galaxy issue mmbmhble, from Marvel (insert legal disclaimer here).
By the way, "BRAKKA" is a classic sound blurb for a big gun.
Click on the pic and read the dialog.  It's classic Rocket.