Happy 5th observed Towel Day!

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Batman/Superman gets a title.

Batman v Superman: 
Dawn Of Justice.

I was unimpressed at first glance, but it's already growing on me.
It hints towards Justice League, so it's got that going on.

Also, above is the official logo.
So, I ain't gotta use the fan ones anymore.
Although, theirs were pretty damned close.

It's coming together.
Next, Gal Gadot has to put on the damned WW suit already.

Previous.

• Man Of Steel 2 becomes Batman/Superman.
• Ben Affleck cast as Batman.
• Gal Godot as Wonder Woman.
• Lex Luthor and Alfred cast.
• The Batman suit premieres. 

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Quantum Dissolve: Chapter 29. (Chokecherry meets Eidolon)

Meanwhile, while JS was having his tear drenched reunion with his long lost brother....


Chokecherry was laying stomach down in bed, out of makeup, back bandaged up, when she saw her.
A 14 year old girl casually walked by her bedroom window in the hallway outside.

She stood about five and a half feet tall, jaw length black hair with a blue streak in front, wearing a black trench-coat, black t-shirt, black Dock Martins, blue shorts, a wide black belt with a crooked-y buckle, fishnets, blue rimmed glasses, and pale blue lipstick.

She was casually punching away at a blue tablet PC, and carried herself like she belonged there.

Chokie leapt out of bed, and ran towards the door to the large room JS and her had made into their apartment, and around the long way to the hallway.

"Hey!! You!! Girl!! Stop!!", she hollered.

The girl did stop.
Not at all surprised.
Still acting like she belonged there.

"Who are you, and how did you get in here?", Chokie demanded.

The girl stifled an annoyed laugh, and spun her tablet screen around to face Chokie's field of view.

"I've BEEN here, lady", she said.

Chokie saw the screen.
It was an Omneron head with control menus off to the side, and a virtual keyboard underneath.

"I'm Omneron. Have been the whole time. I'm part of this operation. I've been helping you guys all along".

Chokie looked stunned for a split second, enough for the girl to jump in, and continue.

"What? You thought dad had actually invented sentient AI? Really? What are you, some kind of idiot? That shit's 20 years away! I mean, I know dad's smart, but he ain't magic. Boy, I hope your boyfriend isn't as stupid, or this whole thing is fucked".

"Watch your language, young lady", Chokie said, not knowing what else to add.

Chokecherry thought for a second, and said "wait, you said your dad, do you mean Dr. H?".

"Um, YEAH", the girl snarked.

"Why didn't he mention anything about you living here?", Chokie asked.

"Well, technically, you guys are homicidal maniacs. He had to see if you were trustworthy before allowing you near his precious daughter", she replied, almost bored.

"So, why are you parading around where I could see you?", Chokie asked, indignant.

The girl shrugged.
"It's my fuckin' house, I'll go where I want. We were going to meet anyway".

"Language", Chokie scolded.

"Gimme a break", the girl said with an annoyed grimace.

"What do I call you, anyway?", Chokie asked, realizing Omneron couldn't possibly be her birth name.

"Dad saddled me with Winnifred, but I prefer my internet handle, Eidolon. It's like a ghost", she said.

"Or a shade?", Chokie said with a smirk.

"Don't be cute", Eidolon snapped back.

"Watch it, brat, I'm a homicidal maniac", Chokie shot back with another smirk, and a mock raised fist.

Eidolon smirked back.

"Eidolon it is then", Chokie said, and held out her hand to shake.

Eidolon held out her fist for a fist bump instead.

Chokie completed the bump.

They walked down the hall together in the original direction Eidolon had been heading in.

After a minute, Chokie asked "Omneron sounds familiar, by any chance..".

"From the Harry Hembock comics, yeah", Eidolon jumped in.

"Yeah, a lot of that going around", Chokie said with a grin.

Eidolon started playing some annoying Japanese puzzle game involving dancing globs of ice cream.

"Say, are you the one that did the pictures of Jadey n' me in the entrance of the den of seclusion?", Chokie asked.

"Yeah....but don't tell anyone".

"...I won't", Chokie said with a wink.
"Are you gonna be in deep shit with your dad for talking to me?".

"Probably", Eidolon responded, zombie-like, wrapped up in the game.
"What's he gonna do? Ground me? Pfftt".

"Can I call you Eidie?", Chokie asked.

"If you want to die in your sleep", Eidolon said, still in game zombie mode.

Chokie grinned.
Eidie it would be.

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The shit on my walls (Part 7).

• Part 1.
• Part 2.
• Part 3.
• Part 4.
• Part 5.
• Part 6.

Chokecherry vs. Deathgrasp.

Goes next to Jade Shade cover #3, and replaces Moomin Nummumm & Harry's Ex-Wife, and, since the latter inspired Chokecherry, we come full circle.

And, this one is right at my eye level when I watch TV, and I never get sick of looking at it.
So far....

Next...

A combo of this and this from here.

Above cover #3, and replaces Harry & Spruce.
Meh, s'okay, I've still got the JS meets Harry, and the Cap'n Kabang meets Harry Harrys.

And, that's those.

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Latest Batman/Superman updates.

Na-na-na-na-na-BATMAAAAN!!!

Bam.

Previous.

• Man Of Steel 2 becomes Batman/Superman.
• Ben Affleck cast as Batman.
• Bryan Cranston as Luthor (not true).
• Bryan Cranston retraction (it's Eisenberg, not Heisenberg!).
• Gal Godot as Wonder Woman.
• Lex Luthor and Alfred cast.

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Chokecherry vs. Deathgrasp 2.0. (and other stuff) by Paladin.

An upgrade of this one, posted here.

Man, that's beautiful.
It makes me want the Chokecherry and Jade Shade action figures this instant.

And here it is again in black and white.

Love it both ways.

Here's Jadey & Chokie having a conversation.
Dig the logo on the belt there. ;)

And, finally, here's Jadie & Chokie meeting a certain naked radioactive guy.
Hee Hee!



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The shit on my walls (Part 6).

• Part 1.
• Part 2.
• Part 3.
• Part 4.
• Part 5.

JS cover #3.

Goes next to Jade Shade cover 2, and replaces Horseradish and Omneron.
I'll miss 'em, but something had to budge.

And, I pretty much repeat everything I rambled about last time.


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Jade Shade Cover #3 by Paladin.

• Cover #1.
• Cover #2.

Breaking the spoiler rule again.

This is a villain coming waaaay up the pike.

But, there's hints sprinkled in there.
A big one dropped into chapter 26.

Ah, but I'll keep secret for now who's behind that mask.
;-)

Love the Chokie in the corner panel. :-)

Yep, that's going on the wall.....


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Blood Orange and Purple Pepper, by Paladin.

Yeah, I've abandoned my spoiler rule, it was slowing me down, and making me guilty for delaying Paladin's art.
So, these characters are coming relatively soon.

They're actually Amy & Alex, referenced by name in chapter 21, and more generally in chapter 19.
I figured, screw it, let's make 'em heroes.

So, where they know Chokie's identity, and helped with her costume, I figured they'd continue the color/fruit theme.
They came out great!
Better than I imagined.
Very classic Marvel.


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Quantum Dissolve: Chapter 28. (Harry Hembock: Revelations (Part 2))

1992.

Kelly Tamron stood back, and looked at her handiwork.

The four month old, the one year old, and the two year old were floating face down in the tub like kernels of puffed wheat.
Very blue, very dead.
She'd sent them to Jesus.

It was now the turn of the three year old, Tommy, to take his bath.
"Tommy! Bath time!", Kelly called out.

Tommy always hated bath time, and fought it like cats and dogs every time.
He was out in the living room running around in his superhero jammies.
Kelly would have to go get him.

The two year old had put up an ungodly struggle, and made some unsettling noises.
Tommy was a bit bigger, and would take some doing.

She went to the kitchen to get the butcher knife.

She retrieved it, and hid it behind her back, and tried to grab Tommy with her free hand, but he was a slippery little piglet.
Always had been.

He giggled, and kept outrunning her.

He led her on a merry chase, until he got a peek in the open bathroom door, and saw.
At first, he couldn't quite comprehend what he was seeing.

Then, his brain didn't seem to want to process it.

In that frozen moment, Karen Tamron, his own mother, was lifting the knife to strike like a cobra.


A claw hammer swung, claw side down, into Kelly's skull.
And again, and again, furiously.

"You evil fucking cunt!! You evil fucking cunt!! You!! Evil! Fucking!! Cunt!!", 16 year old Lash screamed as he hurled blows at his deranged mother.

Finally, she plopped to the ground with a dumb look on her face like a gaffed fish.
She was no more.

"Good".
Lash mentally hissed.

Lash surveyed the damage in the bathroom.
He shrieked, then bawled, then vomited in the toilet, then bawled some more.

Tommy was still frozen in shocked disbelief.

Lash was gripped in horror, anger, outrage, despair, and worst of all, guilt.
He had been out smoking and drinking beers with his stupid friends.
If he'd been there, the babies would be alive now.

He came out, and hugged Tommy for dear life, and kept on bawling, and whimpering through hyperventilating hiccuping "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...I'll never let you down again...I'm sorry...".


1993

State agencies had torn the brothers apart.

Tommy had been adopted by the Irwins, and renamed Dusty.

Lash would bounce from institution, to foster home, to juvie hall, to foster home, and so on, until he was big enough for jail for the next 20 years.


2005

Lash saw the conviction of his brother on the news.

Guilt roared through him like a forest fire for the millionth time.

"If only I had gotten him out of that toilet of a town", he admonished himself.

He remembered the lame promises he'd given Tommy/Dusty that they'd be together again, and have superhero adventures together, like the old days.

Unable to bear it, he got shit-faced drunk.


2009

After many failed attempts, Lash had finally dried out from the booze, and made his plan.


2011

Lash, wearing a ski-mask, broke into the judge's house, tiptoed into the judge's room, pulled out a long strand of hair, dangled it into the judge's mouth, and used the hair to guide droplets of poison in.


2014

Harry/Lash pulled JS to him, and whispered a secret.
It took a couple minutes to tell, and it was just enough time.
Harry/Lash breathed his last, and his hand dropped away.

JS recoiled from both the secret, and the passing, as if electrocuted.

The suppressed memories poured in like water from a broken dam.

It all bowled him over like a baseball bat to the guts.

JS shook the body, and wailed.
"Oh no!! Oh no, oh no, oh no!!! I can't lose you now!! We were supposed to find each other!! We were supposed to have adventures together! We promised! Aw no!! Aw nooo!".

JS clutched Lash's body even tighter, and wailed guttural sobs that almost sounded like wounded animal howls.

It started to rain.

Harry Hembock was not after all, indestructible.

Neither was, to JS's humiliated frustration, his own heart.

No, Harry Hembock was not indestructible.
But he had protected him when it mattered most.

And The Jade Shade would add him to the long list of people he would have to avenge.

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Quantum Dissolve: Chapter 27. (Harry Hembock: Revelations)

Harry pulled JS to him, and whispered a secret.
It took a couple minutes to tell, and it was just enough time.
Harry breathed his last, and his hand dropped away.

JS recoiled from both the secret, and the passing, as if electrocuted.


2011

One day, the judge who convicted Dusty Irwin mysteriously died.
With him gone, his appeal magically went through.
He was released.
His trial was exposed as the travesty it was.
But, the damage was done.

Rewind to a night before...

A man in a ski-mask broke into the judge's house, tiptoed into the judge's room, pulled out a long strand of hair, dangled it into the judge's mouth, and used the hair to guide droplets of poison in.

Drop, after drop, until the tiny squeeze bottle was empty.

Then, the assassination complete, the man let himself out, and locked everything back up.

He left behind no prints.

He escaped in a car parked a block down the street.
He unmasked.

It was Joseph, "Lash", Tamron.

"Score settled, you corrupt old son of a bitch", he mumbled as he made good his getaway.


2011

Summertime.

Lash was working on a new mask.
A mass production one for sale at stores.
Sculpting, molding, vacuum forming, the whole deal.

He was at the sculpting stage.
Slow going.
A lot of setbacks, and outright squashed flops.

But, finally, he had nailed it.
He stood back, and looked at his handiwork.

It couldn't seem to decide if it was a ghost, an alien, or a skull.
The finished version would be painted green, and have a black shroud on the back for covering up the wearer's hair.

He'd based it on the local Lentilville legend of The Green Monster.

He pointed at it, and said "you're gonna sell like hotcakes!".


2011

October 20th.
Dusty Irwin wandered through the grocery store, and then stopped dead in his tracks.

There was a display of Halloween masks, and one of them hypnotically grabbed his attention.


2013

Lash saw the news report.

A man in a green mask calling himself "The Jade Shade", was fighting crime, and had unraveled the conspiracy against Dusty.
Seemingly, half of all Lentilville went down over it.

It was Dusty. There was no doubt in his mind.

"I should have killed those sons of bitches myself", he hissed inaudibly.

He looked at the TV again.
"I'm coming, Dusty", he whispered.


2014

Lash tried on his costume.
It consisted of an oversized black greasy pompadour wig, light grey sweatpants, and a matching sweatshirt, red boots, and scrawled on his chest in black permanent marker was a large thick "H", with a third middle line down the middle.

He got himself on two episodes of "The Krazyfool Show", hoping Dusty would see, and have his memory jogged.
No dice.

He'd have to be more direct.

He went out during JS's patrol hours.
After running afoul of a mugger, and dispatching him, he hit pay-dirt.

JS hopped down from a nearby fire escape, startling Lash/Harry momentarily.


Minutes later...

Harry/Lash pulled JS to him, and whispered a secret.
It took a couple minutes to tell, and it was just enough time.
Harry/Lash breathed his last, and his hand dropped away.

JS recoiled from both the secret, and the passing, as if electrocuted.

The above wasn't that secret.
That was just the setup.
Here we go....

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Quantum Dissolve: Chapter 26. (Jade Shade meets Harry Hembock)

Once upon a time, there were a bunch of guys shooting each other with big guns.

Suddenly, a smoke grenade was tossed into the fray, and in the resultant loss of visibility, a flurry of punches, kicks, and clanks of an aluminum bat were heard.

When the smoke cleared, only The Jade Shade was standing.

"Well, that was easy", he muttered, as he sheathed the bat on his back.

JS was solo, because Chokecherry was still at home healing from her injuries.
Chokecherry still wanted to go out on patrol, but JS insisted.

Dr. H blamed himself for some reason, and despite reassurances.
"Whatever", JS thought to himself.

The media ripple effect from their short appearance on "The Krazyfool Show", had indeed helped with their popularity quite a bit.

Much more so than the whole Phidey debacle.

Criminals were scared, and pickings were slim.
Tonight was a rare night.

JS climbed up a fire escape, and got back to his precious rooftops.

Suddenly, he heard a woman scream.
"Ah, the music of the night", he mused.
He broke into a run in the direction of the sound.

Before he could get there, he heard sounds of struggle, and two male voices grunting, the random exclamation of "stop, you evil fiend!!", and then finally, the audible sounds of punches, and a dull thud, like a sack of potatoes.

When he got there, someone else had taken care of it.

He was a short, gaunt, bug eyed mantis of a man with a crippling overbite, and strange oversized black greasy pompadour.
He wore light grey sweatpants, and a matching sweatshirt, red boots, and scrawled on his chest in black permanent marker was a large thick "H", with a third middle line down the middle.

JS hopped down from a nearby fire escape, startling the man momentarily.

The figure put his fists on his his hips, and said in a reedy voice "s'okay, man, I got this one".
How in the hell this guy just whupped a mugger would be a mystery for the ages.

"So, I take it you're supposed to be Harry Hembock", JS deadpanned.

"The one and only", the man said through a shit eating grin.

"Well, Chokie started out imitating 'Harry's Ex-wife', Krazyfool is imitating 'Krazyfool', so, why the hell not?", JS figured to himself with a mental shrug.
He decided to go along with it.

JS started the conversation off with inanities, the weather, what "Harry", was doing out this night, etc, etc.
They stood in place at first, then started to walk along.
Eventually, JS thought to himself "well, there's no way around it, eventually I'm going to have to pull the rug out from under Mother Goose".

As he thought this, images of Peerless Person and Hadesburster flashed through his head, but more insistently, what Harry Hembock the character had meant to him as a child.

"No, I can't be easier on this guy. A lucky rabbit's foot is a lucky rabbit's foot".

JS started to toss Hembock trivia at this ersatz Harry.
The guy kept up with it like a pro.
He knew it all.
The "Hurt Hero", years, the mad scientist years, Zone Dweebies, NLHH, NLHH:DD, the 25th anniversary special, the whole ball of wax.
Inside out, and from all 3 dimensions.

As it turned out, at the very least, this guy had been the actor that portrayed Harry on episode 2-3 of Krazyfool Show.

JS felt himself WANTING this guy to be Harry in his deepest instincts.
He fought against those impulses.

Then, in mid-sentence, Harry grabbed his thigh, let out a yelp, then collapsed.

JS ran to his aid, and saw blood gushing from his femoral artery.
He'd been stricken by a shuriken.
An ornate shuriken coated with a red metallic finish.

JS hastily calculated the direction of the source of the shuriken, and began firing off crossbow bolts into the shadows.

He heard running footsteps.
The assailant was getting away.
There was nothing for it.
JS had to stay with Harry.

Harry was bleeding out pretty fast.
Even if JS had surgical skill, and sutures, he couldn't have stopped this bleed in time.

Harry was already ghostly white.
He pulled JS to him, and whispered a secret.
It took a couple minutes to tell, and it was just enough time.
Harry breathed his last, and his hand dropped away.

JS recoiled from both the secret, and the passing, as if electrocuted.

JS shook the body, and wailed.
"Oh no!! Oh no, oh no, oh no!!! I can't lose you now!! We were supposed to find each other!! We were supposed to have adventures together! We promised! Aw no!! Aw nooo!".

JS clutched the body even tighter, and wailed guttural sobs that almost sounded like wounded animal howls.

It started to rain.

Harry Hembock was not after all, indestructible.

Neither was, to JS's humiliated frustration, his own heart.


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Happy third observed Star Wars day.

• First.
• Second.

So, I said last time...

Maybe this time next year, they'll have coughed up some casting decisions, and a title, or something.

And from December...

Also, Hamill, Ford, and Fisher are back.
Lucas blabbed it.
Disney wants it to be a big thing when they reveal it, so they're being super secretive, even though we know.
These studios are so weird lately about their secrets.

Well, the casting is officially out, and yep, Hamill, Fisher, and Ford are in.
As are Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew.
No Billy Dee Williams though. :-(
And the reveal wasn't so damned huge.
It wasn't a glitzy press conference or anything, just a pic of a table read.
So, I stand by that they were being weird.

The title is allegedly going to come out some time this summer.

And, the treat for today, is the trailer for "Star Wars: Rebels", which actually looks pretty cool.
Go out and find that, I don't feel like being a commercial for Disney.
You can't miss it.

And that was the state of Star Wars on May 4th, 2014.


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