What were they thinking when making him?
>>153141804Postmodernists don't think.
>>153141804Vampire twinks?
>>153141804Reminds me of something I’d see in a 80s/90s anime honestly.
>>153141804We want the emo gay bdsm age gap lover audience
>>153142053I mean I could flip a coin on him being some goth vampire mommy’s sub or a gay twink based on the design.
>>153141804made for Blade's cock
>>153141804It's crazy how zero issues of this were ever published but /co/ will have at least one thread a month about it until 4chan finally dies.
>>153141856>PostmodernistsLooks Gothic to me.
>>153141804Trying to make the most pathetic cry babies on the planet sound and look cool. Really you just cant turn a turd into a diamond in this case.
>>153141804Sexo
>>153141804They were making so many bad choices with this team they accidentally made a good one.
>>153142354To be entirely fair, /co/ made a really good story for him, which is more than can be said for any of the other New Warriors.
>>153142107>only one to be made official>fucked up his head shape and jawlinethanks I guess
>>153141804It should have been released the run.
>>153141804twinkpire was alright, but screentime was the goat
>>153141866/thread.
>>153141804Quick let's get outraged by something that never came out. I'm so outraged right now by this thing that never existed that was a thought experiment and was canceled before he even came out rage is the only thing I feel about a terrible idea that never came out damn those woke people doing things that never happened let's get angry together and then rub penises together
>>153141804Please don't hurt me New Warriors
>>153141804His design was the best on the team- he's like Homo Danhausen
>>153146692>Create the shitiest thing ever>People call it shitty>NO YOU'RE OUTRAGED!!
>>153146732It was the most terrible thing ever created except it never happened. We did not get Snowflake and whatever the hell the rest of them were called it got canceled so fast yet we're supposed to still talk about this thing they hate the only people talking about it are the anti woke crowd who are still fighting the 2016 culture war
>>153146692>that was a thought experimentThought experiments don't get full color, flavor texted character profiles and articles in comic ragsThey were poised to be paying Daniel Kibblesmith to write at least the first ten issues and I'm assuming he has already pitched their plots to editorial who only pulled back after the massively negative press
>>153146776Are you trying to tell me how marvel comics suck nowadays cuz you are preaching to the choir here. Again it's just kind of sad to see people clinging to this terrible idea that end it is dead gone buried
>>153141804The only bad things about him were that he was functionally identical to Blade making his existence superfluous, he made the rest of the team look even lamer and his entire aesthetic was about 10 years out of date. Would have been fine in his own book. Kind of like how DC shat the bed with NuBo who would have been interesting had he not been a direct replacement for The Main Man.
>>153146763If you don't want people calling your shit retarded don't put it on the internet. They were actually trying to hype this garbage. >muh culture warINTERNET GAS was NEVER going to not be made fun of.
>>153146732Nta but there is a big problem on /co/ with outrage tourists who come here to complain and who don't read comics. They complain about the same handful of books/panels. New Warriors, America Chavez and a few others. Like sure, there is plenty of funny shit. I still get a chuckle out of the letter a /co/mrade sent in to the America Chavez book comparing it to Tommy Wiseau's The Room (pic related). But I do wish people actually here actually read more comics so we could talk about them (or shit on them or joke about them). Rather than the same books from 6 years ago or 10.
>>153146763It's just funny to look back on. Seriously, who names their characters "Snowflake" and "Safespace" unironically?May I remind you also, "internet gas". Come on, that's begging to be made fun of.
>>153146798>Are you trying to tell me how marvel comics suck nowadaysI'm telling you how editorial was friends with Kibblesmith who has exclusively written comedy and progressive children's books and was not going to succeed at this team book at a time when the LCS backlash against legacy titles no one wanted to buy was about to get Axel Alonso fired. This was just a symptom of the times.
>>153141804Least awful team member honestly
>>153141804I remember being disappointed how this comic series never came out during COVID time, because I ran out of toilet paper and people were always mass buying them, so I was hoping to get some of these comics just to wipe my ass with them.
>>153146909I think there was a one-shot backup feature with the Inuit fatty that wasn't terrible but her only power is Backpack of Holding which really isn't that great a power if anyone can slice it off you.
>>153146861This. You can tell who actually reads comics and who is just getting their talking points from Outrage Youtubers
>>153146365can you post it please
>>153146861An entire miniseries had to be written retconning almost all of what Kieron Gillen did to her abilities and specifically what Rivera wrote as hallucinations brought on by mad scientist powers that were actually killing her slowly, just so the MCU wouldn't be stuck with HOLY MENSTRUATION as her characterization. And she still brought nothing to MoM.
>>153144918You know exactly what postmodernism is you fag.
>>153146944Sure thing. Here we go!>Nikolai Valentine was a normal (if a bit lonely) high school student who lived with his single mother in a quiet Wisconsin town. One evening as he was walking home from school, he was savagely attacked by a large crazed bat (which in itself was unusual since the bats he was familiar with were barely larger than his hand), which ultimately sent him to emergency room. Though it seemed that Nikolai sustained only minor injuries, a week after the event Nikolai's health began deteriorating: his strength waned, his vision started seriously worsening, and his blood became so thin he was constantly at risk of serious blood loss from even the most minor of scratches.>Frightened and desperate, Nikolai found himself bedridden in the hospital as his attending doctors did everything in their power to treat the unknown illness, to no avail. Just when all seemed lost, Nikolai was visited by a strange man who claimed to know what ailed Nikolai and, more importantly, how to cure it. Introducing himself as Desmond Plasmius, the man instructed Nikolai to meet him in an abandoned warehouse outside of town so he could administer the cure for the illness away from prying eyes. Nikolai accepted, and with the help of his best friend Minnie, he made his way to the warehouse at the appointed time.
>>153147080>After strapping Nikolai to a table ("just to be safe"), Plasmius explained that the medicine was based off the research of one Michael Morbius, and assured Nikolai that no harm would come to him once the injection was complete. Nikolai laid back, closed his eyes, and right as he felt the needle pierce his arm, he heard a familiar noise coming from just overhead...the piercing screech of a bat, the same noise he heard the night of his attack! In a panic, Nikolai tried to break free of his restraints, but it was too late, the serum was coursing through his veins! Nikolai felt his eyes burn and his blood run cold as the effects of the potion took hold, and all Nikolai could do is scream in agony.>After several gruelling minutes, the pain receded. Nikolai composed himself and pulled against his restraints again, this time breaking them with ease. As he looked around, Nikolai realised his vision was...strange. He could see, yes, but it was as if he had pink-tinted tunnel vision, where only things directly in front of him were easy to focus on, but at the same time he found himself able to "visualise" his surroundings all around him, which was very disorienting. After a moment of adjustment, Nikolai looked down at the polished metal slab he was once strapped to, only to discover that his body had been altered significantly! His eyes glowed a deep rose, his skin had become pale white, and his canines had grown. He was the spitting image of a vampire!
>>153147098>Terrified and furious, Nikolai rounded on Plasmius, demanding him to explain everything: the bat, the medicine, everything! Plasmius, seeming far too pleased considering the circumstances, calmly stated that Nikolai's transformation was in part done so that Plasmius could unlock the secrets of Morbius' transformation into a vampire, and as vampire bats were critical to Morbius' research, Plasmius injected a vampire bat with a previously unknown bacterial infection and setting it loose upon the night, awaiting the inevitable attack and ideal specimen to appear.>Nikolai could take no more. He fell to the ground and began to sob, but once Plasmius stepped closer to try and console him, Nikolai lashed out and sent Plasmius flying into a pile of crates. Consumed with rage, Nikolai destroyed everything he saw around him, including all the supplies Plasmius brought with him to the warehouse, and took off into the night.
>>153147115>For the next few weeks, no one had seen the hide nor hair of Nikolai Valentine. His mother was beside herself with worry, while Minnie grappled with the inner turmoil of staying silent about her part in Nikolai's disappearance. Nikolai, on the other hand, was dealing with a whole different type of horror. Though his senses were sharpened, his strength unmatched and his flesh able to heal from practically any injury, a new kind of hunger rose within him. Though he could eat and drink the way he did before with no issue, his newfound transformation demanded to be fed fresh blood, though thankfully it did not seem to mind if the blood came from animals. Nikolai tried to resist the horrible hunger, but found that without drinking blood his vision would be dulled to uselessness, his strength sapped to the point of being unable to stand, and his mind too feeble to think about anything other than the hunger.>While Nikolai tried to feed the hunger with rabbits and squirrels, eventually the effort to hunt them down became too much for too little reward. Late one night, Nikolai snuck onto a quiet dairy farm close to the woods, broke into the barn, and started drinking the blood of one of the cows. This, naturally, alarmed the cow, which began mooing in terror, which set off the rest of the cattle and eventually woke the entire ranch up. Consciously Nikolai knew he needed to leave, but the satisfaction of drinking so much blood was overpowering his common sense. When the owner of the ranch entered the barn shotgun in hand, he was greeted with the horrible sight of a pale red-eyed humanoid creature drinking the blood of his beloved heifer! He could barely process the sight before the thing took off into the woods.
>>153147129>And so, Nikolai fell into a routine: by day he would sleep (though he did not crumble to ash in the sunlight, the overwhelming brightness of morning hurt his eyes tremendously and made him feel overall uncomfortable, so he chose to be most active at night) in a makeshift hideaway he had made for himself deep in the woods, and by night he would seek a clear spot to use his phone's mobile data to research whatever he could about his condition to try and make some sense out of it (taking care to preserve the battery as long as possible). Every few nights he would sneak onto a dairy farm and drain the blood of one of the larger livestock to keep himself recharged, taking extreme care to never kill the animal in question.>But while Nikolai managed to find stability, his actions had unintentionally set the townsfolk abuzz, as none could accurately identify the mysterious creature that came to feed on their animals in the night. Half-baked rumours and amateur tall tales spread like wildfire, and though many villagers had heard of strange occurrences in the city, nothing abnormal ever happened in their town. Nevertheless, it didn't take long before seedy "monster hunters" established themselves in the town, offering to protect ranches from the terror that stalked in the night. Many ranches ignored these ne'er-do-wells, but kept their contact information in case things got worse.>Meanwhile, Nikolai's luck had run out. His phone's battery had died, and he needed to venture into town to get it charged, by any means necessary. Taking care to stay in the shadows, Nikolai silently slunk his way into town that night.
>>153146934>backpack of holdingDora the Explorer, much? lol
>>153146934>But her only power is Backpack of Holding which really isn't that great a power if anyone can slice it off you.And it was already done in the comic version of Big Hero Six. Which I'll forgive people for not reading or knowing about but still.
>>153147150>Nikolai's plan was straightforward, if a bit risky: Minnie's house was at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac that he could access while staying relatively covered through the trees, and he knew where her parents left the spare house key. They both had the same type of phone, so Nikolai planned to snag one of the cables from her house, charge it using their electricity, and bail as soon as it was fully charged, ideally without awakening Minnie or her family.>The first parts of Nikolai's plan went without issue: the key was still in the toolshed, and no one was awake when he entered the house he had been in many times before. Luckily for him, a phone cable was already plugged into the wall in the dining room, so Nikolai quickly attached his phone and started the charging process. All he had to do now was wait. Logically, Nikolai knew he should have hidden somewhere to play it safe, but being in his friend's house made him reminisce about the life he had before, and as he looked around he started to cry, knowing he'd never be able to have this kind of life ever again.>Unfortunately, his melancholy was interrupted with a sleepy but still all too familiar sounding "Hello?" coming from behind him. Minnie was awake, and though she did not turn the lights on, she knew someone was in her dining room. Nikolai knew he only had a few seconds to figure out what to do before Minnie began to panic at the stranger in her house, so he did the only thing he could think of.>Without turning around, Nikolai responded, "Hey, Min."
>>153147173>"Nikolai?!" said Minnie, a little too loudly for his liking. "Oh my god, where have you been!?">Without turning around, Nikolai quietly responded, "Minnie please, I...I can't explain right now. I just came to charge my phone, I need you to forget that I was here, okay?">"Forget that you-oh HELL no!" Minnie said, her worry morphing quickly into fury as she stormed over to Nikolai. "No no no, you don't get to play this 'mysterious angsty loner' crap! Not with me!">Nikolai cringed and closed his eyes at her words. He knew that wasn't going to work, but damn if he hadn't hoped it would. His heart sank into his stomach as he felt Minnie stomp over to him.>"Do you have ANY idea what I've been going through since you disappeared?! What your MOM has been going through?!" Minnie shouted, grabbing Nikolai's shoulder to turn him around. "Now you tell me what-" Her angry tone fell away as she came face to face with Nikolai's new appearance, his face still stained with tears from earlier.>Neither teen said a word for a few moments, each trying to take in and understand the situation. Finally, Minnie broke the silence. "Nikky...what happened to you?" she said softly, her tone an equal mix of confusion, fear and sad understanding.>Before Nikolai could respond, a gruff but groggy voice from upstairs shouted "Min-pin! That you down there? What's goin' on?">"Nothin', daddy! Just getting some water!" Minnie shouted back as she pointed to Nikolai, then to the back porch. Getting the hint, Nikolai quietly made his way to the sliding glass door, taking extra care to open it as silently as possible, with Minnie following close behind.And that's where things left off.
>>153146692What do you call Gooning but for anger?Because that's 4chan nowadays.
>>153141804INTERNET GAS
>>153147166Hilarious that nofuckingbody remembers that was created and written by Chris Claremont
>>153148490Honestly I doubt even Chris Claremont remembers it much.
>>153148571He'll be at Phoenix FanFusion in July, I should ask him
>>153141804>What were they thinking They weren't.
Something cute, more earnest thought put in than the rest.
