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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 21:45:01 GMT -5
Both. Had to do both days to make time with extended family. And sometimes it extends into Dec 26 depending on schedules.
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Post by brutalis on Dec 28, 2020 8:44:53 GMT -5
Hank McCoy the Beast. Which One? Original oversized hands/feet or hairy blue furry?
Like both versions but THE Beast is jovial bouncing blue furred Avengering WonderMan pal, extroverted ladies man Hank. It was as though high school out of place, shy, bury himself in books awkward Hank came out of his shell. And he was having the time of his life. No longer a social outcast or freak, he was part of a premiere and very popularly famous group of heroes. AND his stylized look once finalized by George Perez is just a primo classic look.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2020 8:46:31 GMT -5
Avengers were my jam as a kid and the bouncing blue Beast was a staple of that era, so that would be my choice.
-M
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 29, 2020 1:57:53 GMT -5
Blue Beast all the way... The old Hank McCoy has feet that would give Rob Liefeld nightmares.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2020 2:04:18 GMT -5
Big hands and big feet....you know what they say about guys who have big hands and big feet.
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Post by berkley on Dec 29, 2020 2:28:26 GMT -5
Tough call, in that I was never particularly taken with either version as a character/persona or as a visual design.
Not that I disliked the Beast, just kind of neutral. I felt much the same about all the other original X-Men members, really, even though I did like several individual stories from those early days - the first Stranger story, the Juggernaut one, the Ka-Zar, ... it always seemed to be the antagonist or guest-star that made those original X-Men comics memorable to me, rather than anything to do with the X-Men themselves.
It might be interesting to see some modern artist go back to the original visual concept of a more humanoid Beast with ape-like proportions, strength, and agility, as opposed to the later fur-covered one that looks more like a were-wolf than anything else. BTW, was that early version in any way influenced by the Doc Savage character - was it Monk? - who was described in a similar way and also possessed the same contrasting ape-like physical features and brilliant intellect?
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 29, 2020 2:58:37 GMT -5
The Lee&Kirby Beast had some moments where he was really dislikeable, so Blue Beast for me. If we narrow it down even more. The darkish grey version rather than the bright blue version.
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Post by foxley on Dec 29, 2020 3:17:02 GMT -5
Blue, but the Perez version before some moron decided to give him a cat face.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 29, 2020 6:03:50 GMT -5
The bouncing, bubbly, blue-furred Beast. But yeah, as per foxley, no feline features.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 29, 2020 6:24:09 GMT -5
Blue Beast, first version. Not the big cat, not the giant troll, not the super-strong Beast. Just the bouncing, overly verbose and cheerful one.
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Post by brutalis on Dec 29, 2020 8:13:50 GMT -5
Every "mutation" since the 1st time into grey/blue furry has been unnecessary. A case of writers wanting to impress and change a character simply because they want to make their mark on the character. Lord, he has more changes to the eye than a ding dang dong Transformer!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2020 9:48:49 GMT -5
I thought his secondary mutation (or whatever they called it) was good at the time, but I don't recall any details now. That said, I prefer the first blue Beast over the big hands/feet, but I like both.
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Post by impulse on Dec 29, 2020 10:12:20 GMT -5
In defense of the secondary mutations as a device, it worked well within Morrison's run. Basically, mutation was advancing, and the fears humans had really were being realized - the mutant gene was going to replace standard homo sapiens. I forgot what caused it, but as secondary mutations kicked in, the point was that some functional/"passing" mutants would also now struggle like the more deformed ones. For Beast specifically, he wasn't just a loveable dude with blue fur, but he actually began to resemble a cat, his hands became more paw-like, and he could no longer do things like use a spoon, etc.
It was intended to be a struggle for him. Unfortunately, it seems no other artist could draw him the way Morrison/Quitely intended and/or ignored the other aspects of the mutation, and after Morrison's run they just drew him as regular beast with a cat face, never touching on the deeper aspects again.
Polarizing as his run was, Morrison shoved the concept forward and out of the status quo, and it was the most interesting the X-Men had been in some time. Then the moment he was out the door, Joe Quesada crammed that genie back in the bottle... but I digress.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 29, 2020 10:18:04 GMT -5
Blue furry Beast. He was fun in the Avengers in the 70s and 80s. The original X-Men were at best an afterthought and were overall pretty boring.
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Post by brutalis on Dec 31, 2020 20:32:50 GMT -5
A part of me wishes grey Beast had caught on with readers and embraced the horror element for a long run. Would have added so much more nuance, character and noir to Mr. McCoy before his bon vivant blueness came to the forefront.
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