Filed under: comics | Tags: nazis!, science fiction, science fiction traditions, usa! usa!, what the hell, why are you doing this to me
Membership [in Mister Mind’s Monster Society of Evil]:
- Mr. Mind
- Archibald, a satyr
- An army of termites and worms
- Artificial bodies Mr. Mind could mentally inhabit, consisting of:
- A Goat-Man, half-man, half-goat
- A robot, seemingly indestructible
- An octopus with a human face, constantly grinning
- A circus strongman, with strength rivalling that of Captain Marvel himself
- Bonzo, fanged hunchback with large eyes
- Captain Nazi, superstrong Aryan warrior
- Crocodile-Men, a race of humanoids from the planetoid Punkus
- Dobbin, Mr. Mind’s seahorse steed
- Dome attendants who tend to Mr. Mind’s undersea base, consisting of:
- A pig-man
- A goblin
- A werewolf
- An ogre
- A midget submarine captain, the last of Mr. Mind’s minions to leave him
- Dr. Smashi, short Japanese scientist and one of Mr. Mind’s three lieutenants
- Dr. Hashi, spiky-haired Japanese scientist
- Dr. Peeyu, tall Japanese scientist
- Dr. Sivana, the “world’s wickedest scientist”
- Evil Eye, monster with the ability to hypnotize
- Herkimer, Crocodile-Man and Mr. Mind’s second-in-command
- Herr Phoul, bald Nazi scientist with a monocle and one of Mr. Mind’s three lieutenants
- Adolf Hitler and all the resources of Nazi Germany
- Hydra, head-regenerating monster created by Mr. Mind
- IBAC, criminal who sold his soul for superstrength and durability
- Jeepers, last of a race of bat-monsters
- Jorrk, greatest scientist of the Crocodile-Men and one of Mr. Mind’s three lieutenants
- Marmaduke, criminal with big ears and a fat face
- Monster Brigade, undersea monsters under Mr. Mind’s command, consisting of:
- A sperm whale
- A giant octopus
- A hammerhead shark
- A huge sea-serpent
- Monster Professors, teachers at Mr. Mind’s Monster School, consisting of:
- A human,
- A Crocodile-Man,
- A fanged monster,
- A humanoid with the head of a hippopotamus
- Monster Students, pupils at the Monster School, consisting of:
- Human tough guys
- Crocodile-Men
- A black, horned demon
- Mr. Banjo, criminal and leaker of secrets via coded music from his banjo, played on a popular radio show
- Benito Mussolini and all the resources of Fascist Italy
- Nippo, master swordsman and spy for the Japanese
- Sylvester, Crocodile-Man and one of Mr. Mind’s preferred gunners
- Synthetic animals created by Mr. Mind, consisting of:
- Oscar, a giant lobster
- Oliver, a giant octopus with human hands
- Ophelius, a huge ram
- Oliphant, a dragon
- Hideki Tojo and all the resources of Imperial Japan
- Tough guys, generic human enforcers of Mr. Mind’s wishes, notable ones include:
- A tommy-gun wielder
- A cloaked swordsman
- A beret-wearer
- A stereotypical “Goomba”
- A Gatsby cap-wearer
Keep in mind, of course, that Mister Mind is a two-inch-tall caterpillar.
Filed under: musea | Tags: children of men, link city, museums in the future, prog rock, shaq's on twitter
So this is an appallingly delayed response to New Curator‘s challenge & results, but it’s better than nothing, I think. I’ll admit, I came up with it in the shower today (good for the brain and all), but.
I think the response that came closest to nailing what I think is important without drifting into new age-y hem mehness or the artist is importantestness was (no twitter link) Ariel’s: “Preserve cultural heritage while encouraging us to think critically about the past and present and offering inspiration for the future.” Museums work to create not just a narrative of whatever the collections and exhibits are of but of why these were deemed most important, most worthy of survival and future recognition. Just like any sort of history work, they take the present and ossify it into something you hope the future will not just recognize but still empathize with and want to learn from – that the future will still be pretty much the same as it is now. Maybe I’ve just been watching too many crumbling-of-the-future sorts of things lately (listening to King Crimson a few days ago, which reminded me of the Battersea/Ark of the Arts segment in Children of Men – although that’s a whole separate interesting and not necessarily fictional bit of museums-as-hope-for-the-future/museums-as-hotbed-of-nationalist-tendencies mess; those museum sequences in Fallout 3; finally getting around to watching The Day After) and have started making weird assumptions about the survival of societies, but what are museums when you cut to the bottom but places where we put the past and present for people in the future to reflect on?
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