Sunspot versus Mister T "Axe," a bounty hunter whose gimmick is that he resembles a certain 1980's icon and who, uh, wields an axe (but only hits people with the flat of the blade, in true CCA-approved fashion).
Where's Dwight Schultz when you need him? Axe wasn't the only B.A. Baracus analogue traipsing around the Marvel Universe during the second half of 1983, as this panel from Captain America #288 demonstrates with extreme verbosity. (Dig the inspired choice of character names there, too. Well, we all have our off days, I suppose.)
Is it any wonder why I consider that era to be the true Golden Age of Comics?
Killing Joke - Eighties (from Night Time, 1985) - I kamikazed until I got there, and all I have to show for it are some painful memories and a stack of used vinyl.
Mike Post & Pete Carpenter - The Theme from The A-Team (from The A-Team OST, 1999) - Stretched out to over three minutes by the addition of bridges autoplagiarized from the Magnum P.I. theme, but absent the classic opening narration. Why must the gods toy with me so?
Mr. T - The Toughest Man in the World (from Mr. T's Commandments, 1984) - He's real modest, too.
(Bahlactus isn't anybody's fool.)
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I totally forgot about the New Mutants character. Excellent post. Not so excellent comic book, but excellent post.
Sunspot wouldn't've won if there hadn't been all those big sound effects to slam Ax around into.
That was a good purchase on Xavier's part, even though Moira MacTaggert laughed and laughed when he bought them and left them stacked around the manision.
"One more mutie trick and your Mama dies!"
Axe is hands down my favorite New Mutant villain to make fun of! Great choice.
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