Beliwa: Toa of Demons

I just thought Anakin's hand was gone because of the whole 'Like Father, Like Son' theme being established up to the pivotal moment hwen Luke can go dark or stay Jedi.

Ahem. Proof of how the Macbeth curse eventually got Shakespeare himself. Before dying, Macbeth screams to himself, "Why Should I Play The Roman Fool, And Die On Mine Own Sword?" In Julius Caesar, Cassius notes moments before stabbing himself with his sword that, ironically, his death occurs on his Birthday. William Shakespeare, records show us, died on the Twenty-Third April, Saint George's Day...the same date which records also say he was born on.

'I Will Wait For You',sung by Connie Francis. Connie...Oh, Connie... Heh, None. alas. One which came with a '16 and up' label. iLife Applications. At the Last Count, Four Cats, Two Dogs, Two Tortoises, Seven Chickens and a Cock, and a new strain of Mitochondrial bacteria that devours Flies only.

Happy birthday ToM. Enjoy 16, it's a pretty Wild Ride. At least, it has been for me. I've yet to experience having a Girlfriend... *Sighs Inwardly* Wait, what am I throwing my troubles at you for! Enjoy yourself! Yer 16, !

Ah, Certamen. Or, if you're French...Certainment.

If we evolved from monkeys, why haven't monkeys evolved into us? 1). Evolution Takes Millions Of Years. 2). No, We Didn't. All Apes Basically Descended From The Same Monkey-Like Descendant; Some Found It Would Be Better To Stay In The Trees And Chatter A Lot, Some Preferred To Walk Upright And Scavenge From Hunters. Is there actually intelligent life in the universe? Well, Duh. There's Us. When an animal dies, should we give it a funeral? Depends On The Animal. Some Creatures, Namely Those Who We Had Some Sentimentality To, Deserve A Funeral Because We Want To Remember Them. A Mad Stray Dog Shot Down In The StreetShould Just Be Thrown Into The Ground And Left There. Could we evolve into fish if global warming envelopes the planet? Evolution Does Not Work The Way It Does On Pokemon. There Is Now Way Humanity Will Evolve Any Further In The Future, As The Process Takes Millions Of Years And The Natural Disasters Such As Global Warming Or The Next Scheduled Ice Age Will Come Too Fast. It Would Be Possible To Genetically Manipulate Human-Fish Hybrids, But They'd Be Too Stupid To Be Of Any Help. Can ameobas feel love? Of Course Not. They're Basically The Body's Own Industrial Vaccuum Cleaners, There To Suck Up Dirt. They Have No Need For Love, As Their Own Method Of Reproduction Involves Ripping Themselves In Half To Create Two New Amoebas. Can potatoes feel pain? Physically? No, They Have No Nerves. Mentally? Ask One. If "Whose Line is it Anyway" hadn't been canceled, would the world be a better place? Yes. Yes It Would. We Should Also Cancle All Versions Of Big Brother And Drive A Stake Through The Producer's Hearts To Prevent It from Happening Again.

Religious content removed. Oh, and Morrison is seeing what happened to 'The Batmen of Many Nations' - sort of an international club of 1950s-ish heroes inspired by Batman. For instance, Italy had 'The Gladiator', and England 'The Knight and Squire!'. They're now all old.

Yeah. I mean, Morisson recently did this thing with Joker, where he expanded the 'Reinventing himself' thing by having his face paralysed into a permanent grin, and he was referring to himself as 'The Thin White Duke of Death'. This was all well and good, but I'm all like: 'What about Dr. Johnathon? What about Victor? What, and this is stretching it a bit, Dr. John Dee (aka Destiny)?' Anyho, Morisson is moving onto demolishing the present-day versions of the Batmen of many nations. That looks cool. Continuing the 'Ice-Pick Brain' thing; how about he decides that he's going to exile himself fromt he world, build this huge Ice Fortress and contemplate in it for a while? And, as a twist, have him make the fortress in the leats likely place - like in the Desert where Jesus was purported to have roamed. And meanwhile, there's dozens of heroes trying to break into the fortress because, as part of his 'rebirth', he's decided to test them by kidnapping their loved ones - but they're just thrown into a bunch of elaborate and deadly traps, similar to those in the 'Saw' hororr franchise...but colder. Then, when they finally get him, he's just...sitting there, no armour, no guns, no nothing, sipping a glass of wine, and they realise he isn't really being that dangerous....nor are their lvoed ones even in the fortress. He explains to the ones who've tracked him down that they've basically gone through his entire life...a series of cold, terrible tortures, all for someone dear to them, and met with ultimately nothing - he has let their loved ones back out into the ice-desert to fend for themselves, as he no longer cares about them. He lets the heroes leave...but makes no guarantees that he won't turn back to villainy when his exile is over.

Hmm...I just had another one; have it that during a fight, an Ice-Pick thrown the wrong way carves out the part of his brain that controls the good aspects of his personality. He would truly become emotionless. And imagine the whole Psycholgoical argument. 'Thanks to my inuries, I am physically incapable of feeling happiness. And that...that makes me even angrier than before.' Like I said, just throwing ideas around.

I mean, what with 'Lazara', he doesn't really have anything to drive him - he really needs some sort of emotional shock to react to, something that would cut to the core of his heart and force him into deciding to secede from Humanity.

I meant, we'd have him as a character redefined beyond being evil and wanting to rob banks...more tapping into his inner bitterness. Or, or maybe we'd have a small series in which he kidnapped people at random and began experimenting on them in a sort of 'Big Brother/Survival of the Fittest' thing so as to make one of them into his heir, or something. I'm just chucking ideas around. I have no idea whether any fo them would be good or not.

I think Mr. Freeze was totally ruined when that SOB whose name I can't remember turned his wife Nora into the utterly generic 'Lazara'. A girl who goes around spouting flames, how original. I think it'd be best if old Victor was simply turned in to Grant Morrison for a completeley new take on the character, ala 'Scarecrow: New Year's Evil' or the movie Casino Royale. I mean, redefine the character, you know? If it was me, I'd change him so that he lost his metal suit and became more one with his element. Not like Ice-Man; more being able to control ice and cold when his gun generated it.

I actually prefer that mask. It's cool to show the two expressions, signified by the two mouths - the Mask's and Crane's. That way, you see both halves of his Psyche. Though the last story is awful (he gets, like, two pages of being in the background), the original cover (in the final pages) is pretty cool. I would have preferred it if Albright had become Mistress Scarecrow, though. I think the best art in the entire book is the pinup on pg 42. I could make an entire story based on that image...

I just don't like Video Games like 'America's Army' or 'America's Most Wanted'. Sure, normal Games are good slid fun, but that sort of hyper-patriotism seems unhealthy in a kids product... I also can't stand Grand Theft Auto. I read an article a year ago about a Kid, maybe 16-18, who upon being arrested for speeding, was taken intot he station at which point he shot three officers dead using moves he'd learnt from GTA. When he was sentenced to Execution, he made his final statement in court: 'Life is like a Video Game. Sometimes, you have to die.'.

I'm really sorry. I know what it feels like to lose a loved one...my Grandfather died of Heart Failure a year ago on this day. May she rest in peace.

I did Dream once that I was watching a Performing Magician, and all it turned out to be was Margaret Thatcher swallowing a Violin. And, not very well either. She made Chicken noises when she was doing it.

If he's been Racist frequently, you should report him - it's a criminal offence. You can be arrested for it.

Wrong! Beware the March of Ideas!

Next time he starts up, ask him this simple Question. 'Imagine you have a Family, a life, a job. You may be poor, but you have people who love you all around. 'Now Imagine a time of War comes around. And, during this War, people are being hurt and killed...right past your neighbourhood. 'Then, a party of Insurgents from your own country tells you: "You must take out your youngest child and kill him. If you do not, we will kill you and all your family." They do not give a reason why. 'Would you shoot the child?' When he gives the answer, tell him the Truth: because of War, because of Actions being made Right Now, that situation, or something similar, happens every other day in the Middle East.

Like I said, you should do a 'Toa of Many Nations' project. An Indian Toa, a Russian Toa...the possibilities are endless!

1) Sure, Cap's not dead - the costume, shield and legend live on - but the man, Steve Rogers...he'ss gone for good. I feel it in my bones. 2) Edited: Please don't link to websites with forums is a pretty good webcomic by web standards. Pretty good.

The Term 'Right' describes a concept which couldn't possibly exist. The same goes for 'Wrong'. So it doesn't matter. Prove that where we are even exists. Moreover, how do we know it fell? How do we know it didn't just come to life, lying sideways in the dirt? Apparently, this only happens if in a past life you were someone that your current life knows so much about. Theoretically, yes. I have yet to find a willing volunteer. Only those who make money from our doing so. Everyone else couldn't give a monkey's.

Take it back...a few of them are good, like the original 'Origin of Scarecrow' one.

Be careful to only read the second-to-last one of all...the others are Awful. Especially the one about the Sports Racers. And the last one, which despite the beautiful cover features Scarecrow for five minutes before going into a rather boring and lazy reptition of the same poses so that the penciller didn't have to work on his originality.

Good luck to her on her frst day, and to you on the big one-six...those two numbers are mighty big...