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"How is she?"
Taking a deep breath and organizing his thoughts, Dr. Strange turned to Banner and asked.
"I'm still accepting all of this."
Banner, holding a dried-out human head in one hand, shook his head in response.
Compared to Doctor Strange, Banner, and others, Peggy Carter, who was recruited, was the one who found it hardest to accept all of this.
Not only because she was resurrected 50 or 60 years after her death, but also because the body she was resurrected in was that of Captain America.
Judging from what was written, Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers, the captain of the Pretty Nation, had an extremely close relationship; otherwise, she wouldn't have had the opportunity to succeed him as the new captain. Clearly, the obstacles preventing a woman from becoming the captain of the Pretty Nation cannot be explained in a few words.
It is now clear that Carter will not have an easy time accepting all of this in a short period of time.
Upon hearing Banner's reply, Dr. Strange nodded and then twirled the dried head in his hand.
"Although human heads are believed to have the power to ward off evil spirits, aren't you afraid that if you hold them in your hand for a long time, they might come back to haunt you?"
In addition to the ability to ward off evil spirits, the Voodoo-trained hairdresser also possesses some psychic abilities.
In Voodoo, many Voodoo followers frequently use the spiritual medium in their minds to communicate with the devil or to practice Voodoo.
Upon hearing Doctor Strange's reminder, Banner's expression immediately turned concerned. He looked down at the head, which was only the size of a fist, in his hand. Whether it was the reminder or something strange about the head itself, Banner felt the corner of the head's mouth twitch slightly.
Upon seeing this, Banner instinctively reached for the dried head in his hands, but then hesitated for a moment, remembering the ghosts wandering in the house.
Ignoring Banner, who was looking around with his hair dried out, Dr. Strange left the room and soon spotted the beautiful Captain America, Peggy Carter, from the balcony in the hallway.
Chapter 698 A comic book with a very different style
"Isn't it ironic?"
You can hear footsteps approaching from behind on the balcony.
"We tried, but the world doesn't look any different," Peggy Carter, the beautiful captain, said in a low voice.
As a survivor of World War II, Carter's memories are mostly about the war.
She believed that the United States would be very unhappy after its defeat.
But what you see on the balcony doesn't seem as bad as you imagined.
There were no tools of war, no displaced families, and no constant fear.
For the vast majority of ordinary people living here, winning and losing seem to be of little importance.
Ultimately, there is a huge gap between the eras in which Stephen and Peggy Carter lived.
Carter's era was at the height of World War II, when everyone was immersed in patriotism. Doctor Strange, on the other hand, came from an era long after the war had ended. America had been a defeated nation for long enough that everyone could accept it.
Therefore, when Carter said the words "war" and "peace," he clearly did not understand the meaning of those words.
Peggy Carter didn't seem to expect Doctor Strange to realize this; she simply looked away from distant New York City and at Stephen behind her: "So, what was the purpose of waking me up?"
In an era rife with sexism, Peggy Carter was clearly no ordinary woman to become the captain of the Pretty Nation after Steve Rogers.
Looking at Steve Rogers's thick fingers, Carter gently clenched her own palm, feeling the power contained within his body. She had witnessed Steve's experiments on super soldiers, but never imagined that one day she would possess the same power.
Although the process of gaining power was a bit strange.
Meeting the gaze of the handsome Captain America standing before him, Doctor Strange slowly announced his goal: "End the unfinished war and restore everything to normal!"
"Sir, this is an animated film created by Charles and William."
Positive World, Messenger Press.
Jacob gave Xu Fu two paintings with very different styles.
With the typing work finished, the comics in The Messenger magazine gradually got on track. Although the comics were still mainly about Superman, they began to try to include other comics in the book.
For example, Jacob’s “Thunderbolt” was successfully printed in Messenger Comics for several issues, and readers showed great interest in this character drawn from the Superman story.
Even in letters from readers of The Messenger, some fans have expressed their desire to see Thunderbolt reappear in Superman comics.
With the success of the "Thunderstorm" comic, Messenger Comics began to try to develop more comic stories that were different from the Superman story.
The animated films by William Steiger and Charles Adams were based on it.
Xu Fu took the blueprints from Jacob's hand and glanced at their contents.
Although they were also cartoonists for Messenger Publishing and even worked for The New Yorker at different times.
However, their creative styles and philosophies are clearly very different.
William Steiger's animation style is more childlike, so the colors in the illustrations are often bright and vivid, and the main content is about a mouse named Abel who finds himself on a desert island.
Unlike the living conditions depicted in the original Robinson Crusoe story, William's "The Little Mouse" evokes a dreamlike feeling.
The anthropomorphic style of the comics is clearly targeted at the children's market.
For example, William Stig's *The Adventures of a Little Mouse* is a fairy tale world dedicated to nurturing childhood dreams, while Charles Adams's style is completely different.
Xu Fu once mentioned in a conversation with Charles Adams that the story could be set in a family, creating a different kind of quirky family.
Charles clearly adopted Xu Fu's idea and put it into practice.
With the invention of the four-color double-sided offset printing press, Xu Fu's newspapers and publications are now usually in color, whether they are newspapers or humor magazines.
Charles, however, did the opposite, creating a black-and-white comic book about the Addams family. In the book, they appeared in a very dark and humorous gothic style, with their house full of cemetery photos, watching tragic movies, growing all sorts of dangerous plants in their home, and borrowing cyanide from their neighbors instead of the usual spices.
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In short, Charles meticulously embodied the Gothic style he had always pursued within the Adams family.
His quirky drawing style complements the content of his comics, creating a sense of absurdity with a touch of dark humor.
It is worth noting that William and Charles had differing ideas when creating the comic book.
William Steiger thought Charles Adams' cartoons were too dark, to which Charles replied that his opponent knew nothing of humor.
Of course, in most cases, it was William who expressed his dissatisfaction.
As Charles became increasingly immersed in his own history of comics, the ideas of Xu Fu's Adams family greatly inspired him, making Charles look forward to bringing the dark gothic style he envisioned to this eccentric family.
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Flipping through the two comic books in his hands, Xu Fu did not feel uneasy about the incident; on the contrary, he was very happy about it.
After all, from MessengerComics' perspective, comic book creation has no boundaries.
Both William's children's novel "The Drifting Little Mouse" and Charles's gothic hysteriac novel about the Addams family have their own audiences, so why would he avoid these readers?
There is never just one way to succeed in the comic book industry.
In addition, by serializing "The Adventures of a Mouse" and "The Addams Family," Messenger Comics can attract readers who like specific comics, increase comic book sales, and at the same time let these readers learn about or understand the content of Superman comics.
After all, aside from the comics created by Jacob and his team, Superman remains the most popular and most published comic book at Messenger Comics.
Inside the Messenger newspaper.
After receiving the decision that William's "The Little Mouse Drifting" and Charles's "The Addams Family" would be published together in the next issue of the Courier, Jacob took the paintings to the newspaper's publisher.
On the other hand, the comic story to be published in tomorrow's Messenger Daily was handed over to the artist, Jiu, who was to draw it.
Chapter 699 First Appearance
Xu Fu then left the newspaper's editorial department and went to Fisher's toy factory in Checkerville.
Because tomorrow is Wednesday, there will be long stories about Superman in the newspapers that day.
Therefore, Xu Fu had prepared for it long ago.
In this issue of the comic series, he conceived the debut of two new villains.
In the previous story discovered by Luther, this evil genius has a new, sinister plan. When one of his journalists, John Coburn, is involved in a car accident, Luther uses his evil powers to turn him into a metal man with a metallic body and implant the consciousness of a terrorist into the metal man's body.
Luthor gave the transformed metal man the order to destroy Superman, but ignored the transformed John Coburn's will "167". When his consciousness conflicted with the terrorist in his mind, he actually began to attack his transformed self Luthor and found himself turned into a robot.
Faced with a perilous situation involving Luther and a distraught Metal Man, Superman lends a helping hand to his old adversary and successfully defeats the distraught Metal Man, erasing the terrorist will from his mind.
Xu Fu, the design of this metal man character, not only draws inspiration from the classic villain Superman, but also incorporates some of his own ideas.
In particular, the construction of the terrorist's will clearly refers to what happened to Crossbones in the Antiworld.
This idea of turning people into machines was later adopted by cinemas and became a classic science fiction work.
In addition to the first appearance of the Metal Man, a clone of Superman appears in another story in the series.
This comic book tells the story of a superhero named Professor Dalton's past adventures. He created a cloning machine that can emit a copy beam to replicate the person or object hit by the beam, but in fact, the device has a major flaw.
In one experiment, Professor Dalton mistakenly replicated the beam and shot Superman, creating a flawed, stupid, and ugly creature named Superboy Bizarro. This creature's abilities were the exact opposite of Superman's; he had an inverted S on his chest, could shoot cold beams of light from his eyes, and breathe fire from his mouth.
At the same time, the equipment on the table shattered into pieces.
Superman at the time was unable to defeat this clone, as his strength was almost indistinguishable from Superman's, and Bizarro caused great destruction to the city.
Later, he met a blind girl and became friends with her.
On the other hand, Superman believed that the device that created Superboy Bizarro could destroy the monster, so he found a part of the device in the ruins of the laboratory.
Although foolish, Bizarro was not evil. Sensing his companion's kindness while talking to the girl, he was compelled to do something for her. Ultimately, he discovered that his death could heal the blind girl's eyes, so instead of fighting Superman, he willingly threw himself into the device's debris, turning to dust.
After Bizarro's death, a blind girl whose sight had been restored said, "I am blind and have never seen Bizarro in person, but I know from his gentle voice that he must have had a kind face."