Who's Yer Fav'rit... (7/14)
...version of the Beast?
Original?
Apeman?
Catman?
Original?
Apeman?
Catman?
posted by Brian Cronin at 2:26 PM
Friday, July 14, 2006
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6 Comments:
When I was nine years old I practiced holding a pencil with my foot and writing my name, because I'd seen a Werner Roth drawing of the Beast doing that. At the time I identified with Hank McCoy due to his propensity for expressing his cogitations via the percipient deployment of grandiloquent verbiage in a loquacious manner.
Later, when Englehart wrote the character, I wasn't thrilled with the new furry look but I did like how his new personality was presented as a development on the past rather than an arbitrary change for its own sake. As he grew up, got in touch with himself, and became a little more laid back, Hank was still witty but less inclined to hide behind impenetrable jargon. That worked.
To me, the cat look is just boring and derivative. But I bet the character is enjoying new popularity on furry porn sites as a result. I have to wonder if that isn't the reason for the change...
Apeman--but then that's the way he was for most of the time I was a serious comics reader, and aware of the character.
FOr much of my comic reading hisory X-Men was eiher dormant or in reprints--believe it or not.
When I was first exposed to the X-Men (late 80's) I kept getting confused between which character was Beast (blue ape version), which was Wolverine, and which was Nightcrawler. Beast was just a blue Wolverine (same hair) and a bulky Nightcrawler (same color, teeth, and acrobatics). I think Morrison's cat-man version has given Beast his own distinct look, and has made it visually clear why he's called "Beast". I prefer my Beast as beasty as possible. A blue muscleman with Logan's hairstyle doesn't qualify as a beast in my book.
Why is the "apeman" version called the "apeman" version? Is it tradition? It looks nothing like an ape. It looks like a catman, really.
clearly, the best choice is the blue/ black furball verson from his solo stories in amazing adventures....
for a time he really had a chance at carrying a book... and I still bet he could...
then my 2nd choice is any team up with wonderman...
apeman or the original...the catman looks like he is from disney's beauty and the beast, not fond of it at all
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