One of the major differences between the old version of this comic and this current version, is that the Mastors never had any true definable powers. Mostly whatever we felt like giving them at the time (pretty regularly they shot "energy" from their hands…. which… admittedly… is always pretty cool). So one of the major resolutions I had made when re-booting this was, I needed to give these folks specific powers to work with. So, I gave Peter force field generation, D has the power of death (see more on that later, perhaps?), and Matt & Jefe have… well….
Puppet Powers?
Mind control, really. They make people their "puppets," hence "puppet powers." Dig? Yeah, well when I was writing this page I said to myself, "geez, I'm calling them puppet powers." Then I had to wonder if I had ever mentioned this previously in the comic, or if I had noted where the name came from. There it was on page 6 "Mastor of Puppets." I laughed and pondered whether anyone noticed this blatant Metallica reference.
You see in high school I was interested in two things. Metallica and comic books (or even better, comic books about Metallica). Naturally some of these things trickled over into my comics at the time. By trickle I mean I named my main character Mastor of Puppets. Yep.
I've mostly played this down, which also has been partly due to the fact that I'd rather have my characters refer to each other by their regular names than their "hero" names. But it came up here as this "Puppet Powers" it made me cringe a little.
So then, over this weekend, I was reading the latest issue of Madman (which has been mindbendingly crazy but seems to be coming together pretty well now), and started to realize that all of Mike Allred's little references have been fun all this time, and not really that goofy… Frank Einstein, Mott from Hoople, and the latest… turns out his dad's real name is PT Townsend?!?! Just to name a few.
So that, and the fact that I've been having a lot of fun with using weird re-spelled/anagramed references for extra and place names … (By the way, you guys have been slacking on that contest. There's one really obvious one you've all been missing!) I've become okay with this.
PUPPET POWERS!
(not to be confused with that line Scrappy Doo says)
Also, for all you reference hunters out there…. there is one other BLATANT Metallica song title reference in Mastorism. It actually comes up a lot, and I'm surprised no one has called me on it yet. No prizes cause I'm practically handing it to you, but… um… I'll write something nice about you in my next blog thingy if you're the first to guess it! Go for it!
Thanks for checking in guys… what a note to leave a thursday on, right? Tensions are running high on Planet Aerth…
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