Cypher and Warlock by George Perez (Letting his inner Bill Sienkiewicz out a little)
Have I posted this before? Absolutely!
Do I love this amazing commission of two of my very favourite characters, from the legend who was George Perez, more than is probably healthy? Absolutely!
Will I post it again? Absolutely!
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Found Family Tournament Round 2 Part 1 Group 3
Propaganda and further images under the cut
New Mutants: Illyana Rasputin, Dani Moonstar, Xuan Cao Manh, Sam Guthrie, Roberto Da Costa, Warlock, Doug Ramsey, Rahne Sinclair
Titans: Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Wally West/The Flash, Donna Troy, Garfield Logan/Beast Boy, Victor Stone/Cyborg, Raven, Koriand'r/Starfire
New Mutants:
theyre all kids who have been through So Much (two of their members dying and coming back to life and the usual trials of being a teen superhero. being wiped from existence and memory and having an iconic cover of them climbing out of their graves. being together through this also.)
Titans:
Ever since they were teenagers they've stuck together. They were all damaged kids with nowhere to go who found a home with each other and grew into mature heroes on par with the Justice League while still maintaining a strong friendship. They will die for each other and will never stop loving each other and they're also just a bunch of dorks and I love them so much.
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Pouches - Who's to blame (Not entirely serious)
Now, we remember that the king of the super pouches is Cable, and for good reason... Since his intro in 1990 he has tended to be more than slightly... pouch intensive
This isn't even a spoof cover, it's an accurate representation of his costume at the time.
But did he START the trend?
I think not.
Leaving aside Batman from the 1966 series, who had hefty pouches in his belt...
Though still not remotely large enough for some of the stuff he randomly produced from it, even if it DOES fold up... sort of.
But I digress....
I did consider the Silver Age bat villain Cluemaster
But those are specifically "plastic-glass pellets" containing assorted chemical weapons, like explosives, gas, acids and the like, so not sure they count.
It's been suggested that one of the first in the modern era to develop this was Longshot in 1986, when he did indeed have pouches on his belt, because artist Art Adams thought he needed practically-sized pouches to carry things in.
But even then are there MANY pouches? His bandolier was to store his throwing knives for easy access, so weren't pouches per se.
So technically, the first X-Men character to really lay into the pouches side of things isn't Cable, not by a long shot... it's this guy, slightly later in 1986
So Doug Ramsey was leading the field of poucher-y in the X-Verse side of things.
Just look at that vest and belt, LOADED and lined with pouches, and we never even find out what's in them... Though I think it would include pens, pencils, notepaper, some money, spare keys to the Xavier school, first-aid kit, lock picks (because he's always wanted to carry lockpicks), string (Everyone should carry string), breath mints and other things a relatively sensible teenager would want to be sure he was carrying if he had the room in his outfit and wasn't given to cargo shorts!
And yet, there are other contenders, so let's work backwards...
Also from 1986, Batman (again) from "The Dark Knight Returns" where even his BELT looks to be on a course of serious steroids!
And in 1983 we got this stylish new costume retconned into the history of the Golden Age Tarantula in All-Star Squadron who, up until this point, wore a purple and yellow spandex outfit that was, oncufsingly, identical to the Golden Age Sandman's spandex costume outfit.
Notice that he has rings of pouches on both boots, where he keeps things like spare cash in case he needs to hire a taxi and probably some spare ammo for his wirepoon gun.
But I think I've found patient zero as, from 1981's New Teen Titans #3. we have the inventor and technologist par excellence, the man who would be known (Eventually) as Mikron O'Geneus, though he would, perhaps thankfully, becomes better known by his codename:
GIZMO!
Look, even his LOGO has pouches!
In fairness, given his speciality is creating techno-widgets and devices out of other technology, him carrying dozens of gadgets and components makes a lot of sense, to the extent that he even manages to carry MORE weapons than Robin's utility belt (Which is TARDIS like in and of itself)!
So I think we have a winner!
Gizmo started the modern pouch trend!
If anyone can find earlier/other contenders, then please feel free to add them!
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