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If you’re following the X-Book event Necrosha, then you know that Doug “Cypher” Ramsey of the New Mutants is back from the dead, and, like all undead former heroes in these kinds of crossovers, he’s on a mission to betray his former friends. Now that he’s dead, he’s finally found a cool use for his “good with languages” power: interpreting body language to translate what people say into what they really mean.

Click on the image to see Doug’s super-language power in action!

It doesn’t take mutant powers to see that the Prof’s body language is pretty creepy - “Oh my, my former students. Look how you’ve… grown.” But just how close are we to “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” territory?

Click the image below to see just exactly what’s on Chuck’s mind, and how the kids feel about reuniting with the man who shepherded them through their formative childhood years (all except for Doug, who died horribly shortly after meeting him).

Super mega-thanks to Marvel Smart Ass for contributing his mad art and production skillz, and additional writing.

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The non-stop flood Zombie of books and variant covers that Marvel has been pumping out for like, five years now, apppears to be spiraling further out of control. How else could you possibly justify the need for providing New Mutants No. 6, with a cover featuring a close-up of Zombie Doug Ramsey

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I’m well and truly over the whole Zombie craze, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s finally reached its nadir with the whole Blackest Night/Necrosha thing.

If I may remove my dunce cap and put on my philosopher’s hat for a moment, there’s a wonderful book called The Monster Show that makes a very strong case for the theory that the most popular monsters of a given era are reflective of that era’s most prominent sociological problems and anxieties.  The fact that we’ve been zombie-obsessed for years, at a time when the country is ignoring news about world-threatening calamities in favor of American Idol voting results, and eschewing original art in favor of pre-fab teenybop garbage and endless rehashing of music and literature created decades past, I can’t help but think that we identify with zombies so much because we have become a culture that borders on the mindless and survives by cannibalizing itself.

I’ve moved on to a new favorite recurring comic book monster: “meat men” of the sort seen recently in Buffy Season Eight, Manhunter, and Batman: Unseen.

After all, if popular monsters represent our real world phobias, the time is right for an avatar representative of the teror of meat.

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