How to Be a Comic Book Superhero, Period 4 - 07/09

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Instead of the teachers on the syllabus for their first class, the students were greeted by a man in a bright red costume that wouldn't look terribly out of place in the circus. Or maybe some bizarre court jester.

With pouches. Lots of pouches on his belt.

It was a fashion statement, shut up.

"Good morning kids! Your normal teachers couldn't be here today because... actually I have no clue why, all I know is that I'm here to teach you lil' ones aaaaalll about being a super hero. Take that people who won't let me be an Avenger! HA!"

...right. Deadpool cleared his throat, tossing a few comics out at the kids. "Those are your teachers, not me. I'm still recovering from the trauma I went through with my poor, poor car. You sick twisted kids." He shook his head in disappointment at them all, even though they didn't really do anything to him, it was just the principle of the matter. He was all about principle.

But not principals. They were mean.

"Today we're coming up with names and costumes. Names are easy, go with what your power is, or maybe whatever you think strike fear into the hearts of men. Or something edgy and hip that involves anything that sounds painful. Try it out with your fellow classmates. Help each other come up with some fun names. And if I hear anything that ends in man, boy, woman, or girl I will start punching, got it? That's just lack of effort there."

"As for costumes, let's just see a few of the bad ones to scare you punks straight and get you to pick something good. First up is the emo-boy costume of the year, from a guy who used to be called Speedball because he bounced and was oh so annoyingly happy...." He held up a large photo before passing it around. "Meet Penance! Isn't he a peach? Next up is the hairstyle that very, very few can pull off, and I wouldn't try it unless you're now a queen of Wakanda or an insanely power mutant with weather controlling abilities. Really. It'll just look stupid. See?" He held up another picture before passing it around. "Meet Ororo Munroe, or whatever her name is now. I wasn't invited to the wedding." He gave a small sniff. "So mean of my fellow X-men."

"Another issue is holes in the costume. Sure they may look cool and even hip, but think about where you put them. Eye holes? Good idea. Mouth holes? Good idea! Boob holes? BAD IDEA. Check out this costume here," Deadpool said, passing out yet another picture. "From out distinguished competetion, but shh. Don't let anyone know I mentioned them."

He looked around quickly to make sure Stan Lee wouldn't pop up and beat him up. "And last but not least kiddos, the coup de grace, drum roll please?" He paused. Damn. "Fine, rubber nipples. Just don't do it. Ever. Please."

Handing out sheets of paper and colored pencils, he continued to lecture. Kinda. "Try your best to draw the costume you'd want to wear. And remember the simple examples of bad costumes, if you do, you'll be fine. Okay? Okay! Get drawing!"


Syllabus
Marie D'Ancanto
A.J.
Allerdyce, St John
Altman, Teddy
Conrad, Marco
Jekyll, Henry
Michelangelo
Park, Adam
Perry, Neil
Rikku
Robin
Sherman, Liz
Skywalker, Luke
Sparks, Jenny

After getting the kiddies occupied by drawing, Deadpool looked down at the syllabus and frowned. Huh. He looked up for a chick with a white streak in her hair. Well, she certainly didn't look like she was about to make Sabertooth her bitch.

Alternate universe? Maybe. Well these guys didn't have a T.A. yet... and she was all crazy back home...

[[OOC: Please wait for the OCD is up!]]

Comments

Sign In

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

It's a very nice thing to do.

Re: Sign In

[by137.livejournal.com]

A.J.

During the Lecture

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Seriously? A Mohawk? Oh, early nineties, you slay me.

Re: During the Lecture

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

It said something very, very sad about the galaxy Luke came from that none of the costumes really scared him.

He looked down at his all-black Jedi ensemble and began wondering if maybe a little color might not actually kill him.

Something in a tan or brown, maybe...

Re: During the Lecture

[by137.livejournal.com]

A.J. wasn't quite sure whether he was supposed to take this guy seriously or not. He did know that he had a little trouble following half of what he said. No, more like seventy five percent of what he said. So he just sort of gave up trying, and got a jump start on sketching out his possible costumes, trying to put together something really awesome.

Re: During the Lecture

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny wondered what this guy was on and if he could get her some, although he did have a point about poor costuming choices. The problem was, she mused, that there were so many running about that all the good ones were taken.

Re: During the Lecture

[pyroliz.livejournal.com]

Liz looked over the costumes and was suddenly thankful that the BPRD didn't have any type of costumes like that.

Re: During the Lecture

[the_merriest]

Rikku scritched under the Judekitty's ears and wondered why the two weird guys weren't here after all.

None of the costumes really phased her, either. Al Bhed.

Re: During the Lecture

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Rogue was starting to wonder if signing up for this class was a bad idea. Maybe it wouldn't seem so... weird... when the real teachers were there.

She glanced down at the comic book in front of her. That seemed unlikely.

Re: During the Lecture

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

Uh ... this was definitely a new way of learning. Now Neil was doubly grateful to Peter for the loan of the comics earlier that summer.

Re: During the Lecture

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy was just glad there was no mention of the random scarf.

Re: During the Lecture

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco's own superhero costume was a pair of biking shorts and a tank-top, so he didn't really have too much high ground about bad costumes.

Re: During the Lecture

[turtle-techie.livejournal.com]

Donatello tried to take notes. Mostly they included such things as "No spandex, Mikey!" and "If you add rubber nipples, Raph will hear about it."

Mikey just tried to scoot off the table several times. Thankfully, Donnie managed to catch him before he got airborne.

Re: During the Lecture

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin scratched his head. Bluntman and Chronic? He didn't get it. He also tried not to stare at the picture of the woman in white.

Pick a Name

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Talk to each other about ideas. Snowball. Or something ball at least.

Re: Pick a Name

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke was quiet for a long, long time.

Darth anything was clearly out.

So was Farmboy.

And Wormie.

And Siegfried, thanks.

"I like The Kid," he said finally.

He was really bad at this.

Re: Pick a Name

[ashockingbitch]

"The one I've got's served me perfectly well this far," Jenny protested. "Also, it is descriptive."

Re: Pick a Name

[the_merriest]

Rikku made a face. "Hey. I told you when we had ice cream, I'm not so good with names."

Re: Pick a Name

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

This was relatively easy, thanks to Jubes and Kitty insisting that she needed a codename. Rogue sat back and looked around to see who else was in her class.

Re: Pick a Name

[pyroliz.livejournal.com]

Liz looked slightly confused. She had never even considered the idea of having a name before. At the BPRD Hellboy was 'Red' and Abe was 'Blue' but she had no idea what type of name she could have.

Re: Pick a Name

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

Neil wavered on a name for a bit but eventually he smiled, a bit of a secretive expression and nodded with his decision.

"The Dead Poet."

Draw a Costume!

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

And make it pretty, dagnabit.

Re: Draw a Costume!

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny drew a picture of her white pantsuit with a Union Jack t-shirt under the jacket. Although looking at it now, it was a bit nineties...

Talk to the Teacher

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

After class. Especially if your name rhymes with Vogue.

Re: Talk to the Teacher

[the_merriest]

Rikku walked up to Deadpool after class. No bouncing, no waving, none of her usual Rikku-hyperness, but some lovely bags under her eyes. "Hey," she said softly, with a nod. "Do you know, uh, where the regular teachers are? They're kinda weird."

OOC

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

*flops* LJ, you suck.

Re: OOC

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

You wanna have Deadpool grab my girl in one of the threads above? I should be around most of the day, just probably on SP while at work.

Re: During the Lecture

[turnthisfrown.livejournal.com]

He'd managed to hold in the snickering at Storm's picture, which was impressive since he hated that fire-dousing wench, and she had a mohawk. But when they finally got to some guy dressed like a big rubber bat, he lost it.

"Freaking rubber nipples!" His laugh was somewhat...loud and boistrous, but he couldn't help it. They were freaking rubber nipples. On a man.

This class was looking more like a joke set up by Remy more and more.