Comments on: Must… Kill… Frank… Drebin

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:46:17 +0000

I kinda liked emporer doom.

By: matthew rossi

matthew rossi — Fri, 28 May 2004 14:01:25 +0000

Dan Simmons wrote an interesting novel called ‘Carrion Comfort’ which was about a telepathic war of sorts. Also, I have to say I enjoyed Ted Sturgeon’s ‘More than Human’ which has telepathy, mind control, and so on.

By: Ken Lowery

Ken Lowery — Fri, 28 May 2004 00:37:25 +0000

Steven Grant’s recent 3-parter My Flesh is Cool explores the idea of invading another person’s mind and taking over, and what would happen if everyone with enough money could buy a drug to produce that effect. It’s a great, great read.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 27 May 2004 21:58:55 +0000

I remember that Legion story — it was a good one. I think it was Universo, though. Most of the stories involving him are some of the better “hypsnosis” stories, including the recent one in Legion.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 27 May 2004 21:28:08 +0000

How about the Eclipso story in Legion of Super-Heroes written by Paul Levitz? I’ve forgotten its exact title, but it’s the one where four Legionnaires find themselves have to rescue their teammates (and the rest of the brainwashed world). It also makes a nice point about the different ways willpower can be demonstrated.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 27 May 2004 18:40:06 +0000

Well, this isn’t an example of a good mind control story, but as I recall part of the Riot at Xavier’s arc in New X-Men involved a certain amount of mind control going on within the Omega Gang, and the part that bothered me is that all the members were punished and even mocked by Wolverine. OK, I said that the problem is that they were punished, but that’s not really what I meant. The problem is that punishment is inconsistent and that useful ongoing characters can use the excuse to be totally absolved of responsibility for what they’ve done. I don’t know if the alternative that mind control victims need to suffer more is a good one, but the inconsistence makes the stories even more annoying.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 May 2004 17:01:11 +0000

I always thought the ones from Savage Dragon were kind of ridiculous, but the cute little worms were, well, cute.

So my vote is for Savage Dragon having the cutest mind control villain.
It may be the first vote SD has ever gotten for anything that involved the word cute.