Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #283

By: Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics Archive

Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics Archive — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:33:47 +0000

[...] 283. Arnim Zola [...]

By: Paul C

Paul C — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:35:37 +0000

Welcome back Bill. Zola always gets a chuckle out of me just for how ridiculous he looks.

A couple of my favourite baddies would include Doctor Doom (how have you not done him yet!), the Mandarin and Kang.

By: ClonelyHeart

ClonelyHeart — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:54:25 +0000

I always loved Zola’s chest-mounted TV-face. The psychology behind it seems so twisted:

ME: Hey, Arnim, why do you have an image of your face, pre-decapitation, displayed on your chest?

ZOLA: It aids me when I must interact with all you schwein mit heads on your shoulders, you fool!

ME: So the purpose is to make people more comfortable when they’re talking to you? Because, let’s face it, you’re a Nazi mad scientist with a box for a head who goes around cloning fascist supervillains. Trying for social niceties is probably a lost cause, don’t you think?

By: avengers63

avengers63 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:35:50 +0000

Hey Bill,

If you like freaky Nazi stuff, check out the current Shanna the She-Devil mini-series. She’s not very well drawn, but the enemies are great: Leftover Nazis from a secret WWII base that have devolved into cavemen and have a fighting arena. Seriously… Nazi cavemen watching gladiator fights in an underground roman coleseum. Great comics craziness. When I first saw it, I immediately thought of you.

By: SanctumSanctorumComix

SanctumSanctorumComix — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:40:04 +0000

ZOLA is my favorite bit of Kirby-inspired madness.

He was the sole reason for my reading Captain America comics waaaaay back in the day.

It’s good to see him in recent issues as well, but I prefer the orange & purple lunatic-suit to the black leather jacket he sports today.

I mean, you got your FACE in your chest & a web-cam for a head!
WHY bother trying to “blend in”.

Flaunt it, baby!
Let your freak-flag fly!

~P~
P-TOR

By: zodberg neroman

zodberg neroman — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:12:24 +0000

sure, but has there ever been a female version of Zola?

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:24:49 +0000

Wow, great link, sue.

How about MODOK and Arnim Zola Vs. Quasimodo and the Kree Supreme Intelligence?
Kirby sez: Heads, we win.

By: suedenim

suedenim — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:09:08 +0000

The only thing that can make Arnim Zola more fun? Having him fight MODOK!

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=45688&GSub=6236

By: Ben Herman

Ben Herman — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:54:06 +0000

You’ll get no argument from me. I once purchased a page of original artwork because it featured Arnim Zola. And he’s fighting Shamrock, no less!

By: Alonso

Alonso — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:30:09 +0000

Zola always gets second banana to MODOK in the ‘crazy looking villain’ department, but I’m glad to see him get his due.

By: Someone Passing By

Someone Passing By — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:25:43 +0000

Anyone who keeps clones Aunt May and Uncle Ben around’s gotta be weird.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:14:34 +0000

I sure as hell hope that you didn’t LOOK like Kathleen Turner, otherwise you’d might as well be dead!!!