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It's All About the O
2007-07-19 17:27:09

Buy this comic today. Mail to Oprah. Repeat.

Dear Oprah's Book Club,

I am writing you because all my attempts to infiltrate your organization have failed. Even I -- MODOK! -- am (finger quotes) "man" enough to turn to (finger quotes) "reason" when subterfuge, mind-blasts and super-science have failed.

Perhaps I should have listened to Undercover Agent Y-57 when he said he should take off his yellow vinyl beekeeper outfit before attempting his infiltration of your headquarters as "Moe the Janitor." BUT THAT WOULD HAVE SHOWN INSUFFICIENT PRIDE AS ONE OF MY GLORIOUS A.I.M. SCIENTIST/ STORMTROOPERS!! REPRESENT, Y-57!!!

But now Y-57 is dead, and this is just one of those things we'll just... Never know.

The reason I am writing to you, Orpah's Book Club, is to request -- nay, DEMAND -- that my glorious series SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP: MODOK'S 11 -- #1 goes on sale TODAY -- become your next Oprah's Book Club selection. Using my vastly powerful 144-lobed brain, Oprah, I have calculated that SVTU:M11 will be vastly -- VASTLY -- superior to your current selections, and bring only glory to your already-feared organization.

And of course (salivates slightly) we all know ... what a selection to your Book Club and promotion on your show does for sales ... and this, of course, will only increase the legend of I -- MODOK!

I see here that your current Book Club selection is something called Middlesex by the one who calls himself Jeffrey Eugenides.

That's fine. I guess.

FOR MENTALLY-DEFECTIVE CHILDREN!!!!

I SHALL NOW USE MY SUPER-LOGIC TO PROVE TO YOU HOW SVTU:M11 is vastly superior to this "Middlesex" in every conceivable way!

According to your web site, Middlesex is about: "As a child, Calliope Stephanides never felt like other girls her age. On her road to self-discovery, family secrets are exposed and an astonishing genetic history is uncovered."

BAH!!! WHAT CAN THIS BOOK TEACH US THAT THE AEROSMITH CLASSIC "DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY" CANNOT?!?!

Does Middlesex feature an eclectic team of Marvel's Most Wanted pulling off the greatest heist in 616 history?

Does Middlesex feature a non-stop roller-coaster ride of super-powered action and intrigue?

Does Middlesex feature the deathless prose of scripter Fred Van Lente, the stunningly detailed pencils of Francis Portela, and eye-popping covers by trusted art slaves Eric Powell and Marko Djurdjevic?!?

EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, IS THERE SINGLE WORD IN MIDDLESEX ABOUT I -- MODOK, THE GREATEST FICTIONAL CHARACTER THAT HAS BEEN OR EVER WILL BE?!?! NO! NO!! A THOUSAND TIMES NO!!

But SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP: MODOK'S 11 -- on sale now (did I mention that?) -- certainly has all that and more!

So -- let's check the score here:

SVTU: M11 - 4
Middlesex - 0

I am commanding my Interweb slaves to buy up every copy they can find and mail them to you immediately so you may bask in the glow of its genius for your own self.

I eagerly await your reply.

We both know what it should be.

Yours in super-science terror,
MODOK

P.S. Take heed Oprah Book Club, my Interweb slaves at Wizarduniverse.com devoted 11 days to I -- MODOK. Let’s see some action like that from your end!

Oprah?
Dude you just wrote to Oprah's book club. Who, apart from divorced women, actually care about that?

What you need is your own television commercial advertising the book. You need to make it unique and catchy to the viewer so they would want to buy the book. Maybe threatening to take over the television airwaves and put nothing on but your own sitcom called "I-MODOK" 24/7 would do it.

I'll post more ideas about how to increase the sales of this book later...

Posted by s05bf0d4 on 2007-07-20 09:51:15

O Club
What better way to make women feel empowered than to show a woman working at the same level of crime as men, as Deadly Nightshade does in MODOK's 11? This should be in the O Book Club, or else she must be destroyed by MODOk, who will rule the club with an iron fist!!!

Posted by Strange110 on 2007-07-20 18:41:04

WARNING
I warn you, do not trifle with OPRAH. She is strong, and she should be treated with much respect and caution. After all, she is an Organism Programmed for Ruling All Humans. MODOK, free us all!!!

Posted by bigdaddyhub2 on 2007-07-20 22:31:00

The "Club"
As a humble 2-lobe. I (not really) understand your want to give glory to AIM agents (no matter how short their lives). But to stalk the prey that is Oprah you must study her and calculate her every possible move and motive. OR change the book she is holding and the words on the teleprompter to promote both you and AIM. You can also use it when she becomes a super-power.

Yours Humbly,
Myth1602

Posted by myth1602 on 2007-07-22 12:02:53

1 agent?!? that's like trying to stop a hurricane with dentla floss (That is even flimsier than usual). Even by .9% less than your entire network to surround the potential superpower will be futile. To stalk the prey that is Oprah you must know her every thought and possible action to prevail. or you could just mees with the teleprompter(even going as far as puting in comedy). BUT the first would make a cooler Mag (have the ol' half your face half hers).

Posted by myth1602 on 2007-07-23 05:47:06

Oprah, huh?
Methinks that MODAM is cracking the whip on this one.

That you haven't replaced this "talk show host" w/ an AIM controlled doppelganger to influence the housewives and househusbands of the world only enforces the MODAM calling the shots theory.

(whip crack)

Posted by JAK8 on 2007-07-23 07:20:25

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About this blog:
BLOGDOK is the psychotic ramblings of a Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. Or is it merely a decoy for a far more sinister plot? I, MODOK, have over 2,459 wholly separate plans for world domination running simultaneously in my highly advanced 144-lobed brain, so not even I know for sure!

About the author:
I, MODOK, first appeared in Tales of Suspense #94, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby ("If This Be MODOK", Oct. '67) and I have been the butt of jokes about my giant head ever since. But now I shall have my revenge! IN BLOG FORM!!!


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