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For those not aware, Marvel comics tried to do a promotional comic book for Northrop Grumman.  Many vocal fans online savaged the comic and it was not released by Marvel Comics.
Northrop Grumman Elite Nexus by AzabacheSilver
The comic was basically about Northrop Grumman having a trouble shooting team that teamed up with Avengers to handle problems using scientific engineering.

Avengers Crossover with NorthropGrummanElite Nexus by AzabacheSilver
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The Series was meant to be a promotional comic for those in High School STEM program to see the potential in the real science that they were learning to advance changes to make the world better.  But many Marvel Comics fans did not see it that way, much to the promoters surprise.
www.defensenews.com/industry/2…
At New York Comic Con, protests were aroused against the series
www.inverse.com/article/37213-…
The MarySue felt it was righteous anger that fans blast Marvel for their promotion of a comic of a murderous defense contractor
www.themarysue.com/marvel-nort…
This fan feels the racist and homophobic retailers are to blame for this and Marvel is hypocrite for having Iron Man around
www.monkeysfightingrobots.co/d…
This critic compares this series to the promotion of fascist propaganda
www.inverse.com/article/37843-…

Personally I think enough is enough.  Look bad guys are coming to destroy your house, call the Avengers!  What?  The Avengers don't exist?  It's time to get real.

First of all, Tony Stark is a former military defense contractor, but that's too obvious to most people.  He's reformed, he only gives his toys to SHIELD and other trusted heroes.  But think about this, who does Northrop Grumman work for?  The Government!  Is this some Right Protest against government control?  No, it's a protest by those who adhere to the values of the left against a defense contractor that bombs babies in their head cannon.  So you are arguing that the government shouldn't be trusted to protect you then?  Consider that for a moment!  Who is going to protect you if not the military or the police for that matter? 

Secondly, that is just some fascist propaganda comic?  Someone reads this, grows up, joins the Air Force.  But you are better than that person because you have a blog that complains about Pop Culture.  Its ridiculous!  If that person can build drones and fix fighter jets, but you are better than them because you spend all day living in your mother's house sitting in your pajamas and chatting with your friends online like biblical fools.  At least that person you look down on has life skills.  If you want to prove me wrong, start your own Avengers, build an Iron Man armor.  What?  You don't have enough money?  You know everyone else realized that, so they take part of their paycheck and send it to the nations capital, so as to provide for those who are maintaining a defense of this nation. And there are defense contractor that supply our armed forces with the tools they need to do not just war, but peace keeping, maintaining security such as rescuing you when you are on top of your house because flood is threating to sweep you away.  They make not only weapons, but tools that people need to transport necessary food and medicine(which were intended to bring that to military troops).  You can't say that we don't need an arm of the government to come help you in times like that.  You expect Captain Marvel to come pull your car out of the river when it washes off the road?  Good luck!

Thirdly, don't bring up that I am some sort of RIGHT WINGER because I defend all this.  It's pointless to believe every body has to adhere to REPUBLICAN/CONSERVATIVE or DEMOCRAT/LIBERAL.  I stopped doing that a long time ago, but it seems to me that there are so many people who look through the news and see a story where they have to get triggered by writer's comments and throw fire to the oven of outrage.  And all just so that your side can win one political victory or another, who cares!   I can't believe the denseness people have.
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I'm a bit tired to specify and explain things. So yeah....

Tagged by  :icone31: who was tagged first by :iconBoomBoomBoi: and :iconthenessy21:

- If you get tagged, you must answer these questions below.   

- Make a journal, copy the rules and the questions and answer it!  *I assume you can answer with lies and exaggerations and its encouraged!

- Tag me, the original person that make the game.

- Tag 10 people to answer!

- Have fun! 

1. What's your real name? 
Ronald Orville Knievelstad*

2. How old are you?
Too old to put with stuff anymore

3. Your nicknames?
The Bigman

4. What food do you like?
Meat mostly

5. What kind of music do you listen to? 
I like every genre, however I find myself like the newer music less as I get older.  But Dubstep sounds neat!

6. What's your favorite idol? 
I refrain from worshipping idols as the Ten Commandments tells me so.

7. What program do you use for art? 
What ever is available, I put up with some really cruddy programs.  I miss Photoshop.

8. Show your first art and your last art. 
This I put up today, but actually drew it in 1999 and colored it in 2003
(OC) Momentum or The Mighty Big Man by AzabacheSilver
www.deviantart.com/azabachesil…
This was probably the first thing I put on this site.
Justice Japan Minus 1 by AzabacheSilver
www.deviantart.com/azabachesil…

9. What's your main OC's name? 
I usually use Agent Omega in my stories, but previously I used Blackhawk, Azabache Silver and The Mighty Bigman

10. You single or taken?
I am a single person that has learned I want a woman who is happy with herself and doesn't need me and I am pursued by women who want to lock me in a cage to make sure that I will never cheat on them 8(

11. Why did you choose this username for Deviantart? 
A former OC

12. What's your nationality? 
Texican

13. What's your favorite song as of right now? 
I just love this song so much, I am sure an ex will ruin it for me one day :C
Just to be your man - Josh Turner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADTbW…

*PURE LIES!
Liar by JeanFan
Apologizes to :iconjeanfan:

Now to tag friends. No tag backs please.
Mickie0904
Aklim95
TheIronBrony1981
BlueMario1016
MrWonderWorks
MonsterIsland1969
missmagicgirl
Scintillant-H
Heart-und-Seoul
Lady-Aurora-Moon
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The Air Force is mandated by law to prove in a fly off test the superiority of any aircraft being purchased to replace an aircraft in existing inventory.  The F-35 won in many of the tested parameters, however critics argue that the test was skewed to performing the close support mission as a surprise attack on the enemy and not facing enemy ground fire.  Thus it wasn't a true competition in Ground Support, but actually one for Insertion Bombing, which the F-35 has the clear advantage in being undetected and surviving attacks from enemy fighters in contested air space.  I have commented before how I believe the Air Force is interested in retiring the A-10 mainly just to get the cost down on every F-35 Joint Strike Fighter they purchase, and are not concerned with supporting ground troops in the manner the A-10 has in the past.

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning by bagera3005 
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunde by bagera3005
A-10 Warthog
(artwork by :iconbagera3005: )
Pilot in Military Documentary says, there is nothing like the A-10 for saving those guys on the ground
www.military.com/defensetech/2…

The large 35-mm Gatling Gun that provides the A-10 with much needed Ground Support fire power.  However the Air-Force is debating the practicality of continuing to use the Depleted Uranium Rounds it uses.
www.military.com/dodbuzz/2018/…

"You can provide [CAS] from a precision-strike platform from tens of thousands of feet in the air, so there's a lot of different types of" the mission, he said. "Getting up close and personal like an A-10? Of course, the airplanes … they're apples and oranges."
www.businessinsider.com/fly-of…

Citing his F-16* experience, Pleus* said he would bet the A-10 comes out "as the better CAS platform" in a no-threat environment against the F-35, which performs similarly to the Fighting Falcon. But "as you now start to built the threat up, the A-10s won't even enter the airspace before they get shot down -- not even within 20 miles within the target."
www.military.com/dodbuzz/2017/…

*Brigadier General Scott Pleus is Director at the Headquarters of Aircombat Command.  He previously from July 2016 to May 2017, was Director of F-35 Integration Office for the Pentagon.  The majority of his combat experience is in the F-16 and has never piloted an A-10.
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A series of videos has spawned a fan theory that Alveaus/Hive might have been an ancient Black Panther that was experimented on by the Kree.  
Video 1
video-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t4…

Video 2
video-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t4…

Video 3
video-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t4…

Video 4
video-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t4…

However these videos seem to show someone who is more of Meso-American ancestry than African, but who is to say every Black Panther in the line was of African descent?

My fan OC, Agent Omega(Apocalypse) gets his powers by being a host to an ancient partner of Hive/Alveaus called Merrikan
marvel-crossover-universe.wiki…

Alveaus and Merrikan server on an ancient counterpart team to the Avengers, The Zodyiac in my fannon.  I haven't watched Black Panther, but it's interesting that they stated the Black Panther mantle is ancient and could go back to my ancient Avengers idea.
marvel-crossover-universe.wiki…
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This is continuation of my first contest!  Before we compete, I decided I will give all my watchers a chance what sort of contest this will be.  Chose one of the answers below which story you will chose a scene from should be the one everyone should compete to draw.  The character I have chosen to focus on is Agent Omega/Evan Rockford. Agent Omega is shape shifting MIB Agent with a crush on Kitty Pryde and penchant for traditional American values (Kitty though is the opposite).   But Omega was not always this way, he's kind of settled into preferring a traditional lifestyle and his life took many twists and turns.  Read the scripts to learn more about him.


A SHORT BIO
Evan Eustace Rockford was born in Murray, Texas.  The son of former ACME Agent turned international thief, Carmen San Diego(Teresa Carmona).  He was placed in a program for special needs children run by Freddy Fazbears, which experimented on the children by feeding them pizza's laced with the remains of last host of Merrikan, a shape shifting corrupted Eternal.  Evan gained super powers and was taken by Weapon X, who planned to use him in their project to create an ultimate sentinel killer of Mutants.  However as a teenager, Kitty Pryde rescued him from the project and he's been wandering at large ever since.

Evan was recruited by WITCH Agents to spy on the Xmen, and served their terrible purposes till he realized he didn't want to be evil, but good for his crush, Kitty Pryde.  Evan switched to becoming a KNIGHT Agent, opposing Witch and later Hydra in their mission to undermine the Xmen.  Evan eventually joined Team America as an The Maruader and later used his experience into getting accepted into MIB.

MIB and KNIGHT assigned him to keep an eye on Phil Coulson, who knew of the SHIELD Director's hidden extraterrestrial ancestry, so Omega was assigned to keep an eye on him, joining his Project Champions as member.

Race Against Thanos:Part 7 by e31  Chibi Omega and friends! by AzabacheSilver  Interplanetary Onslaught Act 12 (Preview) by e31  Ambush Engagement?! by e31  Jaune's New Semblance by e31  The Final Battle by e31  Truth from the Lions' Den by e31  The Apprehension by e31  After mission groupie by e31  Pyromaniac's morose stare on a wacky photo by e31
Agent P: Evan! Are you out of your mind! by AzabacheSilver  Sketch: Witch Agent: Pitchfork Evan by AzabacheSilver  Champions: Evan, you're under arrest! by AzabacheSilver  Work In Progress 2 by AzabacheSilver  AOS/MIB: Such nice strong men! by AzabacheSilver 

My face claim for Agent Omega is Oscar Isaac, since he is based largely on Rick Remender and Esab Ribic's Genesis, who is a clone of Apocalypse.  Thus he'd look like Apocalypse :P
Apocalypse-Process 1 by vshen  Apocalypse by vshen
Apologises to :iconvshen: for using your art w/o permission in this journal.  Let me know if its a problem.
[Fanart] X-Men - Genesis by Katarina-Kirishiki
katarina-kirishiki.deviantart.…
(Artwork used by artist's permission, love the suit)
Genesis, the character Agent Omega is based on
comicvine.gamespot.com/genesis…

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO START
Its okay if you insert your OC’s or other character in background cameos in the scene. But you must draw Agent Omega in the scene doing something from the story scene you’ve chosen.  Be sure to state in the description which story scene you’ve chosen from the script.  You may enter several works.  If you draw five works, it is possible in this contest for you to get all five winner spots.  So be sure to enter.  Contest ends December 31st.  Winners will be announced in January 2019.  Vote below which story you would prefer to draw out scenes from.  Then I will start the contest by challenging everyone to draw that scene(s). 

Chose a scene that features Agent Omega in it and Draw that scene!  Don't just draw a picture of Agent Omega.  Show him in a scene from one of the stories on this list below.

I decided I will give out several prizes for up to five winners for points, the top three will be offered one of three prizes, I draw your OC, I draw a comic panel of your story, I draw a comic page of your story. 

TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DA POINTS FOR EVERY WINNER!  There are five winner spots. 
First prize will be completely finished by me to your specifications.  Second Prize will Ink and colored.  Third Prize will be Inked and cleaned for coloring. 

RULES :iconsheldonplz:
Please mention you plan on working on something for this contest, so I can take into consideration if you need more time.
You can draw what you want, but those that don't follow these rules will get less consideration in our judging...
No cursing unless it's in the script you are drawing
No nudity, unless it's written in the script you are drawing from
No fan service, unless you can point out that Omega is doing it in the script
No hate, unless you can point out that Omega did it in the script.
All works must feature Agent Omega in them.
Your OC's as background characters is fine.
You can make several submissions, each can win a separate prize.
NOTHING OUT THAT IS NOT BASED ON ONE OF THESE SCRIPTS
Digital Manipulations are fine.  My face claim for Agent Omega is Oscar Isaac, since he is based largely on Rick Remender and Esab Ribic's Genesis, who is a clone of Apocalypse.
Please don't make me add rules XD

Update: A disguised Omega is acceptable, he is a shape shifter. However picture should still be based the stories listed, and give us a nice hint in the pic that it is really Omega.

Thanks to this poll, we decided what the main story focus will be.
azabachesilver.deviantart.com/…

Using these stories (Artwork based on these stories will take higher consideration in our judging....)

    1.       Interplanetary Onslaught: All Out War (Any Chapter, this is act 4)
INTERPLANETARY ONSLAUGHT: NYC ALL OUT WAR by e31

e31.deviantart.com/art/INTERPL…

    2.       Interplanetary Onslaught (Any Chapter, this is act 19)
Interplanetary Onslaught Act 19 PREVIEW by e31

e31.deviantart.com/art/Interpl…
  3.      Interplanetary Onslaught Aftermath
www.deviantart.com/e31/art/The…

    4.      Knight Vs. Witch: Back To School (An Evil version of Omega attacks Yang Xiao Long)
Wip: RWBY Crossover Universe: Yang Vs. PF Evan by AzabacheSilver

e31.deviantart.com/art/KNIGHT-…

    
You can use these stories, if you don't find those stories inspiring, but they will have less consideration in our judging....  However note me if you plan to use one of these story scripts.
    1.       The Deadly Return (Any Chapter, this is act 1)
MIB: The Deadly Return Chapter 3 Cover by AzabacheSilver

azabachesilver.deviantart.com/…

(this is act 4)

e31.deviantart.com/art/The-Dea…

    2.       Evan Seized (Any Chapter, This is act 1)
Champions: Evan, you're under arrest! by AzabacheSilver

e31.deviantart.com/art/Please-…

(this is act 3)

e31.deviantart.com/art/Agent-Y…

    3.       One True Burning Love (Omega comes to the MIB Lovebirds rescue)
One True Burning Love (Preview) by e31

e31.deviantart.com/art/One-Tru…

    4.       Black Widow and The Champions (Evan is recruited to help SHIELD)
The Champions: Black Widow (WIP) by AzabacheSilver

e31.deviantart.com/art/BW-n-Th…

   

    5.       Knight Agent Transferred to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Agent Omega readies a Knight Agent to infiltrate the Marvel Cinematic Universe)

dreadedone131.deviantart.com/a…

    6.       Shona’s Very Bad Day (A Teenaged Agent Omega aids a fellow transformation commando, Patty Levinkle, on helping a friend move.  Things get unnecessarily complicated)

dreadedone131.deviantart.com/a…

SHONA's VERY BAD DAY IS BEING UPDATED WITH NEW IDEAS AND ORIGIN CHANGES.  I WILL KEEP IT ON THE LIST, BUT ADD A NEW FANFICTION YOU CAN USE)
  7. The Evan Rockford Files: The Wham Bam Flim Flam!
www.deviantart.com/azabachesil…



UPDATE: The First Contest has been judged and these are the winners of that last contest.  If you were working on a pic for the last contest, you may submit it to this one for a chance to win a prize :D

1st Place: LadyAuroraMoon :iconlady-aurora-moon:
Agent Omega and Other Agents. by Lady-Aurora-Moon
2nd Place: Keyotea :iconkeyotea:
Agent Omega by Keyotea
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