{"id":599,"date":"2010-10-25T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/?p=599"},"modified":"2010-10-25T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:40:51","slug":"day-23-mokkari-simyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/2010\/10\/25\/day-23-mokkari-simyan\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 23: Mokkari & Simyan!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The proprietors of Darkseid’s earthbound DNA experimental lab, The Evil Factory, are, we presume, recent arrivals from Apokolips via the Boom Tube, and have set up shop in The Wild Area. Their mission: Steal cloning secrets and cell tissue from the nearby top-secret scientific organization, The Project, and “grow their own.”<\/p>\n

While making only a handful of appearances in Jimmy Olsen<\/em>, the mismatched pair make a delightful impression as almost comedic Fourth World villains. They’re craven cowards before Darkseid’s admonishments, bowing on their knees, head to the floor… Maybe it’s droll to suggest, but when Mokkari, the yellow-skinned tall fella with neato facial tatts, is being attacked by Jolly Green Jimmy later on in this ish, his desperate whining for Simyan (the shorter, Neanderthal-lookin’ gent) suggests perhaps a more intimate relationship between the duo…? I mean, they are all alone, besides the mindless clones, in that dark house of horrors…<\/p>\n

ANYWAY<\/em>, there’s a slight bumbling aspect to the pair — like they are always screwing things up and desperate to avoid Daddy Darkseid’s punishment — and for bad guys engaging in horrific experiments to serve the Greatest Threat To Earth EVER<\/em>, hand it to Jack for some innovative character development!<\/p>\n

Given his apish looks and knuckle-dragging saunter, Simyan is obviously named for “simian”; Mokkari, besides the resemblance to Mercury, I’d reckon Jack just thought it was a cool sounding name… [Consensus, on the FB community page and this blog, suggests that Jack was actually deriving Mokkari from “mockery,” which certainly makes sense, as the dude is making a mockery of The Project by perverting its aims with The Evil Factory.] <\/p>\n

I still can’t get over what a cool facial design the Yellow Man sports! Nice stuff for a third-tier cast member.<\/p>\n

(Yeah, I skipped over a villainous character in this chronology, but the Big Green Guy has a much more startling reveal later on in JO<\/em> #135, and, anyway, Mokk and Sim have been lurking under masks these past few entries… It was time! And, one more thing, sorry if I missed posting yesterday; it’s hard to tell as I, on occasion, pre-post and looks like I mixed up… LOTS<\/em> going on at Casa Cooke…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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