Princess Mononoke

Tom Waits - Take One Last Look

Everything Changes

WildC.A.T.S

Tool - The Grudge

The Mountain Goats - Palmcoder Yajna

Magic vs. Science - Final Showdown

Anonymous Glory

Sigur Ros - Saeglopur

Ben Frost - Secant

Is That Your Blood?

Battle Scars

A Silver Mt. Zion - Take These Hands And Throw Them In The River

His Name Is Alive - African Violet Casts A Spell

The Go! Team - The Power is On

One foot positions itself quickly and efficiently in front of the other. A woman has just overcome an impossible height. A man places the final brick into a wall that has taken a lifetime to build. Endurance beyond endurance. He isn't looking past the duty of his feet save to keep from crashing. People are staring as he balances the curb. Someone he knows sees him this way, but that someone will never know how many people lost their teeth at that moment--how many people just kicked the shit out of something.

  The Go! Team, "The Power is On," Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries, 2004)

Jean Grey

The tyrannical bald man, dressed so conspicuously normal, must have known about the fire that would soon burn and resurrect and burn and resurrect all heroes, splintering them like wood. He must have recognized the first spark in the most beautiful woman we had ever seen--red and black and fierce; so beautiful that her lover will beg to die alongside her in the cockpit. After this moment, only the unchanging fire would remain. Why not tear each other apart?                                   

    Classic X-Men #8 (Marvel Comics, April, 1987)

Sentinels!!

My first encounter with the Sentinels care of Whilce Portacio. In retrospect, these things are terrifying. Those on the attack, bursting through the ceiling, are like the front runners of some wild tribe of cancerous electronic vikings, screaming their endless hatred as they tear apart and impale their cybernetic prey. Looking at the Sentinel in the rear, mouth closed in focused attention, one can animate the scene, transitioning from hunt to violent assault.  

    Uncanny X-Men 281, Oct. 1991.