2025 Card-vent Calendar: December 19

December 19, 2025:

1994 Classic Mortal Kombat #96 Story Line: Sub-Zero and Scorpion

My Mortal Kombat gaming experience is limited to the first console game.  Probably Genesis-only, if I remember correctly.  My buddy Jason, whom I knew since first grade, then started to pal around with around 8th-11th grade, had the system, so we would spend a lot of time playing that, watching Beavis and Butt-Head, and just enjoying the little commercials and interstitials that MTV still played at the time.  (Remembering some guy talking about a "bum wing" while taking the bus, maybe?  Riding in cabs?  Just experiencing hints of vapors of that bygone time in my middle age.)

Mostly, though, I would just watch him play.  And I was fine with that.  He wasn't greedy, he would've given up the controller if I had asked, but I just enjoyed providing the commentary to his gameplay.  We would throw on "Alapalooza" or Dennis Leary's "No Cure for Cancer" and just have a great time.  All of those other games in the franchise that have come since have no meaning to me.

 

My favorite character was always Sub-Zero.  Freezing an opponent with an icy blast and then smashing him to pieces was utterly satisfying.  "Get over here!" is the more famous line, but I preferred freezing a motherfucker.

 

Who was your favorite Mortal Kombat character?