Oh, and Ship and Scuttlebutt, Beta Ray Bill's ship. You know it.
You could say Rictor shakes the hell out of the possessed items.
Yeah that's right.
Further, for the first few years of Marvel, time moved normally. Then Franklin Richards learned about the world and nobody important aged. Until Billy came along, wanting to be the next generation of supers. But first the current generation had to get older. From that point some people aged, some didn't. Eventually time broke. Neither Billy nor Franklin know they're doing it.
Check the timing in the comics. Time stopped passing in the 70s, then people suddenly started growing older in the 90s.
Alright, here's my personal idea on the twins. Billy Kaplan was an Avengers fanboy who developed massive reality warping powers. One day he met Scarlet Witch at a time of emotional turmoil, and BAM! Reality changed, because of subconscious manipulation. Now that wonderful superhero was his real mum! Except he didn't tie up the loose ends, Scarlet Witch got a powerup and went crazy. Tommy/Speed was just some mutant kid, but now his face and hair are changed so he looks just like Billy. At some level he knows things aren't right but he can't remember being different. A group forms around Billy, just happening to be just like the Avengers.
Loki Laufeyson, Fing Fang Foom, and I'll be absolutely shocked if there's no Z name.
Unus the Untouchable
B Barnell Bohusk C Curt Connors H Happy Hogan W Warren Worthington
But see, there's a big overlap between Star Trek fans and space nerds. I'm more interested in the average 70s kid.
Yeah go for it if you have the time, there's an audience and I'm always ready to learn.
My version of Psylocke is atill the 80s version, but the way I see her is that she's somebody who found life a bit too easy, being wealthy and beautiful, and constantly strove to test herself to prove her worth. The reason she became a warrior wasn't that she wanted to be strong, but that it wasn't something she was naturally good at. She wanted the challenge, not the power. If she was good in a brawl but terrible at knitting she'd have sat there knitting til her fingers bled.
Then she was a 90s bad girl.
Today? I can't help you there.
Yeah, it's character driven rather than plot driven, which I like but it isn't for everyone.
I'm actually getting a bit wary about New Avengers. I've been reading it since the relaunch, and it is great fun, but every issue has Sunspot being awesome and talking about his master plan, and then Evil Richards is evil and talks about his master plan, and then ... nothing much happens. There's some posing and punching. Now one event is over and another is beginning, but there's still no payoff for any of the plot points. Cannonball exploded onto the pages months ago and has just literally stood there ever since. I'll keep reading for now because it is fun, but I need story too.
By the way, we've now had two cryptic narration boxes about the Maker coming in slices. Is this going somewhere, is it a joke because of that time he was cut into slices, or is Pam from HR going to be talking to him about being a food rapist?
Sudden thought re New Avengers. Hawkeye is deaf, why did he need to cover his ears?
"This isn't art for the sake of art. This is commercial art. It's made to be bought."
Well put.
They killed the black guy? UNLESS MOST OF YOUR GUYS ARE BLACK, DON'T KILL THE BLACK GUY! EVEN IF YOUR MOTIVES ARE PURE AND THE STORY JUSTIFIES IT, YOU'RE STILL JUST REUSING A PARTICULARLY VENOMOUS YET OVERUSED TROPE Is that so hard to grasp?
It was fun, but a bit button-mashy for my tastes.
There's one bit though. In Ultimate Marvel, Falcon took out Colossus by scratching his eyes, because eyes can't be metal that would be silly (oh Warren Ellis, you just don't get it). Then shortly after that the game came out and the trivia mini game had an answer about Colossus that was EVEN HIS EYES ARE METAL. Tell me that wasn't a cheap dig by someone.
Yes, he's at his best when he's pulling the strings and creating super soldiers rather than when he's being Bad Plastic Man.
I do like how he's just plucked cool concepts for his modus operandi, without considering how they'll work. Like he says he's all about Darwinism, and proceeds to enact the exact opposite with his artificial selection, and enacts it with Biblical-themed characters fitted out with stuff he got from aliens. I see him as being laughably naive and childish, but so crazy powerful that you can't actually laugh at him.
Can anyone tell us which issue had the excellent scene where Cannonball's talking about Xavier's open hand and Magneto's closed fist. The closed fist can protect a little mouse and an open hand can slap Xavier in the face, and that's the place where X-Force was going to be.
Then Feral ate the mouse.
That was X-Force's shtick originally. The ex New Mutants not the more recent murder teams. I don't know if they ever stood up for Cable's vision, but that was the concept.
Ah, but that time machine actually came from the past.
I think the only ex-X-Men I'm reading is Sunspot in New Avengers, and I think he's great. It's interesting that it's kind of like an alternate universe Sunspot who didn't have all the intervening stuff, and progressed linearly from Claremont to here. He has the prestige he once craved, and boths flaunts it and worries that it's all people see. He skirts the line of supervillainy and nobody's sure if he'll tip over. He's a super-rich scion, both entitled and grounded. And he cares deeply while pretending he doesn't. I find it all fascinating.
That fits the "elastic bridge" concept of Marvel time. Actual time is like an ever-deepening valley, while Marvel time is like a bridge over that valley that stretches much more slowly. So the Fantastic Four formed 15 years ago, in the early 60s. To them right now 15 years ago was 2001, but it was also 1961, and every year in between somehow fitted 4 years into it.
*numbers aren't my thing, but you get the idea
Rollo is awesome and powerful but forever eclipsed by his older brother. Every time he tries to break free of his brother's shadow he ends up in just a pale imitation of his brother's that inevitably comes to nothing. There's a bit more to it, but that's the gist.
Mind you, the real life Rollo founded the Normans, his dynasty ruled all England and a chunk of continental Europe, and to this day every monarch in Europe is descended from him, so maybe there's hope for old Alex in the Avengers.
I don't know the specifics offhand, but I know Marvel has a very careful timeline of ancient Egypt because so many supervillains are ex-pharaohs. Kang alone infinitely complicates things. As he does.
Hawkeye's point is to be pointless. That's the character. Utterly superfluous but still awesome.



Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-MenEpisode 117 - How to Pee Like a SupervillainJul 18, 2016 at 8:54 PM