While Cable is depowered, he did replace those powers using technology and is now nearly as powerful as he was when he had his powers. More powerful if you consider that he rarely ever used his powers as he needed them to hold back his techno organic infection. Hercules, if written properly, could’ve done much more earlier than simply knocking down a bunch of heroes in a quick panel. As for the Vision, he didn’t seem to be using his powers at all.
And I thought Ben Grimm was neutral. When did he pick a side?
One other thing that has been bugging me about this event is how a lot of the books that have special “Civil War” issues are only tangentially involved. X-Factor, Wolverine, She Hulk, etc. are barely in the main story line and the issues themselves deal with few things that have come up in the main civil war title. The only two biggies involved are Amazing Spider Man and the Fantastic Four. Captain America and Iron Man, the two central characters in the story, have story arcs that have nothing to do with the Civil War. Hell, Iron Man is off assasinating high profile international muckety mucks.
As for the future stuff, [spoiler]The Luthor one and the new Earth-2 seemed the only ones likely to happen anytime soon. Ma Kent isn’t that old these days, and they got the team together too recently to break them up again (besides, J’onn isn’t kicking it this year at least, he’s got a miniseries to support).
Maybe Hal’s wedding. That bride could have been Cowgirl.[/spoiler]
Guess I’ll have to pick the rest of it up, then; I think I got the first couple issues, but then ran out of money for a bit. From Batman’s dismissal of Harvey Dent, I didn’t get the sense that there had been a huge sea change in attitude: “It’s over, Harvey. Go home.” Yeah, thanks for guarding the whole frickin’ city for a year; but the real hero’s back now, so don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. Great Bat-managerial skills, there.
[spoiler]This scene surely wouldn’t happen soon, though? I interpreted the dialogue, about Hal being the “last one,” to mean that all the other members of the JLA had been married by that point. And evidently Donna Troy had been married at least twice? Following this revelation, the discussion of weddings takes an odd turn:
Diana: “Speaking of which, what Dick did with Harvey…”
Regarding The Question, as he has appeared in 52: Has he always been such a delightful smartass? If so, I think I regret not pickup up his title when I was collecting back in the late '80s.
I had a bit of trouble getting what you meant, but then I realised what you were referring to. Technically, since this new development has come about, the first time won’t occur, I guess.
As to that last page… Looks like someone’s in a whuppin’ mood.
Yeah, I’d say so! I really hope this title sticks around. It’s got some of the best writing I’ve read in some time. And I feel strangely protective of Molly (even if she can kick Wolverine’s ass). I think Vahaugn and Alphona have done a wonderful job of depicting young characters who actually look and act their ages.
Another title I’d like to see stay in print is DC’s Manhunter. Apparently it was on the chopping block, but a write-in campaign prompted them to keep it alive for a bit longer. It’s another title with great writing and an interesting new character.
The Ion story is getting interesting.
Justice League of America #0: It was fun seeing so many different artists. Peculiar start to a series. Some of it confused me, as I didn’t follow the Identity Crisis and Infinite Crisis (I returned to collecting in the middle of all that, and didn’t feel like chasing down back issues.)
X-Men #476 (Okay, and 475, too): Why does Xavier look Asian? And half of the other characters? Asian artist? (I’m assuming, with a name like Tan.) This could be an interesting story, except I’ve got no idea who this person they’re chasing is.
Let’s see, also picked up Teen Titans#37, Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes#20, X-Factor#9, and All New Atom#1, but haven’t read them yet.
I know All New Atom came out a couple weeks ago, but I didn’t realize it at the time. Atom was always one of my favorites (read Power of The Atom back in 1986-87, until it was cancelled) so I’m glad to see they’re trying it again. It will be interesting to see how this new guy works out
Long story short. See X-Men: Deadly Genesis for the full one.
Vulcan is the third Summers brother. He was pulled out of his dead mothers womb by the shiar and brought to adulthood in a tube. He was raised as a slave until he escaped and found his way to Moira MacTaggart.
When the orginal X-Men were captured by Krakoa, Xavier formed a new group of X-Men before the group that we know to be the new X-Men (Storm, Wolverine, etc.). This group consisted of Vulcan, the super adaptive mutant known as Darwin, and three soon to be corpses. Xavier quick trained them using his mental powers and sent them to [del]die[/del] rescue the X-Men. Needless to say things went less than well. They freed Cyclops but got their butts handed to them by Krakoa. The only survivors were Darwin and Vulcan. Somehow Darwin merged with Vulcan and they stayed in a state of suspended animation after Krakoa got chucked into space.
Something woke Vulcan/Darwin up and they flew to Earth to beat on the X-Men for a while (killing Banshee) before they went to find the now powerless but leggy Charles Xavier. Confrontations abounded until Phoenix separated Darwin from Vulcan. Vulcan then flew off into space to claim vengeance on the Shiar race that killed his mother and raised him as a slave. What an ingrate.
Why create another Summers? Maybe they thought that Scott’s life was too happy. Maybe they thought that Alex wasn’t pathetic enough and wanted to tack being a middle child on to his bitch list.
“You think I want to be ‘Jenny Jameson’? It’s only been one day and do you know how many e-mails I’ve gotten from people mistaking me for some porn star?!”
Battle For Bludhaven 6 - Well, we know which version of Atom’s return holds. It’s the less interresting, but also less distressing one. That’s not really what I really noted, though: Monarch! CAPTAIN ATOM as Monarch! And Command-D!
Have to agree with everything here. My only guess is perhaps they are playing off an early Thor story when he was tricked by Hitler to fight the Invaders? Cheesy but maybe that’s the answer.
Regardless, Civil War is so one-sided as to be a joke (both in terms of the good guy/bad guy labels and the power-levels).
Not sure how they are going to explain Thor. Perhaps this one is a fake or some such?
Current Thor was at galaxy altering levels of power. He had the Odin power plus the power of the runes which puts him near or above Galactus levels of power. Now he’s suddenly back?
Ahem… I confess that I haven’t been following **Civil War ** much at all, but since this thread’s up at the top of the page again, I feel like I might as well ask the question that’s been on my mind:
How many of these guys are going to turn out to be Skrulls? Seriously, has it already been explicitly confirmed that there are no Skrulls around? Because what with all the remarks about the various puzzling mischaracterizations, continuity glitches et al., it just seems like there ought to be Skrulls involved somewhere. Do we know where the Skrulls are?
Not sure there are that many of them left. I think most of the Skrull empire is gone and the Superskrull is dead. Even Marvel wouldn’t pull that…right?
In Runaways, one of the newer characters is Xavin, a Super-Skrull in training. He was due to be married to a member of the Majesdanian race, in order to bring them together, but the respective people at the actual ceremony broke out into fighting, which ended up destroying the planet. It’s very possible (though not certain) that the Skrulls are thus otherwise engaged with another enemy.
Skrulls were healthy enough as a populace to show up in the final issue of Young Avengers, trying to get Hulkling back. There are still a bunch around. I wonder the same as you though - I made the comment in another forum that’s comics-dedicated : “I think it’s time to spray for Skrulls again.”
As for Thor, I’m hoping it’s a ruse on the Thunder God’s part. I can’t see him opposing Cap and Herc for any other reason.
Galactus devoured the Skrull homeworld (killing Anelle, the birth-mom of Teddy from the Young Avengers, in the process). But the Skrulls are scattered across an empire, on many worlds, so it’s not like their species was wiped out. They are engulfed in civil war, however, with various factions following competing claimants to the Skrull throne.
The Super-Skrull, Kl’rt, was killed recently fighting the Annihilation Wave. It’s been established, however, that he is just the first and foremost of a group of Super-Skrulls, so it’s possible to introduce a new Super-Skrull in the future. Xavin, the fiance/e of Karolina in Runaways, is a Super-Skrull project dropout.
