Only the fact that I’ve been sick and blind the last few days (Okay, maybe not actually blind, but let me feel sorry for myself…) can excuse the fact that I’ve not passed on these latest stunning rumors from The Comics Outsider:
Citing positive fan response, Marvel has decided to create a sequel to the smash hit Civil War tie-in that brought Captain Marvel from the past to the present day Marvel Universe to become a warden at a jail filled with his old friends. The sequel will follow the same structure as the original.
In the first half of the book, Ned Leeds (deceased Daily Bugle reporter and brainwashed Hobgoblin), will be brought from the past to the future to serve as the pro-reg side’s new press liaison. He will be brought forward through time due to a “rip in the space-time negative zone continuum or something” a Marvel staffer is quoted as saying.
In the second half of the book, The Sentry will renew his driver’s license.
No, I really couldn’t pass up the chance to take another shot at The Return. I’m sorry.
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:15 am
I understand now.
They have come up with a concept gimmick that will knock the clone saga fiasco aside.
Oh no, the Spider-Man death rumors, someone will die. Ben Reilly is returning next. All dead Avengers. When will it end?
Just a thought…..why not use it to grab Bill Foster right before Clor kills him?
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:56 am
Why not use it to grab Jesus off the cross?
Let him work out his guilt in the form of “kinetic energy”. That’s what I do.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:12 am
off-topic:
“I love how natural the words “brainwashed Hobgoblin” are”
I’m still giggling at last night’s Colbert Report’s super-perfecto-phrase:
“Some people don’t want to see Harriet Tubman in a spacetrain”.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I kinda get the Jesus remark until the “let Him work off His guilt…” Not sure where the guilt for Jesus comes into play. It is uber-evangelist that want all of us to feel the guilt of having put Jesus on the Cross.
The Book of Hebrews can straighten that out without the use of timetravel.
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:17 am
Sorry for the misunderstanding, Palladin — in my hamfisted way I was trying to suggest that if the current Marvel braintrust were to somehow use Jesus as a character, they’d probably miss the point about him to the extent that they’d make him all dark and conflicted — impute a driving “guilt” motivation to him that would really make no sense, but would make some fanboys squeal “woo! Edgy Jesus! So much more realistic!”, because superficially it would bear enough of a resemblance to the concept of redemption to fool the untutored eye.
In other words, I was complaining about Speedball and Captain Marvel. But, I didn’t say it very well, just sort of dashed it off.