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22:21 / 15.04.08

So, is the Red Hot Room coming out of scott's eyes? That'd be dope.

01:41 / 16.04.08

no

The Stolen Llama

02:15 / 16.04.08

They can blast through solid steel, but are stopped by his eyelids.

Isn't he immune to his own powers, and the powers of anybody he's a blood relative of, ie Alex?

Decadent Daytripper in Love

02:34 / 16.04.08

All powers are psychic. That's how they get around physics and chemistry and logic and stuff. There was some guy back in the day who used to post explanations of Spidey's massive psychic powers (imitates spider-powers, enforces retcons, and lies in his own thought balloons) across the internets.

All superpowers are psychic in nature, and all psychic superpowers are powered by fictionality.

Ask yourself why Grant Morrison never talked about making the MU conscious and self-aware. Uatu is the Marvel Universe! ZOMG!

So, anyways, did anyone ever make sense out of the Fantastic Four in the Ultimate MU? The Reed Richards Science Center and being more popular than The Ultimates when the The Ultimates went public, but not actually existing as a team or being public or powered yet at the time... all that good stuff.

Spyder Todd 2008

03:53 / 16.04.08

No.

But supposedly all will be revealed in this summer's Ultimate Marvel Crossover EVENT (tm).

Because that is clearly what the universe means.

00:42 / 22.05.08

This:
Captain Britain Weekly, #1-39
Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain, #231-253
Hulk Weekly, #1-63
Marvel Superheroes, #377-388
The Daredevils, #1-11
The Mighty World Of Marvel, volume 2, #7-16
Captain Britain Monthly, #1-14
Knights of Pendragon, volume one, #1-18
Excalibur: The Sword is Drawn
Excalibur, Vol. 1, #1-125
o Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem
o Excalibur: Weird War III
o Excalibur: The Possession
o Excalibur: Air Apparent
o Excalibur Annual, #1-2
o Excalibur #-1
Excalibur Vol. 2 #1-4
Marvel Team-Up, #65-66
New Excalibur, #1-24 (November 2005 - 2007)
New Mutants, annual #2
X-Men: Die by the Sword, #1-5 (2007)

is wikipedia's list of Captain Britain Comics.

2 questions, is there anything important missing there? Is that roughly the right read order?

Dan Fish - Fish1000.biz

09:34 / 22.05.08

I'd go:

Captain Britain Weekly, #1-39
Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain, #231-253
Marvel Team-Up, #65-66
Hulk Weekly, #1-63
Marvel Superheroes, #377-388
The Daredevils, #1-11
The Mighty World Of Marvel, volume 2, #7-16
Captain Britain Monthly, #1-14
New Mutants, annual #2
Uncanny X-Men Annual #11
Excalibur: The Sword is Drawn
Excalibur, Vol. 1, #1-125 ; Knights of Pendragon, volume one, #1-18
o Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem
o Excalibur: Weird War III
o Excalibur: The Possession
o Excalibur: Air Apparent
o Excalibur Annual, #1-2
o Excalibur #-1
Excalibur Vol. 2 #1-4
New Excalibur, #1-24 (November 2005 - 2007)
X-Men: Die by the Sword, #1-5 (2007)

They missed out Uncanny X-Men annual 11 by Claremont/Davis.

KoP happens during the Excalibur run.

There were a few additional guest appearances, but nothing you probably need hunt down.

No Cap, but if you're reading all that Excalibur, you might also want X-Men: True Friends (1999) #1-3.

There have been a few X-Men appearances in recent years - Around the 450 mark I think, preceded by appearances from The Fury. A few appearances by the Captain Britain Corps in Fantastic Four too. and maybe some stuff in Avengers when Lionheart was introduced, not sure I'd recommend that though!!!

22:29 / 03.06.08

OK, so, Cyclops and Madeline Pryor. They meet, get married, have a kid. Jean comes back to life, and Scott just up and leaves Madeline and the kid for her. Do I have that sequence of events right (I've read as far as Essential #4, but pretty much drop off one Paul Smith leaves)? And, more importantly, was there any attempt in the comics then to address what a titanic dick move that is? I know there's sort of a "she's really a villain" justification, but that smells retconny to me.

22:50 / 03.06.08

It's not _quite_ as dickish as that.

Yes, he did abandon his wife & child, but they were already having problems. Before he even knew for certain Jean was really alive, she was saying things like "if you walk out that door, don't bother coming back".

Quite honestly, Jean didn't come between them... the X-Men did.

19:23 / 05.06.08

I think that's how they retconned it, but in X-Factor #1, it's pretty much they call and say that Jean's alive, then Scott walks out. Yes, there's a setup where he thinks about how the X-Men might need him, but there, the X-Men are basically equated with his memory of Jean. In retrospect, they made it so Maddy was messing with him and trying to pull him away from the X-Men, but that's just a way to make her a villain in Inferno.

In actuality, she joins up with the X-Men, and essentially forgives Scott for what he did, even though it still pains her. One of my favorite moments in the whole Claremont run is in Fall of the Mutants, when Maddy is about to walk in to her death, and she says she still loves Scott and their son, even after what he did to her.

19:26 / 05.06.08

And, in response to the original question, there is an attempt to address it. Once Louise Simonson starts writing X-Factor, she makes it clear that Scott did a really bad thing. He goes back to Alaska seeking Maddy, but their house has been destroyed and there's no sign of her. He goes through a weird dream sequence exploring his guilt, but basically there's nothing he can do. He thinks that she ran off somewhere and disconnected the phone because she never wants to see him again. In actuality, she was attacked and had her identity stolen by Mister Sinister, but that's another story.

Triplets
(prev. I AM THE DARK! I AM THE NIGHT!)

11:09 / 06.06.08

All my breakups go that way.

05:12 / 28.06.08

A while back, I heard that Marvel was crossing over with the soap opera Guiding Light. Did anything eer come of that?

15:55 / 28.06.08

The Guiding Light thing was a 4-page or so insert in the middle of a few B-level Marvel titles for one or two weeks of Marvel's releases, wherein one of the characters on the soap became a superhero for one brief shining moment. That plot was somehow reflected in the TV show itself for a few days, maybe a week, from what I read. It seemed pretty silly and sub-standard quality to me, even given that it's a soap opera and all. I suppose it was just good PR for Marvel (reaching a segment of the population who probably never reads comic books) for the 5 minutes it lasted (this was about 5 months ago, if I recall correctly).

22:22 / 30.06.08

Actually, I wonder - when I was in high school, I remember a lot of girl classmates watching soaps as soon as they got home, or even setting the VCR timers to catch 'em.

And with Heroes and Smallville being basically night-time soaps, I imagine there's a growing chunk of overlap between "kids" who buy comics and "grown-ups" who watch soaps.

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