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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 2, 2009 16:11:17 GMT -8
Well, sad truth to tell, when I hear "unstuck in time", I tend to think of Quantum Leap (I'm sorry, but I watched that show when I was a kid, and didn't read Vonnegut until University, so that's the more prominent memory.) and as far as my reaction goes, it's a combination of these two   |
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Post by jessebaker on Jul 2, 2009 19:45:27 GMT -8
Regarding War of the Kings:
My take on how things will end is this: Vulcan loses EVERYTHING and ends up exiled back on Earth, to further torment Scott.
Havok and Polaris take over running the Shi'Ar Empire via Havok being Vulcan's brother and the rest of the galaxy basically deciding that Alex and Lorna are the only two people who can be trusted to run the Empire in a fair and non-tyrannical fashion.
Crystal ends up either dying/dumping Ronan and basically causing Ronan to turn heel again, leading to the Kree once again becoming the Big Bad on the block spacewise.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 3, 2009 19:39:02 GMT -8
Oh, and Comicon prediction:
JMS gets Superman starting in 2010: 75%
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 5, 2009 16:20:42 GMT -8
If Warlock isn't the Magus, he certainly has the Magus IN him; the most recent issue made that perfectly clear. Given that the Magus is one of the few sons-of-bitches that scares the crap out of major cosmic powers even more than Thanos ever did, he's an excellent choice for the next major crossover. I agree that Thanos is a solid lock for resurrection; he and the Magus were intentionally ideological opposites. Which, to me, was always one of Starlin's intriguing angles; on the alignment axis, he stripped away good and evil and, in their case, order and chaos, and left them as pure avatars of Life and Death. The Magus was evil to the core, but a being of "drive, ambition, purpose -- LIFE itself," as he once put it. Adam Warlock may have been Thanos' biggest foe,but he was also morose, prone to suicidal thoughts, and frequently fell to his knees crying in the middle of fight scenes. An avatar of life, he was not. The Magus was never hamstrung by "morality" or "doubt"  . Phyla-Vell as Oblivion avatar is a solid lock for a big villain, but I'm going to predict her as either chief henchperson (sort of the Phalanx to Magus' Ultron), or, more likely, enemy-of-my-enemy, since Oblivion is so detached from Magus. Hell, I can see a three-sided war between Magus and his church, the Guardians and company, and a Thanos/Phyla-Vell Death Force blazing across the cosmos. Which would be AWESOME. Actually, what would be supremely great is if they decided to use the Gruenwaldian cosmological axis from his Quasar run that used four opposite points - with Magus representing Life (or rather, Eternity), Thanos representing Death, Phyla as Oblivion, and Quasar as Eternity. |
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Post by paulpogue on Jul 5, 2009 20:26:15 GMT -8
To make it even more complicated, the Gruenwald Cosmic Axis was based directly on Steve Englehart's 3/2 cosmic axis from his Silver Surfer run -- Gruenwald specifically filled in the blanks Englehart hadn't completed.
As the Living Tribunal explained it to the Silver Surfer, all things on the cosmic level exist in threes which balance each other out -- Death/Eternity/Galactus, Chaos/Order/In-Betweener, the three faces of the Tribunal, and so forth. But, the Tribunal said, each of these also has an "other", a counterpart who is not exactly a replica but not an opposite, either. The Tribunal's "other" was strongly implied to be the Stranger; Galactus' "other" was stated as the Silver Surfer. (When Norrin objected to this, saying he didn't understand and was only a herald, the Tribunal responded, "Of course! What other being could be the other to ... GALACTUS?" It was a pure Englehartian moment, but also a nice summation of the occasionally-reluctant-but-always-deep respect that existed between Norrin and Galactus.)
Anyway, Gruenwald expanded this to establish Infinity and Oblivion as the respective "others" to Eternity and Death. And given that the Annihilation brain trust has nothing but massive love for the Gru's cosmic stuff (notice that they brought back Oblivion AND Maelstrom!), I think you're on a very good track here. And the Magus as champion of Eternity works very well, because both Starlin and Gruenwald viewed Eternity as a not-entirely-benevolent figure.
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Post by jessebaker on Jul 5, 2009 21:01:28 GMT -8
Except Eternity HATED Adam Warlock and was pretty much lobotomized by Magus, who saw Eternity as someone on his cosmic hit list to kill off in Infinity War.
That said, Magus is still out there in the Infinity Soul Gem and quite frankly I'd rather see them do a plotline where he and Goddess break free at last than do a Jeckyl and Hyde storyline with Warlock. IW/IC Magus was kind of a snarky Evilly Affable villain and I'd rather see him than evil OG Magus, who was bezerk batshit crazy would-be Messiah.
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Post by paulpogue on Jul 6, 2009 16:04:05 GMT -8
If there's one thing we can always count on cosmic entities to be, it is extremely fickle when it comes to allegiances. Especially with the amount of shit that's on the line in the cosmic tales.
As for the Magus [he's already back, as of the latest issue of Guardians of the Galaxy. It's unclear if he's part of New Adam Warlock, or if he was Newlock all along (after all, the Guardians never really did vet EXACTLY where that cocoon came from), but ol' Purple-puss is clearly on the loose again.]
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Post by hhbx on Jul 9, 2009 11:19:21 GMT -8
With speculation of Hal Jordan becoming the White Lantern, which I think Sinestro popping up as the white lantern is a pretty neat twist that does make some sense. So if that happens, then I'll go with this one:
Batman's Corpse becomes some sort of Ultimate Black Lantern: 6%
If memory serves correctly, the only one who's wore multiple rings outside of Hal Jordan and Sinestro is Bruce Wayne and it wouldn't surprise me if both sides get one ultimate, total ring wearing member to square off against each other in a total, final battle. Hell, make it a meta commentary for all I care if you want of a character who is literally a light against the personification of grim and gritty dark. =p
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Post by jessebaker on Jul 9, 2009 12:45:30 GMT -8
Actually, if Blackest Night Free Comic Book Day book is to be believed, Batman's "corpse" is going to get dismembered and his skull used as Black Hand's Power Battery. Which makes for more sense given the plot point that was the Batman FC X-Overs, where Batman's willpower was so great that Darkseid couldn't subvert him into being the template for an army of Batman clones.
Resurrecting Batman would be a crapshoot at best, especially since Scar/Black Hand run the risk of an now evil Batman pulling a coup and taking over their scheme with himself on top. At worst, he'd come back and kill Scar and then destroy himself after proclaiming that he was able to overcome the influence of the Black Power Ring.
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Post by paulpogue on Jul 9, 2009 13:57:46 GMT -8
Not to mention the very open question of who's actually buried in Bruce Wayne's grave.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 9, 2009 15:27:03 GMT -8
What's also interesting was a couple of the names that didn't get mentioned in this weeks "round up of the dead and ressurrected" in GL43
-No mention of Rocket Red
-No mention of Jason Todd or Ra's Al Ghul
Discuss
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 9, 2009 15:37:39 GMT -8
Oh, and another speculation:
"World's most wanted" ends with Matt Fraction ripping off Adam Warren's Hypervelocity mini with the program that deletes Tony Stark's brain reloading a fresh "old-school" version - 80%. Because Fraction has an endgame, and that endgame is probably pretty lame.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jul 9, 2009 19:15:51 GMT -8
OH, and who's in the second coocoon in GotG?
The "real" Adam Warlock - 40%
Her/Kismet - 25%
The Goddess - 15%
The Magus - 10%
and now, for the complete darkhorse theory....
The Prodigy - 10% from Jim Valentino-era GotG, which clearly Abnett and Lanning have read - ties to the Universal Church of Truth? Check. Godlike power that is truly frightening to imagine? CHECK. Possible because of all the space time cracks? BIG CHECK.
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Post by jessebaker on Jul 9, 2009 20:40:32 GMT -8
If Prodigy (basically an attempt by the Universal Church of the Truth to create their own Messiah, capable of duplicating ANY power or skill via line of sight vision, PLUS mega corrupted by Mephisto and last scene being imprisoned by the Eternity and Living Tribunal) is back, then the universe is very seriously fucked.
Hell, he would be the type of threat to drive Eternity to seek out an alliance with Adam Warlock.
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Post by paulpogue on Jul 10, 2009 13:35:33 GMT -8
I wonder if Jason Todd precisely counts as "resurrected" because his return was the result of reality being altered so he never actually died.
Ra's Al Ghul is a whole other can o' fish.
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