MotW 11/129/2008 - Nothing Important Happened Today

DarkWarrior

Thunderbolts continues to rocketh my sockseth off.

Robos A Go Go

DarkWarrior wrote: »

Thunderbolts continues to rocketh my sockseth off.

Spoiler:

I'm pretty worried about Songbird.

DarkWarrior

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

DarkWarrior wrote: »

Thunderbolts continues to rocketh my sockseth off.

Spoiler:

I'm pretty worried about Songbird.

Spoiler:

I wouldn't be. If they wer egoing to kill her it'd be kinda pointless to save it until the next comic then just do it in the first few frames. Something will interfere.

Hopefully.

EDIT: And Moonstone or whatefver shes called brought Venom into play and I only remember her saying that Chen and Songbird were remaining as targets. So I assume Songbird will escape and be forced to face off with Venom.

Unless Venom has snuck aboard Chens shuttle.

JoeUser

Flash this week was mostly Wally thinking about his past, not a bad recap.

But then the last page:

Spoiler:

Robos A Go Go

DarkWarrior wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

DarkWarrior wrote: »

Thunderbolts continues to rocketh my sockseth off.

Spoiler:

I'm pretty worried about Songbird.

Spoiler:

I wouldn't be. If they wer egoing to kill her it'd be kinda pointless to save it until the next comic then just do it in the first few frames. Something will interfere.

Hopefully.

EDIT: And Moonstone or whatefver shes called brought Venom into play and I only remember her saying that Chen and Songbird were remaining as targets. So I assume Songbird will escape and be forced to face off with Venom.

Unless Venom has snuck aboard Chens shuttle.

Spoiler:

Something will interfere, sure, but it's clear that Osborne and his team are going to win this fight.

Sars_Boy

Balefuego wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Balefuego wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Balefuego wrote: »

Ringo wrote: »

Please take the next three months to tell us all about it Bale

If I am also right about who the President is I just might

What's your guess?

Spoiler:

Reed Richards

That was my guess too, though it's complicated by the fact that one would expect the President to be a public figure.

Well it would have to be under a new identity yeah

hmmm that would be interesting

Spoiler:

I forget was reed in the future depicted in FF at all?

Balefuego

Sars_Boy wrote: »

Balefuego wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Balefuego wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Balefuego wrote: »

Ringo wrote: »

Please take the next three months to tell us all about it Bale

If I am also right about who the President is I just might

What's your guess?

Spoiler:

Reed Richards

That was my guess too, though it's complicated by the fact that one would expect the President to be a public figure.

Well it would have to be under a new identity yeah

hmmm that would be interesting

Spoiler:

I forget was reed in the future depicted in FF at all?

nope

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Sue just mentions that he's dead, but we dont know how and from last week's Wolverine we know it didnt happen when everyone else died.

Sars_Boy

I really like this whole future timeline that Millar made

mugginns

JoeUser wrote: »

Flash this week was mostly Wally thinking about his past, not a bad recap.

But then the last page:

Spoiler:

That was amazing, reminded me of a Barry Allen story. We'll see what happens - I like reading the history because I've been reading the actual issues they were talking about!

X-Files #1 this week was pretty cool. I can't wait for more, it is written by Frank Spotnitz - he was a writer for the show, perhaps the best.

psycojester

JoeUser wrote: »

Flash this week was mostly Wally thinking about his past, not a bad recap.

But then the last page:

Spoiler:

I really don't care how shocking your pronouncement is, i'm not going to take you seriously in those shorts.

Green

I didn't know Kevin Smith was The Spectre

ManonvonSuperock

He's not. if he was, he'd be talking about menstruation, rape, and heroin.

Keith

Some highlights from Ambush Bug: Year None #4

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Jester313

I read those scans of X-Factor three times. I still have no idea what's going on.

Robos A Go Go

Jester313 wrote: »

I read those scans of X-Factor three times. I still have no idea what's going on.

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They're attempting to rescue Darwin from some guy. In the first scan, they fall through the floor and Madrox wonders why Longshot's luck ability didn't prevent that from happening. A moment later, an explosion that would have killed most of them goes off, but they're safe because they on the floor below. Monet didn't, fall, though, and her clothes are burned off in the process.

In the second scan, Madrox attempts to get info from a guy by threatening to create a duplicate of himself inside him, which would be messy. His dupe then hits him in the back of the head, creating that dupe against Madrox's wishes.

Here's another example of him doing what he did in the second set of scans.

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mattharvest

The time when he killed Mellencamp was way better (in part because the art was so much better).

muninn

I havent read all the way through my stack, but Thunderbolts series is developing in an interesting direction. I wonder if the writer will have enough guts and editorial control to follow up all the way through...

Gabriel_Pitt

"My new boots..."

fray

It's been said already but yeah, Thunderbolts, and specifically the Songbird/Radioactive man/Bullseye scene would be my motw hands down. Although finding a bunch of old Alan Moore swamp thing trades in the library would be a close second.

Oh, and Ghost Rider was good this month.

Munch

mattharvest wrote: »

The time when he killed Mellencamp was way better (in part because the art was so much better).

I remember reading that one over and over as a kid. I'll try to dig out that issue and scan it later.

mugginns

This week's Robin was really awesome too, I loved the part where

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He uses Scarecrow's nightmare gas on the gangs and justifies it in his head (like Batman!) and later on Spoiler is talking to Alfred about it and he justifies it too... I'm guessing she's doing all this (hiring people to kill him) so she can make him 'harder' a la Zoom to Flash

Unless I'm totally missing something

Also in Flash, Batman says something totally awesome...

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Linda is sleeping in the hospital, all wrecked by the bees and his kids are sleeping next to her, and Batman shows up to tell him some info and Wally has to leave... Batman says he'll find someone to stay with the family because "He's not a face one should wake up to" D:

Jester313

So Madrox doesn't have control over creation of his duplicates? If he gets jarred around, he duplicates himself?

kdrudy

Jester313 wrote: »

So Madrox doesn't have control over creation of his duplicates? If he gets jarred around, he duplicates himself?

It seems like he can control it if he is expecting a hit but if he gets hit and he's not expecting it sometimes they pop out. It varies a bit.

durandal4532

At least in the miniseries it looked like he could do it on command, it wouldn't trigger for things like walking or stubbing his toe or high-fiving or something. But it also seems to happen whenever he gets punched. Then again, that's basically his only power in a fight, so it might just be him letting it happen.


Which reminds me: I think Multiple Man would make a cooler movie than say, Ant-Man. I mean, he had to talk one of his selfs down from suiciding, that was awesome.

wwtMask

The dupes pop out only when Jamie absorbs a certain amount of kinetic energy. Generally, if he stomps his foot hard, one will pop out.`

Jester313

That is awesome. Can he make them go away on command? If one dies, does he die?

I find him fascinating.

DarkWarrior

If one dies, he doesn't die. But if he reabsorbs them he does gain their knowledge.

EDIT: I think he absorbs their injuries to. But they partially repair based on his healthier frame and vice versa.

Robos A Go Go

He actually has a wide array of knowledge thanks to sending dupes out into the world to become experts in various fields and then absorbing them upon their return. He's not to Batman levels of prepared, but he's well-equipped.

Crimsondude

Jester313 wrote: »

So Madrox doesn't have control over creation of his duplicates? If he gets jarred around, he duplicates himself?

You mean, "If Siryn was too vigorous doing reverse cowgirl, would it turn into a threesome?"

DarkWarrior

Hasn't he already done that with her?

Faynor

He had sex with Monet and Siryn the same night, but the real him was with Siryn and he didn't know about the one with Monet, I think.

DouglasDanger

Man, Multiple Man is so awesome. More trades I need to buy.

Jester313

Best Multiple Man trades....GO!!

Balefuego

Jester313 wrote: »

Best Multiple Man trades....GO!!

Just buy all the X-Factor trades, starting with the Madrox miniseries

CoJoeTheLawyer

Crimsondude wrote: »

Jester313 wrote: »

So Madrox doesn't have control over creation of his duplicates? If he gets jarred around, he duplicates himself?

You mean, "If Siryn was too vigorous doing reverse cowgirl, would it turn into a threesome?"

If I recall correctly, there was a throwaway line in Morrison's New X-men where Siryn asked Madrox if he ever just made a bunch of dupes and started an orgy with himself...kinky.

Three cheers if someone can find the scan of that.

Crimsondude

"I'm not gay! I'm masturbating!"

ManonvonSuperock

Have they explained the duplication of his clothes?

Are they special clothes?

Does he have a duplication field?

If he has a dupe field, could he counterfeit money in it?

Robos A Go Go

ManonvonSuperock wrote: »

Have they explained the duplication of his clothes?

Are they special clothes?

Does he have a duplication field?

If he has a dupe field, could he counterfeit money in it?

I don't know the specifics, but he can seemingly duplicate any inorganic item he's in contact with.

Sharp101

Wiki says

Madrox's duplications also creates copies of the clothing he is wearing and a HYDRA scientist has speculated that he could duplicate any matter he is holding, a power surpassing simple self-duplication. His powers have, at least once, been shown to affect the actual design of the shirt he was wearing.

kdrudy

Sharp101 wrote: »

Wiki says

Madrox's duplications also creates copies of the clothing he is wearing and a HYDRA scientist has speculated that he could duplicate any matter he is holding, a power surpassing simple self-duplication. His powers have, at least once, been shown to affect the actual design of the shirt he was wearing.

The implications of that could be quite frightening. Well they would be if he was a supervillian.