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Tweak says, "Be one with the orange"

queenursula (queenursula) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-28 23:18:00

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char: hardball/roger brokeridge, char: komodo/melati kusuma, char: scorpion/carmilla black, char: taskmaster, char: typhoid mary/mary walker, creator: christos gage, creator: humberto ramos, publisher: marvel comics, title: avengers the initiative

Avengers: The Initiative #23

Also, Justice and the other New Warriors blow the lid on the Initiative's cloning of MVP, giving Norman an excuse to take it over. Good job, assholes.

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daningram
2009-04-29 06:20 am UTC (link)

Taking over? Norman already *took* over. All Justice did was give him a reason to sell closing the camp to the public. Hell, Clor was probably all he needed, MYP's death is just more sympathetic.

And honestly, if Norman had to engineer a reason (as he's done in the past), does anyone really think that there wouldn't have been a bodycount? MVP's death happened a while ago and there was still no accounting. Sometimes you have to do the right thing no matter who benefits. At least this way it's Justice revealing the truth and not Norman, who would spin it as best would help him.

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	ashtoreth 2009-04-29 09:49 am UTC (link)
	The problem is that comics need irony. Justice would never do the right thing unless there is an ironic bad side. Now that doing the right thing causes harm, oh yeah, that's when the writers decide to let the characters act civic-minded. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

daningram
2009-04-29 10:10 am UTC (link)

Justice has been acting civic minded for a while, actually. He was the one who uncovered the MVP cover-up, and he was the one who organized the current New Warriors team and saved the MVP clone from being mind wiped. Not only that, but he also confronted the last New Warriors team to make sure that they were competent.

Justice has hardly been sitting on his butt this entire team. I can't think of a time he's been better since New Warriors.

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	ashtoreth 2009-04-29 10:41 am UTC (link)
	I know, but.. due to this being a story, he waits until a really bad time to expose the death. Irony! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xdoop 2009-04-29 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	I sent Gage an e-mail. He responded, "I think Norman would have found another excuse to do what he wanted to, but who knows how exactly it would have played out? This is definitely something Justice will be thinking about in the future!" (Reply to this) (Parent)

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