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colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-02 15:04:00

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char: ant-man/wasp/hank pym, char: ares/marvel, char: black widow/natasha romanova, char: captain america/bucky barnes, char: falcon/sam wilson, char: mr. fantastic/reed richards, char: sharon carter, char: vision/jonas, creator: bryan hitch, creator: ed brubaker, creator: mark millar, publisher: marvel comics

The Seventh Sign

Two comics with Bryan Hitch art came out this week, surely signalling some imminent cataclysm: three scans from Captain America: Reborn #1 and four from Fantastic Four #568.

First, in Reborn, the nerd squad assembles in the Mighty Avengers' HQ to discuss the tech behind whatever happened to Steve:

Also, Venom's there, but he's not in-panel.

Over in Fantastic Four, the seemingly omnipotent Marquis of Death and his minion subdue the Fantastic Four; the Marquis takes Reed on a little tour:

Reed says no.

They move on.

The Marquis didn't expect him to go for this either, so he takes him then to Area 87, where Clyde Wyncham, an incredibly dangerous supervillain is kept; Wyncham came from an alternate reality where he is the only mutant, but also has brain damage, and so a system designed by Reed keeps him subdued. Tying into Millar's "Old Man Logan", apparently the villain revolt in the future set Wyncham lose, and he awoke, "his mind restored...

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	icon_uk 2009-07-02 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	Aside from some disturbing thoughts about the Marquis having no apparent clothing OR genitalia, am I supposed to be finding him impressive here? Because I don't think it's working. (Reply to this) (Thread)

halloweenjack
2009-07-02 07:18 pm UTC (link)

Same here. Blah blah millions of realities destroyed yadda yadda master of space and time hey could you wake me up when there are boobies involved? Thanks, man. It's like hearing that Roland Emmerich is going to do another film where everything goes to hell, again. And Thanos has another gizmo that will make him master of the universe, and he won't blow this one, honest... what's that you say, Lucy? Place-kicking practice? What the hell, football season is almost here, anyway... just don't pull that ball away, I'm on to you this time!

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	jlbarnett 2009-07-02 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	yeah he's supposed to be all badass and he's Ragdoll gone even further. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-07-02 10:49 pm UTC (link)
	Look, it provides a motivation for him being such a tool without much further explanation needed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bruinsfan 2009-07-03 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	A billion years in which he found nothing more constructive or interesting to do than pursue a vendetta against endless alternate versions of Reed Richards and blow crap up while pontificating about how very awesome and dark he is. Yawn. I did have some faint hope that this might turn out to be an interesting character. Oh well. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	stig 2009-07-02 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	I hope they don't kill the Marquis off, he's a fantastic villain. Far more interesting than, say, the Hood or Norman Osborn. Reminds me of Morrison's sadly short-lived take on Magneto in "Planet X", stripped of all pretense to be revealed as the mass-murdering monster he really is. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	angelophile 2009-07-02 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	Making a villain utterly devoid of any kind of layers doesn't count as fantastic for me, unfortunately. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	colonel_green 2009-07-02 06:49 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not really sure how much repeat-value he has, at least from what we've seen so far; among other things, his powerset is such that however he's defeated will presumably be a one-in-a-million chance. Those sorts of characters tend to suffer pretty marked decay in repeat appearances. (Reply to this) (Parent)