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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-02 15:56:00

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creator: mark waid, creator: peter krause, title: irredeemable

Irredeemable #4
The latest issue of Mark Waid's series about the world's greatest superhero becoming its greatest villain.

You can totally tell that someone's been watching a lot of Doctor Who...

The next scene is years later, after the Plutonian's heel turn. He tells Qubit to choose ten people to live.

To clarify what happened, those people who were heat-visioned are not the ten chosen. The ten are the ones in the background in that final panel.

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	icon_uk 2009-07-02 11:35 pm UTC (link)
	A cheese obsessive techno genius inventor makes me think of Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit fame) as much as the Doctor, though the apologising IS very Doctorish true. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-04 06:03 am UTC (link)
	I thought the German exclamation was very Doctor-ish, too. It would fit perfectly alongside the likes of "allons-y" and "molte bene." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	DAMN motherpoozer 2009-07-02 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	Singapore for raped (Reply to this)

	jlbarnett 2009-07-03 12:19 am UTC (link)
	I find a significant flaw in this. I don't believe a person who could kill millions casually ever cared enough that having to choose between them on who to save would be painful. (Reply to this) (Thread)

jarodrussell
2009-07-03 12:25 am UTC (link)

It's probably some ass-dumb reason that involves Plutonian being able to crush life as if by choice or something. "Having this kind of power is like being able point at a person...any person...and know you held their pitiful life in your hand. As such, as it was in your hand, it was your choice whether to open your palm and let it fly away or to clench your fist, crushing life from it with nothing more than a thought." You know, the same kind of thought that goes into emo poetry at MySpace.

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	cmdr_zoom 2009-07-03 01:52 am UTC (link)
	My feeling through all of this is that the big guy doesn't really seem to have any real human emotion or empathy. He's just pretending, mimicing, like a sociopath or an alien. I dunno, maybe that's the point. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlbarnett 2009-07-03 01:54 am UTC (link)
	true. But if that's the case then he doesn't actually know what all the responsibilty feels like so he's just guessing when he kills all but ten people as a demonstation. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jarodrussell 2009-07-03 12:20 am UTC (link)
	What was Qubit's big plan at the end? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-04 06:01 am UTC (link)
	For saving the people or for stopping the Plutonian? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ian_karkull 2009-07-03 12:56 am UTC (link)
	Ausgezeichnet! Random German FTW! (Reply to this)

	pyrotwilight 2009-07-03 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Man Tony's such a dick. Been a while since I could say that somewhere. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yaseen101 2009-07-03 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	At first I thought you said Tony Stark is a dick but then I realized 'Oh that Tony, not the one I thought'. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-04 05:59 am UTC (link)
	Hah! If I do another Irredeemable entry someday, I'm stealing that joke for my cut text. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-07-03 06:15 am UTC (link)
	So is Qubit German, or just multi-lingual? and what does 'Ausgezeichnet' mean, anyway? In any case, I like him; we need more eccentric inventors (assuming that's what he is). (Reply to this) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-07-03 09:13 am UTC (link)
	It means excellent. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-07-03 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-04 06:01 am UTC (link)
	He refers to his friends as "mates," so he's not American, at least. What he actually is hasn't come up anywhere, though. And yes, an eccentric inventor he is. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	taggerung301 2009-07-03 03:11 pm UTC (link)
	what a freaking monster >:( (Reply to this)

	halloweenjack 2009-07-05 02:19 am UTC (link)
	The worst thing about this is that it's led me to have a newfound appreciation for Bendis' Powers arc, "The Sellouts", all over again. (Reply to this)