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Steven Myers
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I'd guess that if a skrull really wanted two left hands....he or she could do it. Imagine never having to use your off-hand again. Sorta.
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Wayde Murray
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Okay, I got my nerd hat on, and I was wondering...
Can the Super Skrull remain invisible while fully aflame? Or, put another way, can the Invisible Woman turn the Torch invisible while he is ignited? Would the heat shimmer give him away? What about his contrail while aloft? I can't recall her ever using her power to make him invisible while he was burning, and now I'm wondering if she could do it.
Anyone?
Edited by Wayde Murray on 29 December 2008 at 2:16pm
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Wallace Sellars
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I've never seen her do it, Wayde, but I'm going to guess... yes.
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Bruce Buchanan
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This was a fun, action-packed issue. Not as good as the previous two (the Yellowjacket-Wasp-Equinox) issues or some of the upcoming ones (the Steel Serpent, intro of Captain Britain, Man-Thing).
But it still was fun. I liked seeing Spider-Man take on the Super Skrull, a villain he normally wouldn't battle. And the set-up for the following issue is good.
I liked seeing Capt. Jean DeWolff make an appearance here. She was always one of my favorite Spider-Man supporting characters, as she was one of the rare non-superheroes who was a friend of Spider-Man, yet couldn't pull Peter Parker out of a line-up. She shouldn't have been killed off, in my opinion.
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Flavio Sapha
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I think the Death of Jean DeWolff was the beginning of the end.
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Fred J Chamberlain
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That statement seems a bit overly dramatic to me, Flavio. Jean DeWolff's death was a solid story with a very powerful emotional impact and had lasting reparcussions. How was it the beginning of the end anymore than the death of George Stacy?
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Flavio Sapha
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Interesting parallel. Perhaps the difference lies in the fact that Stacy died
saving a child, a heroic death which was the climax of a story.
IIRC, DeWolff is dead as the story opens and her death was just shock-
value to launch "the Sin-Eater saga".
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Fred J Chamberlain
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Flavio, I threw out Stacy's name simply because it was the first to pop into my mind. Any death in a story has shock value. I didn't find DeWolff's death any more gimmicky than any previously used to push a story forward. Isn't that what they are all intended to do?
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Flavio Sapha
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Why did it have to be JDW? The Sin-Eater was a serial killer, could've been
any cop. Throw in a reference that Spider-man knew said cop, or have
them meet him two pages earlier.
Jean DeWolff deserved better than to get killed off-panel.
Edited by Flavio Sapha on 29 December 2008 at 6:25pm
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Fred J Chamberlain
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I thought that the senselessness of her loss made the story more powerful. She hadn't been prominently used regularly for some time, but there was still a sense of loss for me, since she had been a tough, yet very human and likeable character that Spidey had come to trust. He lost an ally and that made both him and the reader more personally invested in his capture. Had it been some unknown or barely mentioned character, I wouldn't have cared, nor would the story have been as moving. It has actually been mentioned a handful of times since. Each time over the year or so after her death, I found myself moved.
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Flavio Sapha
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I'd prefer to still have her around, she was such a charming supporting
character.
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Fred J Chamberlain
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She was a great character.
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