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Ryan Maxwell
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Yeah, it must have taken you a while to color that original page with all that highlighter. :^)
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Ryan Maxwell
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Conflict for Mac was set-up early, in the first of the origin stories, it just simmered until it surprised everyone. Jaxon reappearing in #11 was an instant kick in the head for Mac, especially because Heather was involved. He didn't have to deal with drama, other than being unemployed, but it all came rushing in at once when he was handed that business card. Man, I want to get out of work and go read!
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Peter Martin
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I remember a guy working in my local LCS bemoaning Mac's fate when I bought the issue of OHOTMU Book of the Dead which covered the letter G -- Guardian had been his favourite character.
I was sort of at peace with Mac's death. Not so with Dr Langowski though! Sasquatch was my favourite Alphan in my youth. I wish JB had gone a little easier on him!
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Dana Smith
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| Posted: 18 November 2011 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | 4
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Greg Reeves wrote:
| the Snowbird to dinosaur thing, which happened in the first issue of the current series, really bothered me both due to the major mass increase she took on (isn't she supposed to only be able to take on or lose small amounts of mass- like to an arctic owl, bear, swarm of insects?) and that a dinosaur isn't as obviously a creature of the north like previous shifts have been. |
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The dinosaur was an Albertosaurus and the "north" wasn't always in the north...Make of that what you will (LOL). I thought it was sort of clever, until I just read JB bringing up the point of Narya only being able to take on living animal forms. Now it just seems silly to me.
BTW: Snowbird changed into a whale after JB left the book, which would be a lot of mass too.
Dana
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Noah Smith
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JB, I know you were never really considering putting Heather in the Guardian costume, but do you think that, if you had stayed on the title you would have eventually put someone in it? Seems a pity to let such a great look go unused.
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John Byrne
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Close second was Shaman. As a seventh grader I put him in the first short story I ever wrote. It was only a few years later when my mom brought the story out of storage that I re-read it and felt a twinge of embarrassment over such blatant plagiarism.•• It's only plagiarism if you tried to sell it. Otherwise, it's fanfic.
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John Byrne
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Guardian is clearly the winner as far as favorite costume, but it was Puck (at least until his origin was "revealed") who seemed to be the most popular. __________________________________ I hated the origin that Puck was given. Heck, I hate that his origin was even revealed. •• Roger Stern used to have a standard response when people would ask to see the "origin" of various mutant characters -- "One night, in the back of a '56 Chevy..." Puck's "origin" would be much the same -- tho the model year would be earlier! (Puck, is, of course, a character who doesn't NEED an "origin" per se. Not unless you shoehorn into him something ridiculously contrived -- which is what happened. Otherwise, his "origin" is easy to figure out without needing to be shown it.)
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Rick Whiting
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The worst part about the origin of Puck, was that it took one of the few characters with naturally born dwarfism, and revealed (more like retconned) that he was actually a guy who was originally over 6 feet tall.
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Mark McKay
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JB, how many more stories do you think you still had in you if you'd had to
continue with the series?
Did you have any ideas of your own as to what happened to Walter's soul
when it traveled down into the dimension that the Hulk was in?
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Nathan Greno
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Peter: I was sort of at peace with Mac's death. Not so with Dr Langowski though! Sasquatch was my favourite Alphan in my youth. I wish JB had gone a little easier on him!
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Walt's "death" was really upsetting to me because we lost another AMAZING character design!
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Nathan Greno
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..in a little over 2 years, the look of the team had really changed from the 1st issue!
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Dana Smith
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Indeed, Nathan...With an evil robot disguised as their leader.
On Puck's "origin"...I also hated it. When I read JB's mention of Eugene having Achondroplasia and I had no idea what it was (I was pretty young). I went to the library and looked it up.
When Bill Mantlo later revealed a demon sorcerer was making Puck short, my jaw dropped. We already knew why Puck was small, it was established and I wondered for months why the editors thought it was okay to let this go through.
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