Luke Cage's Netflix show may have been cancelled, but there is a lot of of his story left to tell. The seeds for the formation of Heroes for Hire with Iron Fist were planted but that never materialized. He had a fling with Jessica Jones, but in the comics it led to marriage and a child. Then of course, there's his transition from neighborhood protector to an Avenger. Once Marvel can use him in the MCU, they'll have plenty of material to mine.
This marks the 8th appearance of The Power Couple on this blog...
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"Shattered Soulmate," huh? I have to admit! That's far superior to the title I would've used.
"Bitter Dying Through Chemistro."
I'd bet that we find out, in the story behind this cover, that what we're actually seeing destroyed is a simulacrum.
I agree with you about Luke on Netflix, though. Both his show and Iron Fist would feel much better with a third season to bring the respective lead characters around to something resembling their comic-book versions, the same way Daredevil and The Punisher ended. I could see bringing their stories to a more proper close in a Heroes for Hire big-screen film, but I don't expect that (or even anything similar) to happen.
It's going to be interesting (to me, at least) how the Disney+ service decides to allocate its development and publicity resource among its various franchises (Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, the "Princesses", etc.).
So far all of the Marvel programs announced for Disney+ have been spin offs of the MCU. It will also be interesting whether they continue the Netflix characterizations and story-lines for The Defenders characters, reboot and integrate them into the MCU programs, or reboot them into something different (ala The Titans and Doom Patrol on DC Universe).
But "Heroes for Hire" and "Daughters of the Dragon" are both too good of titles to not capitalize on once they are available.
Powergirl - Earth 1, 2 or a clone? Spin the wheel and get a new origin. Someday, maybe someone will have an origin that will work for more than a few years.
Kara isn't the only DC heroine with that problem.
By Nebezial.
Those last two comments (Tobor and Kid C) remind me: a while ago I was trying to think of all the DC characters with shifting origins, placement from nonexistent timelines, and similar troubles. The only ones I can think of were Power Girl, Donna Troy, and Jason Todd. Are there any others?
@Bob I can't believe you forgot the Hawks, the LoSH, Huntress.
also, Black Canary (Golden-Age E2 heroine, later moved to E1; daughter of the above, grown from infancy in an alien dimension, with her mother's memories; daughter of the first one, raised on Earth & trained by JSA members; now apparently back to being a first-generation heroine, but starting in modern times...).
also Fury (Lyta Trevor), whose mother's identity had to be changed after Crisis.
also Harlequin (II), alias 'the Joker's Daughter'.
also Kid Eternity.
also, at least to a lesser extent, Green Fury/Green Flame/Fire who was given a different background after Crisis (before which, at least in one issue of 'DC Comics Presents' she'd been a businesswoman who ran the Brazilian branch of Wayne Enterprises).
Let's not forget the Earth 1 Supergirl. Raised on Argo City the kryptonite asteroid during the Silver Age; then cloned by a teenage Luthor from the recombined DNA of the Superboy and Lana Lang of a pocket dimension; then reincarnated as an Earthbound angel within the body of a junkie neo-pagan.
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