With the Justice Society ready to make their return to comics and DC continuity, I am hoping that Infinity Inc. can find some love as well. There are too many good characters on that team to let them flounder about in limbo. Maybe a title that deals with both teams and their familial relations could be cool.
The original Infinity, Inc. was awesome!
ReplyDeleteI loved that "River of Evil" storyline...
While we know it entirely depends on the writer, after what recently happened to Wally West and the brief cameo by the forgotten Jay G., DC doesn't seem to mind throwing the baby out with the bath water if it helps present day sales.
ReplyDeleteI really liked seeing the human side of the J.S.A. as they related to their growing kids. The current Doomsday Clock version of the heroes shows how easily rewriting history can be. Even Time Trapper and Kang never seemed to enjoy themselves as much as some writers do.
The writers, maybe. Comic store owners, definitely not. Because literally none of the comic stores in my neck of the woods have been carrying one single issue of that white elephant crossover!
ReplyDeleteA mixed blessing in disguise. :-)
I think the original Crisis merger was a good thing but others were not able to handle it. The JSA really needs a multi-generations story on parallel world with a team of writers / editors will to give it love like Roy Thomas and Geoff Johns did.
ReplyDeleteOnly now, nearly 40 years after I was reading Alpha Flight, does it occur to me that Northstar and Aurora's "twins touch hands" power came from the Wonder Twins on Super Friends. Maybe the two pairs will show up on a cover?
ReplyDeleteI think the story behind the cover is a bad break up between Obsidian and Northstar.
ReplyDeleteMarvel should go with an Alpha Flight movie first to introduce the mutants. It would be something different and they could still use Wolverine. Maybe they could do a Wolverine vs Hulk battle.
I was rather fond of Infinity Inc.; their place as the next generation of Earth-Two superheroes was rather spoiled by COIE, which left them as mostly just "the JSA's kids." (I think Power Girl also joined their roster shortly after her debut, didn't she?)
ReplyDeleteAnd personally I've had a liking for Jade from day one. Maybe it's because she has Green Lantern-styled powers intrinsically, or maybe it's because she's green; probably it's both. I think it'd be fantastic to see her and Nocturne sharing a cover.
(Yes, I do keep going on about Nocturne. She's another superheroine whom I've loved from the start, and after she recovered from her stroke she supplanted Photon as my favorite Marvel heroine. Still, if I had a choice for one cover to feature her, I wouldn't pick Jade; instead, I'd use the stroke as a connection to the Golden Age Sandman.)
@Second Anonymous: The only way the MCU could do a Wolverine vs Hulk battle would be in flashback. These days Banner's mind is in control, he doesn't get angry, and he has that arm injury that may or may not ever fully heal. If they did a flashback to the period between The Incredible Hulk and Avengers, though, that might be doable. (They even could -- but probably wouldn't -- use some part of the fight as a sort of explanation for why Banner stopped looking like Edward Norton and started looking like Mark Ruffalo.)
Even so, I would love to see Alpha Flight show up in a film some time next decade... especially if Puck is Martin Klebba.
That's not the only way to have a Hulk vs Wolverine scene. In the comics Hulk is constantly going through phases of savage, gray, smart, separated from Banner, etc. All they have to do is have Banner perform gamma experiments in an effort to heal himself and accidentally turns Hulk savage. Alpha Flight and Wolverine then have to step in to stop him since Thor is off world and Iron Man is dead.
DeleteThat, my Anonymous cohort, is a very clever idea indeed!
ReplyDelete@Anonymous603: I even have the perfect plot gimmick! The device Banner tries to use to heal that left-over injury is a (badly) modified version of the one that once turned Happy Hogan into...The Freak!!
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