The last episode of Loki featured the rebirth of the Marvel Multiverse, leading into the upcoming Doctor Strange and Spider-Man sequels. Not a huge surprise, as one of those has Multiverse in the title and the other has been long rumored to include characters from previous Fox Spider-Man movies. Will Willem Dafoe return as the Green Goblin? He's made some coy comments, but I haven't read anything concrete about his inclusion. Hopefully a teaser trailer will be released soon and we can get an official idea as to exactly what multiversal shenanigans will be be going on.
A good pairing, a cover that really looks like it belongs together, and a believable storyline ("teaser line"?).
ReplyDeleteThe whole multiverse thing seems to be coming together across Loki, Ant-Man and, presumably, Spider-Man. Looks like a fun ride ahead.
Hopefully it all leads to Secret Wars with all the heroes and villains assembled including multiverse versions of Steve Rogers and Tony Stark.
DeleteWhat a truly cool cover! I’d buy this in a second!
ReplyDelete@Ross: true! Your readers, alone, will be making all kinds of guesses from here to yesterday's LSH co-star.
ReplyDeleteAs for today's cover? Very intriguing! Makes me wonder if Felicia Hardy was the original antagonist being chased.
Another team-up idea for STF: Felicia 'Black Cat' Hardy and the [pre-Crisis] Legion Academy's Laur-el Kent...
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Hr'rmmm, has Laur-El ever appeared in these pages before?
Assemble the odd: Eternity encounters the Time Trapper.
ReplyDeleteS&N 'A bird in the Hand'?
As in "Shado and Nighthawk?"
ReplyDelete@Anonymous: that could be do-able. In the Ross-verse, Arthur Richmond is the father of Shado, making her Nighthawk's half-brother. Hence, their teaming up against the Hand!
ReplyDeleteFirst, I totally echo what Jim said about this cover, especially the seamlessness of the art. It looks like a unit piece.
ReplyDeleteI also second Simreeve's suggestion; it never would've occurred to me, but it now seems so natural that I'd love to see these two form a recurring partnership here -- especially if you can give them the same tone that DC did to Blue & Gold.
As to Loki, I found it interesting to note that...
[SPOILER ALERT]
...He Who Remains is basically Immortus. I don't think this blog has ever featured a version of Nathaniel Richards that wasn't Kang the Conqueror, but I'd like that to change, possibly with Immortus and the Monitor together (I picture them being at odds over how to handle some problem or other).
How about GL Ch'p vs. Larval Earth's Kang the Conqueroo?
ReplyDeleteThis week's episode had a scene set at Zauriel Cathedral.
ReplyDeleteI noticed you have never used Zauriel. I always thought he had a lot of potential. Maybe you could pair him with Archangel.
I always thought that name made him sound like a distant cousin of Superman's...from Juru Valley.
ReplyDeleteUreka! Green's Gobblers..The first team of Air Polo. That's right. First polo, then water polo. Now today's technology can give fans Air Polo! Who will be the second team? Jet Booters (like Steel)? The sky's the limit, if not the horizon.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDelete"I always thought that name made him sound like a distant cousin of Superman's...from Juru Valley."
In an alternative version of DC continuity that I'm writing for my own amusement, with significant differences between this & DC canon during& after CoIE (because of my unhappiness about various details of that canon), it turn out that the pre-Crisis 'Supergirl' -- although still born physically of Kryptonian parents -- was secretly an angel embodied to gain a greater understanding of humanity: 'Karazorel', by true name. This ties in with her apparently canon DC appearance in a post-Crisis 'Deadman' story (in a Christmas anthology) to advise Boston Brand, who was the only person there capable of perceiving her: The Anti-Monitor hadn't been able to kill, nor the after-effects of CoIE erase from existence, the angelicside of her nature.
(Her wish to understand humanity, and perhaps previous role as an "Angel of Love", would also have been why she fell in love so easily on several occasions...)
Ah, Simreeve! Where were you when DC needed you? ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe "Another Fine Mess..." team-up would be Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteRoss: Please do!
Simreeve: Well done!
I don't get it. What's the connection between Laurel Kent and Black Cat?
ReplyDeleteRoss said _
ReplyDelete"I don't get it. What's the connection between Laurel Kent and Black Cat?"
Laurel and [Felicia] Hardy?
"Well, this is another fine mess that you've gotten us into..."
heh that went right past me!
ReplyDeleteBob Greenwade said...
ReplyDelete"I also second Simreeve's suggestion; it never would've occurred to me, but it now seems so natural that I'd love to see these two form a recurring partnership here -- especially if you can give them the same tone that DC did to Blue & Gold."
That was the general mood that I had in mind for them, too.
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Carycomic said...
"Ah, Simreeve! Where were you when DC needed you? ;-)"
Flatterer!
I have to admit, quite a bit of my inspiration came not only from DC's pre-Crisis works but also from some of their post-Crisis ones as well. I almost certainly wouldn't have come up with this "embodied angel" aspect for pre-Crisis Supergirl, for example, even though hopefully I'd have noticed the "-el" factor, without knowing of not only that Deadman/Christmas story but also Peter David's later 'Supergirl' series.
Probably we shouldn'yt hijack this thread to talk about my 'Alternaverse' any more, though, so I've just posted a page of teasers for it @ https://www.nationstates.net/nation=bear_world_founder/detail=factbook/id=main .
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Ross said...
"heh that went right past me!"
We ALL miss things occasionally, and at least you've got all of this work for a very good explanation of why your thoughts might have been on other questions instead...
Talk about missed opportunities. How about the Battle of the Osbornes? As in, Norman the Green Goblin versus Lycanthropic Oz of Sunnydale!
ReplyDeleteP.S.--Each of them representing a differently-spelled branch of the same family.
ReplyDeleteWHAT IF...Catwoman became Harry Osborn's stepmother?
ReplyDeleteI second that emotion, too! :-)
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