This story takes place shortly after the events of STF #1700, where the 7 Soldiers found themselves trapped in the wrong decade and educating at the Xavier institute. But which student will have to return with them? Make sure that you come back here tomorrow for the exciting conclusion!
Too bad you couldn't have switched it and said one Soldier would have to remain behind. Loved the painted cover look. For this, the question would be why any of the students would need to go back with the Seven. (cue the commercial.)
ReplyDeleteDo the Seven come from far enough into the future that they know about Dark Phoenix--and maybe if Jean goes with them, she'll get the help she needs to avoid being "Phoenixified"?
ReplyDeleteIf I were those seven guys, I'd opt for the drop-dead gorgeous redhead with the green mini-dress and great legs! ;-D
ReplyDeleteAlex Ross has the Soldiers looking as good as I've ever seen them. He's got all kind of images on his Instagram site, and a couple of them (Superman vs. Darth Vader, Batman vs. Boba Fett) look like they were commissioned for STF!
ReplyDeleteJay, Alex Ross only did the X-Men, John Watson did the SSoV
ReplyDeleteKudos to Mr. Watson for his outstanding artwork here; and to you, Ross, for putting it together with Mr. Ross' X-Men in such a beautiful way.
ReplyDeleteIt also occurred to me earlier this week that if Stargirl can have John Wesley Shipp playing the Flash, then they could also bring in Jamey Sheridan and Colton Haynes to play Green Arrow and Speedy.
@Anonymous: I'd rather guess that they're going to recruit Hank McCoy for help in biochemically unshrinking their past selves back at STF #1852.
ReplyDeleteIf this is from early in the Soldiers' career -- when they fought 'Dr Doom' (whose name was later retconned to 'Dr Doome', to reduce confusion with the Marvel character), then I think that it's Iceman who stays... and, adopting a different codename so that he hasn't heard of himself before this, he becomes the mysterious 'Jack Frost'who was a member of the Liberty Legion.
ReplyDelete(Okay, I know that in a later story that character was retconned as a Frost Giant who'd been exiled from Jotunheim because of his diminutive-for-a-Jotun size, but...)
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Here's another team-up suggestion involving time-travel and in this case -- potentially --long-lost relatives: Eddie Valiant, 1940s LA-based P.I. (from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'), and Eddie Valentine, late 1930s LA-based gangster (from the film version of 'The Rocketeer'). I suggest that the 'Valiants' had changed their surname so that people wouldn't associate them with Valentine...
OK, I misunderstood. I thought that, even though the 7SoV had originated in the 1940s, they had gone back to the 1960s (the period of the early X-Men) from the 1970s, some time after the JLA/JSA crossover which reintroduced them. If the 7SoV had come forward from their original time instead, my scenario in my earlier post would not apply.
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ReplyDelete"OK, I misunderstood. I thought that, even though the 7SoV had originated in the 1940s, they had gone back to the 1960s (the period of the early X-Men) from the 1970s, some time after the JLA/JSA crossover which reintroduced them. If the 7SoV had come forward from their original time instead, my scenario in my earlier post would not apply."
That might be the Soldiers after they had been brought forwards, given that Wing -- who died in the incident that scattered them across time -- isn't visible in the picture... but that's not to say that whatever method they plan on using to get back to the 1940s couldn't malfunction and send Iceman a few years further back...
As for whether they've been in the '70s and have now (already) travelled far enough back to meet the X-men in the '60s, that's certainly possible but given the nature of 'Comic-book Time' (and the fact that in RL they were published by a different company to the X-men) it also seems possible to me that the time into which they were brought forwards was the same time as that in which the X-Men had that line-up & wore those costumes (defined as "around 10 years before today?) anyway.
I always found it odd that Green Arrow's sidekick, Speedy, and Star Spangled Kid's sidekick, Stripey, were counted in the group, but Crimson Avenger's sidekick, Wing, was not.
ReplyDelete@Wild Card: I believe the psychiatrically correct term is Sinophobia.
ReplyDelete@Anon@10:44: That, sadly, is the most likely real-world explanation for it. For an in-universe explanation, I prefer to assume that it was a matter of Wing's personal humility.
ReplyDelete@Bob, Wild Card, & Anon1044: on the other hand, given this morning's revelation; plus the fact that Philip Summers' father's identity is still unknown; plus the fact that Marvel has not grown bored with springing genealogical surprises on the Summers family in general (koff!-Gabriel--koff!), I would say Ross' suggested plot twist is not that implausible for canonical introduction into a legit intercompany crossover.
ReplyDeleteSay, Ross, where did the picture of the Seven Soldiers of Victory come from?
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ReplyDelete@Wild Card: Stripesy didn't bother me, since their feature was titled "The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy." He was always billed as a partner, not a sidekick. Speedy's on the borderline, though.
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant cover. You outdid yourself with this one. Great job!
ReplyDeleteSay, if Doctor Strange and the Crimson Avenger were to work together, would that also bring about a meeting between Wing and Wong?
ReplyDeleteWhat a wondewful thought, Mistew Gweenwade.
ReplyDeleteNo one has corrected me, so I'll correct myself. I looked at some reprints and found that "The Star-Spangled Kid" was the title of the feature. I had thought that Stripesy had equal billing, but I was wrong. He was a sidekick after all.
ReplyDeleteThe first adult sidekick in comic book history!
ReplyDeleteCover of the month!
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