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Deathlok was always a welcome guest star in Marvel titles. His solo stories were a lot of fun too. He is definitely a character that deserves another shot in live action after the disappointing low rent version we got on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Like his appearances he could work in the larger MCU or on a solo show all his own.
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15 comments:
What an unexpected but perfect matchup! Really nice cover.
The way Deathlok, Absorbing Man, and a couple of others were handled on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are my only points of resistance on wanting that show to be made fully canon to the MCU, the way that was just done with the Netflix-Marvel shows.
In all fairness, Ross, that would depend on which version of Deathlok was being dramatized. I know for a fact that at least three were depicted in the mainstream comics between the late 1970's and early 2000's. The first two being the most familiar to me; Luther Manning and Michael Collins. Luther was the original, of course. Being from the alternate future of a parallel-Earth where the climate had changed much more drastically (and a whole lot sooner). There's some debate among us overgrown fan boys as to whether or not that was the same parallel Earth that got re-invaded by HGW's Martians at the dawn of the 2nd Millenium (leading to a resistance movement led by the sword-wielding Killraven).
Some--including me--say yes. Others (like Jeff "Snood999" Christiansen), say no.
@Anon1103: count me as one of the "yessers." :-)
always great to see Cord pulling the strings on helping anoother superhero. Lord knows he never got taken seriously enough.
and S.H.I.E.L.D will hire Death’sHead and Deathstroke to bring him back for re-intregrating…
No one Escape’s those evil Spy’s and their Political Masters…
@Tobor: *Kord
@simon: Nobody *escapes the Grammar Inquisition! We have *spies everywhere! :)
@Anon1103, @Carrycomic. This is the first I have heard of this. Interesting. But I am going to have to say "no" for 2 reasons: in the second Marvel Universe Handbook it was said Killraven is in the same timeline as the Guardians of the Galaxy. And in that timeline the Marvel heroes fought against the Martians. Some like Stark sent his armors into space. The other reason is what was to be the final to the Deathlok saga Deathlok told Captain America all the heroes disappeared before he followed Luthor into Luthor's future. Cap returned from that future and prevented the heroes from vanishing basically removing Luthor's timeline by changing events that lead to Luthor's future. Collins was an okay Deathlok but I was glad when he was finally returned to human. The 3rd and 4th Deathlok I was not really crazy about. I did like the Deathlok Jason Aaron introduced in Wolverine. To me that one is very similar to Luthor Manning.
According to most Marvel Handbooks, though, changing the past of a time traveler's timeline doesn't alter that time traveler's original present. It merely creates a separate timeline with a different future! Hence, Luther Manning's future would have been the same. All that would've been prevented was a recurrence of that "past" in the mainstream timeline of Earth-616.
As for Killraven and the Silver Age GOTG of Earth-691? I remember a Defenders story where Vance Astro told his childhood self a carefully edited history of the probable future. One that strongly implied that cyborgs like Deathlok (or a chronological variant of him) fought wars for dwindling natural resources on behalf of the corporations responsible for the depletion of Earth-691's ozone layer. This, of course, occurring between the Nth projector-related banishing of most of Earth's superheroes and the 2nd Martian invasion.
IDEA! How about Lex Luthor vs Deathlok in a tale we HAD to call....
"WHEN LUTHOR MET LUTHER!"
?? Kord? Cord? Chord? Let's make it battery operated and just go kordless. Unless you also need a cord of wood for some reason.
Only if it's the evil King Groot trying to beat Golden Age GL's head in. :-)
That's the original articulate alien tree man, created by Jack Kirby, btw! Not the monosyllabic modern version from the movies.
@Anon1127: that wasn't "The Defenders." It was MTIO (v.1) #69!
OOOPS!
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