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Cap previously teamed with the Hal Jordan GL in STF #2862, and met the Alan Scott GL in STF #372 and then again in STF #719... I felt it was time that he shared an adventure with John Stewart (hopefully to be cast soon for James Gunn's DCU). I'm sure they would get along with their military backgrounds, and Gil Kane on the art chores would make it a beautiful read.
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21 comments:
With the two of them having a military background, this is a pretty good combo.
Ross, you can delete this comment..
Hal Jordan, not Hale Jordan ;-)
Have I told you I begin each morning by checking STF?
Great way to start the day!
Thanks!
Reg
I start my day here as well. This looks like a multi-part story.
I have to agree with Reg and Emsley. It's almost better than coffee!
:-)
P.S.---I'll bet Arnim Zola has set up shop in Markovia and cloned ex-Watchman Ed Blake. With Evil Ernie's ex-sidekick Smiley endowing the Comedian with the powers of a Black Lantern!
@cary, I have to agree with the 'almost.'
So coffee wins. But it's a incredibly close call.
Hey! That'd be a great idea for a crossover in itself. Too Much Coffee Man vs. Kyle "Blood" Rayner (the vampirized GL from Earth 43)!*
Davejonz? You're a genius!
*If memory serves, the Zatanna of another parallel Earth changed the literal bloodthirstiness of the vampiric JLA to caffeine addiction.
Personally, I never developed a taste for coffee (probably at least partly because of ASD). I start my day with diet cola and STF:LI.
As for today's cover, I agree that these two would get along on the mission, and even fall back to military jargon; they'd probably even start calling each other "Soldier" (or "Army") and "Marine." I'm sure the mission would likewise operate with military precision -- though depending on the writer it might not look like things are going well until Cap wryly announces on the third-from-last page that everything went exactly according to plan.
Also, I'm still itching to see Frank Castle carrying out a rescue operation for his "cousin" Richard ("You do realize it's a pseudonym, don't you?").
PS: Something else occurred to me recently: the number of heroes who share a name with a chess piece. If on sticks with orthodox chess, there's only Bishop, but if one expands to related games like shogi and shatranj, and other historical or (within the chess community) well-known variants, we can also get Raven, Falcon, War Machine, Guardian, Hawk & Dove, and Phoenix. Allowing more recent creations would give us Chameleon (the one from the animated The Tick), Thunderbird, and Badger.
There might be other possibilities; a sampling can be found on Wikipedia.
I think that this could be a good pool of characters from which to derive a team -- with Bishop as leader, of course. ("They're expecting us to play by the rules... but they never said which rules!")
I've never cared much for coffee either, but STF is a pretty righteous way to start off a day!
You have to wonder if at some point, one or both would be using the other's device. The main question is what's the mission itself. Going somewhere off world? Doing something that wouldn't be normally sanctioned?? These two cover a lot of territory so it wouldn't be a regular mission....maybe rescue a major bad guy or hostages from a bunch of even worse beings?? That could fulfil the cover's criteria at least.
Can't wait for the read!
Bob Greenwade, the old Eerie magazine character The Rook would work as a chess piece character.....
To say nothing of DC's Checkmate...and the one-shot backup story Charlton once did about a top-secret organization called C.H.E.S.S.
Anonymous said...
To say nothing of DC's Checkmate...and the one-shot backup story Charlton once did about a top-secret organization called C.H.E.S.S.
Ah, yes, the Committee for the Hindrance of Espionage, Sabotage and Subversion... Bearing in mind that DC acquired the rights to many of the characters published by Charlton shortly before COIE, and that Checkmate didn't appear until shortly after COIE, I suspect strongly that the latter organisation was [IC as well as OOC?] an "echo" of the earlier one.
You mean, a revised offshoot? Sort of like the CIA being a post-WWII spin-off of the OSS?
And of course this team's main opponent would be the Hellfire Club, with its chess-related ranking system. (That group would be the "They" that Bishop refers to in the quote I provided above.)
I wouldn't put it past the latter to arrange a mistaken identity swordfight between Dane "the Black Knight" Whitman and his Zenescope namesake. ;-)
Carycomic said...
You mean, a revised offshoot? Sort of like the CIA being a post-WWII spin-off of the OSS?
Yes.
And especially his Time Castle.
Where is Cap's right arm?
@Fanboy Films: 1) Are you referring to Kang or DC's Lord of Time?
2) Presumably, keeping his shield at mid-level.
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