tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post5499990267813446199..comments2024-03-25T05:26:47.764-04:00Comments on The Peerless Power of Comics!: Exodus!Comicsfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-34480767365697546412020-06-02T12:46:37.088-04:002020-06-02T12:46:37.088-04:00Colin, I think Reed made it clear in the original ...Colin, I think Reed made it clear in the original FF tale that the area photographed blue because of the coloring of the ruins of the city there. Or he could have just been listening to the Marcels at the time. :)<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-66650094266900875672020-06-02T08:41:41.182-04:002020-06-02T08:41:41.182-04:00"Look! It's air! The crater is filled wit..."Look! It's air! The crater is filled with atmosphere!"<br /><br />Apparently the air is visible which is how the blue area of the moon is blue...?!?!Colin Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13564469551279026689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-21280428475797146002020-06-02T08:28:57.250-04:002020-06-02T08:28:57.250-04:00"More solid footing"?
*more groans* (;
..."More solid footing"?<br />*more groans* (;<br /><br />Yes, I realized you wanted a Quicksilver update Comicsfan, I was just switching to a different subject as the Alpha thing always bugged me. <br />Which is a shame, as generally I agree with M.P. that Byrne made the FF great again and mostly thought #240 was pretty good (fwiw, I don't think the story needed more detail - the energetic done-in-one was one of Byrne's strong points).<br /><br />-seanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-7588276995902448702020-06-02T05:12:17.601-04:002020-06-02T05:12:17.601-04:00M.P., I felt Byrne weaving the dangling Enclave/Me...M.P., I felt Byrne weaving the dangling Enclave/Medusa-as-hostage plot into the main story wasn't a bad way to handle it; in fact, I give him props for picking it up at all, since until then no one really seemed to be interested in taking the tidbits we'd been given on it and building an actual story around it. (Frankly, I wasn't all that interested in just the <i>flashbacks!</i>)<br /><br />sean, you raise a good point, particularly when Thomas had made the effort to establish the Alphas as an oppressed people created by those who wanted a race of inferior worker-slaves. But I was actually wondering about Pietro's <i>current-day</i> character, and whether the effort was made to give him more solid footing, as it were.<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-77850321120696984452020-06-01T20:16:00.992-04:002020-06-01T20:16:00.992-04:00When I first read this comic all those years ago, ...When I first read this comic all those years ago, I thought it was odd the conflict between the Inhumans and the Enclave and Maximus' role in it was only described briefly in flashbacks. Maybe that was a story Byrne just didn't feel like telling in detail, and he was impatient to tell the story here.<br />That said, it's a great comic. Byrne may have a reputation for being a real piece of work and temperamental as a Canadian badger with a bramble stuck to his rear end, but he did put the magic back in the F.F. I gotta give him that.<br /><br />M.P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-87925090636689525702020-06-01T11:28:09.459-04:002020-06-01T11:28:09.459-04:00I've never seen the Blue Area depicted as anyt...I've never seen the Blue Area depicted as anything but a shirt-sleeve environment. What astounds me is that after all the battle damage the ancient ruins have suffered, topped by a flying city mashing everything flat, that whatever mechanism that produces the shirt-sleeve environment still <b>works</b>!<br /><br />("Welcome to your new home Black Bolt! Oh...uh...everyone hold your breath while I go find the machines and fix them!")Big Murrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03311467081145732439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-69232525676243838452020-06-01T08:29:45.460-04:002020-06-01T08:29:45.460-04:00"Bring us up to speed" Comicsfan?
*groa..."Bring us up to speed" Comicsfan? <br />*groan*<br /><br />Ok, putting my serious hat on now, lets consider FF #240 -<br />"Once, not long ago, the Inhumans freed their mindless drones. It was a noble experiment.<br />And a failure.<br />... the Alphas had paid the price for misguided altruism."<br /><br />The misguided altruism of freeing slaves? Really?<br />The only previous story I've read about the Alphas was the Roy Thomas one from FF#s 131 & 132, so I don't know whether Byrne came up with that angle himself or was simply continuing with an idea already established in the continuity.<br />Either way, it strikes me as very dubious.<br /><br />-seanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com