4/2/2023 0 Comments Henchman story miss dynamoMy gateway drug into superhero comics! Asterix and TinTin set me up, then New Mutants! 4 questions, that lead onto each otherġ. Not a comic hero, but too awesome not to mention. He worshiped spinning space globes and golden masks that controlled peoples’ minds. He didn’t worship the spirits of other Native Americans. I wanted to include Dawnstar from the Legion of Superheroes… but she’s a super tracker. His power is to “bring out the best in people” and fade into obscurity. I only remember a few times the book went heavily into the Native American aspect of his character, and that was when the team ran into a version of him who became Shaman of Alpha Flight.Īnd then there’s Thomas “Pieface” Kalmaku, Hal Jordan’s unfortunate sidekick. Thunderbird of the Exiles might have started out as a typical Thunderbird “clone,” but the fact that he became one of the horsemen of Apocalypse (before the book began) meant they could actually do more than just “Native American, grrr” for his character. While he prefers his real name, he goes by “Pow Wow” because of the stupid White Man. Ohiyesa “Pow Wow” Smith gets a pass as well, because he’s a Western DC character who’s a sheriff and “master detective.” No powers, just shoots people like a Wild West Batman. In short, he’s like a human form of The Vision from Marvel, but with powers derived from Magic. The Morrison/Millar creation Aztek is the best, possibly, because he’s got a magical suit of ancient Aztec body armor that happens to give him high-tech powers. I had to dig like mad to find good ones, though. If they had done that with X-Force, I think it would’ve been liked better. It is no wonder that Nicenza starts writing the New Warriors because that’s a take-off of Marv Wolfman’s NTT done right. Liefeld always struck me as a New Teen Titans fan and you can see that in how he treats these characters (and how Nicenza basically turns Sam into Nightwing in his later run where he gives Xavier the “I’m going to be Nightwing” speech. This is the template for the New Teen Titans (with Domino instead of Raven, Shatterstar instead of Starfire, Feral instead of Changeling, and Warpath instead of Cyborg). And he gives us MYSTERIOUS Domino who has “Plans” for X-Force. Then he brings in Feral (a Morlock), Shatterstar (a Mojoverse guy), and Warpath (a native american who had his family destroyed by mysterious government) into the fray. He sends the remaining New Mutants off except for Sam and Boom Boom. If you ever get the chance to find this, it is well-worth picking up ( ).Īs for the Liefeld Transition, I think the reason I liked it was that he was making them into the New Teen Titans. It helps define fan fiction for the comics-reading internet by being 2 parts Claremont and 1 part wish fulfillment. It was one of the first “fix-it” fanfitions I remember reading about comics…that sort of just retcons Rob Liefeld coming into the book. At the time, I also got into what is considered the first X-Men fanfiction: Kid Dynamo, which had a Mary Sue-type character that was sort of a Kitty Pryde with mutant powers joining the New Mutants and doing all sorts of Mary Sue things (like hit on Magneto and help Dani Moonstar out of the closet). I remember getting into the New Mutants at the tail end of Inferno where X-Terminators teamed up with the New Mutants and eventually merged. You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. In which Rachel and Miles return triumphant, the X-Men get a second ongoing series, we hit peak Moira MacTaggert, R-A-H-N-E is definitely pronounced “rain,” Sam Guthrie is the nicest henchman, Claremont is hit-and-miss on cultural diversity, and Bobby da Costa is the teenageriest teenager of them all. Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Art by David Wynne.
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