The first Arena Proto-Previews
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In fact, they inflate them.
These are super early non-scan photos from the preview book, so sorry about the quality. Ain't mine.
Sure, we have no context for it, and this could easily be a fake out, but it does confirm the Trigger Scent theory at least in part. Which I still think is bullshit to do something like that so early from a narrative standpoint. And it hints to one of my biggest worries: that any character considered "too deadly" or "too powerful" will be killed off early to extend this thing. The amount of damage Hazmat has taken in this preview (cracked helmet, torn suit, stomach wound) is not promising in the slightest.
I'm hoping for a fake out. I mean, this sort off preview is designed to spark outrage and I bet they know it. We're being trolled, folks, either way this turns, we are being trolled. Edit to add; especially if the character I dubbed "not Hazmat" from the covers of 2 and 3 is actually Hazmat re-coloured due to plot.
10 out of 10, Marvel. 10 out of 10.
Man, and I wanted to post more fun pages from Academy soon. Then this happens.
Edit: Double-picked it. My bad
Final Edit: Ya know, I'm actually starting to feel a bit bad for Hopeless, here. No matter what, he's sort off doomed and until this thing is published/completed, he's going to be inundated with angry fan mails. It got so bad this evening with this that he deleted some comments from his blog. It's the price of trolling, but I think a more reasoned explanation of our aggitation is in order, to show that A) we have a valid point, B) what truly gets us to read comics.
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Date: 2012-10-09 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-09 06:01 am (UTC)And Also, Gage told us that the first issue's end would anger us.
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Date: 2012-10-09 06:22 am (UTC)Also, is it just me, or does Laura have a new costume here? I don't remember her's being so...stripy.
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Date: 2012-10-09 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-09 10:09 am (UTC)There was one Marvel Team-Up book where X-23 along with some other characters ended up in the future, and the Reed Richards there was "Ah, X-23, I didn't recognize you out of your uniform." And I was like, "Wait, what? She's in a moderately different skintight black uniform, and she never wears a mask. Future Reed, your recognition skills suck."
(Or it might've been early enough that the 'savage' outfit he was referring to... but even by that point she had pretty much dropped it).