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scans_dailyThey were separated by the forcefield that the Zodiac'd thrown over Manhattan.
The teenage Tony Stark opened a temporary hole in the barrier, spending the last power in his life-preserving chestplate to do so. Some innocent people inside got out, and all the Avengers outside got in.
Tony was saved from death, thanks to Hank Pym; the forcefield was saved from death, thanks to that.
Quicksilver went looking for the base in Manhattan the Zodiac almost certainly had to have; he found it.
" Light! "
The Zodiacs who'd seen it opened fire.
Cap blocked the bullets with his shield, explicitly telling his comrades that they'd been spotted.
" - we're taking back the ship! "
They shortly met resistance of a different rank- the self-proclaimed general of the Zodiac, Libra, who said that they could call him that..
(I love how his demonstrated abilities don't require the art to particularly stretch itself.)
Libra was then taken by surprise.
(It's a good thing all that shrapnel is flying away from his exposed parts.)
Libra cleared his side of the board..
.. and walked away, promising another game.
(It never happened- Heroes Reborn ended this Avengers run before it could.
Kurt Busiek and George Perez's following run did have a Zodiac story in the planning, but it never came off- first because of Steve Seagle and Duncan Rouleau's Alpha Flight doing its own Zodiac, and then because of things related to Maximum Security.
It's no matter, anyway- that run ended up tying off another dangling thread and its mildly visually interesting Avengers-beating villain, with Madame Masque and the tentacled stealth operative Benedict.
Oh yeah, pagecount- 7 of 21 from Avengers #396. Writing's Terry Kavanagh.)
The teenage Tony Stark opened a temporary hole in the barrier, spending the last power in his life-preserving chestplate to do so. Some innocent people inside got out, and all the Avengers outside got in.
Tony was saved from death, thanks to Hank Pym; the forcefield was saved from death, thanks to that.
Quicksilver went looking for the base in Manhattan the Zodiac almost certainly had to have; he found it.
" Light! "
The Zodiacs who'd seen it opened fire.
Cap blocked the bullets with his shield, explicitly telling his comrades that they'd been spotted.
" - we're taking back the ship! "
They shortly met resistance of a different rank- the self-proclaimed general of the Zodiac, Libra, who said that they could call him that..
(I love how his demonstrated abilities don't require the art to particularly stretch itself.)
Libra was then taken by surprise.
(It's a good thing all that shrapnel is flying away from his exposed parts.)
Libra cleared his side of the board..
.. and walked away, promising another game.
(It never happened- Heroes Reborn ended this Avengers run before it could.
Kurt Busiek and George Perez's following run did have a Zodiac story in the planning, but it never came off- first because of Steve Seagle and Duncan Rouleau's Alpha Flight doing its own Zodiac, and then because of things related to Maximum Security.
It's no matter, anyway- that run ended up tying off another dangling thread and its mildly visually interesting Avengers-beating villain, with Madame Masque and the tentacled stealth operative Benedict.
Oh yeah, pagecount- 7 of 21 from Avengers #396. Writing's Terry Kavanagh.)
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Date: 2016-07-23 07:42 am (UTC)Still, Libra looks like an interesting villain. Even now, it always shocks me when a bad guy just wipes out their own cronies, a good way to establish how much of a scumbag they really are.
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Date: 2016-07-23 08:57 am (UTC)Like when the Red Skull recently had his kitchen staff shoot themselves in the head with the telepathic powers of Xavier.
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Date: 2016-07-23 09:32 am (UTC)Art Adams design for Longshot includes the blade bandolier AND a belt full of pouches which never seemed to serve a function.
And then a year or two later, had an even more extreme case, with perhaps the least 90's Liefeldian character around, m'boy Doug!
And entire JACKET full of pouches as WELL as a pouch belt!
And whilst Alan Davis modified the colours, but left the rest of it, except making the pouches and pockets even MORE bulky!
I like to think that Doug, with his pretty unusual power of "actual common sense", would be the one who'd keep sensible stuff in there; spare cash, food bars, water purification tablets, salt tablets, compass, pen and paper, matches, flashlight, but alas we never found out.
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Date: 2016-07-23 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-23 01:29 pm (UTC)The article is here
http://whencomicbooksruled.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/4-out-of-5-dani-moonstars-agree.html
Doug was pretty much spared being drawn by Liefeld, what with being dead and all (talk about a silver lining) though there are two exceptions;
Shudder....
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Date: 2016-07-23 10:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-23 02:28 pm (UTC)