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Well, the whole idea would be great if Dale started including "Rocksie" in more scenes, as I'm sure this character (whether hero or villain) would catch on - but there really is no point, as Marvel editrorial has made it clear that the majority of mutants have been depowered...
My understanding is that 'Rocksie' was just a normal group of tiles until he was zapped by gamma radiation from a wayward blast during a fight between 'Radioactive Man' and Thor. Ergo not a normal mutant, but...
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Are we gonna haveta split this thread & take it to the fanfic forum? :p
I'll stop now :-)
Well if #2 has been pushed out by another two weeks, we have more time to fawn over preview material, so it's no wonder we're beating this one to death until something substantial takes over. By the way, at the signing, Mark Paniccia mentioned to me that some more preview material is coming our way. No details. He said he loves it how we see a panel or an unlettered page taken out of context and speculate/devour it!
I'm glad you got the gender right. So many readers mistakenly think 'Rocksie' is a girl because of the name...Quote:
Originally Posted by DelBubs
And to comment on your theory regarding the Guardian/Vindicator images in the preview, the image shows a trail going to the building and THEN Vindicator towing Guardian to the building (with another trail). It would make sense if Cody initiated the use of an imposter, but maybe I'm just not getting the images. Anyone else have thoughts?
Wasn't sure about his gender until I saw this pic of his girlfriend. Attachment 1263Quote:
Originally Posted by Ahab
In regards to Guardian, although the pic could suggest the presence of a doppleganger, I can't figure the logic of it. I'm also having difficulty with Alpha Strike, are they government ot aniti government? Either way, there's a suggestion of brainwashing in all of this.
All in all it's just another brick in the wall (apologies to fans of the song). If the panel had been extended, Pucks forehead in the next would have been lopped off. Or maybe it is foreshadowing of the Thing making an appearance. Or maybe it is to show that Puck is unstable or cracked. Or maybe it was just left like that so there wasn't a blank space.
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Im reading the panels on the top as a flashback, Heather (in the middle panel, realtime) remembering a time when Gary Cody offered a deal with Mac and he stormed away in disgust. Then the bottom panel on the left is also realtime, with AF subdued by the Boxbots, and the next panel and the next page being a flashback again, showing how they were taken into custody.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ahab
I thought Rocksie was a girl! Isn't she Roger Boch's (Bochsie's) disgruntled girlfriend, Ellen Rocks, who - angry at the cavalier treatment of her one and only love- through experimenting on herself, acquired cracked-tile gamma-irradiated powers and has come to take revenge on all things Alpha, most particularly that thieving French Hussy and the traitorous mechanic turned X-scientist???Quote:
Originally Posted by Ahab
Like so-many-things Alpha, I think that was another retcon.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigbloo
We'll have to wait for Loki to provide the definitive answer in the next run of the Marvel Universe Handbook.:D
There's an unlettered page of Puck in action at this Newsrama interview with Pak and Van Lente.
Seems to directly proceed the conversation between Puck, Guardian, and Northstar we see here, and it looks great! Oh, nostalgia!
Added page to article, thanks Suzene.
Wow, thats an incredibly well drawn action sequence for Puck.
Amazing to see Eugene in action again!Quote:
Originally Posted by suzene
But taking down Heather... with their history... I can't wait to see the dialogue on this!
I love the thick sole on Puck's boot - holy cow look how thick it is! Dale Eaglesham really gave him a pair of (edited word that rhymes with my username)-kickers!!! I definitely do not want to get kicked in the face by those boots. Nice detail!
Also, Heather's bum has returned for another visit. I'm sure Flightpath07 will have fun with that one like he did with the review he posted of the 0.1 issue!
Man, I love that new page!
Dale's artwork is a perfect fit for Puck's dynamics!
Interesting to see both Mac and Heather using the suit without the cybernetic helmet. Seems they are probably only HUDS now. Kinda sad to see the battle taking place in the nursery, but maybe it gives a hint to Heathers motivations.
I guess if the writers are treating Mac as still being a cyborg, the lack of the Guardian helmet can be explained now. I didn't think about that the last time that I posted about the topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by DelBubs
Ugh. I honestly hope & pray they aren't touching the cyborg thing with a bargepole.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ahab
I'm sure technology has improved since the AmCam days and I'm pretty sure Mac & Heather have used the suits without helmets in various guest appearances since Volume 1.
I think when we discussed this a few years back the general view was that there was probably some kind of sensor in the neck of the suits that read impulses.
I like that idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by DelBubs
I seem to recall that they could use the suits without the helmets but lost functionality; I'd bet now Mac has improved things so his suit does have that access, though still limited (less so), without the helmet.
It's pretty chilling how much like Sentinels they are acting. Did the Boxbots in Weapon X (Neverland?) act like this? I hadn't read that series.Quote:
Originally Posted by -K-M-
Oh they were even worse....
what we didnt know until after the byrne run was that puck has always had demonic forces in his body since he's been in alpha flight. how talisman and shaman never sensed this evil inside him baffles me but i love this rendition of puck and i like that he's a bit twisted! his appearance in the new wolverine ( goes to hell)series was great also and ties directly to his condition in this issue. Does anyone know if puck is still has superpowers?
I never thought as Puck as having "Super Powers" persay. I always felt that he was like Captain America, just shorter, Hairer, and without the super soldier stuff. Or I thought that he was just very accrobatic. (I thought in the earlier issues that he used to be in the circus or something.)Quote:
Originally Posted by weaponAlpha
When Puck got reshrunkified by the Master at the end of Building Blocks (?), all his flesh condensed into his 3'6" form. This meant that he had tough skin and I think I read somewhere that the process put him in the Spiderman Strength bracket. 10 ton +
Correct, in his recent handbook entry they said his powers were weakening but he still had superhuman abilitiesQuote:
Originally Posted by DelBubs
http://www.alphaflight.net/alphanex/...p?title=Puck_I
Years ago I added his listed superhuman stats to the alphanex. Can't make any edits for some odd reason to include his stats just before his death
Ben's aware of the edit problem.
It requires a complete software reload which will require some downtime of the site, and with the launch of Volume 4 we took a decision to wait rather than risk losing new visitors and the interviews etc. that we've had.
Rest assured, it'll be sorted out quite soon.