It means, Loki knows something.Quote:
Originally Posted by varo
Something that we will probably be interested in.
How interested? Only time will tell.
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It means, Loki knows something.Quote:
Originally Posted by varo
Something that we will probably be interested in.
How interested? Only time will tell.
YES! I love to see a Great Beast entry, but I assume no power rating?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Scott...you're awesome :wink:
Thanks for all the hints and heads-up, Loki, Always welcome!
When you say, "next volume", which numbered volume do you mean? 3 or 5?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Haha, I'm trying to guess what's going on.
Love,
rplass
Vol 3Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
Have you got a lead on something?Quote:
Haha, I'm trying to guess what's going on.
How the Great Beasts are going to work in, I have no idea. It looks to be alphabetically between "Crimson Dynamo" and "Elements of Doom". Richard Easton? He's in that range, alphabetically. I doubt he'd get an entry, though. Earthmover is in that range too. Those are my guesses for now. I have vol 3 on order anyway.
BTW, Sasquatch makes an appearance in Volume 2 of this series in the Contest of Champions entry. Wow, it's been 26 years since that series came out. Glad I picked it up!
Love,
rplass
Ok I just saw a listing of entries for volume 3, and I still can't find where the Great Beasts fit in. :?:
Centennial and Diamond Lil have entries, and the Alpha Flight-related entries (Deadly Earnest and Crystar) from the 80s Legacy Handbook are reprinted. I will get it this weekend and scour it for Great Beastlies.
Love,
rplass
They have them listed in the "Demons" section. :wink:Quote:
Ok I just saw a listing of entries for volume 3, and I still can't find where the Great Beasts fit in
Ok finally, I got v3. Here is a listing of AF appearances:
Centennial
Crystar (Puck, Northstar and Shaman appear)
Deadly Ernest (Puck appears)
Demons (all 7 Great Beasts, plus headshots of the Dream Queen and Zilla Char)
Desert Sword (Raazer)
Diamond Lil
Earth X (Guardian and Sasquatch appear)
An impressive showing this issue for Alpha Flight. I'm especially impressed that the Great Beasts got such nice illustrations given the overwhelming number of Demons named in that entry. Good job writers, identifying Tanaraq's 1st appearance as UXM #120.
Earthmover is skipped alphabetically but is sure to be included in v4 as a half-page entry.
Love,
rplass
Yup, with a slightly better picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
Seeing as how v5 is coming out tomorrow, I really ought to mention who was in v4!
Earthmover - 1/2pg entry
Flex - 1/2pg entry
Guardian (Mac) - 3pg entry and appears on the cover
and in the Exiles group entry, alt. Heather Hudson and alt. Sasquatch are in a few pictures.
Love,
rplass
I would like to know why they passed up Flashback? He could have at least had a half page entry.
Probably because they already included him, in passing, in the Alpha Flight entry from volume 1 of this series. It is also entirely possible that Omega Flight will get an entry, which should include the other two incarnations of the group, giving him two group entries. Otherwise, he's just too minor of a character to have his own entry, I think. Try asking the writers over at the official thread at comixfan.com. if you want the official story!
Love,
rplass
Yesterday I got the OHOTMU vol. 5 hardcover and they had an entry for the Inua(Northern Gods) with its members Hodiak, Negafok, Nelvanna, Sedna, Snowbird[Narya] & Turoq.
The really cool part about the Inua page is that it's one of the very, very few NEW entries in the HC handbooks. Nearly 100% of the entries are reprinted from previous handbooks, expanded or updated, reorganized, but there are hardly any new entries at all, so I think it's quite impressive! Since the Great Beasts were nicely shown in vol.3, it's only fitting to show the good guys, too!
Love,
rplass
The Great Beasts had an entry? I got to pick that up?
They didn't have their own entry. They were mentioned in the giant 9-pg expanded entry (!) for "Demons" in v3 and had two illustrations. There weren't many illustrations, so we got lucky on that.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Mungi
And what do you mean, "got to pick that up?" You should already have it, you are falling behind! heh
Love,
rplass
Heh! I have that issue, I thought they got an entry like say Spider-Man gets talking about his powers and what not.
Maybe one day :?
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How big was the Northern Gods entry?
They had a full page with pics of Hodiak, Nelvanna, Sedna, Turoq, and Narya.Quote:
How big was the Northern Gods entry?
Yeah, the Narya pic was from her recent appearance in Incredible Hercules.
There was also a headshot of Sasquatch in the Howling Commandos entry, and a full-page entry for alt-Sasquatch from Exiles.
Love,
rplass
Volume 6 is out, and we have a Madison Jeffries entry and the Llan entry from the Mystic Arcana handbook.
So far Alpha Flight appears in all 6 volumes!
Love,
rplass
Alpha will make it into all the volumes, because there's pretty much at least one pre-existing Alpha related entry needing the hardcover update treatment for each letter of the Alphabet (bar Q, X and Z, none of which will fill an entire 240 page volume). M - Master of the World and Marrina. N - Northstar. O - Omega Flight. P - Puck (both of them). R - Radius. S - Snowbird, Shaman, Sasquatch. T - Talisman. U - USAgent (yeah, I know that's a stretch), V - Vindicator, W - Windshear, Y - Yukon Jack.Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
You forgot to add "Awful Flight" (Trinket, Aroma, Hockeypuck, Snow-Youse & Summersquash) from the Larval Earth (Spider-Ham) too.Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
Oooh, Northstar made it to the cover of volume 8! Awesome:
link to image at Marvel.com
I keep the dust jackets in a separate box while I read the hardcovers, and so they get their own bag and board. I really try to keep these covers intact!
Love,
rplass
Just got Vol. 7 yesterday and it had Major Mapleleaf (Sadler Jr.), Master of the World & Mauvais, but for some strange reason Marrina wasn't in it?
Hopefully Loki can let us know what happened.
I wasn't expecting an entry for Marrina. She hasn't been covered in recent handbooks, and it wasn't likely for her to get a new entry...
She really should have had an entry in a previous incarnation in this series, IMHO, but considering she's been AWOL for so long, with no change, I can sort of understand this omission.
In the Plodex entry, expect to see Marrina and Mar at least in the illustrations, as they were shown in issue #8 of the A-Z series.
I can't explain why Loki listed her for this issue, except maybe he was looking at an alphabetical list somewhere and forgot that Marrina hasn't had an entry recently to be included in the HC book.
Love,
rplass
Where the Major Mapleleaf (Sadler Jr.), Master of the World & Mauvais entries any different then the previous ones?
On Marrina, that's exactly what happened. Apologies, I had it in my head that we'd covered her back in the 2004 books, in either the Book of the Dead or Women of Marvel.Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
All have varying degrees of updates / modifications. Major M was fairly slight tweaking, some text alterations and additional images. Mauvais ditto. Master of the World had some heavier text amendments. Since none of them have reappeared since their last Handbook entries, there wasn't much new to add, so it was more improving on the prior coverage.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Mungi
WTF? Book of the Dead? Now why would she be covered in such a book... I thought it was established that she was sleeping a false death beneath the waves. Tie that with the image from Avengers v3 #47 of her floating in the tank... is she dead or what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
http://www.geocities.com/rplass/afcollector/ave347.jpg
Proof that she's alive. Bubbles!
Love,
rplass
I know she is alive - but then so are half the members of each and every past Book of the Dead. If you check the Master of the World's revised text (revisions I made), you'll see it mentions that she is alive a couple of times.Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
Cool, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Btw, I notice no one seems to have yet updated Bedlam the Brain-Blast's entry on Alphanex. Or did nobody notice his real name was given back in the first hardcover?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
The place is falling apart, i tell you! It's bedlam, sheer bedlam! :lol:
It's usually me who does it, but I've been lazy as of late. :?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Don't feel bad, KM. I had four days off work, and i spent them in front of the computer and the DVD player. Can't say i accomplished anything of real worth...
Not meaning to chastise. I just wondered if it had slipped past the normally eagle-eyed readers here.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Mungi
OK Issue #7 of the HC is out.
Major Mapleleaf Jr has an entry, but watch for the nanotech scorpions... yeah, I'm just still, uh, no. Anyway, we already covered that topic.
Also, you can see Zombie Guardian in the entry for Marvel Zombies.
The Master has an entry, too.
The recent events in X-Infernus are mentioned briefly in Magik's entry, so Witchfire gets a shout out, no images, but hey, nice touch.
Love,
rplass
Oh, I discovered a Puck cameo as well... in Magneto's entry, one of the illustrations is a portion of the cover for Alpha Flight #33:
http://www.alphaflight.net/cover_gallery/af1_33.jpg
with giant Puck behind Magneto. :)
Love,
rplass
Just got vol. 8 yesterday and Nemesis (St. Ives), Northstar, Omega Flight (Jaxon's), Omega Flight (Master's), Omega Flight (Canadian Government's) & Pestilence (Crozier) all had entries. Also, you get to see Guradian, Shaman, Snowbird, Aurora, Northstar, Puck, Sasquatch and Wild Child (along with Logan & Creed) in the Mutant X-Verse entry as well.