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OK, it's really difficult to get half the comics over here, (I don't buy them anyway, just plonk myself down in the bookstore and read efverything, but...) so a lot of what I know has been reaved off the Marvel website.
Holocaust was a Horseman in the parallel timeline.
Knew about Stryfe, Caliban and Angel, and had forgotten about Exodus, but who the hell is Random? Never heard of him/her.
And Wolverine?! What the hell is the story behind that? I never heard of that. Was it from his distant past, or more recently, or was it in the Age Of Apocalypse itself?
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Well my brother has found a great place in Stockholm that can mail the stuff home to him, so he lets me borrow everything he's finished reading.
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The wolverine-story is intimately connected to Apocalypse's latest (last?) scheme. Apocalypse gave Logan a choice, be a horseman or he'll just take another teammate. Logan thought he could handle it but...
So, Apocalypse summoned twelve seemingly unconnected mutants, their connection was later explained, and their gathered forces amplified him into a superbeing.
It wasn't complete, though, until he had absorbed the body of Nate Grey (X-Man), at which point Cyclops intervened and sacrificed himself in X-Man's place. The outcome was pretty much the same, and now nobody knows where either of them are, presently.
------------------ Here lies a toppled god, His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
-Tleilaxu Epigram
[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited January 24, 2001).]
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Random was a guy who could turn his forearms into big organic-energy guns, or somesuch.
Yeah, I read some Marvel, and some DC, and some Vertigo, and the occasional independent (Like Caliber's constantly very late Sherlock Holmes).
I only read a few Marvel series anymore. generally I pick up stuff set in alternate universes, because I like that kind of weird stuff, and how they alter the characters.
In fact, the only "regular-continuity" Marvel comics I read are Generation X, which is due to end its run in 2 more issues, and Punisher, which just ended a 12-issue series. The other stuff is all set in MC2 or Universe-X or some other world, like Mutant X.
Similarly, the DC stuff I like most are the Elseworlds books and miniseries, Kingdom-Come, and Earth-2 type books.
Vertigo? Dreaming, Books of Magic, Invisibles (I, II , and III), and related comics series.
Unfortunately, the comics market is in kind of a slump (people just aren't buying anymore), so I tend to have just enough time to get interested in a comic before they cancel it.
------------------ "My knowledge and experience far exceeds your own, by, oh, about a BILLION times!" -- Q
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Well there you go. I'm at Punisher #11 right now, gonna read it now in fact (It's 0:32 here), and if you didn't know, they've started a new Punisher-series called "Punisher/Painkiller Jane", looks good also.
I hope they get out of that "slump", I think Samuel L. had a few points about it all, in "Unbreakable". If you haven't seen it he talked a bit about the ancient language of symbols and how it's survived into comic books in a certain sense, unfortunately distorted by greed and moneymaking in some cases...
*NOTE TO SELF: REMEMBER TO ASK MR CAPPS TO PUT SOME MORE SPACE BETWEEN THE "SUBMIT" BUTTON AND THE "CLEAR FIELDS" BUTTON*
------------------ Here lies a toppled god, His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
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