Captain Atom-Kingdom Come

[Speedball]

Did anyone else notice in the armageddon series that they used the Kingdom Come suit? also who was the Mandalore guy who was fighting parasite?

 

[Assassin]

i think that was his original suit at charlton, i think..maybe

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It wasn't. Ross designed it for Kingdom Come and, for some unknown reason, Captain Atom ended up with the same look in the Wildstorm universe. He goes back to his much crappier silver look when he comes back to the DC universe, though.

 

[Speedball]

yeah, i know.
Do you think maybe Armageddon is alluding to something?
I still wanna know how an Mandalore got to Earth though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hinting at what? That Kingdom Come will become the definitive future? I hope not.

 

[Speedball]

Well, it's already been proved wrong, cause Blue Beetle is alive and well in Kingdom Come. I meant the end of the Wildstorm Universe actually.

 

[Tropico]

Yup, the Wildstorm Universe is getting a Reeboot and bringing along the titles that made up Jim Lee's part of the Image stable. Y'know...Wildcats (the first version, not the one Corpy likes), Wet Works, etc.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Not the first version of Wildcats, actually. It'll be a mix of various elements from the various eras. The preview art is by Jim Lee, so of course it has that overdone, plasticy, early Image style, but Morrison has stated that he loved Casey's take on Hadrian in Wildcats Version 3.0. Plus, Majestic'll be in Wildcats post-reboot. Really, so long as they get Hadrian down in a way that I like and Grifter's not too much of a bad '90s cliche, I'll be all right with it.

A lot of the other titles sound interesting, too. I was going to skip Stormwatch, but Gage's recent interview about it with Newsarama has made me reconsider. It's supposed to be about an arm of Stormwatch working out of a New York police precinct.

 

[Speedball]

please say the Authority is coming back.
I still don't know who the Mandalore guy is.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I didn't know what you were talking about with the "Mandalore guy" to begin with.

The Authority is coming back. It'll be bi-monthly, alternating with Wildcats because Morrison's going to write both.

 

[Speedball]

OH.
cool.
In the news footage of When Magog and his crew are fighting Parasite, There is a guy in Boba Fett armor close to the Cameraman. He's never named in the images in the back of the book, i was just wondering if anyone might know ho he is.

 

[Speedball]

Never mind. It's Peacemaker?
who's that, and why would a mandalore try to make peace?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He's not a Mandalorian, obviously, since Lucasfilm would carpet-bomb DC's headquarters if anyone other than Dark Horse used its characters. Peacemaker was one of the Charlton heroes that DC brought over into their mainstream universe, just like they did Captain Atom. I don't know much about him beyond that, but here's Wikipedia's site on him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacemaker_(comics)

 

[Speedball]

oh ok, the mask already looks like a Mandalore Helmet. LOL

 

[Tropico]

Oh! THAT guy! Yeah, it was supposed to be some kind of Peacemaker version for Kingdom Come.

I liked the Ellis run on StormWatch, the super-hero version, that is. It's what got me into the characters that would then become The Authority. I don't know if The Authority works anymore for me, I don't know if it's because of the characters or it's the way they're being written. Maybe it was the whole uthority as Presidents thing that kinda ruined it. Anyway, it'll be cool to check out what this new version might be. The same goes for Wetworks if it's something new and doesn't involve getting all the backstory of the old one. I wouldn't mind a couplr of new Team 7 mini's though. I've always liked those.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wouldn't mind if the Team Zero mini that's coming out right now made any sense whatsoever.

 

[Tropico]

The one that ended recently?

BTW, SpeedballLives, they made fun of the Capt. Atom "costume" yo see in Armaggedon and Kingdom Come in 'I Can't Believe It's Not Justice League'. Capt. Atom starts the comic with it and later on changes it and even goes on to say that it was made by a comic book guy he knew and I think they say something about it being very 90's.

 

[Tropico]

Here is where Corp's or SBL's answer would have gone if it wasn't for my browser acting up!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The one that ended recently?

BTW, SpeedballLives, they made fun of the Capt. Atom "costume" yo see in Armaggedon and Kingdom Come in 'I Can't Believe It's Not Justice League'. Capt. Atom starts the comic with it and later on changes it and even goes on to say that it was made by a comic book guy he knew and I think they say something about it being very 90's.

Haha, that's weird. I like the KC costume a lot more than the randomly colored one he usually wears. Silver coating, red symbol, red gloves, and... light blue boots? Wha?

Yeah, the Team Zero mini with Mahnke's art didn't make any sense in the established Wildstorm timeline. Deathblow wouldn't have even been born by World War II.

 

[Tropico]

Yeah, that threw me a bit. I realized that only 2 of them would go on to become part of the later teams, although some of the codenames made it. That confused the HELL out of me, when they started dropping like flies and the names were of guys that were supposed to be alive later (but it was only their code names). I never read the Deathblow series but they always showed him as being pretty old in the Team 7 minis, I attributed it to the experiment that gave them their powers. I know he didn't develope them until later, though. I liked it when I finally managed to make sense of it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Was Majestic involved in Team Zero? Because I'm fairly certain that he and the guy Hadrian's personality was based on were both members of the original Team Zero squad.

 

[Tropico]

I have no idea.

 

[The Question]

I didn't know what you were talking about with the "Mandalore guy" to begin with.

The Authority is coming back. It'll be bi-monthly, alternating with Wildcats because Morrison's going to write both.

Grant Morrison. Writing.......Authority.....?



You, my friend, just blew my mind.