Omega Flight!!!!!

[Vanguard07]

I'll buy an ongoing, as long as they bring back Beta Ray Bill.

Seconded wholeheartedly.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, Bill and Oeming were my main reasons for reading. But if it does get picked up as an ongoing again next year, I'll miss Kolins.

 

[PhotoJones]

Andrea Di Vito should handle the art, should it be upgraded to ongoing.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That would be swell.

 

[PhotoJones]

I have a gut feeling that when another Omega Flight mini hits, the artist is either going to be Di Vito or Briones.

 

[Darthphere]

Why is PJ always stealing my ideas?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I have a gut feeling that when another Omega Flight mini hits, the artist is either going to be Di Vito or Briones.

Why Briones?

 

[PhotoJones]

Why Briones?

He's good, but not good enough for Marvel to warrant ongoing work (at least in their eyes). Basically he's good enough to hold onto and keep feeding miniseries work to, which is what they've been doing. Sub-Mariner wraps up in a few months, and he'll need something to do.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

What did he do before Sub-Mariner?

 

[PhotoJones]

White Tiger, which was abismal. Not his fault, though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Poor guy.

 

[PhotoJones]

Poor guy.

The last issue of that ships next month, I believe. It's certainly not due to lateness on his part, and I'm not even sure he stuck around to finish it.

 

[CombatRock319]

the only thing redeeming about this freaking mini series was BETA RAY BILL! BETA RAY BILL MINI ANYBODY?!

 

[PhotoJones]

the only thing redeeming about this freaking mini series was BETA RAY BILL! BETA RAY BILL MINI ANYBODY?!

There was one not too long ago, right?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill. It directly precedes his involvement in Omega Flight, in fact. The only real change is his costume, which I think Kolins did a better job redesigning than Di Vito did.

 

[PhotoJones]

Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill. It directly precedes his involvement in Omega Flight, in fact. The only real change is his costume, which I think Kolins did a better job redesigning than Di Vito did.

That's when Bill bonded with a human, right?

 

[Darthphere]

That's when Bill bonded with a human, right?

Hawt!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

At the end of Stormbreaker, yeah. It actually went down almost the same way Thor's resurrection occurred--Bill "died" ambiguously fighting and then some mysterious power placed his essence into a recently deceased bum, which facilitated his return to life. Unfortunately, since Omega Flight was downgraded from an ongoing, we still haven't learned who the mysterious power was.

 

[King_Mungi]

Rumor was it may be Shaman from Alpha Flight, but we shall see

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm much more inclined to believe it was Don Blake at this point, appearing to him in oblivion the same way he did with Thor.

 

[PhotoJones]

I don't like Bill being bonded. I don't like human hosts very much, although Blake is bothering me less than I thought. Why can't all the gods be like Ares and Hercules for chissakes? Just immortal (or nearly immortal) beings that have been on this planet for centuries.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't know. I don't mind Blake, but Bill's human host bugged me a lot. Not because bonding gods to humans sucks (which it usually does), but because bonding aliens to humans sucks even more. Bill had his own host--his original Korbinite body. Now he's basically chained to Earth, a planet he spent all of ten minutes on before, and he's meant to just protect this planet's people as if nothing happened and his own people weren't just lost to oblivion? Plus, he's gotta do it with a human as his "normal" form? He just loses the unenhanced Korbinite body that he so longed for when Thor first met him? Weak. That was really the only blemish on Oeming's otherwise great record of handling mythological characters.

 

[PhotoJones]

I don't know. I don't mind Blake, but Bill's human host bugged me a lot. Not because bonding gods to humans sucks (which it usually does), but because bonding aliens to humans sucks even more. Bill had his own host--his original Korbinite body. Now he's basically chained to Earth, a planet he spent all of ten minutes on before, and he's meant to just protect this planet's people as if nothing happened and his own people weren't just lost to oblivion? Plus, he's gotta do it with a human as his "normal" form? He just loses the unenhanced Korbinite body that he so longed for when Thor first met him? Weak. That was really the only blemish on Oeming's otherwise great record of handling mythological characters.

To Oeming's credit, the story's not really finished yet.

 

[Red]

I'm much more inclined to believe it was Don Blake at this point, appearing to him in oblivion the same way he did with Thor.

When did Blake get that kind of power?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

When he spent all those years in oblivion after Thor cast him off, apparently. That's what Thor #1 intimated, anyway. Mjolnir helped in Thor's resurrection, too, so maybe Blake used the power of Stormbreaker for Bill's.