Shatterstar in X-Factor
This is for comic book fans and John Barrowman fans. Last year Marvel revived a superhero who hadn't been seen in a decade with a new look. (Which was long overdue, as he'd been a teenager the last time anyone saw him.) It wasn't long before I and other fans began noticing that as part of his new look he had John Barrowman's onstage body
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First we have Julio Esteban Richter (code name "Rictor" -- spelling is not his strong suit).
He was given that name by Cameron Hodge and did not choose to change it, probably because he didn't want his family to find him. Also, Rictor is a real first name. It was years before they decided to dub him Julio Richter, so really, don't pin that one on him.
Born into a family of Mexican gun-runners, "Ric" saw his mutation as his ticket out of a life of crime in the barrio.
Ric initially saw his mutation as a curse that made him a monster and a danger to everyone he loved. The original X-Factor managed to give him a more positive outlook on being a mutant, but meanwhile the circumstances of him parting his family have never been entirely explained. He seems to have run away, and then shortly thereafter been kidnapped away to Virginia by Hodge to be tortured and experimented on. Also, he's not from "the barrio", he's from mexico, where "barrio" just means neighbourhood, as opposed to in the US where it's pretty much a synonym for "ghetto".
Other than that, good recap! (Someday -- someday -- I will figure out what the hell the gladiator joke is. Someday!)
(Things like this happen to the Fantastic Four about every other Tuesday.)
*snicker* Yeah, basically.
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Yeah I know, but I learned the hard way that TMI in an intro post is a deal-breaker. You should have seen what I cut out. I was especially proud of the bit about Rahne, Himrahi, and Josh. :(
Other than that, good recap
Thank you.
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Years of weird soap opera comics continuity: the bane of fan synopses everywhere! I know that particular agony as well.
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In the movie Airplane!, the pilot asks a little boy visiting the cockpit various slightly homoerotic questions. Including asking him if he's "ever seen a grown man naked" and "Do you like movies about gladiators?"
The joke, apparently, being that back in the 60s and such, Gladiator movies were supposedly VERY popular with the gay crowd.
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