Marvel Team Up Screw Up
4:14 PM 8/13/06 · Over the years Marvel Comics has made a couple little snafus in storylines, doing one thing and then a few years later doing something completely at odds with it. Like how the techno·organic Warlock joined the New Mutants early on and fought side by side with Cyclops in a number of adventures and training scenarios, not to mention the much vaunted Asgardian Wars. Yet years later, during the Inferno storyline, when facing off with a demon that was infested with the transmode virus Cyclops said that neither he nor the rest of his team had ever encountered a techno·organic creature before.
Little things like that. It annoys the fuck outta me, even though I know it shouldn't, but it's kinda understandable when these little details are several years apart.
Several months though? That's just plain wrong!
Used to be the Marvel Team Ups were all separate adventures having nothing to do with each other. The most current series seems much the same but they all connect into a particular theme. Not sure why they're doing this, maybe it's to increase sales to collected editions. Anyway, the 1st theme seems to be working into the current one.
It started with Wolverine & Spidey fighting each other over this new mutant who gave off destructive energy blasts, and then fighting the kid together when he turned out to be psycho. A lot of other stuff happens that mixes in with this but eventually it seems that Doctor Doom is involved...only it's not Doom but a dimensionally misplaced Tony Start that apparently fights the Fantastic Four in his home dimension. He kidnaps the kid to use him as an energy source to get hom and winds up fighting Spidey, X·23, Captain America, Black Widow, and somebody else but I forget who.
This parallel Tony Stark ws beaten and incarcerated by SHIELD but recently broke out. Stealing and adapting an advanced LMD, dubbing himself the Iron Maniac, he headed out to find a way to get home again. In the process he wound up fighting Spidey and Wolverine and was basically wiping the floor with them. Inparticular he was really cutting down on Spidey...even going so far as to call him by his real name and speaking as though he'd known him a long time. Being from a parallel timeline this might not seem too hard to find credible...
...excepting the first time they fought this Stark had absolutely no idea who Spidey was. He'd never seen him before and was completely mistified by him and his powers. These two sequences are totally at odds with each other. Stark ws in stasis the entire time he was in SHIELD custody so it's not like he could've learned who Spidey was while there.
You see why this bugs me?
Little things like that. It annoys the fuck outta me, even though I know it shouldn't, but it's kinda understandable when these little details are several years apart.
Several months though? That's just plain wrong!
Used to be the Marvel Team Ups were all separate adventures having nothing to do with each other. The most current series seems much the same but they all connect into a particular theme. Not sure why they're doing this, maybe it's to increase sales to collected editions. Anyway, the 1st theme seems to be working into the current one.
It started with Wolverine & Spidey fighting each other over this new mutant who gave off destructive energy blasts, and then fighting the kid together when he turned out to be psycho. A lot of other stuff happens that mixes in with this but eventually it seems that Doctor Doom is involved...only it's not Doom but a dimensionally misplaced Tony Start that apparently fights the Fantastic Four in his home dimension. He kidnaps the kid to use him as an energy source to get hom and winds up fighting Spidey, X·23, Captain America, Black Widow, and somebody else but I forget who.
This parallel Tony Stark ws beaten and incarcerated by SHIELD but recently broke out. Stealing and adapting an advanced LMD, dubbing himself the Iron Maniac, he headed out to find a way to get home again. In the process he wound up fighting Spidey and Wolverine and was basically wiping the floor with them. Inparticular he was really cutting down on Spidey...even going so far as to call him by his real name and speaking as though he'd known him a long time. Being from a parallel timeline this might not seem too hard to find credible...
...excepting the first time they fought this Stark had absolutely no idea who Spidey was. He'd never seen him before and was completely mistified by him and his powers. These two sequences are totally at odds with each other. Stark ws in stasis the entire time he was in SHIELD custody so it's not like he could've learned who Spidey was while there.
You see why this bugs me?