The New Age Begins

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

Four scans from The Marvels Project #3.

Last time, the Human Torch (who, despite his name, is a robot) decided to join the NYPD, under the alias Jim Hammond.

This issue picks up by showing what he's been up to since:




Damn robots, with their super-efficiency, takin' our jerbs.

Jim goes to Coney Island to look around, which is fortunate for the people at Coney Island, because Prince Namor shows up just then, ready to indisciminately maim and kill (since Der Fuhrer's men have been slaughtering Atlanteans, and all surface-worlders are the same to him).  The Torch fights him off:




The MU public: semper fickle.

Comments

[stig.insanejournal.com]

My favourite Old Torch memory has always been in the original Marvels, where young J Jonah Jameson badmouths him in a bar, and he melts a hole in the window, having been sitting next to JJJ the entire time.

[earthelemental.insanejournal.com]

How old is JJJ, anyway? He must be even older than Aunt May!

[strannik01.insanejournal.com]

According to Kurt Busiek, Marvels was written with the assumption that all of the stories took place more or less when they were written. That is why the setting of the middle two issues looks like the 60s and why Sheldon's daughters aged by a few years between Issue 2 and Issue 4. Marvel, of course, never officially recognized the real-time aspect of the story (since it would raise all sorts of questions about Marvel's current-day continuity). From what I understand, their official line on the subject was that Jonah Jameson seen in the first issue was either JJJ's father or grandfather (I can't remember which atop of my head).

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

Going by the current ASM stories, it would be his grandfather, since JJJ Sr. was shown with a driver's license giving his year of birth as 1939.

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Between this and the New Torch' book. Diehard fans are having quite a time :)

[joysweeper.insanejournal.com]

This must have been from before cop hate. Aww, Officer Hammond. <3! I really don't know much about him.

[strannik01.insanejournal.com]

Nah, cops were hated even back then. Heck, they were hated as far back as Victorian times. There is a reason why Golden Age saw more than it's share of crooked cops. The difference between then and now was that, back then, cops lived in working-class neighborhoods where they patrolled, so the locals were more likely to know them personally.

[(Anonymous)]

So, have they gone back to the Original Torch being an actual mechanical klank-klank type robot (or 'robut' as Dr. zoidberg would say), or is he a living being with lungs, heart, etc. made out of synthetic parts as shown in Marvels?

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Ooh, the original Human Torch! I love the original Human Torch. This looks interesting.