scans_daily: A universe trembles

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@ 2012-05-07 01:18 pm UTC

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creator: andy lanning, creator: brad walker, creator: dan abnett, creator: tom derenick

A universe trembles

For Free Comic Book Day, Boom! Studios has released a prologue to Abnett and Lanning (and main artist Brad Walker)'s upcoming series The Hypernaturals.

"It is the far future; the human race has finally colonized the galaxy, preserving an era of prosperity that's only possible because of The Hypernaturals. They're a celebrated, galaxy-wide superhero task force that keeps the peace. That is, until they all mysteriously vanish. Now, as the galaxy teeters on the brink of chaos, it's up to a group of retired and long forgotten Hypernaturals - and their novice recruits - to save the galaxy from complete destruction."

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	no subject q99 2012-05-07 07:45 am UTC (link)
	Ok, this looks mostly cool, but I'd hope for more diversity in the cast of the future. (Reply to this)

	no subject grimmbear 2012-05-07 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	Wow can anyone say Legion of Superheroes rip off? Not that I'm not intrigued... (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject his_spiffynesss 2012-05-07 01:30 pm UTC (link)
	Well, at least it's a change of pace from the endless Superman pastiches we've had the past few years. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject mastermahan 2012-05-07 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	To be fair, Abnett and Lanning wrote something like 50 issues of Legion of Superheroes, and it was quite good. I'd say they're allowed to do a bit of ripping off. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject grimmbear 2012-05-08 12:47 am UTC (link)
	Oh I actually have no problem with it at all. I adore the Legion. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject mastermahan 2012-05-08 02:45 am UTC (link)
	You should read Legion Lost (the first one). It was pretty much DnA's start writing the Legion, and it's a great little sci-fi epic. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject cleome45 2012-05-08 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	This could be a great opportunity for those who like the idea of LoSH, but who also complain that its history is too confusing to jump into. ;) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject damar148 2012-05-07 02:22 pm UTC (link)
	So in the future they don't have Caller ID? Typical. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-05-07 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	In fairness, since she wasn't aware of the tragedy, she'd have no reason NOT to talk to someone from the media. Better yet, perhaps in the future the capacity to make harassing phone calls (and cold callers) have been bred out of transhuman nature. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject damar148 2012-05-07 02:54 pm UTC (link)
	She was only made aware it was someone from the media áfter she accepted the call, not blaming her at all as it could have been a friend/relative, but I do blame the tech being so backward. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-05-07 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	I'm never really comfortable once they start talking about "galaxy wide", since the distances involved in that are brain numbing* that any individual group of people ebing alive long enough to be known seems improbable, * The Milky Way being about 100,000 LIGHT YEARS in diameter. (Or so Monty Python tells me) (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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donnblake
2012-05-07 06:11 pm UTC (link)

It depends on communications speed- assuming essentially instant communication speed, it's just a matter of one group acting on a large enough scale that the entire galaxy* (taken here to mean all members of whatever galactic community there is, which may or may not wind up excluding a number of preinterstellar races, depending on said galactic community's ) hears about it.

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	no subject donnblake 2012-05-07 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	Poul Indersun? Really? (For reference, Poul AndersOn was a well known science fiction author) (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject glprime 2012-05-08 12:34 am UTC (link)
	Up next, Itzac Asimov! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject dr_archeville 2012-05-08 12:34 pm UTC (link)
	Aztec Asimov? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject mastermahan 2012-05-07 07:36 pm UTC (link)
	I'll be honest, this preview doesn't really grab me. I'm still going to get this, though. Abnett and Lanning doing superheroes in space is a reliable formula for entertainment. (Reply to this)

	no subject pyrrhocorax 2012-05-13 07:02 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, another future of white people, white people, and aliens. (Reply to this)

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