Fallen Angels #1
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icon_uk's fault. If you don't enjoy this, blame him for posting New Mutants stuff. He started it. A number of people point to this mini-series as one of the worst of all time. Personally, I find it cracky and fun, so that's why I'm sharing. Feel free to disagree. While most of this issue was setup, later issues will take a turn for the entertaining.
As our story begins, we find Bobby and the rest of the New Mutants enjoying a fine summer's day with a game of football. Not baseball this time, but football.
While all of this frivolity is going on, Magneto is struggling with his first attempt to create report cards for the students. He calls Moira MacTaggert, who agrees to come and help; she's also bringing Jamie Madrox and Siryn.
So the football game continues. Then, this happens.
Yes, Bobby does need a lesson here, but they are pretty harsh on him nonetheless. All of the other New Mutants and Magneto take Sam to the hospital, leaving Bobby alone in the mansion to stew. He wanders into Magneto's office and sees his personal file there, with Xavier's observation that if they aren't careful, Bobby could easily go down the same dark path as his father. Also, there's been much encouragement for Bobby to spend time with Sam in hopes that Sam's maturity and humility will rub off on Bobby. This information upsets Bobby greatly, so he writes a note, packs his bags and heads to New York to be alone. Upon returning from the hospital, Magneto finds out and sends the other kids to bed. However, Warlock has a different idea.
Next we meet Chance, an actual street girl. She meets another street kid who attempts to sell her a calendar. Apparently she used to be just like this kid, working for the good Reverend Yune Kim Park and the Glorification Church. She steals his money and takes all of his calendars so he can go home because apparently he's not allowed to come back until he's sold everything. Yes, Chance isn't a terribly good person But she has other...qualities, which we'll see at another time.
Anyway, some other street punks see her take the money from the kid and decide they want it for themselves. They trap Chance in a dead end alley. Bobby comes upon them and decides to save her. Only...
Oh no! His power fails him in the middle of Manhattan in a dead end alley. If only someone would show up to save the day!
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Date: 2012-09-24 06:27 pm (UTC)Sam is the big brother to all of them who has been there for each of them when they needed him, Bobby the rather spoiled little bother used to getting his own way.
Then again as you say, he's only 14.
I always had a problem with Warlock running off like that though... he'd run off all right, but he'd talk to the others first, ESPECIALLY Doug.
But then, I confess I am sort of biased because, good though this series was (I can't wait for the comm to met Gomi, Don and Bill) it WAS this miniseries that ensured Warlock wasn't around to bolster Doug's plunging self-confidence, and perhaps save him from the events of issue #60 of the New Mutants.
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Date: 2012-09-25 08:02 pm (UTC)To the OP -- if you can, you might want to track down the epilogue to this series, which was an issue of Power Pack which dealt with what happened to Bobby and Warlock right after the last issue. (It has the cutest deconstruction of teenage angst ever.)
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Date: 2012-09-24 06:49 pm (UTC)And it gave us Ariel and Chance, one of whom vanished into obscurity, and the other of whom vanished into obscurity until recent years (thus truly surprising me when she appeared again.)
There was almost a sequel! http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/10/15/comic-book-legends-revealed-282/
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Date: 2012-09-24 07:42 pm (UTC)Actually, if anybody has anything on Devil Dinosaur, I'd be thrilled to see it.
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Date: 2012-09-24 08:33 pm (UTC)Oh no, the Hellfire Club loves mutants, as long as they're the right kind of mutants. They also love members who are rich and powerful, like the Worthingtons, the Braddocks, and the DaCostas.
And the Reignfire thing was explained...sort of. Explained, unexplained, retconned, and sheepishly swept under the rug: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/08/04/the-abandoned-an-forsaked-is-sunspot-reignfire-or-what/
He also became a quasi-supervillain right around New Mutants #48-49, when half of the team, lost in time, was transported to a dystopian future where mutants ruled and humans were practically slaves, and it was revealed that Bobby and Amara were part of the corrupt, brutal ruling cabal.
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Date: 2012-09-25 04:32 pm (UTC)I wonder if there's any other stuff from this era I'm missing.
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Date: 2012-09-25 05:00 pm (UTC)The Nightcrawler miniseries has possibly never been collected? I'll have to poke around for back issues, I s'pose.
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Date: 2012-09-26 03:42 pm (UTC)I should check that Bizarre Adventures issue out, too. I have a copy but have only read the Jean Grey story.
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