The System is Now Online

[spidermanwashere]

So Avengers 10 came out today with the team going to Canada to try to figure out what happened to Omega Flight. They had gone to check out an event site that occurred there before they all met their death and lost contact with the outside world as the site had formed a dome around the area (note: one of the members was named Boxx; really hope it's not Madison "Box" Jeffries as I'd like him to pop up in an X-book. He and Nemesis were always great together).



Upon entering the site (as it was sealed shut, they had to use Eden) the Avengers meet the only surviving member of Omega Flight, Validator, who changed somehow when she came into contact with the environment. She uh, then does this:











I like how Eden and Smasher, the newbies, are all freaked out while their more seasoned teammates are just used to it by now. Just another average day for the Avengers.






The system's online.



So ya, those transformations were kinda odd.

This is the part I've been stuck thinking about throughout the day, trying to figure out what exactly Validator is doing/did to them. Bruce may have said they were evolving and adapting, but they really didn't look like it to me. My working theory is that they're perhaps alternate versions of themselves being somehow shown through Validator's new powers. I based this on what happened to Hulk (Maestro being an alternate future version of the Hulk), Smasher (in different realities she could be a man or a... pig, insect thing) and by the alternate costumes for Cap and Wolverine (who, in most other universes I read, look fairly similar to their mainstream counterparts). Maybe Falcon is an actual falcon-man somewhere.

Was this theory influenced by the hours I just spent playing Bioshock Infinite? Oh ya, most definitely. He doesn't row and all that. Hopefully we'll get some answers soon, although probably not next issues since it's about ninjas and stuff, for some reason. Any other theories out there about what's taking place? Let's hear 'em.









Lived, lives, will live.
Died, dies, will die.
If we could perceive time as it truly was,
What reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?

Comments

*golf clap*

[northstarfan]

This, I believe, was the quickest intro/kill-off on record for a Flight team.

Re: *golf clap*

[spidermanwashere]

Ya, they were dead after about five pages.

Re: *golf clap*

[icon_uk]

And that's really saying something for a Flight Team (Who are only matched by the various Teen Titans teams for lack of longevity (Remember the Titans East who didn't even make it all the way through their debut special)

[drmcninja]

So... is Omega Flight dead again? Because seriously, goddamn. Stop killing off entire teams of great characters! At least have the courtesy to go one at a time if you must.

[stolisomancer]

All four were new this issue, one was a robot, and one was a tame version of the Wendigo, which can reappear at any time. None of the existing Alphas are dead (again).

[darkknightjrk]

The Multiverse thing makes a lot of sense, considering how that seems to be the big macro-arc of Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers. Something broke the system that kept the Multiverse going, that's been established, but what we might be seeing now is that system attempting to repair itself, but the way it's going to do it is going to end up being VERY messy.

[amaresu]

Why is this making me think horrible DC thoughts?

[icon_uk]

All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. seems singularly apt, no? :)

[big_daddy_d]

That first panel with Validator looks awesome. Also, whose the black character sitting next to Smasher?

[spidermanwashere]

Eden Fesi, AKA Manifold. He was apart of Fury's Secret Warriors a few years ago but that was the only thing he'd been in until this book.

[beyondthefringe]

As superhero names go, Validator is not one of the more inspiring ones. Does she... stamp your parking ticket after beating you in a fight?

I do wish we'd gotten to see more of this team. Wendigo is pretty self-explanatory, and Boxx was clearly a robot or telepresence unit, but I'd love to know more about Validator and Kingdom.

It looks, from the two panels we really get of Kingdom, as though he might be related to Flashback... able to summon temporal duplicates, given the shot we see of a second version of himself with a reversed color scheme, and the subsequent mention of "Kingdom Prime." Given that in the Secret Warriors series, Hickman actually did introduce Flashback's children, who both had the same abilities, it's not the most far-fetched of ideas.

[spidermanwashere]

At first I thought it was Vindicator, but alas I was wrong. I didn't make the connection with Flashback but I can totally see it now, he was a member of Department H so it's totally possible. I forgot about his kids in Secret Warriors. I hope they do more with the other characters from that book like they're doing with Eden.



Also, the "validate your parking" thing also came to mind when the character was introduced.

[squirle]

Wait... this sequence was reconstructed from data from Validator's eyes? And his daughter is standing right in front of him? Shouldn't they just be able to lip-read what she told him?

[stolisomancer]

In the original sequence, she's speaking the evolved language that was developed by the people struck by the original evolution bombs. As of yet, the only other people who speak it are Captain Universe and Nightmask, neither of whom are there. Tony has a partial alphabet that was shown to be wildly inaccurate.

[chrisdv]

Oh, goddammit. I turned my back for 5 seconds & they wound up getting themselves killed...

[darkblade]

This is the real reason Wolverine joined the X-men. He's sick of total party kills every time he turns around.

[chrisdv]

Plus they have a better dental plan.

[silverzeo]

Huh... did it bothered anyone else with the "AR" logo in the left bottom of Red Falcon's transformation panel? I know Marvel like to advertise... but within the actually story?

And what is with Marvel's ambigity? I know comics leave doors open, but Marvel has been doing alot of that with EVERYTHING.

We never find out what happen after OMD years later with OMIT, which BARELY explain anything at all properly...
Secret Invasion, Freedom Ring, a Skrull agent turn hero, gets shot and disappears with little to no explanation and follow up.
Speaking of Secret Invasion, the whole thing with Janet's death seemed to be rework like how in the Naruto chapters, Sasuke's brother was a good guy, Tobi was Obito, and Garaa's family really loved him, but all his hardships that broke him were just tests...

[rainspirit]

...damnit. I think my mind just put all the pieces together for the hinted Bioshock: Infinite almost-spoilers.

[valtyr]

Really glad to see Eden active again.

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, so far Hickman's Avengers run hasn't interested me in the slightest, and this looks like yet another issue where the Avengers are helpless in the face of Hickman's AWESOME TOTALLY COOL AND ORIGINAL AND DIFFERENT villains. I think that in general Marvel's knocking it out of the park right now, but I feel like Hickman hasn't been doing great on their flagship title.

Also really, Alpha/Omega Flight gets killed off again? I don't care if it was mostly a new team, that's still a bush league way of raising the stakes and a waste of characters. I'm getting deja vu to when Hickman casually wiped out a couple cities in the first issue to establish how big and awesome his threats were.

UGH.

[thanekos]

And if you throw an apple in there, you get a Man-Thing. Maybe.

[darkblade]

With how often Flight teams die you have to wonder why there is still a Canada at all in the Marvel Universe and I say this as a Canadian.