Sometimes I bet Richard Rider wishes he'd never come back...

[icon_uk]

Or at least enquired whether there was some sort of MU Handbook to consult.



Two (very dense) panels from Nova #2





Of course, my inner geek tells me that Ritchie Rider would have known Monica Rambeau when SHE was Captain Marvel, but okay, whatever...

Written by  Ramon Perez and Jeff Loveless, art by Ramon Perez
 

Comments

[flint_marko]

I hate everything about that sentence too.

[icon_uk]

Indeed... notice that I never said Richie was WRONG. ;)

[shadowpsykie]

especially since Cyclops was as sane as possible and acted completely logically.

[indy2012]

This is exactly how I feel when I've missed 5-7 issues of a book.

Jason Todd is back from the dead? Catwoman is a mass-murderer? Tim Drake is dead? But that's good that Kitty Pryde is still with Peter. Wait, which Peter now???

[rainspirit]

Did Kitty ever date 616 Peter? The joke that she only dates men with the same name is pretty funny.

[zachbeacon]

I want a doomed fling with Quicksilver.


Bonus points if it happens after the Fox feud blows over. Magneto would be so happy when his son finds a nice Jewish girl.

[icon_uk]

He's overdue after all...



Courtesy of Waiting for the Trade

[icon_uk]

You mean Peter Parker? Then no, she never has AFAIK

If you mean Piotr Rasputin or Pete Wisdom, then yes she did, though not at the same time.

[mastermahan]

I'm sure there's fanfics about that.

[rainspirit]

Piotr got pretty... violent with Pete Wisdom when he was dating Kitty. IDK if that's your speed!

[icon_uk]

There's mutually agreed upon BDSM which is fine if everyone is happy and safe words are agreed and respected, there's borderline bad stuff, and then there's "Cast iron Russian powerhouse on a rampage, attempting to punch your brain out of your skull because he's jealous you got together with the girl he vaguely dated and then dumped over 12 years previously"

Tim Drake isn't dead....

[7dialsmystery]

....he was transported to the future and became Batman Beyond. I think he's headed back to his own time period, because Terry McGinnis (from an alternate timeline) is alive again. Or something. Anyways TIm's alive.

Re: Tim Drake isn't dead....

[long_silence]

That was a different Tim Drake

DC had an event/storyline set 5 years in the future. Tim Drake had retired from superheroics after his fellow Teen Titans had been slaughtered by the forces of Apokalips, he faked his death and took up a false identity as a bartender. He met a Terry McGinnis who had been on a mission to avert that bad future which led to a Post-Apocalyptic Batman Beyond future but landed five years too late. Terry eventually died and Future's End Tim took his place as Batman, completed his mission and somehow ended up in Terry's future.
It was later revealed that in altering the timeline Tim prevented Terry's death so he gave the Batman Mantle back and was going to wander the world/the new alternate future. But like as soon as Future's End Tim left Neo-Gotham he was mysteriously abducted in a bright light.

The Tim Drake in the main timeline, or the newly altered timeline, was part of Batman and Batwoman's team of Gotham vigilantes operating out of the Belfry in central Gotham. He was believed to be killed at the end of their first mission and apparently pulverized by a massive drone attack. Instead some unseen being used the drone attack to hide that Tim was also being abducted and is now being held in some prison.

Both abductions are probably connected, the popular theory being that the Tims are being held in a prison outside of time and space to keep them off the board, the villain who abducted them being the same man who has been spying on Superman, saying that he and his family aren't from the pre-Flashpoint Earth like they think

Re: Tim Drake isn't dead....

[7dialsmystery]

...so either way Tim Drake will probably be alive again in the next few months.

[indy2012]

Or in my case 5-7 years.

[zachbeacon]

On the bright side, Night Thrasher just came back from the dead. They can catch up on stuff together. I'd read that book.

[byc]

This panel is great.

[thatnickguy]

Wait, Richard Rider is back? How did he escape the Cancerverse?

[akodo_rokku]

No explanation yet, but things that seem like Cancerverse beasties keep popping up around him so...

[deh_tommy]

Richard Rider is like Troy coming back to the apartment with pizza, only to find everyone fighting eachother and that the whole place is on fire.

[icon_uk]

Don't remember THAT in Stingray OR any of the High School Musical movies.

(The only places offhand I know of characters called Troy)

[deepspaceartist]

It's a reference to the show Community. It's hilarious and you should watch it.

[icon_uk]

Thanks... I've heard of it, but I don't think any UK channel shows it.

[deh_tommy]

I think you can find the whole show on Netflix and/or Yahoo.

[fiddlingfrog.livejournal.com]

It's from an episode of Community. Also the source of this GIF you may have seen:

[icon_uk]

Ah, okay, that would be half of the the "Troy and Abed" that Jay and Miles refer to a lot on their xplainthexmen podcast as being the closest human analogies to Warlock and Cypher?

[fiddlingfrog.livejournal.com]

Yuh huh, that's them. Donald Glover (the new Lando Calrissian) and Danny Pudi (the new Huey).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZek9PFMYOw

[stacyhd]

Oh Richard, let me roll you a tear and a beer buddy. I peek in on the current Marvel crop every so often and it's enough to give me a mild headache trying to keep it all straight.

[zylly]

I did notice Rich denies having been an Avenger. Technically, he was a Secret Avenger for all of one story arc.