Marvel Dark Ages Preview

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[coldfury]

Tony *just* fixed that body.

[super_fly]

He'll be fine, just walk it off - oh wait, sorry, nevermind.

[scorntx]

Perhaps if they just gather up all the pieces...

[dr_archeville]

So... Kulan Gath up to some shenanigans?

[cainofdreaming]

Dark Ages would be a bit too futuristic for him, wouldn't you say?

[scorntx]

Maybe he's modernizing?

[deh_tommy]

V

[obsidianwolf]

Assuming this is an alternate universe it could be very interesting or it could end up just being marvel's take on the let's kill every character in horrific ways kind of thing with a downer ending.

[locuatico]

Can't be worse than Act of God, that for sure...

[icon_uk]

Never issue a challenge like that, it only encourages them...

[owlbrigade1]

Okay, so Wanda got upset at the size of her leccy bill and was all "no more electricity"?

[silverhammerman]

Having a powered down Iron Man sail through the wing of a passenger jet and bloodily lose a leg before slamming into a building with a novelty-sized "crnch" is like what you'd get if you asked someone to write a parody of Tom Taylor's DCeased/Injustice output for the Marvel U.

[remial]

so, it is a parody of a parody of a bad idea?

[beyondthefringe]

And that someone is...
Tom Taylor.

Tom Taylor is basically doing a Marvel version of Tom Taylor's work for DC.

[mastermahan]

I hope Tom Taylor is okay with being pigeonholed like this. He's clearly a good writer, and "guy who writes grim alternate comic universes" is a limited niche.

[icon_uk]

Well, that's efficient at least...

[reveen]

You know, if you think about it it's kinda a miracle that this hasn't happened to Tony yet just by some engineering fuckup when he was drunk.

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[brerrabbit]

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[onsokumaru]

If the story is about all technology going blue screen forever, there will be even more partying than usual in Krakoa.

[obsidianwolf]

except it kind of kaputs the whole cloning I mean resurecting thing since no Cerebro means no copy of the mind for the copies.

[dr_archeville]

The new Krakoan Cerebro incorporates Shi'ar tech -- an antimatter engine, IIRC -- to power it. So that might be immune to whatever's futzing with the power.

I guess it really depends on if this is one of those Events that remembers Mutants exist as a part of the MU.

[cainofdreaming]

Well, if Shi'ar tech still worked in this scenario then Reed should have the lights back on, worldwide, in a day or so.

[obsidianwolf]

I doubt any tech will be left functioning except outside of perhaps the villain's if this is caused by tech.

The test will be if the x-men appear if it'll use the Krakoa status quo or go for more generic x-men history.

[bruinsfan]

I could swear I've heard this idea somewhere before... oh yeah, that hot mess of a primtetime TV series Revolution from back around 2012.

[lilacsigil]

Was that the one where electricity just didn't work and yet people were still, you know, walking around with things like "hearts" and "brains" and "cells"?

[donnblake]

Also in a series of books starting with Dies the Fire, which did some interesting things with the way society (or rather societies) reformed after the tech-failure driven collapse.

And yes, acknowledged the ultimate handwave necessary to make the premise work, although it's like five books, and decades in-story before they've got any idea what caused it.

[obsidianwolf]

It's been used a couple of times. It even was the back story for a marvel comiconce. Bishop the Last X-man took place in the future of a world that Magneto blacked out every piece of technology to stop the Sentinels from taking over.

[agent8]

Try the Emberverse series, written by S. M. Stirling. Right down to the plummeting 747. Started in 2004.

I often wondered if people behind the show Revolution didn't get some strongly worded letters from Stirling's lawyers and if that had something to do with the show's demise.

[icon_uk]

You might be too young to remember the Visionaries cartoon from the 1980's, set on an earth like world where the laws of science and magic switched around every few millenia or so, making technology obsolete and magic active, or the other way around.

See also "The Changes" a book series from the late 60's that became a UK kids tv series in the 70's, where people destroy machinery because of a disruptive sound that every machine starts making for mysterious reasons)

[tripodeca113]

Honestly the fact that Iron Man and other superheroes like him, have lost their technology is secondary, to all the people who are going to die directly and in the aftermath of this.

Still all those mad scientists are out of commission now, or will have to switch over to magic. This could save everyone a lot of hustle in the long run.

[bravest_spinja]

Alchemy is in! Everything's coming up Diablo!

[jgeils]

Wouldn't that part of Manhattan be a no-fly zone IRL? I know LaGuardia & JFK airports are near, but don't they re-route airliners away from most of Manhattan to avoid another 9/11?

[owlbrigade1]

I went to FlightRadar24 and based on the flight tracks, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of active restriction. Mostly it just seems to be traffic approach patterns for the various airports than it does a NFA.

[deh_tommy]

Anyone else hoping for a Selene/Conan showdown?

[shadowpsykie]

oooh Tom Taylor, i can't wait to see what he does with this.... honestly... i love what he did with his other horror pieces. he has a knack for character.... even when he's killing them off.

[blues32]

Why did his foot come off?