broehl@wateng.UUCP (Bernie Roehl) (07/16/85)
Yes, I believe it.
The only major character we can expect Marvel to leave dead is CM. Jean
will be back before the summer is out.
I personally consider this *extremely* cheap. Regardless of how upset people
may have been at her death, resurrecting her like this makes any future
"deaths" in the Marvel Universe far less important; if they kill off, say,
Hawkeye or Wonder Man or somebody, you can be sure they'll be back sooner
or later...
(oops... they've already killed Wondy once, haven't they? Oh well... nothing
to say they can't do it again (and again, and again...))
Oddly enough, however, I suspect Kara will stay dead. Not a great loss, I
grant you, but a *real* one.
On an unrelated subject... the LSH annual ("Who Shot Laurel Kent?") left the
title question unanswered. Who *did* shoot her? If Brainiac Five is correct,
then next year the old JLA will be back together and fighting someone who wants
to live forever; what does this mean about the *new* JLA? Also, look at the
chest insigniae on the front of the robot; *six* characters, including Flash
and Green Lantern! Lot's of interesting questions... what's the Earth-1
Hawkman up to these days? If Bats is back with the JLA, who's running the
Outsiders? Flash is back in the 20th Century again? *Green Lantern* is with
the JLA??? (& if so, which one?)
Also, there's a statue of Flash in the Tornado Twins' apartment; presumably
this means Barry isn't around in the flesh in that century (or if he is, he's
become *very* vain). Yet he and Iris are supposedly in the 30th century, and
so should be Legion contemporaries. If so, why haven't they ever crossed paths?
And what of the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps in the the 30th century?
I suspect a lot of this will be cleared up in Crisis...
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-Bernie Roehl (University of Waterloo)
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