Eryk Davis Ester
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You can also see the influence on TMK, with the Earth being taken over and the Legion as freedom fighters having to liberate it. Note how they place Universo in the role of rebel leader, however.
The Bierbaums were, of course, Adventure Era fanatics, though they really drew more on the Hamilton/Siegal stuff more than Shooter.
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Well atleast his Dominators got down & dirty and did some hand to hand. But I agree the Dominators in Shooter's story and Earth War are boring compared to what they became later.
Maybe Waid was trying to make them dynamic by creating the genetically engineered super solider Dominators. Unkillables.
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Eryk Davis Ester
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Yeah, it's interesting that you do get the genetic engineering theme right off the bat, but until Waid they were always presented as obsessed with human genetic engineering. Waid's innovation I suppose was to have them mess with their own genepool.
In a sense, the Unkillables plot is kind of the roots of the whole meta-gene/Invasion storyline.
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Even then it was a bit similiar to Busiek's Kree story where the Supreme Intelligence "betrayed" the Kree so the Nega-bomb would go off and create a new evolved kree called Ruul. They can adapt to either supersmart or supersoldiers. Ofcourse, everyone else at Marvel has ignored that story.
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Operation: Galactic Storm, where the Supreme Intelligence commited genocide on his own race so that they could evolve, was not written by Busiek. The sequel, Maximum Security, where the Kree have turned into the Ruul, was written by Busiek.
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Eryk Davis Ester
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They look different in the light of the tenth dimension.
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Maybe they had the same Legion editors back then as we have now.
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Nah. If Mort Weisinger were editing the Legion now, we'd at least have complete stories.
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And Legionnaires turned into super-babies!
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Yes, but it at least it wouldn't be a six-issue arc with endless subplots.
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I'm an android fan. Blame it on Bladerunner or the Vision or the Super-Adaptoid. I just love them.
Mantis Morlo's Chemoids remind me of some of my favorite androids.
The arrow on the head reminds of the Red Tornado. Who came first? Tornado's arrow or Gorn's?
Also the chemicals in Morlo's Chemoids allow them to change their skin compisition. Reminds me of the Adaptoid? Who came first the Chemoid or Super-Adaptoid?
Thanks
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