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Looks like one more reason for me to hate when they bring Legion characters to the regular series. The writers seem to feel a need to add something to the characters that the Legion writers didn't.
Either the crappiest Validus yet or worse, they are insinuating some ancestor. Blah.
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Well, if 80s LSH continuity is back, there's no telling how far into the past Darkseid sent him. He could have lived as Validus for c. 1,015 years before being born!
[ June 18, 2007, 01:08 PM: Message edited by: Kent Shakespeare ]
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I have to give a firm "ick" as far as the inclusion of Validus in this.
You know they're just going to treat him as a generic "big mindless strong guy".
Validus on Earth in the twentieth century should be a bigger threat than Doomsday.
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quote:Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: Well, if 80s LSH continuity is back, there's no telling how far into the past Darkseid sent him. He could have lived as Validus for c. 1,015 years before being born!
tis a good point but his inclusion here makes him a pretty well known commodity. Would a 1000 year old (or older) Validus stick in the craw of established biography much? Originally he was what, stomping around some little backwater with no known origin, which was later amended to being a creation of Darkseid. Even though we hadn't seen him before his first appearance I think Shooter established the Validus was a pretty well known character, everyone feared him. So he could have been around a thousand years just beginning his second millenium. Everyone knows about those terrible twos.
In the second boot, I believe he was actually created by some planet to be some weapon or some such? Can't remember exactly, but I hated it.
I'll take the unique bastard creation of a God version (no history, no planet full of them, no other dimensional versions of him....) and second EDE's ick.
For me, Validus is (was) a very nearly perfect creation by both writer and artist. No dripping saliva, bloody scabby scars and other schtick generally used by artists to try and create a nightmare. Validus is so simply drawn and his personality so simply defined, he's one of the best tragic characters in comics. Doesn't need nor want refining. Adding boots, costuming, history (eye's lol, who was it that drew eyes on him?)... ick, ick, ick.
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Brave and the Bold #5 must take place after the Lighning Saga, right? He'll be meeting different versions of Karate Kid, Star Boy, Jeckie & Brin.
quote:Originally posted by Ultra Jorge: Was the Time Trapper in the latest The Brave & the Bold?
That was Destiny (of the Endless).
It was his book that was stolen and being used throughout the story. Also, did everyone else realize that it's the Challengers of the Unknown whom Destiny was trying to get the book to, to fix?
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Oh yeah the Endless guy. I remember him. And good call with the Challengers. I knew one of you guys would figure it out with that old school cover.
I wonder if they people who are going to "fix" things are the Challangers of the Beyond (Donna, Kyle, and Jason?) ok sorry that is for another thread.
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