Wednesday, May 21, 2025

"Dreary."

I got the Age of Apocalypse Gambit figure recently, to complete the Nemesis Build-a-Figure, but I don't think I ever read Gambit and the X-Ternals; which does feature the Ch'od of that universe. We may see that figure sooner or later, even though like AoA Kurt, AoA Gambit was maybe killed off at one point: I think that universe's Cloak got him. 

It's also been about a hundred years, since I read "The Douglock Chronicles" trilogy from Excalibur, which features Zero on the run, trying to release Stryfe's data on the Legacy Virus, but the android--robot?--whatever, is destroyed. Like a number of robots in the Marvel U. Zero was trying to achieve true, free sentience; but our Zero here is just a tool, not a person. So far, anyway...

And it's probably been a hundred strips since we've seen her do it, but yeah, Satana can teleport. She can here, anyway; I honestly forget if she can in regular continuity. But, I think her teleporting maybe works like Magik's used to, way back in New Mutants: it maybe involves going through Limbo or Hell or Hoboken; somewhere unpleasant, anyway. Hopefully without a layover. 

4 comments:

Mr. Morbid said...

As it currently stands, both Satana or Zero offer a more reliable means of travel than our airplanes. Especially near New Jersey.

I actually did read Gambit & the Xternals (mostly for the art) and it was ok, nothing world-changing but ok. Interesting cast I tell you that. Didn’t read em all though so I did miss the part where they met that universe’s Starjammers, though I’m pretty sure they’re pretty much the same other than that Corsair never meeting Scott & Alex. I think, I could be wrong.

H said...

Yeah, I’m mostly lost on that- like I said, AoA is a particular blank spot in an already spotty knowledge of Marvel.

I don’t know what the bar per capita ratio is… wherever this is (Manhattan? Have you ever said where, goo?) but a three block radius sounds pretty reasonable outside of tourist areas and low income areas.

googum said...

The bar's somewhere in New York City...a vague, Marvel version of it: it's been too long since I've looked at the old OHOTMU maps, with Avengers Mansion, Dr. Strange's Sanctum, the Four Freedoms building and such. But I honestly don't know NYC: I wouldn't want to live there, or even visit, unless I had Spider-Man's powers. How do people get anywhere there? (I know they do, it just seems a chore!)

H said...

The subway and buses, I’d imagine- I did a summer program at NYU once back in college, and that’s mostly how I got anywhere further than 10 blocks.