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Wasn't there a spin-off? "Adam Warlock and the Infinity Watch" or something?
Don't tell me those jewels went from a glove to a Swatch or a Rolex...
SPOILER ALERT
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The Living Tribunal stripped Adam of the gauntlet after Eternity complained about it, and then decreed that the gems will never work in unison. After that Adam and the infinity watch happened.
Then Infinity Wars happened when Magus got hold of several cosmic cubes and had this massive plot to get the gems back and trick Eternity into asking the Tribunal to reverse the restriction - which gave the Magus omnipotence. And then after the war, and all is well - the Tribunal decreed that the gems will never EVER work in unison again, no matter how dire the consecquences are...
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I think with the gems were allocated to each of the members of the Infinity Watch, eh?
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yes. And the big swerve is that Adam actually gave the reality gem to Thanos.
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Adam Warlock is a forgiving god...
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Man....I try to start a discussiona bout Infinity Watch several times and nobody says anything....
I loved that book. Pip, Drax, Moondragon, the whole gang.
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A couple days ago I found out that Adam Warlock was killed at one point... by RUNE. That vampire from Malibu comics.
This annoyed me very much.
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Adam loves to die. He already died before when Mar Vell was still alive.
Care to spoil the rune thing for me? I doubt that I'll be able to read that thing.
And why a vampire from another comic book company? my head's a'splode.
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In the mid-90s, Marvel comics came into ownership of the Ultraverse, basically a shared superhero universe featured in a number of Malibu Comics titles: Ultraforce, Prime, Night Man, Hardcase, Rune, Mantra, and some other books. I had a few Malibu comics, but I only knew Ultraforce from a short-lived animated series that clearly was cashing in on the popularity of X-Men.
Once Marvel got a hold of the Ultraverse, a couple characters were tossed into that universe: The Avengers' Black Knight joined Ultraforce (written by Warren Ellis, oddly enough), and Juggernaut was suddenly a member of The Exiles, which was a Malibu title before it became a nutty Marvel version of "Sliders."
At some point, Rune killed Adam Warlock and the Infinity Watch was disbanded.
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So, there's no more adam warlock?
And what the fuck, a vampire killed Adam? He's strong enough to go toe to toe with the surfer...
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Adam Warlock was revived in another series in the late 90s.
There is a new Adam Warlock book (the first issue is free to read on Mile High Comics' website), but it seems to be outside continuity and a retelling of Adam Warlock's origin, done in a modern context. I'm sure it's more than that, though. It's pretty good.
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Heh, yeah. Origin fits that tagline well.
I read Origin and liked it. Wasn't fantastic or anything, but I'm wondering what people dislike about it.
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I liked the art, hated the plot. Can't remember what I hated specifically about the plot though... I think it started pretty interesting and got lame towards the ending. I'd have to read it again, and I'm not doing that.
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It was just so incredibly dull. I think half of the series was about Wolverine mining coal. And there's that incredibly stupid plot twist where the kid who looks like Logan turns out to just be some dirty poor kid while the rich kid who looks nothing like him turns out to be it.
I think we were all better off with his origin being a mystery.
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I thought it was really bad just as a story, but what inevitably pushed it into catastrophically bad territory was the fact that this was one of the most anticipated stories in comic history, and Jenkins was the guy hand-picked from a plethora of big time writers(including Grant Morrison) by Marvel to tell it, yet it still sucked.
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I'd be very curious to see what the other proposals for Origin were... Then we could all exclaim "Fuck! Even Chuck Austen's idea was better than that!"
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Yeah, I remember the selection process was fairly well publicized. Marvel narrowed it down to a final 3 or 4(a group that included Morrison), and for whatever reason they thought Jenkins' proposal was the best.
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It was just so incredibly dull. I think half of the series was about Wolverine mining coal. And there's that incredibly stupid plot twist where the kid who looks like Logan turns out to just be some dirty poor kid while the rich kid who looks nothing like him turns out to be it.
I don't mind that twist so much since I think it's interesting Wolverine was born in a rich family (albeit a screwed up rich family), and ended up like a feral beast. Besides, wasn't it implied the groundskeeper was Wolverine's biological father?
I'll give you the part about mining coal, though.
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I don't remember. It does sorta ring a bell...
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I'd be very curious to see what the other proposals for Origin were... Then we could all exclaim "Fuck! Even Chuck Austen's idea was better than that!"
Heh.
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I just read an interview with Paul Jenkins last night. For a Brit, he's actually kinda dull and sounds like a shit. What I find interesting, though, is that he got into the biz without being an actual fan, except as a kid. The only other guy I can think of that did the same was Peter Milligan.
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I had trouble wrapping my head around the concept of a very powerful telepath and one who has power over metals melding together to become a creature who is powerful enough to mess with reality...
Onslaught isn't a cosmic entity, right?
Onslaught absorbed the power of Franklin Richards (Reed and Sue's son) which gave him power over reality. If that wasn't enough, he also absorbed the power of Nate Grey, also know as X-Man.
The whole Onslaught saga, when you've read it all, is actually quite good.
If you don't have it all, then yes, it's really confusing
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