JRScherer

August 23, 2011 1:32 pm I bet Beast is there as a stand-in for Devil Dinosaur's little blue furry sidekick Moon Boy. If so, that ought to make for some fun moments. It's good to see Karkas again. Hopefully his partner Ransak is not too far behind as well.

August 19, 2011 8:46 pm @Peteparker -- I had to flip through my Essential copies of the OHOTMU after I posted and it looks like the Marvel universe webpage has the Celestials entry copied verbatim. Also, the 'smart atoms' rationale takes care of the unassisted flight issue, too. Worth checking out if you haven't read it yet. http://enterthestory.com/superscience.html

August 19, 2011 7:34 pm I liked this a bunch. It's not perfect, but it delivered on everything that I wanted to see in a Conan movie. The real shame is that Basil Poledouris was not alive to score the movie.

August 19, 2011 1:18 am My personal favorite explanation for superpowers ("smart atoms") can be found at http://enterthestory.com/superscience.html. This is also the official explanation for all superpowers in Robert Kirkman's Invincible comics. Good stuff.

August 19, 2011 1:07 am The first place I recall the bit about Celestials enabling beneficial mutations to be triggered in human beings was in the OHOTMU but I don't remember exactly what issue or what entry -- likely, it was the actual entry for the Celestials. I think it was also in Marvel Saga, but I could be wrong. From what I understand, it was originally posited by the wonderfully inventive Mark Gruenwald and he made sure to have it factor in some of the stories he wrote as well - the germ of which I know did appear in Thor #300 when the Celestials came back to judge the earth. Marvel's webpage mentions this Celestial DNA tampering factoid in the second paragraph of the Celestials entry. http://marvel.com/universe/Celestials "The first Celestial Host came to Earth approximately one million years ago to perform genetic tests and experimentation on Earth's highest lifeform, the nascent human being. Testing the versatility of human genes, the First Host created two sub-species of humanity, the Eternals and the Deviants. Their sole legacy to the mainstream human race was the implantation of a dormant DNA complex which would one day permit benevolent mutations." As far as size-changing and mass related questions go, the OHOTMU answer for this is that the extra mass comes from an extra-dimensional space and is similarly returned to it. This goes for Hank Pym, the Hulk, and other such size and shape-changing characters. There's actually a lot of extra-dimensional stuff going on in Gruenwald's OHOTMU entries. Cyclops' optic blasts were at one time explained as coming from another dimension that his eyes happened to be portals to, for example.

August 17, 2011 2:33 pm It was the Celestials tampering with human DNA in Marvel pre-history that enables radiation to cause benevolent mutations instead of horrible burns and/or cancer and then only in certain special individuals, like say, Bruce Banner, Reed Richards, Peter Parker, etc., etc.

August 16, 2011 6:18 pm I'm surprised it's taken Starlin so long to release this series in collections. I think it's some of his best stuff.

August 10, 2011 9:37 am I love this picture of Wolverine - short, stocky, and looking very much like the little guy you don't want to mess with.  I loved Darrick Robertson's depiction of him as well, which was very similar to this.  Wolverine was originally 5', 3" in the comics.  A lot of artists seem to have trouble drawing characters of differing heights so Wolverine has 'grown' over the years.

If they would just change the colors of this uniform from primary yellow and blue to brown and black I'd be very happy.

August 3, 2011 11:10 pm I love the Jennifer Walters character, but I've always felt that 'She-Hulk' was a rather unfortunate code-name.

August 2, 2011 8:22 pm @Heroville 
I thought it was pretty clear he was referring to Tony Stark as Stark was going to be a consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D at the end of Iron Man 2.