Nope, wrong answer.

As for the rest of what you said that I editted out, welcome to the club.


And now a hint:

This villian was a one-time enemy of Marvel Boy.

I was about to say that I had no idea who Mr. Rasch is, but on the off chance I might be right, given his middle eastern-sounding name, I'll guess The Colonel from The Ultimates.


Jumping in on the "Marvel History" deal, I've always been somewhat amused at the idea that comic fans find magic, fantastic science, alien empires, etc. and other comic fare perfectly palatable but for some reason get in a snit when it comes to characters and how they age.

Still, I feel the "13 Year Plan" has one huge hole in it. The stories in a character's history each must take some minimum amount of time, which is usually defined (i.e. if you see a transition from night to day to night again in a single issue of a comic, that story has taken place over a minimum of three days). If you sum up all these minimum lower-bounds for the amount of time a story takes, you'll get a minimum amount of time a character needs to have existed.

Here's the problem: at some point, that minimum will likely exceed Marvel's 13 year timeframe. Put another way, if we continue to write stories about the Fantastic Four, at some point in time, they'll have to have existed for longer than 13 years because the total amount of time which has passed in their comic is greater than 13 years. What do you do at that point? Throw some of the stories out as not part of the official canon? If so, who makes that decision? What if Writer A wants to build off a past story that Writer B has already thrown out of the 'official' continuity?

Also, what about stories that have essential period-specific references? Captain America saving Ronald Reagan from the Serpent Society comes to mind, for example. Or Iron Man's Tales of Suspense adventures against decidedly communist foes?

However, perhaps what galls me the most about Marvel's stance on continuity is (and I think it was Tom who said something similar) that they seem to want to fix continuity issues in time period-specific ways which will create future problems with continuity. Iron Man's origin is a perfect example of this. Rather than being set in southeast Asia with the Vietnam War as a reference, his origins are now set in Afghanistan against the backdrop of a contemporary conflict, and will probably have to be moved again in ten or twenty years to be set in the military conflict of that era. It doesn't solve the problem AT ALL (to say nothing of the fact that it would seem to invalidate quite a bit of the expansion of that origin which occured in the late 80s and early 90s). I mean, how hard is it simply to leave the bulk of the original origin intact, with Tony selling/developing weapons for use in an unnamed Southeast Asian conflict. It's certainly quite believable that a) somebody's fighting somebody somewhere in Southeast Asia and b) the U.S., its military, or its intelligence agencies are supplying arms in that conflict, no matter if its 1963 or 2003.

Sorry about that. After nearly a decade of the Quesada Regime, I had to get that off my chest. Getting down off the soapbox now...

The Great Video?

Nope. Not an alternate universe character. Well, unless they suddenly decided all Atla's era comics are now from an alternate universe.



No, not that either.

And this guy isn't related to James Bradley either, because he's not in the medical profession.

You know, I was half-kidding with the Great Video, because I assumed you meant one of the later Marvel Boys.

I know, but when you think of it, "Marvel Boys" sounds like a boy band-type group, and all these boy bands try to make a "Great Video".

But just to confirm, I do mean the Grayson Marvel Boy, not the others. And not Dick.

Ok, so, I guess no one will get that correct answer.

I'll now toss out a new question.


Who was it that made Deadpool look like movie star Thom Cruz ?
(A play on the name, Tom Cruise, I know).

I looked it up. What did you expect, man? There are probably three of us on this board who even knew who Bob Grayson was; and apparently Tom is on sabbatical.

Well, you may've looked it up, but you didn't use that new-found knowledge to conquer the thread and then train the people in the art of warfare and then have them march off to conquer the other threads all across the realm. Followed thereafter by you being crowned Emperior of all threads of the Realm.
We're proud of you for that.

That aside, you got an answer to the new question?

And Bob may be familiar to the newer people, since he is a co-star in the new(ish) series, "Agents Of Atlas". His previous appearances in the FF books and the like were attributed to a doppelganger who thought he was the real Bob.

Other than "Damned if I know and twice damned if I care", no.
I can honestly say I've never read a comic book with Deadpool in it.

See, I predicted they'd bring him back by saying that he wasn't vaporized in that energy-burst back in FF #165 or whatever, but transformed into energy and drawn into the quantum bands where he'd remained all these years, until finally being released and gaining a new body somehow.

Probably how Roy Thomas would've done it, anyway.

In this case, the guy in FF #165 never was Bob. He was an alien from Uranus, as opposed from myanus, who was made to look like Bob. His transformation caused him to go insane and his power bands were not the same as the real Bob's, which never used light the way the doppelganger's bands did.
I can't recall what had happened to the real Bob while the doppelganger was around. I think he was held captive and in suspended animation till the Uranian eternals were wiped out by Deathurge.
And the Crusader was revived by Thanos when Thanos had the infinity Gaunlet to fight Quasar. At the time, he went by the name "Blue Marvel".

I've read a few of his tales, but I wasn't all that impressed. And I'd still like to see them tie-in his story involving Mr Sinister with Norman Osborn, since Mr Sinister had a few clones he had made of none other then Gwen Stacy. Why would Mr S have those? I don't know. It would be interesting if they would tie that to Osborn. At least they might be able to say it wasn't Gwen, but a clone whom Osborn boinked and impregnated.
Gads, I hate Joephisto everytime I think of that storyline.

I don't have my Agents of Atlas run handy at the moment, but that sounds about right. If I recall correctly, the story was something along the lines of Bob going back to help the Uranian Eternals at one point, and somehow getting involved with some previously unheard-of race of non-Eternal Uranians.

Although I think the whole story has yet to be told, Bob's new powers don't seem to be a retcon, but are a result of his years spent with the new bunch of Uranians after his Golden Age adventures - there are several flashbacks in the second Agents of Atlas series that show Bob as Marvel Boy, with his 'classic' power set and a more 'classic' demeanor and personality, so it appears as if that period in his history still counts as being in-continuity. As far as I can tell, his origin as being from Earth also has never been contradicted, it's just that he's now, for all intents and purposes, a Uranian hybrid of sorts due to whatever it is those Uranians did to him.

Of course, that's just my recollection - feel free to correct me if I'm off on any of those points.