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PA_Kid
03-20-2007, 02:56 PM
Ok, maybe I've missed her in SW:Prime fight scenes in the book, but how the heck is Diva alive and on the cover of SW:PHD? (in the new solicitations).

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I could have sworn Despot (Jackson's father) snapped her neck and killed her back when Jackson "came back from the dead".

*** On that note I have to give Gage props for acknowledging Stormwatch #25 - once of the neatest ideas of it's time. The book came out like a full year ahead of time and then didn't get printed (or was a 2nd printing) when the correct time came around. The traveller brought Jackson to the future where Spartan was part of Stormwatch, the station was destroyed, the Wildcats were dead, and Despot was conquering the earth. It was neat how we saw Jackson take to the future (and put back) and then the issue played out perfectly a year later.***
BatWolverine
03-20-2007, 02:57 PM
Read Gage's story in Worldstorm #2. ;)

...and of course Stormwatch: PHD #5. :D
PA_Kid
03-20-2007, 03:04 PM
Read Gage's story in Worldstorm #2. ;)

...and of course Stormwatch: PHD #5. :D

Read PHD. Didn't see Worldstorm when I was in the comic shop - I'm going to try and pick it up this week. So that one explains why Diva is back? (which was totally separate from when Fugi, Winter, Hellstrike, and Fahrenheit died)
BatWolverine
03-20-2007, 03:11 PM
Read PHD. Didn't see Worldstorm when I was in the comic shop - I'm going to try and pick it up this week. So that one explains why Diva is back? (which was totally separate from when Fugi, Winter, Hellstrike, and Fahrenheit died)
Yup it does...and quite easily at that. I could but won't spoil it for you...unless you want me to, in which case I'll PM it. ;) :D
PA_Kid
03-20-2007, 03:13 PM
Yup it does...and quite easily at that. I could but won't spoil it for you...unless you want me to, in which case I'll PM it. ;) :D

Nah, I'll pick it up this week. That definitely pushed me over the fence on that book. I'll just have to choke down the bile reading the new "Backlash". Any chance they explain what hapened to her father (Slayton?).
BatWolverine
03-20-2007, 03:19 PM
Nah, I'll pick it up this week. That definitely pushed me over the fence on that book. I'll just have to choke down the bile reading the new "Backlash". Any chance they explain what hapened to her father (Slayton?).
Nope, just that he isn't 'using' the name Backlash anymore.

...and hey, what's not to like about the kid. Granted the 'new' shtick is a bit hokey (not HokeyBoy) but still, I have always liked the character since the Backlash series.
PA_Kid
03-20-2007, 04:53 PM
Nope, just that he isn't 'using' the name Backlash anymore.

...and hey, what's not to like about the kid. Granted the 'new' shtick is a bit hokey (not HokeyBoy) but still, I have always liked the character since the Backlash series.

Give me the gritty commando/superspy with psionic whips over the superspeed ninja with the Kill Bill weapon anyday. ;)

Visually the original Backlash had a really cool look still seems like a viable character to me even today (can't always say that about '90s characters). Don't ask me why, but he feels like the closest thing DC has to Cable. It's a shame no big name creator wanted to revitalize him. :(
BatWolverine
03-20-2007, 04:55 PM
Don't ask me why, but he feels like the closest thing DC has to Cable.
Completely agree with you.

...n' the funny thing is that I'd buy a Backlash mini/ongoing in a heartbeat (if only someone gave him a go again :(), you coundn't pay me enough to read a Cable story.
Burnt Frog
03-20-2007, 05:05 PM
Originally Posted by PA_Kid
Visually the original Backlash had a really cool look still seems like a viable character to me even today (can't always say that about '90s characters). Don't ask me why, but he feels like the closest thing DC has to Cable. It's a shame no big name creator wanted to revitalize him.

I think he worked better as the spooky government operative we saw in Point Blank and Sleeper. In costume he was too goofy. I also liked his Team 7 appearances. I really, really want Dixon's three Team 7 minis to remain canon. :(
JoeK32880
03-20-2007, 05:09 PM
I think he worked better as the spooky government operative we saw in Point Blank and Sleeper. In costume he was too goofy. I also liked his Team 7 appearances. I really, really want Dixon's three Team 7 minis to remain canon. :(

The only reason they couldn't be is Lynch in Gen13. In fact, take away Gen13 (please) and nothing's changed in the WSU. There's no reason everything can't still be cannon.
PA_Kid
03-20-2007, 05:27 PM
I think he worked better as the spooky government operative we saw in Point Blank and Sleeper. In costume he was too goofy. I also liked his Team 7 appearances. I really, really want Dixon's three Team 7 minis to remain canon. :(

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck changed - Armageddon seems to have been very similar to Zero Hour or Age of Apocalypse in terms of what/how it rebooted things - and no, that's not a compliment.

Funny, I always liked the black and white costume, though there was definitely a trend to draw Slayton like McFarlan drew spiderman (and again, that's not a compliment).

Personally I miss:
Grail (whatever happened to him anyway)
Backlash (the original)
Spartan (post-Stormwatch, pre-John Colt revelation)
All of Team 7 when they had god-like powers that they were terrified would destroy them.
Grifter before he followed Zealot around like a puppy dog

Personally I think that Spartan (before the Marlowe/Void powers thing) and Backlash probably could have made the transition to the DCU and been viable characters. DC should set up an exchange program between universes. :)
BatWolverine
03-20-2007, 05:29 PM
DC should set up an exchange program between universes. :)
They have it (parttime) with Vertigo...Swamp Thing for Deadman, though what they are going to with ST in the DCU is a mystery to me...

...and the Vertigo Deadman series BLOWS and SUCKS, all at the same time. :mad: :(