The Return of POWER PACK!

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Newsarama report here - a state of the Marvel Age address, also announcing the creation of a new Power Pack title, with original stories! I have to say, this actually sounds like a really good idea! Especially w/ Marc Sumerack, he who wrote the would-be Runaways "limited series" Guardians, which looked pretty good, at the helm.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 21 October 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

WHY exactly does this sound like a good idea? More like a OH NO!!

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, should've been more descriptive - it's a MANGA-STYLED Power Pack, which, if you're going to bring PP back, is the way to go.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

That's still a big "if".

Surely the way to bring them back is to do a series about four adults who were super-powered kids in the 80s. It could be comedy or it could be uh 'realistic' but I think comedy is preferable. And everyone loves the 80s.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"Surely the way to bring them back is to do a series about four adults who were super-powered kids in the 80s. It could be comedy or it could be uh 'realistic' but I think comedy is preferable. And everyone loves the 80s"

Damn right!! And they should all be washed up failures or crackheads/grappling with emotional problems/sexuality/gulit etc.. and crippled by horrible 'grown up' diseases...

Even though i loved this when i was a kid.. i always thought they were way too whiney.. especially the lad who could turn into a cloud of gas.. 'Mass master' was it? and the guy who called himself 'Gee'.. LOL!

where i come from 'Gee' is a slang term for a particlar part of the female anatomy!

Anyone remember 'Cloak and Dagger'? they made a few appearances in Power pack, and as i remember, they were particularly awful as well..

― droid, Friday, 22 October 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh you guys and your cynical "gritty" voibe! Go smoke some crack or something.

I can totally see Power Pack work as a manga title - the broad emotional gestures, the cloying cuteness, the primary colors, THE SPACE HORSEYS! WITH MANGA EYES! Also, when they whine, they can stomp up & down w/ their gritted manga teeth & their squinty manga eyes & their manga action lines!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't say it should be gritty! I think it should be funny! It would work as a sitcom in ways it never worked as a superhero comic!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I would buy any Power Pack series that showcased at least five panels of Julie and Katie kicking Jack in the nuts while Alex hit him in the face with mallets.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

And then them all sitting down to a rack of space horse ribs.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Tom - I saw the words "disease" & "crackheads" from droid (& "realistic" in yr post) & I thought "GRIT"! Like Todd Bridges & Gary Coleman (or members of S Club 7) sharing needles & stuff while undercover cops turn tricks.

They take their cues from My Little Pony Alien = built in comedy!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I do not want to live in the sad, grim world where Daver's vision of a gritty Power Pack isn't funny.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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