Jim Shooter's Fascination with Omnipotence

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Discussion eventually. I've been thinking about this a lot. First, a list:

* The little girl in the graphic novel The Aladdin Effect. A mutant who can do pretty much anything, reminiscent of the boy in the Twilight Zone.

* The Beyonder, of course, and the Beyonder of Secret Wars II, who is essentially a different character.

* Michael Korvac, all-powerful Avengers nemesis

* The Star Brand; slightly less omnipotent, maybe

* Was he responsible for the Molecule Man's power-up? He was the editor-in-chief, in any case.

LOSH fans: did he have Absolute Cosmic Power Boy or Anything You Can Do I Can Do Infinity Lass or anything like that?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeez, it's so weird that Starlin is best known for all these cosmic brouhahas, when I knew him best for his run on Batman in the late 80s (he wrote the 1-900-kill-robin story).

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha ha, I need to learn to read.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Starlin might be relevant, though! Just not for the reasons you first thought :)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet he as a small penis.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Shooter def. had an obsession with this shit. Korvac (imo) is the best example of this as a story playing out. I bought Secret Wars (and II) but was never that impressed. II was of course just a general embarresment.

Did Shooter or Starlin do the Avengers vs. Thanos crossover with Marvel Two-in-One?

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Korvac's the earliest one I can think of, too, which is why I'm curious about his earlier writing -- if it's simply that he played with it in the Korvac Saga, it worked well, and people enjoyed the story, I guess I can see him getting stuck in that rut of going back to that kind of material, like Claremont does with mutant angst. It's odd how badly Secret Wars II works given that it could have been much more like the Korvac stories than Secret Wars was.

It's been a loooong time since I've read MTIO, so that one I'm not sure of.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim Starlin did the Avengers vs. Thanos crossover with Marvel Two-in-One

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm contemplating this still. I'm going to reread The Aladdin Effect, Secret Wars, and the Korvac arc soon -- I don't suppose anyone has a copy of Secret Wars II? It's among the comics I lost, but not the kind of thing I really want to go buy (especially since it isn't in TPB).

(I suspect Korvac holds the key.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

My tired eyes just read the thread title as Jim Shooter's Fascination with Emoticons

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

>:-O

(That is the omnipotent face, with sinister eyebrows and the gaping mouth of power.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

That would be Warren Ellis's fascination with emoticons (and l33tsp34k).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not an emoticon - that's THE MOLECULE MAN!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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