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WHO WILL IT BE?

― Vic Fluro, Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

PROBABLY NOT ZATANNA!

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

The end of Guardian #4 was the most exciting comic I've read in months.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh definitely. Plus all the falling into place with the other minis... wonderful stuff. I think there's a good chance of Guardian copping it, as it definitely won't be Shining Knight. Guardian's exactly the kind of superhero who'd make an ultimate sacrifice...

― Vic Fluro, Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I totally shit the bed by passing this up in favour of Crisis Unlimited or whatever, didn't I?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

yes, considering they're never going to manage to trade it adequately.

― Vic Fluro, Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I love the idea that Jake Jordan is going to beat the shit out of a million evil faeries riding giant robot insects or whatever, using only a stick, and his ANGER.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Sunday, 11 September 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I agree about the awesomeness of Guardian #4, the Newsboy Army in particular.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and it's totally going to be FRANKENSTEIN.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah let's get to the other soldiers already!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 12 September 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Guardian 4 is incredible. It's astounding how all the different threads in every one of the 7Soldiers minis are starting to come together. What started as simple fun is becoming something genuinely different and "epic". Gotta love the man.

And I say that the one that dies is Bulleter (well, at least that's what I hope, she seems like the least interesting of all, but I thought the same of Guardian and it's become one of my favourites)

― Amadeo (Amadeo G.), Monday, 12 September 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

haha before this started i was least psyched about guardian and klarion. not the case now. i really hope it's not guardian cuz that's the one i'd most like to see continued. and if only one is going to die i'd put my money on frankenstein - monster that finds redemption thru sacrifice (plus he's been dead before), it's an old song.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

I am very keen on a Guardian ongoing too.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 12 September 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

I didn't realize #4 was coming out this past week!

(I also agree that Zatanna is most likely safe, although her sidekick might be toast.)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Frankenstein is already dead. Or at least made of dead bits.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 12 September 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

If it is Frankenstein!, then I hope as he dies he gives a slow thumbs-up sign.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Monday, 12 September 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking "oh what about Mr Miracle", and then I thought "nah, nobody kills off Kirby characters".

Is this actually true?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Hell, they brought Klarion BACK.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Highfather's pretty dead, I believe. Or at least he was for quite some time.

In what was probably the worst crossover I ever bought.

― iodine (iodine), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

And isn't this Mr. Miracle the 90s replacement version? He's totally expendable.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

A solidest must die...

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Solids never die, their atoms just disperse!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Shilo Norman was a Kirby creation though Huk, in the original series!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

I did not know that.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it'll be I, Spyder, now he's gone BAD.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Here's the two Mister Miracles fighting a giant noodle.

http://www.fanzing.com/images/imgs16/noodle.jpg

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Mmmmm, mind-stealing noodle...it's almost lunch time!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

comics are so stupid.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Time for ... WACKY UDON!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

At the mercy of... SINISTER SOBA!

― Madolan, Monday, 12 September 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Beware... the PERNICIOUS PAD THAI!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

The return of...FIN FANG FUSILLI!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I kinda hope it's the Shining Knight, since I didn't understand that last issue at all. But I agree that Guardian #4 roxxx. And you guys should have stopped with "Wacky Udon."

― J (Jay), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

But what about FALLEN ANGELHAIR?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

BAD PENNE

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

UH-OH SPAGHETTIO!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 September 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

The Rann-Thanagarian War 2: Invasion of the Intergalactic Butt Hair.

― BARMS, Thursday, 15 September 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

OK, the problems w/ that post:

1) this is a SEVEN SOLDIERS thread, not an INFINITE FOOTPRINTS thread
2) unless "butt hair" is a type of pasta, you are out of line, mister!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 15 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

MEANIE ROTINI!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I must be drunk because MEANIE ROTINI! almost made me wet my pants.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Huk, are you serious? You're not reading SEVEN SOLDIERS?

You're fired, man.

FIRED.

Hopefully you can catch up on all the goodness. Don't hold your breath on any trades for any of this.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

WHO WILL IT BE?

maybe it will be the one from the really boring title... oh no wait, that's all of them (bar possibly Klarion).

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

If any of the SS series to date have been "boring", Klarion is the one!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh, wow - SS! HITLER'S BRAIN better play a part in all this.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

R!ch J0hnston annotates 7S in today's LITG.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

does he, or is he nicking L!nds@y Duff's annotations?

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Eek, there's some slightly less wanky annotations on Barbelith.

Lil' Hollywood is the redhead from SS 0, right?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

L!nds (for it is he, I checked) has been letting his Comparative Literature skillz lie fallow since graduation, but these dormant powers have been reawoken with a vengeance.

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

There's something very 2000AD about that non sequitur last page in miracle man 1.

I like this issue; that artist is always annoying when he does stories about superhero teenagers and high school (isn't that the guy who drew nyx?), but in this comic it fits the tone.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

Shit! Mr. Miracle! ha, the hegemony of superhero names. I'm sure "super" feels the same way.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

So, um, am I the only who thought Mr. Miracle was kind of boring?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I liked it, although I know next to nothing about Mr. Miracle and JACK KIRBY'S NEW GODZZ. It was all set-up, I guess, but the Drive-By Derby is promising.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

It is? It just seemed... I don't know, kind of masturbatory.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it was kind of blah and humourless compared to the other SS first-issues. After finally getting the over-arching Sheeda plot going, it was kind of a letdown to go back to basic character-set-ups. Maybe it'll get better, tho'.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it was half "we've seen this before, give us plot" and half "but but what of mentor Scott Free?". with a soupçon of "why get committed when the entire storytelling style will change next issue..."

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 23 September 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

In one word, Dan sums up my whole problem with GM's writing lately. Ironically, I thought that this issue was redeeming the rest of the series from that a bit with some solid storytelling! Otherwise, I couldn't really evaluate it as a stand-alone, since there was so much stuff in terms of references and themes brought up from past GM stuff. Maybe it was blah because there was nothing new? It was like a GM refresher course more than anything else.

x-post - Yeah, precisely: "here's what's been happening in Grant Morrison comics so far", and then the promise of an actual new story being told next issue.

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 23 September 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was fairly ace, but I did have a wierd "Oh bollocks to the bloody New Gods SHEEDA SHEEDA I WANT SHEEDA" reaction when he was being tempted by Mad effing Harriet.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 23 September 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

do we like the sheeda? i don't know if i like the sheeda. i can't really see the point of'em.

how did they end up in the jla classified bit?

― tom west (thomp), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

So am I right in thinking that if a soldier must die we would rather it was the rubbish Mister Miracle.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Are people allowed to kill Kirby characters though?

(nb my "whole storytelling style will change next issue" was to do with Ferry being sacked after #1 rather than any textual suggestion that a plot will get off the ground)

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I'd be astonished if Shilo Norman wouldn't have been on the Infinite Crisis death list anyway.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 23 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Shilo Norman was pretty rubbish even when he was a Kirby character. Fun in a camp way, but rubbish nonetheless. Don't know if I'd rather he be the one to die, though. Maybe Klarion would be the better choice, given the unlikelihood of him ever being written by GM again? Get him out of there before he gets his own ongoing Vertigo series.

(I got that, kit. I was reacting more to your first "half".)

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 24 September 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

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