Saturday, August 11, 2007
Comic Art
Are you prepared to be confused? Well you should be, because this week our look at the "Omnipotents" ventures into the character of Immortus. He is a time hopper, much like Kang the Conquerer (link to 7/28 CA on same), in fact HE IS Kang in certain time streams and futures. See them in battle here at the right.(Confused yet, it's gonna get worse)Here is your first serious warning in trying to follow all this. Do not confuse the Marvel Comics Avengers villian Immortus with the DC Comics Teen Titans villian General Immortus. This is what happens when you have a really cool name and a publisher that allows multiple versions of the same story to exists side by side becasue each time history changes, it splits into a new time stream.
Ah, but there is more confusion to come. You see, Immortus, sometimes Kang, is Nathaniel Richards, a descendant of Reed and Sue Richards of Fantastic Four fame. The FF is where time travel first got really serious in the Marvel Universe (they captured Doc Doom's time machine and started mucking about) So as this little heirloom made it through the generations, that someone would "go bad" would be inevitable.Now, first of all, I think Immortus looks really cool, you have to love that pope hat. Nobody ever said so, but I think Kang was just an effort to update his look because people thought he was dated, even if they did not tie the characters together for a decade or more - everybody knew they were basically the same guy doing the same things.
As youcan see form the panels below, Immortus also dates to the days of really corny comics. I just love that! A master of time creating mischief with a newspaper ad. Now that is creatuve writing.
If you are not thoroughly confused, just wait. Later in this series we will examine another character that is really the same character. But we will wait, to do it all at once would make it too easy to understand.
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