Palette Swap
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All hope lies in Doom. He's going to fuck that Beyonder's shit up.
Somehow.
Somehow.
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Jonathan Hickmans New Avengers / Avengers |OT| Thanos is in this (Spoilers)
- Thread starter Mudcrab
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No, sorry. We'll get the next New Avengers next week.
Palette Swap
Member
We were supposed to but this week's issue shifted.
shadyspace
Banned
Wasn't New Avengers the last one we got?
shadyspace
Banned
Weird.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Awesome cover.
Chances are the books will act as they have been as a compliment reading to each other.
Retcon Retconned. That Beyonder is now defined as a child unit, the Ivory Kings are adults.
Napoleonthechimp
Member
I wonder if we'll ever see "our" beyonder again. At least within this story anyway.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I have a feeling we might, if Secret Wars #4's cover is an indication (or did you mean before Secret Wars begins?)
Which issue?
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I love how Kirbyesque that Hulk in the background is.
Something about this pic gives me that feeling like we're nearing the end of a journey. Fitting that they use it for the last issues of Hickman's saga.
Interesting choices for the floating heads in the sky. It's the OG avengers but then Luke Cage? Who's the blonde guy without the helmet, is that Hyperion?
Oh right. I didn't recognize him with his face.
He is. The cover is more symbolic than anything, that's why Namor is still shown fighting with the Illuminati.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
The issue where Xavier comes right out and says on like, the third page, that the Beyonder is an inhuman mutant. It ruins the Beyonder as a character, and was frankly incredibly surprising to see come out of Bendis, a writer I otherwise find really talented.
I think it was issue 3 or 4? I can't remember.
I thought it was ridiculous when I read it, but then I considered the look on the Beyonder's face when the Illuminati moved on at the end of the issue and thought maybe Bendis was trying to suggest the Beyonder scammed them into leaving him alone, then I thought why would he have to go through any of that in the first place?
I don't think the mutant inhuman angle was ever brought up again.
Napoleonthechimp
Member
It was bored and decided to have fun with a few toys... like a child would?
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
and thank god for that! There's no reason for anyone to bring it up. It adds nothing to the character, and actually takes away quite a bit.
I would laugh so hard if Hickman actually brought that up in Time Runs Out/Secret Wars.
Everybody on that cover is going to die a horrible death.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Abyss.
Napoleonthechimp
Member
I forgot to reply to this: I mean whenever, because he does seem like he'd be pretty important given the nature of the Ivory Kings.
I'm guessing dead. It would make sense considering everything we've learned about the actions of the Ivory Kings, she may very well have fallen for the trap or just have been winked out of existence due to the death of all those cosmic powers.
Neck deep in a cherry pie.
It's seems strange to have a important and enigmatic character who was pretty prominent in the first arc of Avengers to just up and die off screen without so much as a mention.
I dunno, I figure she's strong enough that she would have gone with Thor's crew but she didn't. Outside of being dead, I can't even begin to imagine what happened to her.
kazamatsuri
Neo Member
Agreed. Didn't Hickman create this incarnation of Captain Universe? It would be very unlike him to have someone as central as her just sort of fall off the map. I can almost guarantee she'll turn up somewhere.
Holy fucking shit, that was an incredible issue. I'm a bit dumb-struck.
Spoilers for New Avengers 32:
Spoilers for New Avengers 32:
They're all dead. Well, Thor and Hyperion got killed kinda off panel, so maybe they'll pop back somehow, but everyone else... And they managed to kill a Beyonder! And they turned another into some crazy tree thing! That's got to be important somehow. God damn, they hype just never stops.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
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Deleted member 13876
Unconfirmed Member
Hickman, you crazy bastard.
Coriolanus
Banned
God damn rain.
Yeah, I know, hence kinda.
I dunno, I want to believe. I know they won't be able to do shit to the Beyonder horde, but they might be spared somehow... Namor 'died' just a few issues ago under similarly iron-clad circumstances, who's to say Thor and Hyperion won't manage to cheat death too?