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Post by Dizzy D on Oct 15, 2014 5:00:28 GMT -5
Came across the Hangman in Spider-Woman. Premise seems kinda cool. Did he every make it out of the 70's? He made an appearance in Peter David's previous X-Factor. |
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Post by The Captain on Oct 15, 2014 5:36:59 GMT -5
Came across the Hangman in Spider-Woman. Premise seems kinda cool. Did he every make it out of the 70's? He made an appearance in Peter David's previous X-Factor. The Hangman that appeared in Spider-Woman was named Harlan Krueger, just a normal guy with no superpowers but who was just nuts. He debuted in Werewolf by Night before transitioning into Spider-Woman's book, where he was killed after committing a crime, so no, he did not survive the '70s. The one that Dizzy D references was the second Hangman, a guy named Jason Roland, who got his powers from Satannish. He hooked up with Night Shift and then Satannish's Lethal Legion to fight the West Coast Avengers, and was working for a demon named "Bloodbath" (sounds like PAD was raiding Rob Liefeld's character name folder for this one) when he encountered X-Factor Investigations. |
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Post by DubipR on Oct 15, 2014 8:31:32 GMT -5
Has anyone attempted to bring back Binky and his Buddies
or Swing with Scooter?
I'd figure with the popularity of the new Batgirl design, someone could take those hippy dippy 60s teens and update them a comic to make them hipsters....
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Post by fanboystranger on Oct 15, 2014 9:03:03 GMT -5
He made an appearance in Peter David's previous X-Factor. The Hangman that appeared in Spider-Woman was named Harlan Krueger, just a normal guy with no superpowers but who was just nuts. He debuted in Werewolf by Night before transitioning into Spider-Woman's book, where he was killed after committing a crime, so no, he did not survive the '70s. The one that Dizzy D references was the second Hangman, a guy named Jason Roland, who got his powers from Satannish. He hooked up with Night Shift and then Satannish's Lethal Legion to fight the West Coast Avengers, and was working for a demon named "Bloodbath" (sounds like PAD was raiding Rob Liefeld's character name folder for this one) when he encountered X-Factor Investigations. There was also a Hangman in Andy Diggle's Thunderbolts. I can't remember his real name, though. He was one of the highlights of that short run, which was underrated, in my opinion. |
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Post by The Captain on Oct 15, 2014 9:30:32 GMT -5
The Hangman that appeared in Spider-Woman was named Harlan Krueger, just a normal guy with no superpowers but who was just nuts. He debuted in Werewolf by Night before transitioning into Spider-Woman's book, where he was killed after committing a crime, so no, he did not survive the '70s. The one that Dizzy D references was the second Hangman, a guy named Jason Roland, who got his powers from Satannish. He hooked up with Night Shift and then Satannish's Lethal Legion to fight the West Coast Avengers, and was working for a demon named "Bloodbath" (sounds like PAD was raiding Rob Liefeld's character name folder for this one) when he encountered X-Factor Investigations. There was also a Hangman in Andy Diggle's Thunderbolts. I can't remember his real name, though. He was one of the highlights of that short run, which was underrated, in my opinion. You may be thinking of Headman, not Hangman, in Diggle's run. |
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Post by The Captain on Oct 15, 2014 9:31:57 GMT -5
Has anyone attempted to bring back Binky and his Buddies
or Swing with Scooter?
I'd figure with the popularity of the new Batgirl design, someone could take those hippy dippy 60s teens and update them a comic to make them hipsters....
I agree. Turn them into hipsters, then have them die horrible deaths at the hand of some sociopathic killer. Mirth and merriment will abound! |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 15, 2014 9:41:28 GMT -5
Has anyone attempted to bring back Binky and his Buddies
or Swing with Scooter?
I'd figure with the popularity of the new Batgirl design, someone could take those hippy dippy 60s teens and update them a comic to make them hipsters....
I agree. Turn them into hipsters, then have them die horrible deaths at the hand of some sociopathic killer. Mirth and merriment will abound! No need to call Dan B names. ; -) |
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Post by fanboystranger on Oct 15, 2014 10:29:06 GMT -5
There was also a Hangman in Andy Diggle's Thunderbolts. I can't remember his real name, though. He was one of the highlights of that short run, which was underrated, in my opinion. You may be thinking of Headman, not Hangman, in Diggle's run. You are absolutely correct, sir. You would think that the big axe might have been a give away, but no. |
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Post by gothos on Oct 21, 2014 16:15:24 GMT -5
I looked up "Hank Pym" in Wiki to see what he's been doing, and he apparently alternates between being either Giant-Man or Yellowjacket. I couldn't make out whether or not he's regularly serving with any Avengers spin-off these days, or if he's just become a "grey eminence."
I take it no one even bothered to keep going the persona of "Doctor Henry Who Pym" seen in WEST COAST AVENGERS.
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Post by fanboystranger on Oct 21, 2014 22:37:43 GMT -5
I looked up "Hank Pym" in Wiki to see what he's been doing, and he apparently alternates between being either Giant-Man or Yellowjacket. I couldn't make out whether or not he's regularly serving with any Avengers spin-off these days, or if he's just become a "grey eminence." I take it no one even bothered to keep going the persona of "Doctor Henry Who Pym" seen in WEST COAST AVENGERS. He was back to being Giant-Man in Avengers around 370 or so. (There were back-up stories by George Perez.) Kurt Busiek resolved the identity problem during his Avengers run. |
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Post by foxley on Oct 22, 2014 2:09:16 GMT -5
Joe Quesada ordered the Wasp killed (because 'marriage makes superheroes boring' and divorce is not an option in Joe's world. And killing off a male superhero would be unthinkable for Joe). Hank then went a bit crazy and adopted the identity of the Wasp.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 2:13:42 GMT -5
Hank last year was the lead in the Age of Ultron follow up issue by Mark Waid (#10.something I think) which was a really good story coming out of a really bad event, and led to Hank being one of the leads in the short lived Avengers A.I. series last year, along with the Vision and a few other A.I. type Marvel characters. Not sure where he wound up after that got cancelled. Of course Michael Douglas is playing an older Pym in the upcoming Ant-Man movie, so he won't be out of the comic spotlight for long.
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Post by Dizzy D on Oct 22, 2014 5:18:09 GMT -5
Hank last year was the lead in the Age of Ultron follow up issue by Mark Waid (#10.something I think) which was a really good story coming out of a really bad event, and led to Hank being one of the leads in the short lived Avengers A.I. series last year, along with the Vision and a few other A.I. type Marvel characters. Not sure where he wound up after that got cancelled. Of course Michael Douglas is playing an older Pym in the upcoming Ant-Man movie, so he won't be out of the comic spotlight for long. -M That seems the usual MO for Marvel and DC these days. The events usually do little for me, but we do get some interesting titles out of it. (Hercules, MI13 etc.) |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 24, 2014 17:45:54 GMT -5
Joe Quesada ordered the Wasp killed (because 'marriage makes superheroes boring' and divorce is not an option in Joe's world. And killing off a male superhero would be unthinkable for Joe). Hank then went a bit crazy and adopted the identity of the Wasp. The Wasp is un-dead (not undead like a Werewolf) as of the last issue of Bendis' Avengers run. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 24, 2014 18:10:25 GMT -5
Joe Quesada ordered the Wasp killed (because 'marriage makes superheroes boring' and divorce is not an option in Joe's world. And killing off a male superhero would be unthinkable for Joe). Hank then went a bit crazy and adopted the identity of the Wasp. In between that and Age of Ultron, he was (arguably) the lead of Avengers Academy.. he was the head teacher of a school that he created in some sort of weird Doctor Who like tesseract space. It's there you can find the goofiness with he being named 'Scientist Supreme' of the Marvel Universe as well. I think he was still Wasp in an issue or two, but not for long. In fact, I think Wasp might have come back to life during Academy... they definitely did a story with her in it, but it might have been some sort of copy. Also, Wasp died again during Uncanny Avengers, then came back again when the reset was pushed. |
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