Oh, and Tommy Lightning? They should do a DC/Marvel crossover of him with Johnny Thunder, and call it, naturally, Thunder and Lightning!

I like Marrow too. I find her on the X-Men a damn sight more convincing than Mystique, Sabretooth or Emma Frost. Wish Weapon X hadn’t been canceled (due to Liefeld pulling out Cable) so we could have seen more of that violent side.

But I think PAD used her most recently in X-Factor vol 3….

I checked out all reviews i could find but there is nothing about Gene Nation anywhere.

Is the cover from FF #9 a swipe? I can TOTALLY recall seeing Captain America in that exact same situation somewhere. I don’t think it’s from a comic story, my memory is suggesting that it’s taken from a Comic Advertisement or Public Service Announcement where Cap is explaining the dangers of something on a poster to a group of kids.

In my mind, I can see the EXACT situation even including the “dangerous influence” coming down the street around the corner. And with the nature and tone of the “Crossovers” it would be the PERFECT time to do a swipe for the cover like this.

Anyone else remember anything like this?

Notice how the top of AC’s right leg just doesn’t look quite right? It doesn’t really join with his hips properly and makes his buttocks look REALLY weird.

I prefer to think of that as an editorial “correction” after the fact. In my mind, the scene WAS Uncle Sam kicking Americommando in the balls but the editor had the inker “correct” it before it went to press.

Besides, it just makes more fight sense if he did knee him in the junk. Why else would he have his knee raised when giving a HUGE left roundhouse like that? Also, his word balloons make it abundantly clear that US is REALLY pissed off. He kneed his ‘nads then when AC bent over, he cleaned his clock but good!

I wonder if anyone has the original pencils for this one? It would make an AWESOME Comic Book Urban Legend Revealed if they could be found.

He woke up just in time”

You’re not quite remembering it correctly. Storm did pick up a knife and was THINKING about slitting Magneto’s throat but even before he woke up, her internal monologue showed that even though she knew he was going to try to “slay the entire world” she still could not bring herself to kill someone, no matter who it was.

THEN Magneto woke up.

Except of course, at the end of that same issue, after Magneto attacks Kitty for destroying his computers and Orroro comes on scene after and the both think Kitty’s dead, THEN she’s ready to kill Magneto simply because she thinks he killed her “child.”

Talk about flexible morals!

Who the frack is Marrow and why should I care?

She was a Morlock and lived with them in the sewers of New York, until the Morlocks were slaughtered in what was termed the Mutant Massacre.

A couple of years later, she was living with the remaining surviving Morlocks when they were teleported to a different dimension by Mikhail Rasputin, brother of Colossus.

Time was different in that dimension, so Marrow grew about ten years time there for about a year or so of our time. She grew up learning about how evil humans are. Also, Rasputin was a total nut job, so he taught the Morlocks some crazy crap and made them fight each other and only gave shelter to those strong enough to “deserve” it. These folks he called Gene Nation.

Storm ended up in the dimension, and forced Mikhail to return the Morlocks to Earth, but Marrow and her friends decided to get their revenge on humans, so they became terrorists.

Storm was forced to kill Marrow.

However, we learn later that Marrow didn’t die, and eventually, she takes refuge with the X-Men, and became a member of the team.

I noticed the Invaders homage in Freedom Fighters (I bought that just a few years ago), but I picked up the Invaders issues off the stands way back when and had no idea about Quality characters or Freedom Fighters. So thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.

Way to be “the symbol of America,” Unc.

If you look a little more closely at the image, his knee is behind both of the other guy’s legs. It’s an odd perspective, but his leg is behind the other guy, not hitting him in the unmentionables.

I’ve always loved that Crusaders story (although I’ve never read the stories themselves), but… “Cap’n Wings”???

Sadly, this month’s issue of People is late. Although it goes against my very nature, I’m left with no choice. I…I…I must kill… The postman!
You forgot to talk about immovable objects and irresistable forces, and you didn’t mention quarters being not given and asked.

In my oppinion (which count for absolutely nothing) Marrow deserves more attention in the world of marvel
Not as much attention as Cap’n Wings! Who do we want for the revival? Kirkman? Slott? B-b-b-b-bendis? JMS, in which we learn that the good Cap’n is an aspct of the Winged Totem?

Allegedly, some guy goes around buying back issues of Brother Power the Geek to try and increase their value.

If he’s too old to get back in the spandex game (or, y’know, dead), someone else should definitely adopt that moniker. It’s too cool to waste.

Hell, bring back/revamp the entire team–or, better yet, both teams. I’d buy those books.

Way to be “the symbol of America,” Unc.

Zero Tolerance was a also a great storyline (Bobby was awesome in that one being able to handle all those things) and its good that most people when thinking about Marrow image her in that style. Which we saw in Generation M #4.

Now i wish they would bring her back or at least FINNALY EXPLAIN WHY SHE LEFT!
Damm you Claremont and your stupid “Revolution”!

What I liked about Marrow for the longest time was that she wasn’t pretty. Unlike everyone else who ever wandered near the gates of the X-Mansion, she wasn’t a part-time model. Then she got retconned into being the most important Morlock of all time, and was slowly prettied up. Alas.

Poor Daredevil. Marvel stole his name and Deathstroke stole his costume…

Don’t tick her off, T’Challa.

He woke up just in time