When I win the lottery, I'm hiring the creative team from #7 (Klaus Janson did the art, I think; I don't remember who wrote it) to finish that story. Sigh... it's weird what comic fans obsess over...

Actually, it turned out, a buddy of mine has the issue and will swap it for some other item.

So, that link is good for ANYONE ELSE who wants it.

ThanX!

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As someone who LOVED that storyline and was "Doc-blocked" of a good ending, I'd love to read the man's complete take on it all.

Please, if anyone knows which issue this was, please LMK.

ThanX!

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Veitch’s abrupt departure meant that Neil Gaiman decided not to take over–as was planned– as Veitch’s replacement.

Oh I forgot about that. Wasn't it supposed to be gaiman and someone else (Morrison?) alternating storylines? That would have been good. That Floronic (sp?) Man short that appeared had a lot of interesting hints in it that Gaiman would have explored. Curses!!!

Reggie Hudlin? Bah. Get your Hollywood out of our comics, Joey Q.

Great article, Greg!

As for the Omega bit, I totally agree that the write-off wasn't one of the better things Steven Grant's ever done, and that I'd dearly love to see Gerber's original ideas, but it is nice that someone, ANYONE wants to revisit the property after all these years. Perhaps this revival might arouse enough interest that Gerber may get a chance to revive it himself someday.

Hadn't realized that Bloodstone switched writers for the last chapter... I still wonder what Domino's original purpose was. (He was revived, years later, by Mark Gruenwald as part of the Scourge story. Did Gru EVER see a loose end he didn't try and fix? It's a miracle we didn't see Omega on a dissection slab in Quasar...)

As for Skull the Slayer, 3 writers in the first four issues is a bad, BAD sign... even if all three are GOOD writers, as was the case here! That said, Englehart's issue with Slitherouge was really good, for a title he didn't have any desire to write by his own admission. I still wish somebody would revisit that plot arc, since it's the only loose end still existent from the series. Well, that and Skull's arch enemy charging into the Bermuda Triangle to look for him just as the series ended.

If this does come together, I hope they'll be willing to talk about where OMEGA would have gone -- or at least raise some demand for a one-shot or miniseries resolving the original. Cross your fingers.

There's still hope that one day DC will let Veitch finish the story...

Also.

Best title for a post on this blog, ever.

Maybe on ANY blog.

Yeah. I have no position whatsoever on the subject matter of this column, but the title, I want to hug it and squeeze it and call it George.

Then again, the Elves have surfaced again, both in Defenders and in Gerber-penned stories of other books.

There's (as usual) a nice profile here:

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/elfwagun.htm

What about that purple spaceman in the Daredevil comic who was going to walk to another planet on stairs of light? Did he ever get there? Did he get hit by a space truck?

 

Go here for details, but in a nutshell, he was captured by the Stranger and (probably) escaped during the aftermath of the fight between Stranger and Overmind, as depicted in Quasar #14-16.

In a way I always felt that this was actually more respectful a conclusion than the chintzy low rent finale Omega received in a much more decadent later era of Defenders. I believe that it was Kraft who did that (elf hit by truck), also responsible for what would turn out to be the only halfway decent post-Gerber Defenders story for a veeerrry long time (Scorpio, obviously).

As for the other stuff, eh, well I don't really have the energy for the bickering right now, but suffice to say that I would never lift a finger in support of a company I don't even work for against an individual. Corporations deserve no defense from people just bitching about them beyond what they're perfectly able to pay for.