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Hank and Storm were dating? How did he die? Are the characters all supposed to be in their teens/early twenties? Also Roberto DeCosta--I can't remember his code name or what team he was on...him or Angelo -- were they Generation X? I can find stuff about Angelo/Skin but I can't remember Roberto's code name I'm kind of stuck .

If he doesn't already, Miracleman NEEDS to own all four collected volumes of Barry Ween, Boy Genius.

Just finished V4.

Meep.

Damn. Winick is good as a superhero writer, but as sole creative insane person? He's fucking incredible. The last panels in 4 were as gut-wrenching as anything I've ever read, and in addition, the potty-mouthed funny is simply to die for.

Hank and Storm were indeed dating. He died a couple issues ago, in a battle against a Sentinel. She took it badly, though I think they'd been broken up at the time (at his instigation -- he didn't feel he deserved a hottie like her). 'Berto was a New Mutant in the normal continuity -- rich kid from South America.

Everyone is pretty young -- I'm not sure what that does to Wolverine, who was always much older than all of them.

Okay that clears up somethings. Plus I was confusing Roberto with Rictor. Why I have no idea because they are totally different characters.

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I'm pretty sure Roberto is Sunspot (gets super strength and durability from absorbing sunlight).

Also, you can summaries of the various issues of UXM at [link]

Yes he is -- I'm sorry, I meant to type his name and forgot.

Who poked out Nick Fury's eye? Same person in the Ultimate universe?

I'm not actually a fan of Winick as a superhero writer, but this blog entry by someone who is much more of a Winick superhero non-fan than I am but who really liked Barry Ween makes me want to read it:

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Barry Ween is well done. The reality that slip through the funny (and it's hilarious, in the best of all potty-mouthed possible ways) is handled with a deft touch, and without being a superhero book, it still manages to hit a lot of the core dilemmas that superheros face.

The blog entry does make me curious how much of Winick's superhero stuff the blogger has read, because his Green Lantern is not really much like his work on Outsiders (I'd say the same about his Arrow work, but there's less of it to go by than there is Green Lantern). It's far less quippy, and spends a lot more time on the why behind the reactions.

He's the only writer who's managed a Kyle with actual serious emotional heft.

Oh, and he writes a good Roy.

Re: Powers. Oh my God, they killed Kutter! You bastards! No more "Nice chin pubes, Kutter" from Deena. That line always cracked my shit up. Also, I think that is a new Retro Girl at the end there. My GF thinks it's going to be that little girl, Calista, from waaaaaay back. Possibly from the real #1. I think that'd be cool.

Gloom, my pusher has that same theory, and having seen the next cover, he does believe he's right.