Was he the one who could, uh, do anything? Even more powerful than Superman?
Uhm, I don't think so. Firestorm was a composite of then-teenager Ronnie Raymond and Prof. Martin Stein. A nuclear accidnet gave them the power to merge--Ronnie's body, Stein's mind, although it was a bitmore complicated than that really. When they were merged as Firestorm, they could fly and rearrange matter in nonorganic substances. Pretty damn powerful, yes, but perhaps not what you were thinking.
Ita, I still think Ronnie's in there, somewhere, like Prof. Martin Stein was, even after he died of cancer. And occasionally, Firestorm DID draw other people into the matrix, such as Mikhal Arkadin. Usually, there was some sort of nuclear reaction involved, but possibly things have changed.
The
dead guy was named Ronnie, or do you mean the original Ronnie?
So far he's
pulled in someone different each time he went nuclear.
It could be a thing.
I'm sorry. When I say "Ronnie," I mean the original Firestorm. The other people being added to the mix isn't normal, but not unheard of, either. Just happening a bit more frequently.
So you're saying that the new Firestorm
isn't even that new? That he's Ronnie and this kid and a random third party?
More or less Ita. I'm betting that this is the new kid's mind and body, merged with Ronnie Raymond's mind and Firestorm powers. Ronnie may, however, be dormant for awhile, but there's definitely a connection between them because, well, check out the outfits.
Was he the one who could, uh, do anything? Even more powerful than Superman?
In one of my (otherwise) favorite pre-Crisis JLA/JSA team-ups, Firestorm was the one who took down Darkseid by
making a curved funnel out of thin air that redirected his own Omega beams back at him.
Another shout out for The Pulse. Awesome!
Nice week, so far. IC -- excellent. Ultimate X-Men -- excellent. Teen Titans -- not half bad. I do feel kinda vaguely skeeved, so I guess it's time for Nightwing.
Jesus fuck, people, you didn't tell me there were new
100 Bullets
and
Fables
in addition to everything else! I had a lot to read.
The Pulse
was good. I think Bendis is drawing from a lot of his
Ultimate Spidey
continuity, which I missed, but luckily, I could catch his
Daredevil
continuity. It's weird cause I can never keep track of who knows what secret identities. Cause, well, we know all of them.
Nightwing
wasn't as good as the last one. The best bits were
Amy's protecting Dick with red tape.
And I think some of you are going to have a fit over the whole
marriage
thing.
100 Bullets
was a bit hard to follow, since I don't remember where we last left off with Wylie (though I do have the
Six Feet
trade; I should check). But mmm, things are heating up.
Fables
has a revelation I'm going to have to Google to truly appreciate, and a cliffhanger that makes you go, "Wha? Did he just do--cliffhangers are supposed to be in big splash pages, fool!"
And finally,
Identity Crisis.
Now I feel like I
am
paying the price for not knowing the DCverse so well. I'm just taking it all on faith. But what was I supposed to get out of that scene
in the satellite with all the supervillains? Was that the hiring of Deathstroke? Who was talking? Dr. Light?
And Meltzer pulls out a nice cliffhanger to make me want issue 3 right now.
P-C, it wasn't
Dr. Light talking, because the narration takes place before he stumbles in.
I think annotation on that scene will be interesting, but not vital.
Deathstroke's the most
interesting of the villains, and I think you'll find out what you need to know in due course. As basic background,
he's a highly-skilled, highly-paid assassin without depth perception -- he goes way back with the Teen Titans -- one of his kids was a member, and he recently tried to kill them again. He has extra strength and super-reflexes due to serum tests from illicit medical testing.
