P-C, what happened in Pulse #5? I missed it.

P-C, what happened in Pulse #5? I missed it.

Did you read the first issue of Secret War ? Half of the issue was pretty much a retread.

The issue opens with Wolverine attacking someone I didn't recognize. Jessica's there, and then it goes to one week before. Luke and Jessica's apartment explodes, and Cage is rushed to the hospital, where the doctors and Jessica are all MOTHERFUCKING UNBREAKABLE SKIN! So they can't give him medicine or operate, even though he's got internal damage and he's in a coma. The cops question Jessica, and she says she saw a woman, just her outline and shiny hair, who said something about Luke and how he should have known this would happen, and then the apartment went boom. Jessica talks to her blob, and it's very sweet. Then some S.H.I.E.L.D. guys show up. Iron Fist, I don't know who he is. But they give Luke a bodyguard, I think, but more importantly, Captain America busts in and totally goes apeshit on Iron Fist, all "I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN MOTHERFUCKER." Like I said, a lot of this material has been covered in Secret War. If you haven't been reading it, it's all right. We haven't learned exactly what the deal was yet. The basic deal, though, is that S.H.I.E.L.D. assembled a superhero team to go take down some foreign country that's been funding technovillains. Apparently, crazy shit went down because a year later, they're being attacked. Now, though, we get into new territory, I think. Jessica calls Ben Urich because she has no one else to turn to, I guess, and there's a suspicious guy listening to her, and I say he's suspicious cause as soon as she mentions Luke's name and where he is, he rushes off and seconds later, EVERYTHING BLOWS THE FUCK UP. Like, I can't even figure out how extensive it was cause it looked like half the goddamn hospital went. Jessica can't find the bodyguard or Luke, and the issue ends with her screaming, "LUUUUUUUUUKE!"

Wow. That's... huh. Man, I really liked the idea of The Pulse, but if it's gonna be all soap opera and shit blowing up I won't be happy.

Speaking of the Alpha Flight folks, whatever happened to Elizabeth Twoyoungmen?

Evidently she and a lot of the other Alpha Flighters are still active and at large.

Man, I really liked the idea of The Pulse, but if it's gonna be all soap opera and shit blowing up I won't be happy.

I don't think it's very soap opera, and as far as shit blowing up, I think it's just a result of the Secret War tie-in. That Bendis. It's probably better than I made it sound.

Who's the chick with the piercings?

Dazzler.

Oh riiiight.

Yeah, she's nothing like how I've seen her portrayed before.

she's nothing like how I've seen her portrayed before.

Well, she's just an Avril Lavigne type -- which is to say, a pop darling of this period.

Should I wait to start Fugitive until I have the third volume? Are the volumes divided well?

I didn't. They do divide up fairly well, IIRC, and I was budgeting at the time.

Did anyone else think that Lori saying "Shiny" in BoP was a tribute to Firefly ?

Or am I being really really nutsy?