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Today's discovery
Jun. 15th, 2009 08:01 pmSo I was off work again today on the grounds that although I feel better in myself I am at the point where if I try to talk for any length of time I start coughing. So I've spend most of the day crashed on the sofa finishing off Mike Carey's third 'Felix Castor' novel (Dead Man's Boots. The verdict: very enjoyable and rather better constructed than the second one) and playing more Dark Chronicle.
However, thanks to an article over on io9 today, about other Marvel heroes they could make into films, I finally solved a long-running personal mystery.
Now, in the late seventies I used to read the UK Marvel edition of the Star Wars comic. Apart from the Star Wars story itself they also used to have a back-up strip. They seemed to have the rather bad habit of dropping back-up strips with no warning and trying something else; I particularly remember 'Micronauts' being one of the strips that was just dropped mid-storyline.
Anyway, one story I remembered very strongly was about a superhero who eventually discovered that the villain he was trying to defeat was actually an evil future version of himself. I'd gone through the years being convinced that it was called 'Star Lord', but when I'd traced down a description of that character it just didn't seem to fit.
But now I know: the storyline I was actually referring to was a 'Warlock' story not a 'Star Lord' story. 'Star Lord' had also run as a back-up strip in Star Wars so somehow I had managed to completely conflate the two (I even remembered that Star Lord had a ship called, erm, 'Ship' which sent a back-up called 'Widget' travelling with him - the first time I'd come across the word - yet still thought it was part of the 'Warlock' story line.)
Confusion unconfused!
However, thanks to an article over on io9 today, about other Marvel heroes they could make into films, I finally solved a long-running personal mystery.
Now, in the late seventies I used to read the UK Marvel edition of the Star Wars comic. Apart from the Star Wars story itself they also used to have a back-up strip. They seemed to have the rather bad habit of dropping back-up strips with no warning and trying something else; I particularly remember 'Micronauts' being one of the strips that was just dropped mid-storyline.
Anyway, one story I remembered very strongly was about a superhero who eventually discovered that the villain he was trying to defeat was actually an evil future version of himself. I'd gone through the years being convinced that it was called 'Star Lord', but when I'd traced down a description of that character it just didn't seem to fit.
But now I know: the storyline I was actually referring to was a 'Warlock' story not a 'Star Lord' story. 'Star Lord' had also run as a back-up strip in Star Wars so somehow I had managed to completely conflate the two (I even remembered that Star Lord had a ship called, erm, 'Ship' which sent a back-up called 'Widget' travelling with him - the first time I'd come across the word - yet still thought it was part of the 'Warlock' story line.)
Confusion unconfused!
