Marvel Child Watch 2010 continues!
I'm so glad people are listening to me in my blog. Apparently, my pleas to stop the madness have been heard and steps are being made to correct the problem. I have cried, nay-- lamented, in the past regarding the unfortunate condition of relying on the cheap origin story gimmick of making a new character a child of a previously-established Marvel hero or villain. "Progeny" is the new "mutant," and we know the latter grew to be such a problem they had to made the Scarlet Witch go crazy and commit near genocide to solve it.
But all is not lost! In Young Allies, author Sean McKeever introduced the Bastards of Evil, featuring progeny of Electro, Radioactive Man, Graviton, Pyro, and the Grey Gargoyle. None of this made sense (except, perhaps, for the mutant Pyro) for the simple fact that in the Marvel-world these villains have only been made into villains within the last 10-15 years.
Would you believe that Mr. McKeever has made this into a plot point, justifying my initial outrage? Or, perhaps, he was just toying with my outrage in the first place? Dang! McKeeeeeever...!
But wait!
It looks like we do have a progeny, after all! The Big Bad has been revealed, and it's the Leader's son, calling himself The Superior!
Where four fall, one arises.
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