Another alignment idea. Can we get any help from Fanatic? Specifically from her costume?
Fanatic kinda shows up all over the place in the cards. She's in Prime Wardens, she shows up with Ra, and occasionally with the Freedom Five.
She turns "Redeemer Fanatic" rather quickly, compared to some of the other costume changes (e.g. Dark Watch). Since she goes from no visor, to visor, to part visor with Prime Wardens, can we speculate that once she goes to Redeemer Fanatic (Fanatic #30), she never goes back to the old togs again?
Any thoughts?
BLM
edit: If so, Fanatic goes Redeemer sometime between Freedom Five #536 (Fanatic's Sanctifying Strike - old-school) and #599 (Parse's Critical Multiplier - Redeemer)
It's hard to say. Its possible costume changes may depend on comic issue and not nessesarily timeline. For instance, Haka might only wear his PW costume in the PW issues but maybe not during a Freedom Five comic set around the same time. Thats pretty common in normal comics, especially when you have multiple artists on multiple titles that coss into other stories. Just bcause adam is the only artist does that change anything? I'm not sure.
Hmm. A fair point. I edited my post while you were replying. I would think that when you have a situation like that in my edit - two semi-proximate appearances in the same book, with different costumes, that should evade the artist/cross issues ... er ... issue. ;)
I'll give a quick example of a instance where costumes are not consistent.
PW Argent Adept. At some points he dresses in his PW costume as seen in Cap Cosmics deck. But we have instances of Argent fighting the Aeon Men in his normal costume which must happen really late in the story.
I have had a busy week, so I haven't put much of anything up on this this week. Last night I actually took a break to play Sentinels (*gasp*). Loss to Infinitor the first time playing him.
In any event, this is not to say I haven't been thinking about it. I think I've got some pretty promising stuff tying some Fanatic appearances into the Voss story arc. However, the line up between Stranger in a Strange Land and a Tempest appearance in a Fanatic-related book has led me to an unavoidable conclusion - it seems conclusive that either a) different books are published at different rates, b) books are getting "terminated", but when they restart the numbering does not restart, or b) core, major events, like Voss' Invasion, are getting told later in different books.
If a) is the case, I can probably live with that. There are various instances of this in the comics universe, where certain writers write slower than the usual 1/month pace, or with certain events, books will release faster than 1/month. I could also live with b). Though it would be relatively unusual, I guess that a company could adopt this convention. It seems like comic companies are usually eager to get the "pop" that comes with an issue #1 when restarting a lapsed title/character, but I suppose a company could pass on this.
If it's c), I'm going to be pretty disappointed. I just don't believe that a comic book company would have a major crossover type event, and choose to tell a chunk of it a substantial time after the event. I mean, I'm sure it happens from time to time, but generally the goal of those events generally seems to be to boost sales in lesser-performing titles by giving them content of the big, epic story that readers will want to read. If the Sentinels comics acted different from that, I'd be pretty surprised.
I guess it could happen, though.
After this weekend, I'll likely be back with some backup for my Voss/Tempest/Fanatic speculation. And I'll probably be prepared to start stretching titles so that they don't have perfect 1-1 matchup. I've had a theory for a while that Freedom Five may be (at least at times) a weekly title.
Fanatic's Aegis destroys itself when used. I think that might be why at some point Fanatic no longer has the armor. If so that is a big clue to timing, a "fixed point" even.