Appropriately, there was something in this episode I didn't see coming -- namely, who really killed Spite. I didn't think Parse had it in her to do something like that, but I suppose if anyone could see the outcome of not wasting Donovan, it'd be her.
The revelation about who's on the Collateral Damage card makes her foil incap art make a lot more sense, too.
It was interesting to hear how the publication history of Sentinel Comics vis a vis the Wraith lasted through the Cold War; and I'm also intested in who the original Freedom Five were, since apparently it did not include Tachyon and Absolute Zero. (My money is on Tempest as one of them, making his Freedom Six appearance a mythology gag).
We do have an instance of what looks like an early Legacy and Blackfist showing up on Hall of the Terminarch so maybe Fixer back in his heyday was part of it.
I'm sure we will. The two character episodes have provided a lot of back story so far and I would be surprised if they stopped doing that as the beginning of them.
I was thinking the same thing. If it was him, it might indicate that the original five members each represented a different genre; standard Golden Age heroics for Legacy, mystery \ detective for Wraith, war \ army for Bunker, and kung fu \ blaxploitation for Fixer. That might mean that the fifth would be someone to do with magic possibly. Looking forward to the Freedom Five episode to find out!
Well we see Blackfist for one and second the art style of Legacy is similar to the cover seen on the second page of the Hero Challenge Acheivements document. At the least it's early in Legacy's publishing history.
Given that The Enclave is an homage to Kirby's style I don't think that art style alone is an indicator of age. I attribute the fact that Blackfist is in the Enclave to time travel rather than an adventure that happened with him during Legacy's early days, but can see why it might be that too.
I enjoyed them exbounding on the history of Wraith's comics, and how they told more about her main plot-points and such.
The whole 'Mainiac Jack' thing really caught me off guard, and it was one of the highlights of the episode for me. I'm surprised they used a character from sooo early in her history and used him in that way...
In that vein, Tempest would represent Sci Fi comics – and he'd fit with how they describe the Freedom Five's early comics as dealing with a lot of aliens that would later become the Gene-Bound troops. Tempest could've served to infodump on the various races they encountered month to month before the reboot turned them into the minions of his nemesis.
So my guesses for next week is either Baron Blade or Progeny. Blade because he seems to be the most long standing villain and is from the base set. Progeny only because they used his music for the outtro.
They said it was one of their earliest villains, so I figure it's either someone from the base set, or someone they've mentioned they designed really early on but didn't add till later.
The Cult of Gloom is one of the ealiest villains/groups I know of. I'd be surprised for that to make episode 3 over Baron, but the cult was a large part of early mystery comics even before the introduction of Gloomweaver as the figurehead
Imma still put my money on the Ramonat family, just because they seem to be tied in so closely to everything else. (Is it just my headcanon that Fyodor was involved in the research project that created Proletariat?)
I need these shows. The Collateral Damage thing, Maniac Jack, and Parse thing all threw me. I love it all! Except Parse taking Wraith's kill. Not cool, Parse.