Greatest Comic Book Ressurection Ever?

[Guy Gardener]

In a world where the thoughts pinned against the breath of every fanboy is "dead is dead my ass Joe." You just have to stand down and yawn every time some author deems that a gallant if not valiant death that might have meant something or merely been a mighty fine read from years past, that the good work of many hands burying these people, is so often of late being reversed utterly.

My Gods! BUCKY!

Excuse me as my mind settles but I just had a moment of complete elation after reading Nova 35. I wasn't expecting to find it so pleasurable as the endorphins raced around my track 5 times, even though Pym is claiming he's found Janet's soul, one of the bastards who blew up Stamford, Namorita is back and it's all because her "boyfriend" loved her just that much.

So Princess Bride I could just cry.

"Death doesn't stop true love, it just slows it down a little."

Then of course Stark returning last week missing the several months of his life, so that even he can now call himself an asshole with complete conviction was just he juiciest plumb.

What's done it for you lately, and what's done it for you best of all time with comic book characters treating the pearly gates like a revolving pearly door?

 

[Hermiod]

I would say Ms. Marvel but then it was only a few issues later and they shouldn't have killed her off and replaced her with that frakkin' Thunderbolt bitch in the first place.

Ahem.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That Thunderbolt Bitch gets me wet. Evil is so hot.

Did you read about how dark Wolverine treated her?

Besides, it's Mr Glass Syndrome. Without great evil, great good might as well be filling out crossword puzzels. A young henry Bendix said this before contaminating his own timeline becoming himself insane so that every one would be steeled by his fits for against further equally and superior conflict down the road.

If you've not read the Nova in question which is from last week I think, Rich's justification for raping continuity was much like Londo when he finally bent over good for the Shadows "As long as you guarantee the saftey of my people, the rest of the galaxy can burn."

I haven't bothered with the latest new Miutants yet, but is that douglock (Hybrid zombie from the 90s), the original warlock (also seen in the pages of Nova some years ago) or some new iteration of the excellently murdered Doug Ramsey Warlock duo?

 

[Guy Gardener]

I don't believe it.

i just finished reading the book.

Spoiler: Guardians of the Galaxy 24

Thanos just came back from the dead.

WHY IS EVERYONE COMING BACK FROM THE DEAD TONIGHT!!??

Every time I pick a comic up off my read pile tonight, some bugger just says that s/he's gotten tired of being dead.

Janet
Ultron
That guy in brackets above
Namorfreakingrita

*&^( me.

 

[Technobuilder]

Honestly, I was blown away by James Robinson's "JLA: Cry For Justice" 7-Issue.

Can't believe how geeked out I was after just the first 5 pages of Issue #1.

It helps that I loved his Starman v3 series featuring Jack Knight

And seriously, how can you NOT love The Shade at this point?

I'm so jazzed he's writing JLA (monthly) now.

 

[captcalhoun]

have they brought Mockingbird back yet?

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

have they brought Mockingbird back yet?

Yes, they have.

 

[Misfit Toy]

have they brought Mockingbird back yet?

Yes, they have.

It's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

 

[Guy Gardener]

She was switched out during the earliest days of the skrull secret invasion.

Which makes you wonder what the fuck was with Avengers West 100 where Hawkeye and the Avengers went to hell to rescue her imperilled soul? What with the lady being alive and all?

(Then again if you don't know know that Mocking Bird is back, then you probably missed the threeish years wherein hawkeye was dead after Wanda blowed him up in Avengers Dissasembled.)

yes, yes and the Avengers after the Games Master (Skinny blue elder of the Universe?) captured death fought a bevy of dead villains including Norman Osborn, but I just like to think that his soul didn't come back to his body afer he recovered from his injuries and brush head is completely dead inside thesedays.

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

I think the big originals were Jean Grey's self sacrifice when she had the Phoenix Force....only to get a ressurection retcon
and Flash Barry Allen hitting FTL and taking out that big Anti-Monitor monster....no he didn't die either
...another ressurection retcon


Phoenix and Flash never died

Both deaths have been retconed

Barry got resurrected because all this time after he went FTL to take out that big ugly steel monster he wasn't really dead but just hanging out on vacation at this place called the speed force

and Jean Grey oh yeah she didn't die either, she just got body snatched and cloned
her real body was in a state of suspended animation after some shuttle crash and Jean wasn't really guilt of any cosmic murder or war crimes. The clone of Jean that evolved to Phoenix always remained separate from the true Jean

mega retcon and resurrection

I kinda see why Brett Ratner had trouble wrapping his head around the whole Phoenix Saga concepts
and why nobody has bothered to make a Flash movie

 

[Turtletrekker]

I hope Pym can pull of Janet's return, but I have a sick feeling that they're going to pull a tear-jerking bittersweet failure on us.

I rolled my eyes so hard when I found out about Bucky's return that they almost popped out of their sockets. Now that I've actually read it, I think it's an amazing story.

But the most emotional "resurrection" for me, at least in the last six or so years since my "return" to reading comics, would probably be Colossus.

As for the return of Thanos, I am happy for you that you actually had that revealed to you in the comics, rather than reading about it at CBR some time ago like me. Although, in this case, I think Marvel had to give it away early as they had to promote and solicit The Thanos Imperitive, which is the next big Marvel cosmic event. If I understand correctly, both Nova and Guardians will be going on hiatus for six months while TTI runs it's course (ala "Reborn" replacing "Captain America" and "DoomWar" replacing "Black Panther" while the event runs it's course).

As lets give credit/blame where credit/blame is due. While the New Warriors may have acted rashly and irresponsibly, Nitro is the "bastard who blew up Stamford".

 

[TemporalFlux]

The same writer gave me both feelings.

Hal Jordan was the best handled resurrection I've ever seen; things were explained well (despite some necessary suspension of disbelief), and it served to completely rejuvenate what many had considered a dull character.

Barry Allen should have been left alone; I believe it's ruined one of the greatest and most poignant deaths in comics history. It's only further heartbreaking once you consider Robert Loren Fleming's final touch in Secret Origins Annual 2; Barry Allen had an amazing life, and he would have it forever.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Maybe they should hire writers who can write a compelling story without killing off characters left and right.

 

[CaptainCanada]

For the best story, I'd go for Ed Brubaker not only bringing back Bucky successfully in "Winter Soldier" but also giving as a reason to care about that formerly lame character, followed by Kevin Smith reviving the Oliver Queen Green Arrow in "Quiver" (I considered making it a tie, but the fact that Smith left soon after and left Ollie languishing in the hands of Judd Winick et al. kind of devalues that story a lot; compared with Brubaker making Bucky's return just the beginning).

 

[TheBrew]

Bucky and Hal Jordan were really good.

Barry was dumb.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Avengers #4: Captain America!!!!

Avengers# 98?: Hawkeye!

More recently? Nothing comes to mind.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I can't summon the strength to read the Flash resurrection books, they're just gathering cobwebs.

If I recall. Nitro and his band of merry men were just watching TV and thought the Pizza guy had arrived when the new warriors knocked down the door when initiating their brawl.

How you see it, it's like saying that Iraq started the war against America because they were bastards who were going to do something awful eventually so it might as well have happened on "the good guys" terms.

 

[Trent Roman]

As I recall, Nitro and the others had recently escaped from the Raft, and were wanted fugitives--so legitimate targets for a take-down. I doubt a S.W.A.T. team would have done better; it wasn't a question of legality, but disparate power-levels.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Guy Gardener]

Disparate power levels? The politicalindustrialmilitarysupercomplex juiced Nitro to explode a hundred times better than he could on his own... The suit, um Decon? Duncan? Walter Declun... The well dressed face of the politicalindustrialmilitarysupercomplex was counting on some super hero patsy to create industry through demolishion and reconstruction because it alwys comes down to money. Maybe naorita wasn't a bastard, but she was a tool and a fool.

Could Nitro have been taken out by a Police tectical team?

If they useded gas, or drugged his pizza, or came for him while he was sleeping: "Possibly".

Though I also beleive that the police knew exactly where these super vilains were and decided to ignore them. There was a state of grace which could have gone on forever and the only people hurt were the Pizza boys too stupid to notice that they're driving towards a wretched hive of scum and villany.

Which agin tracks completely with Iraq.

 

[The Lensman]

Hal's ressurection was uneeded and was just plain goofy. A big yellow bug made him go bad. And Hal is STILL boring. I've been collecting both GL titles for the last several years and it rarely occurs to me that Hal is in one, much less GL. Everyone AROUND Hal in his books is interesting.....he isn't. They should just boot his ass out again and rename the book "Sinestro" because he's the most interesting thing in Hal Jordan's book since they brought him back.

Ditto for Barry Allen.

I hear that the Bucky story is awesome, tho' I'm not a big Marvel reader these days...but big groan when I saw Thanos was coming back.